“‘文学’一词如果限指文学艺术,即想象性的文学,似乎是最恰当的。”2在关于“文学本质”的讨论中,韦勒克以直截了当的方式表达了他对文学的看法。在他眼里,文学创作是极富想象力的活动,是一种浪漫主义所开辟的文学创作之路的后来者们执着的事业。类似的观点可以在很多文本和理论批评的话语体系中得到印 “It seems appropriate to limit the term ’literature’ to literary art, that is imaginative literature.” 2 In his discussion of “literary nature ”, Weller expressed his approach in a straightforward manner Opinion on literature. In his eyes, literary creation is a highly imaginative activity, a successor to the later literary creation pioneered by romanticism. A similar view can be found in many discursive systems of textual and theoretical criticism