Selden, "literary Criticism": Diachronic And Synchronic Coexist

Lasted from the longitudinal view, the theory of Western literature can be broadly divided into the development process of ancient, modern and contemporary several stages, and each stage genre scene. Tense from a total horizontal, the text of literature as a universal law on the subject, the era between the schools should not be completely antagonistic to even fragment. Western Literary Theory election is to study the works of Western Literary Theory one type in the text of the scheduled elections, usually based on the clock of history and writer for the sequence. "The theory of criticism - from Plato to the present" Compiled by the British Literati Raman Selden breaks this practice, the text of the theme or subject to codification. In the same theme or topic, different times of the last family-related expositions sort; will be different themes or topics, and were home to form their reference."Diachronic" and " Synchronic " derived from Saussure's linguistic theories, this term is often as a methodology appeared in a number of areas of academic research papers or in the works. In this paper, these two seemingly opposing yet intertwined words, to explore "Literary Theory and Criticism" The Selected Works of the preparation works significance of the concept and methodology.English original title literal translation for the Chinese should be "Critical Theory: From Plato to the present." What is the literary theory and criticism of the similarities and differences between theory and the associated? Compile this book in the stylistic characteristics of the Western Literary Theory on what inspiration? This paper aimed at the "Literary Theory and Criticism: From Plato to the present," a book of internal and external studies, Try to answer these questions. Further from the positive aspects of the text of this election in academic writings on the methodology of the model. As Selden said in the preamble, "As long as we take comparative and historical research methods is not difficult to understand their relative non-continuity.""The answer is with the history and environment of the changes, however, continuity and the opposition as many opportunities. Some special traditions survive or be strengthened, while others have a long tradition has disappeared, but with the new ideas may enable them to regain function in the future when the Resurrection. "...