The Revolution In Literature Criticism From 1917 To 1927

The basic foundation and reason is the language reform for the genesis of modern Chinese literary criticism. It is that taking the vernacular instead of literary style in the literature revolution that makes literature criticism achieve modern theoretical modality with the thesis style. With modernistic thought power, vernacular fulfills the reconstruction of the significance of literature criticism, from erecting language to erecting people, by a series of human discourse. With western literature criticism theoretical input and translation, misunderstanding and dissimilating, new language system, can generate new criticism discourse, activate thinking, and manifest new characteristics.There is the close relationship between modern media and modern literature criticism in the course of mutual symbiosis and promotion. It is the modern media, with newspapers and magazines as the representative, that is one of the most important means in the development of modern Chinese literary criticism. We can touch the vivid history and get the deep comprehension of literary criticism in perspective of newspapers and magazines. The revolution of media, with the rise of modern media, such as newspapers, magazines, bookstore and press, enhance the effect of time and space largely, make it possible to criticize immediately, following the tracks of literary works, aggregate different critics, initiate a new aspect of "Different Opinions Voiced" for literary criticism, promote the development of literary criticism.As the imagination and design of modern form of new literature, literary criticism leads the future development of the new literature. Critics attacked the traditional literary view," Moral Carried by Articles".Finally the expression of modern emotion for individual and modern aesthetic pursuit appeared in the new literature. As the flourish of creation, literary criticism takes the new mission of: detecting and guiding the creation of the new literature, finding and supporting "new people" interpreting classic, and promoting the construction of modern literature history. Based on the revolution of language and media, literary criticism generates major enlightenment and aesthetic efficiency, realizes the revolution of function, initiates consciousness of man and consciousness of aesthetic, and reconstructs new value system and meaning world.In a word, the May Fourth literature revolution is also the revolution in literature criticism.