Literary Theory and Literary Criticism: An Overview (English)

Author: Lü Changshao
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Publishing Date: 1999-08-01
Features: It had long been our wish to pile up a book concerning literary theories and literary criticism as we observed how our students needed literary theorists to guide them and methods for them to make use of in writing their graduation theses and research papers on literature. But when we set about the work, we found it must be a bulky volume that could cover the rich and varied content of literature. We had to confine ourselves to cut out aspects of it, and therefore what this book offers is but some elementary knowledge of literary theories and literary criticism. It introduces to the students who are studying literature in English at colleges and universities and the other English learners who are interested in literature, in the simplest possible way, the value of literature, its nature, views and opinions on the essence and function of literature, and the ways we approach literary works. It includes the book as samples of literary approaches are some research papers we wrote ourselves and essays by some critics selected from English journals so that the students and the learners may have articles of different subjects and of different styles for reference whenever they write their own theses.