在大多数文学理论教科书中,文学批评都被定义为一种依据某些标准(美学的或历史的)对文学现象进行分析和判断的活动。罗吉·福勒(R ogerFow ler)主编的《现代西方文学批评术语词典》关于“批评”的解释认为,“分析”和“评价”是文学批评应严守的两个含义。①根据韦勒克所作的词 In most literary theory texts, literary criticism is defined as an activity that analyzes and judges literary phenomena based on certain criteria (aesthetical or historical). The explanation of “criticism” in the Dictionary of Modern Western Literary Criticism edited by Roger Fowler argues that “analysis” and “evaluation” are two meanings that literary criticism should strictly follow. ① According to Wellek’s words