Jin Shengtan Theory Of Literary Criticism

The thesis has made a comprehensive study on Jin Shengtan ' s current times background, family life experience, personal life experience, tragic fate & his political, philosophic ideas, ideological system of literary criticism, aesthetics thoughts & arts of composition, techniques of commentary, modernism of his commentary thoughts, and the effects of his commentary on later ages & the study conditions on him at different stages both national and international. It intends to reflect a historical prospect of Jin-study objectively, extend the subject to certain depth & scope, incarnate the comprehensive, developmental value it possessed.The thesis is formed of introduction, main body & conclusion, its concrete contents summarized as following:The thesis comprehensively reviewed the history & current situations of Jin-study and the significance of the subject, expounded the era background of the produce of Jin' s literary theories, explored late Ming Dynasty' s politics , economics, social lives & the changes of social vogues as well as the profound influences it had brought to culture and literature of late Ming Dynasty society. What Jin' s distinctive life experiences and feelings had brought him was tragic fate. Jin had strong Buddhist consciousness & a mode of thinking that gave priority to dialectical thoughts,, His multi-dimensional formed world viewpoints reflected comprehensively & concretely on the several stratums of religious philosophy, social ethics & historical culture. The theoretical systems of Jin' s literary criticism included writer' s creation, works ' formation & readers' appreciation, and the readers' appreciation was its starting point & end result. Writer' s creation manifested in the creative principles of "personify objects through loyalty & forgiveness" , "produce Buddhist doctrine via fatalism" and other concrete creative techniques as well. Jin not only inherited but also developed the tradition of literary criticism, these all manifested in the strengthening of the literary subject consciousness, transcending of the traditional sense & forms of literature, aesthetics grasping of the literature appeal, disclosing of literary expression methods & techniques, and so on. Jin' s poetry & literature theories surmounted the tradition, his poetry analysis theory that laid stress on form structure was particularly noticeable. Jin comprehensively expounded the narration art, the most prominent was his typical personality theory & scene structure theory, these were intensively embodied in the deleting and changing of Legend on the Waterside & Romance of the Western Bower. The modernism of Jin' s literary criticism embodied in his modern explanatory psychology, special criticism visual angle and the "readers ' spirits" . Jin' s literary criticism theory generated profound effects on the literary criticism in Ming & Qing dynasty as well as modern literary criticism theories, it also gets more and more attention from abroad. There are both positive and negative literature experiences & lessons in Jin Shengtan, which give posterities beneficial instructions.