On Wang Guowei's Viewpoint Of Literature

In the early 20th century Chinese academic intellectual, Wang Guowei is a scholar who has the consciousness of modern academic from traditional to modern. Philosophy was the guiding principle of his inner life, throughout his life, and has a major impact on the sense of his life and his literary concept. In the turn of the 20th century, the era of the collision Of Chinese civilization with Western civilization, Wang Guowei formed a unique literary concept. Currently, literature is facing increasingly urgent problems that we must reflect and reconstruct the subject. It is important to re-examine Wang Guowei's literature concept and analysis his literary thought that has profound influence on latter literary theory. The viewpoint of literature has broad sense and narrow sense. The narrow sense of literature viewpoint is the concept of the literature essence. But the broad sense of literature viewpoint includes the views of literature essence and literary history and literary criticism. Wang Guowei's literary concept is the broad sense of literature viewpoint. The concept of the literature essence mainly explains from four aspects. Literature is the genius's games.Its original quality is scenery and emotion, reason and imagination. Literature sets "intuitive" and "epiphany" as the method and constitutes "artistic" conception to describe "natural and life" and to explain the "fundamental problems" of nature and life. Literature has entertainment and aesthetic effect. The concept of literary history mainly illustrates from three aspects. They are natural original concept of changes, the equality concept of elegant and custom, integrated and changed concept of history. The concept of the literary criticism mainly explains from three aspects. The vision of criticism is cultural geography. The purpose of criticism is to investigate the essence of life. The standard of criticism is " natural"...