Title: Distinguishing the Reason Why Liu Xie's "Wen Xin Diao Long" Has No Discussion about the Novel
Abstract: The concept of the novel in Han dynasty taking the Little Tao as the core standard in pre-Qin and two Han dynasties,whose academic characteristic is more remarkable than literary.The exterior modality of the novel was so various that it couldn't form a stable literary style.Liu Xie's Wen Xin Diao Long representing the literary theory in Six Dynasties had inherited the traditional concept of the novel in the theory aspect.It regarded the novel as one kind of academic writing style but literary writing style,and neglected its literary characteristic which was obvious in the actual creation in Wei and Jin Dynasties.So in his 20 articles about literary styles he didn't take the novel as a literary style to discuss.And only his discussion about various creative skills in literature accorded with some creative characteristics of the temporal novel by chance,which was coincident with the developmental actual state of the creation and the cognition of the concept of the novel.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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