Chinese Literary Theory
Chinese Literary Theory
- Shunqing CaoShunqing CaoDepartment of Chinese Language and Literature, Sichuan University
Summary
Chinese literary theory has established its own comprehensive theoretical systems with various schools, and it plays a significant role in world literary theories. Although each phase demonstrates different features, Chinese literary theory basically centers on the debate of practicability and literariness, two views of literary theory, which leads to two development pathways of Chinese literary theory: one is practical, based on political and moral edification, and another is literary, based on emotional expression. The two pathways are neither independent nor irrelevant; instead, they mingle as well as confront one another, and from polarization to integration they constitute Chinese literary theory.
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- Literary Theory
