Ancient View Of The Article And Literary Criticism

From the view of Jin Sheng-tan's article thought, the thesis makes a thorough research on Jin Sheng-tan's literature thought. Jin Sheng-tan's article thought shows the characteristics of spaning style and emphasizing the aesthetic. The thesis analyzes the impacts of Jin Sheng-tan's article thought on his literature comments. The paper is made up of four paragraphs. From the view of article making trouble, the first paragraph mainly give the definition of the article thought include its meaning and extension and the characteristics of spanning style, emphasizing the aesthetic , the literary grace and grammar. The second paragraph analyzes the origin of such article thought, his reading habit of elegant rhetorical text. The tradition of regard literary grace highly is inherited in the period of Wei -Jing-north and south dynasty. With the development of science and technology, the skill begin to be concerned. Then the paragraph analyzes the vogue of researching the history through the article in the middle and late Ming dynasty.The third paragraph point out the problem of disproportion of recognition of style under the view of article subject. Then it generalizes Jin Sheng-tan's literature comment system: thing is in the lowest layer, article is process of thing and emphasize particularly on the grammar, mind is the heart of writer's ideas, mind control article and article control thing, the characteristics of his My Mind replace the writer's mind of article. The fourth paragraph explains the influence of the view of article subject by illustrating Jin's comments on the novels and opera. Under the circumstances of article and style being infiltrated each other, Jin manage the theory of traditional biography of history, ancient prose, occasional article in his literature comment of novels and opera and make a great success.From the above discussion, the thesis illuminates the two problems. The first is Jin's literature comments are the article comment actually which appears article and style being infiltrated each other. So, the research on Jin's literature idea cannot only locate in the one special article style. The second is Jin manage the theory of traditional biography of history, ancient prose, occasional article in his literature comment of novels and opera and make a great success. Therefore, the Jin's status in the history of Chinese literature criticism can be newly oriented.