本文旨在结合课堂实际应用和教学效果，综合评价杨金才教授主编的文学教材《文学导论》（上海外语教育出版社，2010年）。认为该教材实现了文学概念与作品选读的平衡，一比二的比重既突出了文学本体价值，又较为完整地传递了西方文学的传统概念框架；在文本的选材和编排上勇于突破、善于创新，注意把握合理的难易尺度，使诸多学习因素产生互动并保持平衡。

An Introduction to Literature (eds. YANG Jincai and WANG Haimeng, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2010) realizes a moderated balance between literary concepts and selected texts whose 1:2 ratio recognizes the ontological value of literature on the one hand, and conveys a largely complete conceptual framework of Western literature on the other. While keeping the difficulty of the textbook to a moderate degree, the editors made thoughtful innovations in selecting and arranging literary texts, which enables the interactions between multiple learning factors and a dynamic balance thereby, hence a highly recommended textbook for English literary studies.