To Learn Literature is to Learn Communication As Well A Comment on Postmodernism

Ⅰ.IntroductionAs a wide range ofliterarycritics have demonstrated,two of thebasic relationships lying at the core of postmodernist literature arethe dichotomybetween the author and his or her work(the dynamicofself-exposure)and that between the author,figure as dramatistnarrator and the reader,whobecomes as active participant in the or-deal ofcommunicatingimages and information.The latter is ofthe utmost importance for the destinyofthe nov-el as it is only via the flowof digressive dialogue w…

To Learn Literature is to Learn Communication As Well A Comment on Postmodernism

It is well known that to learn a language means to learn how to communicate with others.But in the author's eyes few Chinese teachers think that to learn literature means to learn communication as well.The author explores the inside relationship between literature and communication in her thesis.She analyzes some great works of postmodernism to show different kinds of communication in order to enable both teachers and students of English to pay even greater attention to literature as a medium of communication.