Basic knowledge points of introduction to literature

1. Game theory: Art, like games, is a purely aesthetic life activity without utility. Art originated from the game instinct of human beings to get rid of material and spiritual bondage and pursue the free world. The representatives are Schiller and Spencer.

2. Labor theory: that is, art originated from labor theory, which holds that primitive art is adapted to the needs of labor, produced in labor practice, and has obvious utilitarian purposes. The advocator is Russian plekhanov.

3. Poetry: It is the earliest literary genre, highly concise, full of emotion and imagination, jumping in structure, full of rhythm and rhythmic beauty.

4. Prose: It is a literary genre with a wide range of subjects, flexible structure, emphasis on expressing the author's life feelings and special circumstances, and beautiful language.

5. Script: refers to the literary basis for the performance or shooting of drama, film and television. It is a literary genre with characters' lines as the main means, concentrated event scenes and certain dramatic conflicts.

6. Realism:/kloc-the literary trend of thought prevailing in Europe and America in the 0/9th century. Its rise was in the 1930s of 19. First popular in Britain and France. In 1930s and 1940s, French Stendhal and Balzac, British Dickens and Thackeray were their outstanding representatives. Realism faces real life, which requires an objective attitude to describe and describe life. Realism is not copying life, but refining and shaping models.

7. Romanticism: a literary trend of thought that prevailed in Europe from the end of 18 to the beginning of 19. This is a rebellion against classicism. Romanticism pays attention to the ideal realm and the expression of subjective feelings. Secondly, in the conception of artistic image, we should imagine and create the image and ideal state according to the writer's subjective emotional logic rather than the logic of life itself. Finally, it often focuses on the description of nature, which embodies the subjective ideal.

8. Modernism:/kloc-a literary trend of thought that spread in the west and around the world from the 9th century to the early 20th century. Its main faction is symbolism, and France, which rose in the 1960s and 1970s, was represented by Baudelaire. At the beginning of the 20th century, there appeared futurism centered on Italy, expressionism centered on Germany, stream of consciousness centered on Britain and America, surrealism centered on France and so on. Modernism advocates expressionism, opposes reappearance, and emphasizes subjectivity and self-expression. Secondly, modernist writers attach importance to artistic imagination, emphasize artistic intuition, put forward psychological realism theory, and put internal imagination above objective reality. Thirdly, modernist literature pays attention to the innovation of form and makes many attempts in language form, narrative method and structural arrangement.