Research On Natsume Soseki’s Literature Theory

Natsume Soseki is the founder of modern Japanese literature and is called "the mother of modern Japanese literature".Natsume Soseki,as a writer,is well-known,while Natsume Soseki,as a literary theorist,has been neglected.His literary theory focuses on the understanding of the conflicts between Eastern and Western literary concept,reflecting the characteristics of cross-culture and cross-discipline.His literary theory system is huge.This article intends to discuss his literary theory from four aspects:literary creation,literary appreciation,literary criticism,and literary development.This article is divided into introduction,body and conclusion.The body consists of four chapters.The introduction part first introduces Natsume Soseki’s family background,growth process and study career.Secondly,it summarizes the research status,research significance and research methods of Natsume Soseki’s literary theory.The first chapter mainly discusses Natsume Soseki’s literary creation theory.Natsume Soseki constructed a set of his own literary concepts,using the "(F+f)" formula as a model Natsume Soseki believed that the literary content needs to be composed of two parts:the cognitive F and the emotional f.Natsume Soseki pointed out that human sensory factors and psychological factors can be used as materials for literary creation.Specifically,Natsume Soseki divides literary material that can be entered into literary content into four types:feeling F,personnel F,supernatural F,and knowledge F,and the level of emotions that trigger people is the standard,and the above four literary materials are graded..In addition,Natsume Soseki advocated in his later years to standardize the creative principle of the creative subject with"Ze Tian Qu Si".The second chapter mainly elaborates Natsume Soseki’s literary appreciation theory Natsume Soseki’s theory of literary appreciation is born out of the theory of literary creation Natsume Soseki believes that there is a content gap in literary works,which requires readers to fill it with imagination during appreciation.At the same time,the filling of works by readers is dominated by the author.The author will create a kind of "reader’s confusion" to guide readers’appreciation.In addition,readers need to maintain an aesthetic mood when literary appreciation,and exclude the concept of interest,the concept of good and evil,and knowledge from aesthetic appreciationThe third chapter mainly summarizes Natsume Soseki’s literary criticism theory.Natsume Soseki recognized two undesirable tendencies in Japanese literary criticism during the Meiji period.One was blind worship of Western literature,and the other was panscientist literary criticism of naturalist literary critics.Natsume Soseki proposed that when appreciating literary works,he should focus on his own taste,pursue "self-orientation",and use scientific methods to carry out literary criticism.Chapter 4 summarizes Natsume Soseki’s theory of literary development.Natsume Soseki uses the method of stream of consciousness in Western psychology to divide the focus of human consciousness into "F to imitate","F to be talented",and "F to genius".On the basis of discussing the three consciousnesses,Natsume Soseki pointed out that the development of literature is dominated by the implied principle.Under the impetus of expectation principle,boredom principle and competition principle,the development of literature shows the characteristics of spiral upward and cyclical reciprocation.The conclusion is that Natsume Soseki maintains rational thinking at all times in the tide of the Westernization era,based on the aesthetic experience of Japanese literature,and at the same time,with the help of the theoretical methods of Western modern science,affirmed his claim to the dilemma of the era of modernization of Japanese literature.It can be used as a reference for the modernization of Chinese traditional literary theory.