杜书瀛先生的《文学原理──创作论》是一部从人类本体论美学的角度研究文学创作活动的理论专著，也是作者本人“最看重的著作之一”（作者后记）。作者表明，这部书是他从认识论美学转向人类本体论美学之后的第一本书。在书中，作者对文学作了重新定位，视文学为最能体现人性价值的本体性活动之一，审美愉悦为文学创作之根本性质。以此为基点，作者对整个文学创作系统作了新的建构，提出了区别于一般认识论、社会学和心理学的审美实践论、审美社会学、审美心理学等理论视野。对于一个长期从事文学理论研究的学者来说，这种在文学观念上的嬗变并不是一蹴而就的，而是经过了艰苦乃至痛苦的思考，并且需要有正视和告别过去的理论勇气。这 Mr. Du Shuying’s “Literary Theory - Creation Theory” is a theoretical monograph for studying literary creation activities from the perspective of human noumenal aesthetics as well as one of the authors “one of the most valued works” (the author’s postscript). The author shows that this book is the first book after he shifted from epistemological aesthetics to human ontology aesthetics. In the book, the author has reoriented literature. As one of the noumenon activities that can most embody the value of human nature, visual literature is the essential nature of literary creation. From this point of view, the author made a new construction of the entire system of literary creation, putting forward theoretical perspectives that are different from general epistemology, aesthetic practice of sociology and psychology, aesthetic sociology and aesthetic psychology. For a scholar who has long been engaged in the study of literary theory, this kind of evolution in the notion of literature does not take place in a single step. It goes through arduous and even painful reflections and requires the theoretical courage to face and farewell to the past. This