Exceeding The Original Explanation And Connotative Fertility

Literary criticism is a kind of reasonable review on single texts and thecorrelated phenomena basing on the literary comprehension. Normal literary criticismcan lead literature to progressing into a healthy and glory path and also is veryimportant to preserve and develop literature.From ancient time literary criticism began to exist and develop and had differentmethods, such as from traditional social and historical criticism to latelypost-colonialist criticism and feminist criticism etc. With the progress of literature anddevelopment of literary criticism, people of different ages have differentunderstandings and new viewpoints. No matter what kind of critical methods they are,they must function in a certain historical era and make a contribution to thedeveloPment of literary criticism. But I make a study and find out that almost all thepast methods analyzed and expounded the works, which is difficult to understand theconnotation all things considered. Professor Gu Zuzhao firstly classifies the texts intothree levels and then thinks the connotation is also a kind of system possessing levels,so he submits a brand-new critical method——a critical method of hiberarchalconnotation——interpretation of textual connotation from all-side and multi-level,。Pilgrimage to the West an unfailing historical famous work suiting both refined andpopular tastes. After its publication, different interpretations, different comments,different research methods and different outcomes appeared. Why does thisphenomenon emerge? The commenters of the old days mainly made a thematicanalysis, while Pilgrimage to the West is a book reflecting the people's lives all sides.If they illustrate it like this, it will result in "having One's view of the importantovershadowed by the trivial, having no sight of Mount Tai". The thesis makes use of abrand-new research method——a critical method of hiberarchical connotation tostudy it and learn from others' strong points to offset one's weakness to develop theconnotation of Pilgrimage to the West. The paper firstly introduces the statement concerning hiberarchy combined bytexts, and interprets textual hiberarchical connotation that can be classified intodifferent levels, that is, reflecting the abundance of hiberarchical connotation. Thatfollowed, the author enumerates main literary critical approaches at present and pointsout the limitations in brief so that it demonstrates rationality of this approach.Pilgrimage to the West can be classified into three levels: the first is the level ofaesthetic affection, which mainly analyzes the beauty of fairy tales, the beauty ofmyths and the beauty of comedy. The second is historical and cultural level, and theauthor analyzes the social reality exposed by the novel from the epoch and socialbackgrounds at that moment and also points out the realization to the social structureand the trend to the religious ideal. The third is the level of philosophic connotation,which mainly expounds the philosophy of life reflected in the novel, especiallysneering at the society, teasing to the governors, overthrowing of the religious beliefand pondering deeply on the history, reality and future. The novel affirms the forceand the spirit of human, filling with intense humanistic spirit.