Literature: The role and function of Literature by Zhang Ming

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'''The role and function of literature, especially foreign literature'''
What is the role of literature? The answer to this question needs to first analyze the function of literature. In a certain sense, what kind of function literature can have, and which role the literature can be.
Hu Yufang ''from the literature function about literature origin'' said that, the literature takes three kinds of function, they are cognitive function, aesthetic function and emotional function.
The cognitive function: the object of literary description is real life. In the literary creation, the writer is always based on the real life, describing the social phenomenon and life widely and profoundly, and showing the rich and colorful people through the universe of 1,000,000,000 universes In the narrative language. People through the understanding of literature and understanding of the story, to be able to recognize the people and things around, can increase knowledge, broaden their horizons and get the revelation of life.
The aesthetic function: The creation of literature can not be separated from the observation and understanding of ''beauty'' in life, so in the literary creation, Through the unique function of language and writing, people will inevitably reflect the beauty. When the reader is reading, he is able to experience the beauty of music and the story behind the story of the United States, in order to obtain a sense of pleasure.
Emotional function: In a certain sense, emotional function and aesthetic function are closely related.Wang yuanxiang had written a thesis ''On the function of literature''. In this paper, he summed up the two functions as entertainment function, that is, literature can bring the enjoyment of beauty, so that people have a sense of pleasure, then it has a certain entertainment value. In the view of many western scholars, the entertainment function, especially the aesthetic function, is the center of the literary function. Even there are many scholars think that Literature is a kind of pure beauty that transcends life and is completely free from moral restraint, and people's life, to pursue this pure beauty for the purpose, in order to get the greatest pleasure. The spiritual pleasure brought by the aesthetic feeling of literature has occupied a great part of human life. Therefore, life cannot do without this pleasure, the pleasure from the literature, then it means that life cannot do without literature, in other words, the function of literature is to give people a reason to live, the literature takes to give people a reason to live the role.
In addition, there are many other functions of literature, the most important thing is the educational function. Whether it is the literature on social life, positive reflection, or social criticism, the ultimate goal is to give people enlightenment, so that people can get the correct values, in their own path in life will not deviate from the direction of future. ''Writings are for conveying truth'' is almost certain that literary works in China. But for the western literature, the aesthetic is far more important than the enlightenment, they do not recognize the emergence of literature in the cultural factors, but to maintain the purity of literature, to maintain this unique aesthetic function.

'''Reference'''
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Introduction to Foreign Literature

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=Session overview=
*Week 1 Introduction and Course Organization 基本介绍与课程构成
*Week 2 Emergence of Literature 文学的起源
*Week 3 Literature: The role and function of Literature, especially foreign literature 文学：文学的角色和功能，尤其是在外国文学之中
[[Literature: The role and function of Literature by Zhang Ming]]
*Week 4 Literature: History, concept of world literature 文学：历史，世界文学概念
[[Concept of world literature_handout by Liu Yuehao]]
*Week 5 Earliest translations from the West to Chinese 从西方到中国的早期翻译
*Week 6 Examples of world literature: Tales from Mesopotamia and India 早期翻译：从美索不达米亚的传说到印度的传说
*Week 7 1001 Nights and Western Fables 《一千零一夜》与西方寓言
*Week 8 Common motifs in literature: The dragon 文学中的普遍意象：龙
*Week 9 Common motifs in literature: The harlekin 文学中的普遍意象：丑角（打诨者,逗笑者）
*Week 10 Religious texts: Buddhist hagiography and stories of the bible 宗教文本：佛教圣徒传与圣经故事
*Week 11 Top literary works, Love stories / romances and coming of age 顶级文学作品，爱情故事／浪漫主义时代的到来
*Week 12 Top literary works, Criminal stories and ghost stories 顶级文学作品，犯罪故事与鬼怪故事
*Week 13 Foreign Poetry and its Chinese translations 外国诗歌和它的中文翻译
*Week 14 Top literary works, Fantasy, Science Fiction and Utopia 顶级文学作品，幻想故事、科学小说与乌托邦故事
*Week 15 Histories of literature 文学史

=Texts for download (pdf)=
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