The Simple Study On Sun Li's Realistic Literary Theory And Criticism

Sun Li was an outstanding realistic writer, and a prominent realistic literary theorist and critic as well. The core of Sun Li's literary theory and criticism is realistic literary view, which Sun Li advocated, adhered to and carried on all his life. His realism is a rich system of theory, containing contents in various aspects and peculiar character of his own, namely, he was deeply influenced by the traditional Chinese literary thoughts, directly inherited the realistic view of literary in the "May 4th" period, especially that of Lu Xun, on the other hand, absorbed useful nutrition from foreign literary thoughts, which formed altogether the core of realistic literary theory and criticism in Sun Li style, a fruit in the tree of the development of realism is the thought of, the true, the good, the beautiful. In this theories, it discussed in the following aspects: ï¿¢iew on life. Sun Li's view on life was the basis of his realistic view on literature, believing that all literature was derived from life and that the writers should approach the life. (2)The pursuit for the beauty. Sun Li had a strong love for the beauty, thinking constantly the real realistic art was the unity of the true, the good and the beauty. He pursues in all his life the perfect of beauty, having a nearly stubborn persistence in beauty. (3)The view of truth and faith. Truth and Faith were the soul of Sun Li's realistic literature. Sun regarded truth and faith as the basic principle of literature, the minimum point of realism, the lifeline of composing. ï¿¢iew on archetypes. Sun Li, influenced deeply by Lu Xun, considered that to create successful typical character was an essential factor of realism and advocated the composing method of "taking a real person as model". ?Humanism. Sun mixed humanism into realism, insisting on the literary view of "literature for life". He thought that all great writers were great humanists.ï¿¢iew on style. Sun Li held that life was the soil of style, and advocated the unity of style and personality. Personality determined style. (7)His literary criticism. The nuclear guideline of his literary criticism was faithfulness. He thought that criticism had to be faithful and based on facts. (8)His style and feature of criticism. Sun Li's literary criticism was mainly in the style of reflective familiar prosaic and essay like. He combined the writer's works with their period, emphasizing the historical background, life experience, thought, personality and emotions of the writers, and made comparisons between the writers and works, verifying each other, making his criticism the style of realism.