Literature: Appreciation and Reflection: Appreciation and Reflection

Author: Sheng Ning
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: The author is a pioneering scholar who broke through the cultural desert of the ten-year "Cultural Revolution" and entered the field of foreign literature research. Starting from "What is literature," he has navigated the vast seas of various writers, works, and literary theories along with the changes of the times, continuously deepening his understanding of the ideal "literature": he has experienced "from realistic representation to fictional imagination, and from fictional imagination back to a concern for values," thus "completing a special cycle of cognition." The author believes that this is not about presenting abandoned old views of the past, but the key is the relevance of understanding, i.e., what correct understanding and countermeasures should be proposed for what specific problems.