Literary aesthetics methodology

Author: Hu Jingzhi
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Publish Date: 1994-10-01
Features: This book consists of thirteen chapters, excluding the "Introduction," which introduces twelve research methods in the aesthetics of literature and art, such as social history, biography, symbolism, psychoanalysis, archetypes, semiotics, form, New Criticism, structuralism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and deconstruction. It provides an introduction to their origins, theories, and basic characteristics, offering a comprehensive methodological approach to contemporary Western literary and aesthetic studies. This is an important achievement in the study of contemporary Western aesthetics and literary theory.