On Zhou Zuoren Literary Concept

Zhou Zuoren is a famous yet arguable literature critics and writer in the Chinese contemporary literature history. He is a prolific writer and translated high volume articles. Actually, his literature composition reflects his literature theory. The thesis intents to discuss the content and uniqueness of Zhou's literature theory. The thesis is divided into four parts:Part 1, The originality of Zhou's literature theory. Under the broad background of Chinese traditional culture, the Christian culture, Ellis's sex psychology and Japanese culture jointly mould Zhou's literature theory on the aspects of religion, psychology and aesthetics respectively.Part 2, The presentation method of Zhou's literature theory. The literature functionality andhistoric viewpoint in literature are the focus of Zhou's literature theory. While the children literature theory, which even more precisely interpreted the spiritual value orientation of "Human Literature" in Zhou's theory from the other aspect, is a most important part in Zhou's literature theory. Essay theory, as another strength and focus of Zhou, still has broad impact now.Part 3, The feature of Zhou's literature theory. Analyze on the presentation of Zhou's literature theory, comments on its feature of elitism, antinomy and idealism. All of these three features mingled together to construct the unique viewpoint of Zhou's literature theory, and predetermined the marginality of Zhou's literature theory as well.Part 4, Zhou's literature theory from comparison perspective. Evaluate Zhou's literature theory from the broad background of Chinese contemporary literature. Compare the difference and connection of the literature theories of Zhou's, Lu's and Hu's. Also it explained the Zhou's impact on the Peking literature theory at the early stage.