The Unique Literary Criticism Of Li Jianwu

On the history of modern Chinese literary criticism, Li Jianwu was a distinctive critic. Li Jianwu was a distinctive critic. It is unique even in the history of modern literary criticism that he formed his own view of literary criticism. The practice of literary criticism, and it is culture background. So analyzing and concluding his achievements will not only have imoortant value for us to reflect the literary criticism in Here in 20th century, build the present theory of literary criticism .Here in this essay, selecting Li's critical literary works as a subject of study, beginning with his works Critique Collectanea and Critique Collectanea II both with another name Liu Xiwei instead of his own name,I studied carefully and concretely Li's early view and feature of literary criticism and its culture background, concluded its inspiration to the present literary criticism.Li Jianwu's literary criticism was gourmand's trip for aesthetic feeling, he sought for aesthetic feeling without only aesthetic feeling, devoted himself to art without only art, at same time he pursued justice scale. Li Jianwu's literary criticism not only emphasized instinctive impressionistic perception, but also had rational thinking. Li Jianwu did not practise the criticism of a mere impression style, but thought the works more deeply based on impression. So far, all sorts of comments regarded Li Jianwu as a spokesman of the modern esthetic criticism, but Li Jianwu had never give up pursuing the social function value of literary criticism, and to great extent, his criticism corresponded to the realism criticism in lots of parts. His criticism practice had become an important complement to realism criticism at that time.Li Jianwu's literary criticism was the Chinnese and the Western compatible product. The conflict and fusion of multi-culture resulted in the unique criticism practice of Li Jianwu. His literary criticism was the reference to and the sublimate of the Western literature and the Western criticism theory. Due to his familiarity with the foreign literary and the Western criticism, Li Jianwu gained always advantage from both sides on his literary criticism and could compare and research Chinese literature in the context of the world's literature. Li Jianwu highly praised Flaubert's art spirit, he not only discoursed on Flaubert's pursuit of the art, but also noticed Flaubert's realism, representing life aesthetically, leading an artistic life. The prose style criticisms of Li Jianwu were featured by creatively structure freedom and exquisite artistic conception, due to being affected by Montaigne's prose style essays. On the theory, he referenced to the Western impressionism criticism, but was rational to avoid pushing the impression to extreme via offsetting impressionism criticism's disadvantages.Meanwhile, Li Jianwu also absorbed readily the quintessence from the ancient Chinese literary, his literary criticism agreed with some Chinese traditional criticism. He took some traditional literary works as the commenting targets in his several writings of the commenting writings collection. Further more, he always stood at the height of the Chinese literary history to appraise the writers and their works of Chinese traditional literature. The whole intuition and impressionistic appreciation of Li Jianwu's criticism agreed on the criticism thinking with Chinese traditional criticism. The literary criticisms of China had formed a mode of thinking of paying attentions to the impression, paying attentions to the holding of aesthetic intuition and whole romantic charm since ancient times, and often did some prose-style comments. And Li Jianwu's intuition like the appraising of Chinese ancient times was set up on the basis of understanding deeply to the art and holding accurately the appraising targets. Li Jianwu resorted to the methods of the comparison and the analogy to illuminate his thinking, as ancient Chinese literary theories paid attentions to using the methods of the comparison and the analogy. Chinese criticism writings were not the illumination of criticism thinking and were not the description of obscure theory either, but were artistic and lyrical writings. Lots of critical writings had the characteristic of the elegant language and were good at building vivid mental scene, so they were better than a good writings. Li Jianwu's literary criticism was featured by the succinct language and proper style, just like the simplifying-style characteristic of the Chinese classical criticism. Li Jianwu's language was vivid and elegant, good at building the impressive scene and adept in leading readers to imagine it by vivid impression, at this point, it was in agreement with the Chinese traditional criticism.