本世纪中国文论走过了自由争鸣、归属政治和自我觉醒三个时期 ,形成了关切审美价值和强调社会目的两个理论观念。新时期文论继承了传统 ,尤其是关切审美价值的文论传统 ,不断地实现着处境的自觉 ,即自觉地选择着自身在整个社会文化中的位置 ;个性自觉 ,即积极面对传统 ,形成自己的特色 ;意义自觉 ,即认识到了文论的价值在于揭示和拓展文学的隐喻性内涵 ,在于建构自身 ,因而就会承认并促进多元局面的形成和繁荣。新时期文论的这三个自觉 ,并非是孤立的现象 ,而是 80年代以来中国文化思想解放的结果 ,是在人充分认识到了人的独立存在本性的基础之上建构起来的 This century Chinese literary theory has gone through three stages: free debate, vesting politics and self-awakening, forming two theoretical concepts of concern for aesthetic value and emphasis on social purpose. The literary theory in the new period inherited the tradition, especially the literary theory which concerns the aesthetic value, continuously realized the situational conscientiousness, that is, consciously chose its position in the whole social culture. The individuality consciously faced the tradition and formed Self-awareness and self-awareness, that is, realizing that the value of literary theory is to reveal and expand the metaphorical connotation of literature and to construct itself so as to recognize and promote the formation and prosperity of pluralistic situations. These three consciousnesses of the literary theory in the new era are not isolated phenomena, but rather the result of the liberation of Chinese cultural thought since the 1980s. They are constructed on the basis of fully recognizing the nature of man’s independent existence