Abstract：The history of literary studies in contemporary western literary theory is based on the conscious attention to language. In particular, the “language problem” raised by the linguistic criticism starting from the Russian formalism and the Anglo-American New criticism fundamentally determines its configuration process as an organic whole. Although the theoretical discourses presented in the form of “literary theory”, “theory”, “cultural research”, “anti-theory” and “post-theory” have their own opinions on the relationship between language and literature, there is a consensus that language research is the premise or basis of literary interpretation. However, due to the differences in the cognition of “language”, various critical theories interpret literature in different ways. Therefore, the study of language in contemporary Western literary theory has undergone a transformation process from focusing on language itself to focusing on language activities, and has been concretely externalized into the development of “language form research → language structure research → language activity research”. Returning to the “historical scene” and clarifying this “internal and external” connection between the historical configuration of contemporary Western literary theory and the evolution of linguistic criticism will not only help deepen the understanding of the meaning, function and depth of linguistic criticism, but also provide a certain reference for examining the “Sinicization” process of foreign theoretical knowledge and its products.
王丹. 当代西方文论的历史构型及其“内外”[J]. 《深圳大学学报》（人文社科版）, 2023, 40(6): 142-149.
WANG Dan. The Historical Configuration of Contemporary Literary Theory and Its “Inside and Outside”. , 2023, 40(6): 142-149.
2023, Vol. 40 
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