Literary Text Close Reading Lecture Record: University Famous Teachers' Lectures

Author: Wang Xianpei
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This book is compiled from the lecture recordings of the national-level excellent course "Literary Text Interpretation" hosted by the author. The close reading discussed in the book refers to a model and process of perceiving, interpreting, and analyzing literary texts in a delicate, profound, and genuine manner, starting from the literary concepts of the receiving subject. In this book, the author discusses with students the principles and methods of close reading of literary texts, helping them cultivate the habit and ability of close reading, learn to approach literary texts in a professional literary way, feel them, comprehend them, understand them, and independently make judgments on them. The book covers various close reading approaches from many literary criticism schools in ancient and modern China and abroad, and elaborates on the author's understanding of close reading of literary texts. Through the analysis of numerous examples, the book trains students at a concrete level to make appropriate responses to literary texts.