Literature and Methodology

Author: Feng Yuyun
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Publish Date: 2002-12-01
Features: This book breaks through the traditional modes of review and annotation-based interpretation in the study of literary methodology, constructing a diverse, comprehensive, and holistic literary research methodology system from multiple dimensions such as macro and micro, diachronic and synchronic, general and specific, and humanities and science. Based on adhering to the Marxist worldview and methodology, it employs new perspectives, ways of thinking, and research methods to interpret the theoretical system and framework of Marxist literary studies, including perspectives such as systems theory, cybernetics, information theory, mathematical theory, and the re-examination of dissipative structures. This reveals the interconnectedness between literary studies as a human science and natural sciences, proving the necessity, inevitability, and feasibility of the convergence of literature and science. The book also reviews and studies the most representative social-historical methods, Russian formalism, and structuralism of the 20th century, aiming to draw from the strengths of various approaches to construct a contemporary, open, scientific, and systematic literary methodology for the new century.