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The "Weiming·What are Humanities and Social Sciences" series is written by famous scholars from famous universities, aiming to improve the people's humanistic quality and popularize social science knowledge. Each book includes the background of the discipline, research objects, main representatives and ideas, achievements, value of the discipline and some cutting-edge issues in the development of the discipline to today. As a way of human existence, literature has varying degrees of connection with everyone's life. "What is Literature" concisely and smoothly presents readers with a condensed picture of the connotation and extension of literature from many aspects such as imitation and expression, literature as language art, beauty and truth, games and sermons, the relationship between content and form, writers' creation theory, literary genres, reception aesthetics, etc. It helps readers understand the topic "What is literature" in a short time, and is an excellent academic popular reading. This book is the hardcover version of "What is Literature" published by our company.