On Modern Prose Criticism's Individuality Theory

The forming time background of Chinese modern prose were the discovery of'humanbeing'and the awaking of individuality. 'Individuality'is a key word of modern prose criticism, and its meaning is complicated.The theory of individuality draw lessons from the foreign literary criticisms (especially the british essay's concept of self-expression) and from the ancient prosers'lyric works. It came into being a mordern literary ideology and criticism from the composing pracitces and theoretical constructions.Prosers and critics had put forward different kinds of explanations and views, for example, from the angle of human nature, of spirit, and of social classes. But they had some similar views on composing subject, authenticity of individuality, and Promethean style. The differences and similarity deepened modern prose's aesthetic connotation.Critics, using the theory of individuality, commented on writers personal styles from their works, and they led the theory of individuality to some kind of ultimate standard.The theory of individuality is a complicated system. This thesis is an attempt to give a systemic description on the theory's various aspect, and it discusses the relationships between self individuality and style of prose and concept of criticism. It is helpful to the research on modern prose and to the pracitice of literary criticisms.