The Investigation Of The Theory And Practices Of The Literature History Of Zhengzhenduo

ZhengZhenduo, a master of literature and history in contemporary history of literature,has reached remarkable achievements in many aspects of academic field. He wrote manybooks during his lifetime, among which the history books exerted a widespread andprofound influence. His conceptions and practices of the literature history are useful forus to discuss the significance of the literature history, to understand the conceptions of theliterature history and the more standard method of writing the literature history. Thisessay is concerning with his most important history books—the Outline of Literature,theIllustrated Edition of Chinese Literature history and History of Popular(folk)Literature.This essay aims to giving a comprehensive and systematical illustration ofZhengZhenduo's conceptions and practices of the literature history. This essay willexpatiate its ideas from fives aspects: the writing under the system of the contemporaryliterature; the writing under the connection between the ideology and the writers; theexplanations about the history of popular(folk)literature; the methods of investigatingthe literature history; the methods of writing the literature history. The attention is givento treat the theory of the literature history of ZhengZhenduo as a whole thing to grasp. Ihope it will enrich the content of the research of ZhengZhenduo.