Ninety-nine Words of Chinese Literary Criticism in the Twentieth Century

Author: Nan Fan
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: This work attempts to explain a series of pivotal concepts that were active in the history of Chinese literary criticism in the 20th century. This can largely be categorized under Foucault's "archaeology of knowledge." A group of significant concepts often serve as markers for a specific discipline. These concepts act as the solid foundation of a discipline. The period of the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties is regarded as the mature phase of Chinese literary criticism, partly because of the emergence of a large number of literary criticism concepts—the rich conceptual system in The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons demonstrates this point. It can be observed that the various propositions and arguments within a discipline typically revolve around these concepts. Explaining these concepts is akin to revealing the pattern of a discipline and its fundamental concerns.