On Todorov's Theory Of Dialogue Criticism

Todorov is a famous literary critic of France. He has been profoundly influenced by structuralism and the theory of dialogue, diversified context of 20th century made his thought transform tremendously. In the process of criticize the two of the traditional literary criticism—dogmatic criticism and internal criticism, he formed his unique critical theory and proposed dialogue criticism.After years of structuralism studies and achieved considerable influential results, Todorov begun to examine dogmatic criticism and internal criticism which prevailed in the history. The so-called"dogmatic criticism"refers to the idea that a critic criticizes works and guide writers to create by established centralized thought. In such comments, critics'authority is not shaked and his criticism is overlooking criticism, the writer has been the target of guidance. Todorov criticized the dogmatic criticism that single perspective and writers and readers stand away from the criticism caused by only allowing presence of critics'voice, along with the ignorance of others shut critics in a lonely room. The discovery of others means change of critics'status, and means make critics go out of monologue. The so-called"internal criticism"is a literary criticism way which researches the details of work itself relative to"external criticism".Formalism and structuralism are internal criticism. Besides make literary criticism go back to literature itself, the"internal criticism"emphasizes work's internal nature excessively and caused writer's monologue and critics'dumb through put work in the center. In order to overcome this situation, Todorov proposed joint exploration of the principles of the truth, make clear the state that critics explore the truth with writers in the process of critique. The word"explore"intend to break the closure, put criticism discourse under criticism, rather than at destination.According to Todorov, the criticism which goes beyond the"dogmatic criticism"and"internal criticism"can be regarded as dialogue criticism. The so-called dialogue criticism is the interpretation and re-interpretation around works between literary critics and writers, critics and critics, critics and readers, critics and works under the contemporary diversified context, in the meantime, cause literary critics, writers, readers ponder and critique over themselves, others, in the direct or indirect cross swords, reflect each other's different thought and produce more reasonable, approach truth more closely. Removing the authority of criticism, the participants engaged in a many voices of instrumental ensemble, a critique carnival in a dialogue criticism is inspired by the different perspectives, and raise more thought.The dialogue criticism is the result in the field of literary criticism achieved by Todorov after he absorbed Bakhtin's dialogue theory. It is a historical inevitability. The dialogue criticism has important significance to literary criticism overcome the existing difficulties, to eliminate the barriers between different theories, and surpass literary internal study and external study. Besides, it has important influence on the building of Chinese literary criticism.