徐中玉,1915年2月出生,江阴人,华东师范大学中文系教授,我国现代著名文艺理论家,长期从事文艺理论研究,撰著、编著教学书籍约1000万字,主编教材和期刊达2000万字。徐先生的文艺理论研究追求真理、关注现实、融贯古今,以传统文论为立足点建设民族文艺学,形成了独特的研究格局,在文学理论研究界享有崇高声誉。年少时的徐中玉笃志于学,而家境贫困,由于师范科免交学费,便考取了无锡省立中学师范科,毕业后先得去小学当两年教师,才能 Xu Zhongyu, born in February 1915, a native of Jiangyin, a professor of Chinese at East China Normal University, a famous contemporary theorist in literature and art in China, has long been engaged in the study of literary theory. He wrote and edited about 10 million teaching books, and edited 20 million words of textbooks and periodicals. Mr. Xu’s theory of literary theory pursues the truth, pays close attention to the reality, melts through the past and present, builds the national literature and art from the standpoint of the traditional literary theory, forms the unique research pattern, enjoys the high reputation in the literature theory research community. Xu Zhongyu was young when he was studying, while his family was in poverty. Since he was exempted from paying his tuition, he took the Wuxi Provincial High School Normal School Section and graduated from elementary school to two years as a teacher.