Introduction to Western Literary Classics

Author: Wang Huaxue
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book contains the essence of foreign literature teaching content in Chinese universities. Readers can grasp the basic concepts, development lines, major schools, representative writers, and representative works of Western literature in a relatively short time. The book has 600,000 words and includes ten chapters: Ancient European Literature, Medieval European Literature, Renaissance European Literature, Seventeenth-Century European Literature, Eighteenth-Century European Literature, Early Nineteenth-Century European and American Literature, Mid-Nineteenth-Century European and American Literature, Late Nineteenth-Century European and American Literature, Twentieth-Century European and American Literature (A), and Twentieth-Century European and American Literature (B). It is rich in content and offers novel and insightful perspectives. The book strives to practice the critical viewpoints of dialectical materialism and historical materialism. For different writers or works, it widely applies various methods and approaches, including historical analysis, class analysis, cultural analysis, psychological analysis, moral and ethical analysis, philosophical and aesthetic analysis, and artistic language analysis, in order to conveniently achieve an understanding close to the essence, without lacking new and personalized insights. Readers can grasp the basic concepts, development lines, major schools, representative writers, and representative works of Western literature in a relatively short time.