Abstract:

The literary openness and modernity are synchronous and interactive with each other to a considerable degree.The literary open attitude of a country can be a rod for surveying its modernized degree of literature. The openness of literature is chiefly referred to the opening-up to the external world, including actual open degree and subjective open consciousness. The modernity of literature can be generalized into the three elements of openness, plurality and creativeness, and in particular, the openness has a primary significance. Viewed from openness, the centenary process of Chinese literature can be divided into the four periods: overall open, half open and half close, largely close, and towards open. The literary openness reflects a continuous essence of the centenary Chinese literary progress, which is never totally lost. However, different open degrees and open consciousness indicate changes of literary modernity, strong or weak.

Key words: modernity, openness, plurality, creativeness