The Literary Criticism Theory Of Adward Said

Theory of contemporary literary criticism is numerous, emerge in endlessly, and itsheight the division of "professional" and the text of "textual" contained the innovation of thecontemporary literary criticism, gradually make literary criticism gradually away from the"other" and the secular society, thus greatly weaken the function of cultural criticism ofcriticism.In view of this, trying to from two aspects to solve the problem:One is put forwardthe concept of secular criticism, secular criticism aims to distinguish it from the first fourtypes of contemporary literary criticism, to break the "professional" and "textual" barriers,taking the initiative to shoulder the social function of literature and art, namely the questionand criticize authority, the establishment of the system, challenge false harmonious concept ofcriticism, thus influence on the society;the other is redefined the critics, respectively fromthree dimensions of identity, attitude, character interpretation of critic should have elements,namely the identity of "exile","speak truth to power" attitude, the character of the "late".However,the view of literary criticism is far more than that, he wants to explain the meaningand value of enlightenment to people, in order to call for the innovation of the concept oftheory and criticism.