Narrow sense literature: refers to the prevailing literature today, that is, language and artistic acts and works that contain comprehensive factors such as emotion, fiction and imagination, such as poems, novels, essays, dramas and other genres.
Eclectic literature: works in oral or written language that are difficult to classify between the two. Such as some political articles.
The first section, the significance of literature
First, the concept of literature
Literature in a broad sense refers to all verbal or written language acts and works, including today's literature and general cultural forms such as politics, philosophy, history and religion.
Narrow sense literature: refers to the prevailing literature today, that is, language and artistic acts and works that contain comprehensive factors such as emotion, fiction and imagination, such as poems, novels, essays, dramas and other genres.
Eclectic literature: works in oral or written language that are difficult to classify between the two. Such as some political articles.
Second, literature as a culture.
Before Wei and Jin Dynasties in China, before the West18th century, literature was usually regarded as a broad cultural form, that is, literature in a broad sense.
1. Before Wei and Jin Dynasties, literature generally referred to all articles.
The word "Wen" first appeared in The Analects of Confucius: Wen, De, Yan and Zheng are the four subjects of Confucius; Poetry has many functions; Shuo Wen: "Wen, wrong painting, like writing";
2. Ancient Greece
There is no general literary concept, only specific literary forms, such as epic, ode, oratory, tragedy and so on. Literature:/kloc-was introduced from Latin in the 0/4th century.
Thirdly, literature as aesthetics.
The aesthetic significance of literature (universal significance) refers to language acts and works with aesthetic attributes, including poems, essays, novels and plays. Literature in a narrow sense was separated from literature in a broad sense, which was completed in the Wei and Jin Dynasties in China and the16-18th century in the west, and became a special aesthetic form.
1, China
During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Song Wendi's "four studies": Confucianism, metaphysics, history, literature and literature history were formally separated.
Cao Pi's classic theory? Thesis: "Poetry is beautiful" and "Writing is based on Qi"
Lu Ji: "Poetry must love"
Zhong Rong: "Taste"
Liu Xie: "Love is a classic of literature", "Love is like a gift, and happiness is like an answer"
Xiao Tong, Xiao Yi and Shen Yue: Efforts in temperament.
2. The West
/kloc-poetry in the 0/8th century officially became "the art of beauty". Charles. Barto classified poetry and painting, sculpture, music, art and rhetoric into seven kinds of "fine arts", and handicrafts and science were no longer "arts".
Romantic writers and poets pursue aesthetics in their creation;
Fourth, literature and non-literature
Literary language is full of unique expressive force;
Literature always presents a world of aesthetic images, which has the characteristics of imagination, fiction and emotion.
Literature conveys complete meaning and constitutes a whole by itself;
Literature contains seemingly special and infinite significance.