Three Themes of Children's Literature uses a new method to study the typology of children's literature. Breaking the usual classification boundaries of genre, theme, style and genre, children's literature works are creatively divided into three types: love motif, urchin motif and nature motif.
The aesthetic characteristics of these three kinds of "meta-themes" are deeply explained, which opens up a new pattern of children's literature and outlines the overall appearance of children's literature to some extent.
Brief introduction of the author
Liu is a writer of modern literature, a theorist and researcher of children's literature in China. He used to be the editor of Wen Hui Monthly and the deputy editor of Wen Hui Reading Weekly, and now he is the editor of Pen Club, the supplement of Wen Hui Daily. He is the author of Three Topics on Children's Literature, Zhou Zuoren's Interpretation, Wen Xin Diao Hu and other theoretical monographs.
There are also Book Talks, Secret Happiness, Essays on Winter Nights, Miscellaneous Notes on the Bridge, Seeing Mountains as Mountains and Water as Water, Escape from the Strange Circle, Taste Life, Decent Life, You and Your Green Apples, Bitter Tea and Red Candles. He also wrote novellas Absolute Music and A Cai Hai.