Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Culture, Education and Economic Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2018)

Session: Language and Literature

59 articles
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Zoomorphic Culture Code as a Device of Human Appearance Conceptualization in the Bulgarian and Russian Linguocultures As Exemplified in Figurative Comparisons

Radostina Stoyanova
The paper examines the zoomorphic culture code as a device of human appearance conceptualization in the Bulgarian and Russian linguocultures. The comparative study of Bulgarian and Russian figurative comparisons, representing human appearance, has identified the following relationship types: the relationship...
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Evaluating Genre-based Teaching Approach in ESL Writing Class with De Beaugrande and Dressler’s Theories on Text Linguistics

Tiemei Guo
Recent years have seen increased emphasis being placed on the notion of genre in the language-learning classroom. However, based on evaluating genre-based teaching approach in ESL writing class with theories on text linguistics proposed by de Beaugrande and Dressler, some suggestions are proposed. Namely,...
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The Establishment of Ministers of Handling Affairs in Xining

Yangmei Ding
In the first year of the Yongzheng reign, the government of Qing Dynasty put down the rebellion of the Lob Tsangdanjin and implemented the rehabilitation works proposed by Nian Gengyao. These rehabilitative measures strengthened the Qing government's rule over Qinghai, cleared the obstacles for the Qing...
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The Cultural Connotation of Dragon God Belief in the Tao State in Ming and Qing Dynasties

Yong Sha
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, because of Han, Tibetan, Hui nations and other nations in Tao state migrating and aggregating, it constitutes development pattern of the diverse people in the region and religious culture coexisting and interacting. In historical development and social vicissitude,...
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The Development and Narrative Strategy of Internet Adapted Drama

Lili Huang
In recent years, the diversification of economy and culture, the essential features of online fiction, the demand for the development of the TV drama market and the wide spread of the Internet have prompted the organic combination of internet fiction and television dramas. On the basis of clarifying...
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Enlightenment of Confucian Music Education on Improving College Students' Humanities Accomplishment

Qin Zeng, Mengni Fan
This paper has studied the thought of Confucian music culture of Confucius, Mencius and Xunzi. Also, it has explored the connotation of Confucian music culture. And contemporary college students would study and understand the essence of Confucian music culture. The contemporary college students would...
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Analysis on the Intercultural Communication Strategy of Chinese Traditional Culture

Qixin Zhang
Excellent and profound traditional culture of China is the soft power that support Chinese nation in standing in the world. Under the social co-ordination of modern society, it is an important issue to innovate the mode of international communication of Chinese traditional culture and spread the excellent...
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Study on Film and Television Literature Criticism

Xinxin Li
The emergence of film and television literature criticism is inextricably linked with the historical development of film and television. Film and television literature criticism can be said to run through every stage of the film and television development in the world. The establishment of interactive...
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Where There is Light, There is Life Light Symbol in Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”

Li Li, Xiaona Sun
“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”, one of Katherine Anne Porter’s best short stories, majorly depicts Granny Weatherall’s interior world of the last moment by adopting different kinds of symbols, among which light plays an important role in revealing her love, faith and life.
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Study on Vocabulary Teaching of TCFL from the Perspective of Characters’ Pronunciation, Shape and Meaning

Hongli Ge
It is a new way for vocabulary teaching of TCFL with the help of Chinese characters’ pronunciation, shape and meaning on the basis of inheriting the traditional semantics, which adapt to Chinese characteristics. We can start vocabulary teaching from Chinese characters’ pronunciation. It would solve the...
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Study of Error Analysis on English Composition

Di Fan
Writing ability of Chinese students is one of the core skills emphasized in English teaching, it is also the significant indication to measure the students’ communicative competence. As a result, writing ability plays an important role in English teaching. Writing ability is an integrated reflection...
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Introducing Phenomenology into Fictive Motion

Lihong Shi
This paper aims to introduce phenomenology into fictive motion research. First, the research of Talmy, Langacker, Lakoff and Turner, Fauconnier, and Matlock on fictive motion are reviewed, whose views are popular in this field. Then, it introduces several key concepts in phenomenology to explain the...
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Health-preserving Thought of "Huai Nan-zi"

Guozhe Yang
With the continuous improvement of living standard today, people pay more and more attention to health preserving, and Taoist health keeping is our most well-known health-keeping thought. As a great masterpiece of Huang-lao Taoism, the book "Huai Nan-zi" is compiled by the the king of Huainan in Western...
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Influence of Gender Difference on Language

Bin Wang
Undoubtedly, the sociolinguistics circle has admitted that there is a close relationship between language and gender. This article provides some examples of different languages between men and women. It demonstrates the linguistic difference with strong evidence and presents new ideas and demonstrates...
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Folk Literature Production and People’s Daily Life in the Hinter Land of Mount Ailao

Kaiwan Xiong
As the historical evidences of the national cultural inheritance in a country, the folk literatures contain rich historical and cultural traditions of the country and the people. The cross-clan literature production is a cultural practice for the mutual exchanges and mutual promotion of the national...
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Study on the Connotation of "the Argument in Accordance with Confucian Classics"

Gongluo Zhu
As the cultural phenomenon with far-reaching influence, "the argument in accordance with Confucian classics" is not only the interpretation of Confucian classics, but also a kind of linguistic expression method and meaning generation method. It is not only the method of theoretical construction and academic...
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Theory and Method of Language Contact

Jianya Zhang, Weiming Peng
This paper examines the studies and scholars concerning language contact, sorts out the mainstream theories of the theory of language contact and highlights relevant differences. With timeline, foreign studies fall into pre-theory phase and theory-development phase. And Chinese studies could be divided...
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Some Problems in the Corpus Selection of Chinese Grammar in Spring and Autumn Period

Weiming Peng, Jianya Zhang
Since King Ping of Zhou moved forward the eastern of China, it was known as the Spring and Autumn period. The written Chinese language handed down from generation to generation ??" the form and structure of the classical Chinese has been basically shaped during this period. And it belongs to the "model...
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Family Ethics in Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You

Yuan Shen, Ting Yang
Chinese American writer Celeste Ng’s novel Everything I Never Told You penetrates into the educational crisis in a mixed-race family by highlighting the sense of alienation, frustration and depression resulting from distorted family ethics. This paper mainly analyzes the ethical issues in the novel from...
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Conceptual Metaphors for “Xin” in Confucianism Based on “Xin” in The Four Books

Yali Chen
“Xin” is usually understood as honesty, integrity, trustworthiness, faithfulness, or sincerity. It is considered as an essential concept of Confucianism and is commonly recognized as the standard of value and virtue for Chinese people. Up to now, a lot of scholars have studied “Xin” from multiple perspectives,...
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Study on Phonetics Acquisition of English Learners from Regions of Prominent Dialects in Anhui Province from the Perspective of Optimality Theory

Huazhen Wang
Based on Optimality theory and the existing research result at home and abroad, this paper discover the influence of Anhui dialect on undergraduates’ English phonetic learning through the long-term phonetics teaching and experimental teaching, probes into the problems in phonetic transfer of graduates...
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China English as a Variety of English and its Implications on ELT in Chinese Context

Furong Kou
This paper aims at exploring China English, in comparison with Chinglish, also the inetrlanguage of English, as one of varieties of world Englishes, with its unique features, resulting in discussing the appropriate attitudes Chinese learners of English should have and corresponding implications on ELT...
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An Analysis of Buzzwords in A Bite of China from the Perspective of Language Memetics

Ling Li
The broadcasting of food documentary A Bite of China has triggered a sensation. Meanwhile, its language style is socially acknowledged and widely spread in the internet. The paper is centered on the internet buzzwords of A Bite of China. In order to reveal the propagation rules of internet buzzwords,...
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The Correlation between High-frequency Vocabulary Size and College English Test-band-four Scores

Huaqing He, Lijuan Yan
This paper investigates the relationship between the level of high-frequency vocabulary and CET-4 scores of 302 first-year non-English majors of a normal university in China along both the receptive and productive dimensions. The results indicate that (1) students’ high-vocabulary size is somewhat restricted...
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Male-centered Mentality in Cao Zhi's Poems on Female Resentment

Shuguang Li
With distinctive male-centered mentality, Cao Zhi's poems on female resentment express the confirmation and maintenance of the central position of male dominance and indifference and negation to female value and life experience. The male-centered mentality is mainly reflected in the following aspects:...
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A Study on the Chinese Translation of English Existential Sentences

Chengnan Jia
Based on a statistical analysis of the Chinese translation of English existential sentences in E-C parallel corpus concordance, it is found that there are mainly eight corresponding forms in the Chinese translation of English existential sentences, i.e. "You" sentence, "Shi" sentence, fugitive sentence,...
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Montage in the Contemporary Russia Female Literature

Li Li
Montage, as a rhetorical device and discourse construction, plays a very important role in the discourse, such as the means of inserting the plot and building artistic image, and the basis for controlling the rhythm of the text. Montage is not only a means of subjectivism in narration, but also a means...
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Banquo, A Paradox: A Conspirator and Murderer

Lingmin Zhou
Macbeth by Shakespeare is rich in paradox not only in language styles but also in characterization. Banquo in Macbeth is a good example. Banquo fights with Macbeth against disloyal traitor and he helps Macbeth step by step to kill the king. At the same time, he has great influence on Macbeth’s criminal...
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The Preservation of Hokkien

Yingqiu Chen, Xiaoxiao Chen
Hokkien in recent years has witnessed a gradual decrease in speaking population, which will accelerate the process of language endangerment. However, it is unaffordable not to cease Hokkien’s decline because Hokkien possesses elements that distinguish it from others. From linguistic, cultural and community-based...
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A Preliminary Study on the Chinese Documents with the Reign Title Unearthed in Khara-Khoto

Xiaoming Li
Khara-Khoto is unearthed Chinese literatures, which are accompanied by a large number of social documents with the reign titles. And these reign titles are of great significance on determining the date of the document and researching the relevant historical background. This paper sketches the source,...
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Ethical Issues in Research Processes: Informed Consent, the Role of the Researcher, Access to Research Sites and Research Subjects

Lina Zhang, Zhiqing Liu
Ethical dimensions, which character is a social life in all parts of the society exist in every social research. The simple reason for that is that research concerns getting data from people, and about people. Varieties of problems probed by social researchers and the methods utilized by them are inevitably...
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The Cognitive Construal of Chinese Imperatives

Yujuan Feng, Zhengguang Liu
Imperatives indicate the speaker’s desire to influence future actions, which are generally accomplished by making requests, suggestion, or giving orders. Different form English imperatives, Chinese imperatives don’t have fixed syntactic structures or coherent morphology. This article tries to probe into...
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Analysis on Evolution Characteristics of Chinese Characters

Linying He, Zhanping Zhang, Linna He
The glyph structure of Chinese characters are developed towards simplification, semiotics, standardization, and beautification. Simplification is the general development direction of Chinese character structure; symbolization is a result of simplification, which in turn facilitates simplified processes;...
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Study on the Custom of Ancestor Worship in the Traditional Hakka Culture in Ninghua An Investigation of a Non-material Cultural Heritage

Tao Zhang
"In the North is Dahuaishu, and Shibi Village is in the South". Some scholars researched and pointed out that Shibi Village in Ninghua County of Fujian Province was the final settlement place of immigrants. After a long period of development, it gave birth to the distinctive Hakka customs which has played...
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Comparison of Zhongnan Culture and Nomadic Culture

Jie Hang
Zhongnan Mountain, is a boundary of the south and north part of China. Zhongnan Culture, a regional culture, is formed based on this unique geological location. As a geological boundary in Culturology, Zhongnan Mountain only reaches Shangluo, Ankang Mountainous area in south, and reaches South of Guanzhong...
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Assessment of English Versions of Product Introductions of Alcoholic Drinks From Functionalist Approaches

Xiuqin Hong
With the help of Nord’s model for translation-oriented text analysis, the author finds out how the Chinese and English product introductions of alcoholic drinks differ after conducting the analysis of the intratextual and extratextual factors in the Chinese product introductions and the parallel English...
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The Identity of Jim in “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the Postcolonial Perspective

Yujin Li
The post-colonial theory opposes the essentialism of the nation and identity. It advocates the concept of "hybridity" and uses it as a strategy to resist the discourse of colonialism. This article, through a textual analysis of the identification problem of slave Jim in Mark Twain’s “ The Adventures...
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Presumptive Q-scalar Implicatures

Lirong Bai
Grice’s theory of conversational implicature has provoked much controversy in recent years. Varieties of plans have been made to advance or even substitute that global pragmatic assumption. Embedded scalar implicature is a case in point which claims that some of the conversational implicatures can be...
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J. D. Salinger Studies in North America and in China

Yang Gao
J. D. Salinger and his works have received much interest and popularity among readers and critics during the past sixty years. This paper aims to sort out the critical studies of Salinger’s works in North America and in China according to different periods divided and such a conclusion can thus be made,...
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The Way to Define the Polysemic Words in a Chinese-English Dictionary An Approach Based on the Generative Lexicon

Yan He
This paper has carried out a study of the semantic extensions of the verb ài (‘love’) in Chinese from a sub-lexical perspective within the theoretical framework of Generative Lexicon. In particular, we have proposed a sub-lexical definition of the verb ài (‘love’) for a Chinese-English dictionary as...
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Translation in College English Teaching from the Prospect of Intercultural Communication

Ying Zhao
It is an inevitable trend in the development of College English translation teaching to penetrate the cultural awareness and cultivate the students' ability of English translation. In recent years, always international exchanges and cooperation, further strengthen, our country college English translation...
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Research on the Psychological Status and Characteristics of “Indoorsy” Undergraduate Students Based on Survey about 1,272 Undergraduate Students Nationwide

Yile Dong, Qing Zhang, Mengyuan Yin, Weicen Ni, Ziyuan Zhou
A total of 1,272 “indoorsy” undergraduates are taken as the analysis objects in this paper to research the psychological characteristics of “indoorsy” undergraduate students. By virtue of principal component analysis, the psychological status of “indoorsy” undergraduate students is summarized as three...
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Figurative Idioms and Culture

Fangfang Ding
This paper seeks to outline the main typology of cultural aspects under conventional figurative language, idioms in particular and to describe the connection between figurative idioms and culture as it becomes manifest in idiomatic data from several languages.
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Chinese and Japanese Progressive Aspectual Markers in Comparison with English

Wenxiao Zhao, Yiji Gao
The present study is devoted to interpreting Chinese and Japanese progressive markers, their meanings and usage in comparison with English, while reasoning ungrammaticality from the perspective of Aktionsart.
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Literature Review of Student Self-assessment and Its Effects on the Second Language Writing

Bing Xu
This paper is a detailed review of the theories and previous studies that investigate self-assessment and second language writing. After the introduction of the definition of self-assessment, a review of the validity and reliability of self-assessment will be presented, followed by its potential benefits...
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Gender Space in The House of Mirth

Tingting Xie
Edith Wharton is one of the most influential novelists at the turn of the twentieth century in America. In 1905, with the publication of The House of Mirth, it aroused the attention of critics and caused much controversy. As a sensitive female writer, Wharton observed that the differences of space in...
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A Tentative Study on the Strategies to Overcome Chinese Culture Aphasia in College English Teaching

Yan Liu
Under the background of the Belt and Road Initiative, China gets more involved in the international activities and Chinese culture has gained great attention around the world, but Chinese students usually find themselves in an awkward situation when introducing Chinese culture to foreigners in English....
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Space Production and Its Art Representation Taking "Big Talk on Journey to the West" as an Example

Jiachun Ye
Space theory is an important concern of Western Neo-Marxism. In works of literature and art, space theory and its framework of interpretation explored the struggles among the various social forces brought together by analyzing the physical space constructed in literary works, and creatively explored...
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A Discourse Analysis on Outdoor Advertising about Real Estate from the Perspective of Eco-linguistics

Maoqun Zhang
Eco-linguistics is an interdisciplinary which combines ecology and linguistics. It focuses on the study of language ecology and investigates the relationship between language and ecology, which reflects the idea of returning language to the natural ecology. The birth of eco-linguistics not only helps...
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Enhancing College Students’ Autonomous Oral English Learning in the Network Environment

Chunmei Jiang
College students’ oral English proficiency and autonomous learning ability are emphasized as two extremely significant objectives of college English education. The popularity of network terminals like computers and mobile phones has revolutionized the way for college students to learn oral English. Research...
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Exploring the Correlation between Phraseological Pattern of the Reporting Clause and Reporting Verb Functions in Citation A Corpus-based Study of Theses in Applied Linguistics

Liang Chu
Making reference to the prior eminent literature helps academics to establish an intertextual link to the wider discipline. And such link could be utilized to justify their arguments and the novelty of their position, since it connects their “research activities to significant work in the field” (Hyland,...
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Similarities in Chinese Translation of The Pilgrim’s Progress and that of the Bible

Liangxin Jiao
John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come (1678), one of the English classics and a Christian work, claims a book only secondary to the Holy Bible still in print. Translation has been crucial to the introduction of western knowledge and the forming of national culture...
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Influence of Cognitive Factors on Interpreters’ Performance

Mianmian Cai
This thesis mainly presents the application of interdisciplinary research to dynamic study of interpretation, i.e. the study of the process of interpretation. The author discussed Relevance Theory, which is known as theoretical foundation of cognitive pragmatics. After explaining the procedure of comprehension,...
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An Analysis of Illocutionary Force in the Diplomatic Language of Zuozhuan

Yongmei He
Modern linguistics has contributed a lot to the development of literature analysis and translation theory. Being a central subdomain of pragmatics, the theory of speech acts is an important theoretical foundation in the pragmatic approach. According to the theory, human beings do not simply produce sentences...
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An analysis of the Value of Chinese Art Songs during the May Fourth Period

Qilong Shi
In 1919, the "May fourth" new cultural movement came into being. This period coincided with the confrontation between the new and old culture of China. During this period, Chinese modern music culture began to develop gradually, and the musicians represented by Jinhui Li, Yuanren Zhao, Youmei Xiao and...
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A Literary Study of the Chinese Version of the Gatha of Buddhist Scriptures

Lili Chen, Lengben Zhaxi
As a rhyme composed of specific syllables and length, the gatha has the same side with Chinese traditional poetry, but also has great difference. From the perspective of literature, this paper takes the Chinese version of the gatha of Buddhist scriptures in the Period of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern...
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A Preliminary Study on the Types of Uygur Mythology

ZaiNahan Abuduo, Lili Chen
In this paper, the Uygur mythology is classified by the authors and the motif analysis of the Creation theme will be analyzed. Among them, more references come from Chao Gejin and Wang Xianzhao's masterpiece "Wang’s Catalog: Motif in China’s mythology" and some of them are taken into use compared with...
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A Trinity of Reading, Peer Cooperation, and Consciousness Raising for Meaningful Revision under the Guidance of Social Constructivism

Tiemei Guo
Writing is negotiation of meaning between writer and reader through interaction and revision is the regeneration of meaning when the negotiation is threatened or unable to be accomplished. In nature, revision is meaningful only when it is based on the interaction between reader and writer. In the case...
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An Analysis of Literary Criticism from the Macro Perspective

Xinxin Li
Literary criticism belongs to the category of literary reception. From the perspective of reception aesthetics, literary criticism is an important link in the realization of literary value and an important part of literature research. Literary criticism should complete the appreciation activities. What...