Overview
This book focuses on the synthetic and overall study of the history of literary theory, history of art or history of literary critics. Firstly, it proves itself a good combination of the history of thoughts of literature as well as thoughts of art. This book manages to break the barrier barring the two categories of literature and art apart by regarding the literature and art as the expressive form of the leading artistic spirit or aesthetic taste of one period. Secondly, the book makes itself a unification of history of thoughts in general and thoughts of fine arts. The book puts the thoughts of literature and art into the integral structure of social thoughts and ideas, to disclose the mutual fusion and combination of the thoughts of literature and art with the other and to observe the profound implications of the literary thoughts in a circumstance of intertextual interpretation. Thirdly, this book is also a good mixture of general history and monographic study. In another word, this book displays itself as an overview of the history of thoughts in the one hand and constantly probes into particular topics as monograph in the other hand. This book is designed to outline the general thoughts of literature and art for learners in this field and to provide particular topics for researchers who endeavor to acquire featured observation in history of literature or art in Pre-Qin period. The original scale of the book was about 1 million Chinese characters, and now it is abridged to 300 thousand characters.
Full Product Details
Author: Chunqing Li ,
Shan Li ,
Changbao Guo ,
Shaojin Liu
Publisher: Springer
Imprint: Springer
ISBN: 9789819501748
ISBN 10: 9819501741
Pages: 518
Publication Date: 29 September 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Language: Chinese
Author Information
Li Chunqing, born in 1955, was a professor of School of Literature and Arts, South China Normal University. He was chair of Center for Literature and Arts, Beijing Normal University, and a deputy president of the School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University. Also, he is a director of Committee of Chinese and Foreign Literary Theory and a director of Academic Committee of Marxism Literary Theory of China. As a distinguished scholar in literary theory in China, he directed series of major academic projects funded by the Office of National Social Sciences and published over 15 books as first author or editor. Li Shan, born in 1963, was a professor of School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University and a distinguished scholar of classic Chinese Literature, especially in the research in the Analects and history of culture of China. Publishing over 50 articles in the fields of classical literature, he was also invited as guest speaker for the Forum of Distinguished Scholar of CCTV for two well-known lectures. Guo Changbao, born in 1964, was a deputy president of Hebei University and also director of Center of Classical Philology of China, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University. He was a president of the School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University, and a chief director of the National Social Sciences in major projects foundation of the Ministry of Education, China. Publishing over 20 books and textbooks, 100 articles in the field of classic literature, professor Guo is distinguished scholar in classical philology and literature of China.
