European Literary History (Volume 3)

Author: Li Funing
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Publishing Date: 2001-08-01
Features: The newly compiled History of European Literature, edited by Professor Li Funing of Peking University as the chief editor, is a national "Eight-Five" key research project. It has recently been fully published by the Commercial Press. The newly compiled History of European Literature consists of three volumes, reflecting the entire process of literary evolution since the birth of European civilization and embodying a strong sense of the times. Its content ranges from ancient Greece and Rome to the 1980s of the 20th century. The book strives to achieve a unity of ideology and art, possessing a strong educational and inspirational effect. This book provides a concise account of the history of European literary development from ancient Greece to the Russian Revolution of 1917, offering readers, especially college students, a fundamental understanding. The book is divided into eight chapters, each describing the outline of European literature in a specific period and closely linking it with the history and thought of the time. Each chapter also separately discusses the literary development of several countries during that period, emphasizing the representative writers and works, thus forming the distinctive features of the book as a literary history.