On Virginia Woolf's Literary Criticism View Criticism View In Her Proses And Essays

Virginia Woolf is an outstanding literary critic in the history of literary criticism. The characteristics of her literary criticism view and its practical criticism, as well as the cultural background are regarded as unique existence in the history of literary criticism. Woolf has consistently insisted on concerning and considering the development of literature by a critic's instinct and sense of mission, especially in the field s of novel and prose, which can be found from her plentiful critical essays. With Woolf's four-volume work, Virginia Woolf's Complete Works of Essay, this paper summarizes the background of Virginia Woolf's literary criticism view based on close reading and previous research. The intense characteristic of subjectivity of her literary criticism view is unveiled through the detailed study on her practical criticism. Moreover, her holistic view of critical thinking is also presented which has demonstrated its great value to the construction of contemporary literary criticism theory.