From Poetry Theory to Literary Theory - Outline of Chinese Narrow Sense Literary Criticism

Author: Zhou Pingsheng
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: Literary criticism can be distinguished between broad and narrow definitions. Broad literary criticism involves various literary phenomena, including literary theory, literary trends, literary movements, literary styles and schools, etc. Within literary theory, there are further categories such as theories of literary creation, theories of stylistic evolution, and theories of writers and works. In recent years, literary theorists have largely replaced the term broad literary criticism with literary theory, encompassing all its original content. Narrow literary criticism, on the other hand, refers solely to the study, analysis, and evaluation of writers and their works. The title of this book is From Poetry Criticism to Literary Criticism – An Outline of Ancient Chinese Narrow Literary Criticism, and its content explores how ancient Chinese literary critics conducted research, analysis, and evaluation of ancient Chinese writers and their works, which falls under the category of narrow literary criticism.