Modern Western Literary Psychology

Author: Fang Hanwen
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Features: This book is the result of the National Education Commission's "Nineteen-Ninety-Five" Humanities and Social Sciences Program project I led, and the Social Science Project funded by the Hainan Provincial Department of Education in 1998. I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to the relevant departments of the National Education Commission for their support of my research work. Prior to this, I had just completed the National Education Commission's "Eighth-Five-Year Plan" Humanities and Social Sciences Program project. In the works from that project, I focused on the connections between language and literature. These projects are all sub-topics of comparative literature research I have been engaged in recently. At the turn of the century, people in such times are always looking forward and backward: looking forward to the splendid prospects of the future age brings joy and excitement; and looking back is equally beneficial. The 20th century was also a proud era in human history. Some Western scholars have called the 17th century the "century of geniuses," I think referring to the establishment of the principle of reason, from which the flower of human rational thinking bloomed, and the shadow of the dark age of religion was completely dispelled. Therefore, the 20th century can be called an era of great progress in science and technology. Under the influence of the spirit of modern science, the social sciences also became a truly systematic discipline in this century. There is no doubt that literary psychology is a subject worthy of attention among the many disciplines of this century.