Comparison Of The Functions Of Chinese And Western Literature Education

Literature reproduces the objective world through words and expresses subjective emotions.There are three functions of literary works in readers' acceptance: cognitive function,educational function and aesthetic function.The function of literary education is one of the functions of literature,mainly referring to educating recipients through the reading and learning of literary works.The reason that literature can give people education is on the one hand because of the nature of human beings,and on the other because literature can influence people's ideas and behaviors in a subtle way.The full text is divided into four parts.The first part mainly elaborates that the economic,political,and cultural differences between China and the West are different.Therefore,both sides have different understandings of literary education.The second part mainly elaborates the role of literature in the truth-seeking of educators,and separately discusses the views of pre-Qin Confucian scholars and ancient Greek scholars on the role of literature education,and compares the differences between the two sides on the whole.The third part mainly elaborates the role of literature in educating people for good,and separately discusses the viewpoints of Confucianists and ancient Greek scholars on the moral role of literary education in the pre-Qin period,and compares the differences between the two sides on the whole.The fourth part mainly expounds the role of literature in educating people to love beauty.It discusses the views of pre-Qin Confucian scholars and ancient Greek scholars on the role of literary education in humanism,and compares the differences between the two sides on the whole.The function of literary education is to achieve the goal of educating people in the process of literary acceptance,that is,to educate people on their eagerness for knowledge,their desire for morality,and their pursuit of beauty through literature.