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What does general knowledge of literary language specifically include

The linguistic characteristics of a literary work actually refer to the genre of the literary work.

The specific style of a literary work refers to the formal categories of various literary works. It is the external form of expression of the work's ideological content and belongs to the formal category of the work. Literary genres are formed historically. In the process of their formation and development, various literary genres have gradually formed their own relatively stable characteristics and laws in terms of expression and expression, image shaping, structural arrangement, and language use, which have become the basis for the classification of literary genres. The evolution of classification of literary styles The classification of literary styles in Chinese history sprouted as early as the Zhou and Qin Dynasties. For example, in the Analects of Confucius, there were such titles as "Poetry", "Book", "Poetry" and "Literature", but at that time, there was no strict distinction between literary works and general scholarly writings. In the two Han Dynasty, with the development of pure literature such as rhetoric and fugue, the names of "article" and "literature" appeared. At that time, the so-called "literature", also known as "erudition", generally refers to the scriptures, history and other academic works; and the so-called "articles", also known as "rhetoric", refers to the meaning of the works with the rhetoric, including poetry, fugue, historical biographies, Zaozhi and so on. The emergence of such names means that literary works and general academic works began to distinguish. In the period of Wei, Jin, and North-South Dynasties, with the development of literary creation and the increasing diversification of literary genres, the theory of literary classification was gradually formed. Cao Pi's "Canonical Treatise on Essays" said that "the text is the same but the end is different", which can be regarded as the origin of the classification of literary styles. According to this principle, he categorized the writings that were considered to be literature at that time into four sections, namely, sangs, books, eulogies, and poems and fugues. A little later, Lu Ji's "Wen Fu" of the Western Jin Dynasty put forward the idea of categorizing literary works according to the forms of the things they depicted. He divided literary works into ten categories: poetry, fugue, monument, eulogy, inscription, proverbs, ode, theory, play, and speech, and made a concise summary of the characteristics of each genre. During the Qi and Liang era, Liu Feo's "Wenxin Diao Long" summarized the experience of the classification of literary styles through the ages and the views of the people at that time, and put forward the idea of categorizing by "text" and "pen", that is, the so-called "today's common saying that there is a text and a pen, and thought that there is no rhyme to the pen, and there is a rhyme to the text also" ("Wenxin Diao Long" - the general technique). This classification focuses mainly on the linguistic characteristics of the works, i.e., all kinds of works are divided into two categories: rhymed and prose, according to the rhyme or non-rhyme of their language. This is the dichotomy of traditional Chinese literary classification. It was generally adopted by later generations and became a dominant classification. The Selected Writings, a collection of essays compiled by Xiao Tong of the Liang Dynasty, paid more attention to the boundaries between literature and non-literature, and put forward the selection criterion of "things out of contemplation, and righteousness to Han Zao". He categorized "scriptures", "books of the son" and historical works as non-literary and did not include them, while the works belonging to literature were divided into 39 items. This complicated trend of literary classification promoted the comprehensive study and categorization of many literary varieties by literary theorists. After the Song and Yuan dynasties, novels and operas had great development, but they were excluded from literature by the traditional concept of literature, and did not cause much change in the classification of literature. Since the late Qing Dynasty, with the introduction of modern western cultural trends, including literary trends, foreign novels and plays were gradually translated and introduced, and modern novels and plays written in China began to attract people's attention, which led to the emergence of a tendency to classify novels and plays as independent literary genres in certain literary magazines and literary treatises." Before and after the May Fourth Movement, with the rise of the literary revolution and the rapid development of new poetry (free verse), new novels (modern vernacular novels), and new dramas (modern dramas), China's traditional classification of literary genres could no longer account for the different ways and characteristics of the increasingly diversified and modernized styles of literature in terms of their expression of meaning and the shaping of images. As a result, the ancient traditional dichotomy was gradually replaced by a modern classification that absorbed the strengths of Western classifications. Classification of Modern Literary Genres Since the May Fourth Movement, the modern classification of literature has been mainly based on the three-part method and the four-part method, with the latter being the most popular. "The May Fourth Literary Revolution also involved the theory of literary classification, and some pioneers at that time put forward a lot of new insights in this regard, laying the foundation for the new literary classification, especially the four-part method. Hu Shi's Ruminations on the Improvement of Literature, from the standpoint of advocating vernacular literature, regarded the vernacular novels of Shi Nai-an, Cao Xue-qin, and Wu Yanyan as the authentic literature. Qian Xuan-tong echoed his view that opera and novels were "the best of modern literature". Liu Bannong's "My View of Literary Improvement" suggested that "all that can be considered as having the qualifications and value of permanent existence in literature are poetry, opera and novels and essays". He put poetry and opera into the category of rhyming essays, and novels and miscellaneous essays into the category of prose, which, although following the traditional Chinese dichotomy, was undoubtedly a breakthrough in the traditional conception of literature, as shown by the fact that he, like other pioneers of the literary revolution of the time, attached great importance to the status of novels and dramas in literature. He also proposed that "the position of opera in literature should be raised", predicted that "the drama of the vernacular" (modern drama) would be "prosperous"; and asserted that the novel was "the main brain of literature". In fact, he regarded poetry, dramatic literature, novels, and miscellaneous essays (prose in the narrow sense) as four relatively independent literary genres. This idea of literary categorization was endorsed by Chen Duxiu at that time. After the May Fourth Movement, poetry, novels, essays, and operas (including all dramatic literature) became the main genres of literary creation, and became the customary literary categorization; in the 1930s, the "New Chinese Literature Series" was compiled, adopting the tetrad of poetry, novels, essays, and dramas. Since then, the four divisions have become a common literary classification in modern Chinese literary publications, literary theories, and literary history works. In European history, since Aristotle in ancient Greece, Hegel in Germany, Belinsky in Russia and other aestheticians and literary theorists have advocated a three-part classification of literature, i.e., according to the different ways in which literature expresses and shapes images, various literary genres are divided into three main categories: narrative, lyric and drama. Narrative works are mainly written by authors who describe everything that happens in the objective world in the tone of a narrator, with special emphasis on the description of the state of affairs in life and the portrayal of characters' personalities. These literary genres include narrative poems, novels, fables, myths, fairy tales and so on. Lyric works are mainly written by the author in the tone of the main character to express his inner thoughts and subjective feelings, generally do not require a complete plot and characterization. This kind of genre includes lyrical poetry, lyrical prose and so on. Dramatic works are mainly composed of the characters in the works to complete the creation of artistic images with their own words and actions. It is different from narrative and lyrical literature, but also some of the characteristics of both, such as narrative literature has a complete storyline and characterization, but also lyrical literature has the characteristics of lyricism (especially poetry and opera). Dramatic literature generally includes tragedy, comedy and drama. This three-part classification focuses on the main features and internal rules of literary creation, and has a strong generalization and scientific nature. The tetralogy, which was formed by combining the characteristics of modern Chinese literary genres on the basis of traditional Chinese and foreign classifications, takes into account the characteristics of the works in terms of expressive methods such as expressing meaning and shaping images, as well as the differences in the external forms of the works in terms of their institutions, structures, and linguistic characteristics; it not only pays attention to the scientificity of the classification of literature, but also respects the customs of traditional Chinese literary genres, and is therefore of a strong vitality. In the history of the development of Chinese literature, two literary genres, poetry and prose, appeared earliest and have a long tradition. Among them, the category of poetry includes lyric poems in the category of lyricism and narrative poems in the category of narrative, because both of them have more similarities than differences in the shaping of images, organizational structure and language characteristics. As for the prose as an independent category, in addition to respect for the traditional Chinese classification habits, mainly because of the wide range of this literary genre, a wide range of subjects, and in the reflection of the present home, shaping the image, as well as the institutional structure, linguistic features and other major aspects of the main and different from the poetry, novels, drama and other types of literature. Some of these varieties, such as miscellaneous essays and sketches, do not have all the characteristics of literature, but do have obvious literary character. Because of its late maturity in China, the novel has not attracted much attention in the traditional classification, and it has not been listed as an independent genre in the Western trichotomy for a long time. However, it is longer than other genres of literature in terms of the breadth and depth of its reflection of life, and in terms of its capacity to describe and represent life. Moreover, since it is a literary style centered on characterization, it has outstanding features in characterization, environmental description, plot narration, structural arrangement, language use, etc., which are distinctly different from poetry and prose. For these reasons, the genre of novel has gained a high degree of development in modern and contemporary countries all over the world, and has become one of the most popular literary genres. As for dramatic literature, it basically adopts the foreign classification, though the varieties included, are richer than in the West. In the classification of literature, whether it is a three-part method or a four-part method, it adopts the method of synthesis and generalization to classify various literary varieties with similar characteristics and institutions into one category; and in respect of a certain type of genre, it can be analyzed and classified into a more detailed way. For example, poetry can be divided into lyric poetry, narrative poetry or metrical poetry, free verse, etc.; novels can be divided into long, middle, short or modern novels, historical novels, science fiction, etc.; drama can be divided into poetry, opera, drama, etc., of which the opera can be divided into modern opera, traditional opera, etc.; as for the prose, it is even more varied.

Change and Development of Literary Genres The classification of literary genres is relative. Some genres tend to absorb the factors of other genres in the process of their formation and development, resulting in the convergence or crossover between different genres. For example, the prose poem, according to the nature of its content, it has the elements of poetry, but in terms of chapter system and language characteristics, and close to the prose. Another example is the poetic drama, which belongs to the theater according to its basic characteristics, but the rhymed dialogues or lines in it are authentic poems, which can be independently classified as poems. Another example is the fable in the history of literature, which can be categorized as either a novel or a prose. The modern emerging reportage literature sometimes carries certain features of novels. All this shows that the classification of literature cannot be absolutized. It is a process of historical development from the traditional Chinese bifurcation, the traditional European trichotomy to the now popular Chinese tetralogy. With the migration of time, the development of social life and the accumulation of experience in literary creation as well as the evolution of people's aesthetic interests, the genres of literature are bound to undergo the vicissitudes of prosperity and decline. Marx once pointed out that ancient myths were created in the immature social conditions of human childhood, and with the development of productive forces, as "the forces of nature were actually dominated, myths disappeared" (Marx and Engels, vol. 2, p. 113). This shows that the rise and fall of a particular literary genre in history is ultimately determined by socio-economic reasons. In a class society, the rise and fall of literary genres are sometimes closely related to the situation of class struggle. The rise and fall of literary genres in a class society is sometimes closely related to the situation of class struggle. The rise of miscellaneous writings since the May Fourth Movement in China is a case in point. In modern society, with the rapid development of science and technology and the accelerated pace of human life, people require writers to quickly and timely reflect the ever-changing reality of life, and thus, like reportage literature as a new genre of literature with a strong realism, combat, and produce a number of new varieties of literature, such as film literature, television literature, miniature novels. The emergence of these new literary styles will certainly lead to new changes in the classification of literature. Therefore, in the classification of literature, we should not hold the view that it should remain unchanged.

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