All right. Now the question, "How does literary theory relate to the history of criticism?"

现在我们来思考这个问题：，“文学理论和评论的历史有什么联系？”

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Imagination has always been an very important concept in the history of Western aesthetics and literary theory.

在西方美学和文艺理论史上，想象是一个极为重要的概念。

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So the Seven-person school theory has extremely important function not only in the history of literary criticism of Ming Dynasty but also in Chinese ancient literary criticism history.

因此，七子派文学理论不仅在明代文学批评史上，乃至于中国古代文学批评史上都具有极其重要的作用。

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That is to say, what we're taking up this week, is as much really the history of criticism as literary theory.

也就是说，我们这周要讲的，与其说是文学理论，不如说是文学评论的历史。

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All right. Now the question, "How does literary theory relate to the history of criticism?"

现在我们来思考这个问题：,“文学理论和评论的历史有什么联系？

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That makes the subject matter that we'll be discussing this week, as I say, as much a part of the history of criticism as it is of literary theory.

这样一来，我们这周的内容就变得至关重要了，就像我说过的那样，我们将学习到文学理论方面,乃至评论史上重要的一章。

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