The Expansion of Local Literature and Literary Geography Research

Abstract

Literary geography is a new research literature developed and developedby Chinese scholars. It is also a new method of criticism and research literature. It arises from the study of ancient Chinese literature and develops into the study of modern and contemporary Chinese literature, foreign literature and folk literature. In the discipline construction of literary geography, the collection and collation of local literature can provide many first-hand materials for literary geography, and provide many important cases for literary geography research, thus playing an important role.The cultural, literary and natural geographical elements preserved in the local literature have repeatedly illustrated the natural connection between literature and geography, which strongly argues that geography, is the starting point and foundation of literary development, and is also an important object of literary criticism and literary studies. The local literature also includes first-hand information obtained from field trips and field surveys, including photographs, videos, recordings and objects of natural landscapes and customs in a certain place, which are of great significance forthe study of literary geography.