On LinShu's Lover Novel Theory

Linshu is an important figure in the mordern literary history, his translating literature has affected most of successful figure in contemporary literary history and because of this he was credited as the ancestor of new literature, his translation has been affirmed by mordern scholars. Linshu is the last ancient Chinese prose author, but his most remarkable achievement was novel. His novels exert less effect than his translating novels. Scholars affirmed his novels on idea of text they notice the contradiction of Linshu's thought between new and old in the writing practice, Linshu has involved ideas of subject, method and style. Though it has no system, he use these ideas in his writing practice and it is mostly approved by his love novels Linshu's love novels ideas include not only the comprehending about theme, attracting and tempting power, but also the breaking of traditional formula and the persuing for ideal hero charactristic. Linshu's ideas about love novel have its peculiarity and charactoristic of deliberately parsuing for new changes. But Linshu is a scholar affected deeply by traditional culture, there are some conservative point of view in his cove novel ideas though he has accepted some new ideas of western society, such as the attention to woman's loyalty. This lext will analyzed Linshu's ideas about love novel and sum up into a approximately theorytical system and tend to determine the right position in the mordern literary theory history.