The Image Criticism Of Jin Sheng-tan's Commentary

Image criticism is characterized by a distinetivenational style and is an important methods of the ancient Chinese literature criticisim. Since the "Poetry" times it has experienced a long development course. It was widely used by Chinese ancient critics in each kind of artistic criticism,and gradually formed its stabler thinking mode, the spoken way, the criticism category and so on. In the domain of literary criticism, the image criticism obtained a very good inheritance. Wth the development of literary style, the image criticism was also gradually used in criticism of various literary stylies. Jin sheng-tan ,an critic who lift in the turning time of Ming and Qing Dynasties, also widely used the image criticism in his main commentaries, involving the poetry, the prose, the novel and the drama criticism. Specially Jin Sheng boldly used the image criticism in the novel and drama critically punctuating,in this way he has obtained many original artistic discoveries.In Jin sheng-tan's commentary, his image criticism was incredibly effective for analyzing literary works and provided a criticism model, which held great influence thereafter.This thesis makes a study of the literary criticism in Jin Sheng-tan's commentary from the criticism method angle,takes the fact of the image criticism in Jin Sheng-tan's commentary as the inspection center, takas the racing to the sourses as the research mentality, carries out a microscopically inspection and a macroscopic combing through putting the image criticism into the background of ancient Chinese artistic thinking history, in this way we hope to obtains some objective recognitions and accurate understandings to his theory criticism spirit and the characteristics of his method.The first chapter races to the source of the image criticism from traditional criticism method. As one kind of criticism methods with national characteristics, the image criticism has a very close relation with ancient Chinese traditional culture which characterize by the intuition comprehension-like thinking mode and the values of "the nature and the human are the one", thus it has the special cultural quality of Chinese culture tradition and the intrinsic artistic mental. In the long-term criticism practice,the image criticism has gradually formed its own unique words way. Evidently Jin sheng-tan's comment methodology has been influenced by it. In the image criticism method history, Jin Sheng both had the inheritance tradition, and had the personalized innovation. The second chapter is the "noumenon research" of Jin Sheng-tan's image criticism. We emphatically analyze its spoken way, induce five extremely characteristics types: The metaphor in the theory expression;The image criticism terminology;Juxtapose several images to form a abundantly explain; Carry on with some kind of circumstances to analogy a kind of explanation; Quote predecessor's poetry images to carry on the criticism. On the basis of these analysises of Jin sheng-tan's commentary, we can promulgate his theory thinking mode and theory connotation which its contains. By synthesizing the domestic and foreign image criticism theories, We can give a new evaluation and a new location in the methodology significance to Jin Sheng-tan's image criticism, in addition,make a appreciation to its advantages and shortcomings.The conclusion part we review the image criticism of Jin Sheng-tan's commentary carefully and comprehensively once more, and excavate its modern significance.