Introduction to Western Traditional Literature

Generally speaking, traditional western literature mainly refers to the western literature before the middle and late period of 19 century, and also includes some literature in the same period and later; Modernist literature mainly refers to the western mainstream literature that originated in the middle and late period of19th century and continued until the middle of 20th century. In the relationship between literature and art and the world, one of the oldest traditions of western literary theory is that literature and art imitate the outside world. "The relationship between literature and art and the external nature and the external world is the most basic and core problem that classical literary theory cannot avoid, and it is the most natural and direct problem that literature and art face.