Research On Textbooks Of Literary Criticism Since The New Period

Literary criticism textbooks are professional textbooks used in conjunction with literary criticism courses,and are the carrier of theoretical knowledge of literary criticism.Different from the one-hundred-year history of literary theory textbooks,Chinese literary criticism textbooks are the result of the introduction of a large number of Western literary thoughts and critical theory methods under the background of reform and opening up.The construction of literary criticism textbooks is related to the disciplinary construction of literary criticism,the establishment of literary criticism courses,and the continuous improvement of the theoretical system of literary criticism.Since the new era,the development of literary criticism textbooks has gone through the initial stage in the 1980 s,the growth stage in the 1990 s,and the mature stage since the 21 st century.In addition to the rapid changes in the times and society,its development clues are mainly related to the continuous renewal of literary criticism concepts and the transformation of literary criticism teaching concepts.The textbooks of literary criticism since the new era mainly reflect three modes in the framework: the first is to learn from the experience of writing literary theory textbooks,and to construct the "four major theories" mode of the literary criticism theory system section;The method of literary criticism is a "theory-method" model of literary criticism with two major contents;the third is the "method-practice" model of literary criticism,which is based on critical methods and critical practice guidance.Literary criticism ontology,subject theory,stylistic theory,and methodology have been the main content of most literary criticism textbooks since the new era.Various textbooks have shown similarities and differences in the explanation of these main content,and have a strong understanding of the "nature of literary criticism" and "function of literary criticism." Different people have different opinions on the understanding of "the object of literary criticism" and other related issues.Facing a large number of critical theoretical resources,various textbooks have integrated them from the logic of history and the logic of analogy.With Western critical theories occupying a large amount of textbook space,how to integrate the ancient,modern,Chinese,and foreign criticism resources is an important task for the construction of literary criticism textbooks."Circular Criticism" proposed by Wang Xianpei is a kind of contemporary Chinese literary criticism theory with quite local characteristics.Starting from this critical thought,Wang Xianpei edited a series of "Literary Criticism Tutorial","Principles of Literary Criticism",and "Literary Criticism Guide".A representative and typical literary criticism textbook.A case study of this series of textbooks reveals that literary criticism textbooks since the new era have undergone major changes in the construction of knowledge systems,the use of concepts,and the arrangement of critical methods and models;they have been continuously enhanced in practicality and teaching;The relationship with reality is getting closer;the two-way promotion of textbook compilation and theoretical research has also been continuously strengthened.Although certain achievements have been made in the construction of literary criticism textbooks since the new era,it should be noted that the characteristics of literary criticism textbooks are still not obvious enough,and the system,practicality,and innovation still need to be improved.Research on literary criticism textbooks since the new era should explore its laws and characteristics,sum up its compilation experience,discover its shortcomings,find out the reasons and find countermeasures,and explore new paths for the construction of literary criticism textbooks in the new era through continuous reflection.The development trend of the construction of literary criticism textbooks should focus on enriching and perfecting critical theories,strengthening the interaction between textbook compilation and theoretical research,encouraging the reform and innovation of textbooks,promoting the diversified development of literary criticism textbooks,constructing the integration of criticism theory resources,and highlighting the nationality The new era literary criticism textbook.