乔纳森·卡勒的《文学理论入门》(Literary Theory:A Very Short Introduction)出版于1997年,翌年就有了中译本,即使对中国读者来讲也是将近二十年前的旧作了。此书在研究文学理论问题的著述中有着比较高的引用率,也是讨论各种文学研究“转向”话题——如文学研究的文化转向、从“文学理论”到“理论”的转向——往往都会涉及的一本书;许多文艺学的研究生更是将其作为专业基础书列入学位论文的参考书目中……凡此种 Jonathan Kalle’s Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, published in 1997, comes with a Chinese translation the following year, even for Chinese readers nearly two decades ago. This book has a relatively high citation rate in the study of the theoretical issues of literature, as well as the topics of various “literary studies”, such as the cultural shift in literary studies, from “literary theory” to “theory” "- a book often involved; many literary graduate students even put it as a professional foundation book included in the dissertation bibliography ... ... Any such