Definitions Of Literature: A Study Of The Textbooks Of Literary Theories During The Republican Period

The textbooks of Literary Theories are always paid close attention in the field of literary theory, for it reflects the tread of Literary Theories in a certain period, and it also shoulders the responsibility of literary education and the transmission of Literary knowledge under the colledge background and the certain education system. The textbooks of literary theories which after the republican period ere easily been focus on by the scholar for that it's close to us, so they're studied frequently, but seldom during the republican period.So this paper put horizon in the textbooks of literary theories during the republican period,study the definitions of literature which in it through the carrier of textbooks of literary theories, look into the patterns of the definitions of literature and the reason which causes its variation, so that we could introspect ouselves betterly.The full text consists of five parts:Introduction briefly sketches current stuies of the textbooks of literary theories, and the researh way and meaning of this text;Chapter 1 studies the suvey of the textbooks of literary theories during the republican period,and the features of the definitions of literature in it,and finally presents the importments of the definitions of literature in the textbooks of literary theories; Chapter 2 summarizes the five patterns of the definitions of literature the textbooks of literary theories during the republican period:"Chinese classic pattern","Exotic pattern","Mixed pattern"," Writer's creative pattern","Pattern of revolutionary literature", and look into the potential causes and factors which behind it and its variations in the subsequent time; Chapter 3 summaries the achievements and influence of the definitions of literature in the textbooks of literary theories and its defects, so that we could get cautions and introspections from it; Conclusion summarizes the variation of the definitions of literature and the introspections it gives to us.