Notes on Wen Xin Diao Long (2 Volumes in Total)
by Written By Liu Xie And Annotated By Fan Wenlan
About This Novel
"Wen Xin Diao Long" is China's earliest extant, most complete system and most rigorously structured masterpiece of classical literary criticism. The book has 50 chapters in ten volumes, which can be divided into four parts: 1. General Introduction (Chapter 1 to 4), 2. Theory of Style (Chapter 5 to 25), 3. Theory of Creation (Chapter 26 to 43), 4. Appreciation (Chapter 44 to 49); and the self-prefaced "Preface" is the 50th chapter, summarizing the whole book. His works are large in style and fine in thinking, and "the study of literature is only limited to two and a few". It has great foundational significance and far-reaching influence in the history of the development of ancient Chinese literary criticism and literary theory. Lu Xun believed that "the chapters are rich and the commentaries are born. In the east there is Liu Yanhe's "Wen Xin" and in the west there is Aristotle's "Poetics", which analyzes the nature of the spirit, includes the vast fiber, and opens up the source of the flow, which is a regular style for the world." The famous historian Fan Wenlan's annotated version of "Literary Mind and Carving Dragon", as a representative work in the Humanities Society's Yellow Book (a collection of monographs on theoretical criticism of Chinese classical literature), can be called a milestone in the history of the study of "Literary Mind and Carving Dragon", and it is also a must-read advanced work for future generations to study "Literary Mind and Carving Dragon".
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