Author(s)

Siyu Chen ¹, Wei Liu ¹, Weisi Zhang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Yanching Institute of Technology, Sanhe, Hebei, 065201, China

Corresponding Author

Siyu Chen

ABSTRACT

Against the backdrop of building a modern Chinese civilisation in the new era, the Chinese Language and Literature, as a vital bastion of the new liberal arts, urgently requires a response to the 'new cultural mission'. This paper proposes a systematic restructuring of five core literary courses-Chinese Classical Literature, Chinese Modern Literature, Chinese Contemporary Literature, Foreign Literature, and Introduction to Literature-centred on the concept of 'literary imagination'. This paper takes "literary imagination" as the core concept and proposes a systematic reconstruction of five courses-ancient Chinese literature, modern Chinese literature, contemporary Chinese literature, foreign literature, and an introduction to literature-based on the characteristics of literary courses. By establishing a logical closed loop of 'Imagination-Identification-Creation', this framework elevates 'literary imagination' from textual rhetoric to an intrinsic mechanism of cultural cognition and aesthetic practice. Through functional divisions of 'Decoding-Tradition-Construction-Reference', the system aims to deepen students' cultural agency and aesthetic experience, providing an operational curriculum paradigm for cultivating cultural innovators in the new era.

KEYWORDS

Literary Imagination; Curriculum Framework; Cultural Subjectivity

CITE THIS PAPER

Siyu Chen, Wei Liu, Weisi Zhang. Reconstructing the Literary Curriculum System Centred on 'Literary Imagination' . Curriculum and Teaching Methodology (2026). Vol. 9, No.2, 14-21. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/curtm.2026.090203.

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