In considering the method of literary history, I think that we must first be awake to the fact that the study of literary history is more complicated and less strict than the physical science and the social science. In this essay, I tried to examine the premises for the method of literary history, and focussed the examination mainly on the following points. 1. The historical perception in which we must deal not with facts but with values. 2. The being structure of man. 3. The peculiarity of literature. 4. What the literary historians aim at when they write literary histories. By weighing the points mentioned above, I tried to find the character that literary history should have.
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