Literary Theory Textbook Compilation since the Founding of PRC:From the Perspective of Literary Classification Terms

The construction and examination of teaching materials for literary theory studies has long been the focus of literary studies.As the time-honored basic issue of literary theory,the classification of literary forms is also the essential part of the teaching materials for literary theory studies.Since the founding of PRC,setting the terms for literary classification in the teaching materials has successively undergone Sovietization,localization,and westernization which roughly correspond to the 1950s-70s period,1980s,and the period from 1990s up to now.The key terms used in the teaching materials also suggest that the classification of literary forms has experienced the following three stages:the period of sticking to a misplaced differentiation between the literary type and literary form by modeling Soviet Union;the transitional period of trying to integrate literary forms which were finally intertwined with literary types again;the period of reconstruction by adopting the term of genre and re-integrating the literary types.In terms of normativity,unity,and interactivity,the construction of the terms for literary classification is far from satisfactory in that different things share the same name and different terms refer to the same thing,thus leading to a state of confusion.The general survey of the current state of the terms used for literary classification demonstrates that it is urgent to conduct an adequate research on the literary classification.In the new century,there is a long way to go for the construction of teaching materials for literary theory studies,which demands a good understanding of such relationships as those between learning from others and tapping the domestic resources and between a macroscopic horizon and microscopic deliberations.