Abstract
The predicament of literary theory teaching in the era of pictorial reading results from many respects. Literature environment in the electronic media has far exceeded the explanation scope of existing literary theory, and a gap also exists between literary theory and recent literature practice among contemporary audience. The general decline of reading and understanding classic texts among readers born after the 1990s leads to the failure of communication in the teaching of literary theory. At the same time, more work still needs to be done in the recontextualization of both Western theories and Chinese classical literary theories into contemporary Chinese reading and interpretation context. The paper proposes that a feasible way to solve the predicament is to integrate selected high-quality texts into the reading scope of contemporary students, while taking into consideration the representational strengths of visual text and verbal text. The paper also proposes that transformative modernization of ancient literary theory, integration of Western literary theory into Chinese context, and de-essentialization of teaching materials are possible ways to get out of the current predicament of teaching literary theory.
First Page
105
Last Page
109
Recommended Citation
Liang, Xiaoping. 2012. "The Predicament of Literary Theory Teaching in the Era of Pictorial Reading and Its Solutions." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 32, (3): pp.105-109. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol32/iss3/16
