“文学”的定义,在流行的几本文学理论中没有明确的表述。到底什么是文学?似乎是一个谜,人们的回答往往在似与不似之间,譬如说:“文学是社会生活的形象反映”。说它似,似在它的确说出“文学”定义的一部分,说它不似,不似在它仅仅说出文学定义的一部分。询疑者问:社会生活的形象反映,除文学而外,其它种类艺术亦然,作何解释? 我们认为:“文学”的定义,呈现着多层次状态,是一个多层次结构。要充分地阐释 The definition of “literature” is not explicitly stated in popular literary theories. In the end what is literature? Seems to be a mystery, people’s answers are often between like and not like, for example: “Literature is the image of social life reflects.” To put it likely, it seems that it does say that part of the definition of “literature,” that it does not resemble it, does not seem to say that it is only part of the definition of literature. The transgressor asks: The image of social life reflects that besides literature, other kinds of art are equally true. How do we explain it? We think that the definition of “literature” presents a multi-level state and is a multi-level structure. To fully explain