A Brief Discussion on the View of Literary Education in Fiction and Drama in the Ming and the Qing Dynasty
HUO Youming, BAI Junfang
(College of Language and Literature, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062, Shaanxi;College of Humanistic and Social Sciences, Xi'an Polytechnic University, Xi'an 710032, Shaanxi)
Abstract:
In times of the Ming and the Qing Dynasty, more and more concern was showed with the educational function of fiction and drama as two forms of literature. However, just as educational views in those days differed, so novelists and dramatists differed in their purposes of writing, and so did novel and drama critics in evaluation of and taste for literary works. All this deserves an objective analysis and scientific appraisal.
KeyWords:
fiction and drama in times of the Ming and the Qing Dynasty; view of literature education; literary writing; appraisal of writing