Abstract

Reception aesthetics is a theory of literature which has exerted major impacts throughout the world from the late 1960s to the late 1980s in the West, espacially dymanically in China from the 1980s of the 20th century to the first decade of the 21st century. In Vietnam, although this theory was born quite early (1985), its mark is still not deeply engraved; thus a lot of potentials not having been discovered and utilized. Recreating the complete appearance of reception aesthetics in Vietnam and explaining the cause of that appearance is an important basis for discussion about the reception of foreign theory. How to make Vietnam literature theory integrated and successfully communicated with the world literature theory? How to make the most effective use of the Western theory in solving problems of the local literature? How to build a firm theory background imbued with national identities in the context of globalization? etc. are the author’s issues of great concerns.