On Academic Properties of WenXin DiaoLong from Its Stylistics

The stylistics of Wen Xin Diao Long has fully revealed the characteristics of all sorts of non-literature and literary styles as well as their peculiar principles,which is viewed as the cornerstone of theoretical set-up of the whole book in which 80% of writings are nonliterary as against 20% of literary ones.Because of its content,it is considered necessarily a book about styles rather than one on pure literary theory.