The Present Situation and Prospect of Network Literature

China's online literature has developed into a cultural phenomenon that can't be ignored, and it plays an important role in meeting people's growing cultural needs. We should correctly evaluate the development achievements, present situation, existing problems and prospects of online literature, promote its healthy development and make greater contributions to the construction of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.

The sudden emergence of network literature is one of the important achievements of contemporary literature in China.

In the past 20 years, China's online literature has sprung up suddenly and prospered at an alarming rate. At present, China's online literature has 455 million readers, 65.438+0755 million registered authors, more than 65.438+0 million contracted authors, and the stock of works is about 25 million, which is increasing at a rate of more than 2 million per year. It can be said that network literature is not only an important part of China literature, but also one of the important cultural phenomena in the world.

Although the great influence of online literature is gradually recognized by people, people still have great differences in their understanding of online literature. Broadly speaking, from the creation and dissemination of texts to reading, as long as this process is completed by relying on the network, such works can be called network literature. In this way, a lot of self-media writing can be included in the category of online literature. But at present, when talking about online literature, literary circles usually adopt a narrow concept, which mainly refers to genre novels published on websites with the establishment of paid reading business model.

China's online literature has been in a state of natural growth for a long time since it came into being spontaneously. The so-called natural growth is barbaric growth without management and restraint. Therefore, under the appearance of vigorous development and prosperity, due to over-emphasis on market efficiency and blind pursuit of "fast", "long" and "cool", serious problems such as rough quality, vulgar content and deviation from mainstream values have emerged. Later, everyone agreed to use "barbaric growth, mud and sand" to summarize the basic situation of China's online literature in this period.

Fantasy novel is an important type of online literature in China, which is formed on the basis of Chinese martial arts novels, traditional mystery novels, folklore and fairy tales, as well as western science fiction and magic novels. History is also an important resource for online novel writing. An important type of online historical novels is time-travel novels, which draw lessons from the fantasy of fantasy and science fiction, and focus on describing the protagonist's life state and conflict in two kinds of time and space and the cross experience of double life experiences with the framework of martial arts, history and romance. There is basically no entry threshold for online literature, which makes many new writers often choose to imitate and follow suit, so some literary expressions and expressions are constantly strengthened and finally some types are formed. In fact, popular literature and popular literature are basically typed. Especially when it is combined with business, it is almost an inevitable choice to take the road of typology. China's online literature has gradually shown its commercial value in its development and found its own business model. So the capital began to intervene, which made online literature embark on the road of commercialization, and online novels flourished unprecedentedly.