Introduction to Comparative Poetics

Author: Chen Yuehong
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: This book is a carefully written work based on the author's multiple lectures on "Comparative Poetics" at Peking University for doctoral students, graduate students, international students, and senior undergraduate students. It extensively incorporates the latest research findings from both domestic and international sources, (rooted in the development of comparative poetics in China), adheres to the principles of disciplinary teaching, and simultaneously reflects the forefront of disciplinary research. As a result, it presents a work that is both introductory and highly innovative. The basic content of this book: It primarily summarizes and organizes the academic system and theoretical methodological characteristics of the discipline from the academic context of its emergence, the history and current state of its development, existing various research paradigms, and different theoretical approaches. In the specialized sense of a textbook that focuses on the theoretical methods of the research paradigms of comparative poetics, this book can be considered the first of its kind in China.