The Reserch On Shen Congwen’s Aesthetic Criticism

Shen Congwen’s literary criticism did not attract sufficient attention fromresearchers long before nineteen ninties.Since ninety time,as the development of studyon Shen Congwen’s literary criticism,there were some achievements that have beenmade.But the achievements are mainly about its critical characteristics, while littleabout the ideological roots of his literary view,and also haven’t grasp the criticalcharacteristics from his aesthetic thingking.In addition to mainly discusses theaesthetic characteristics of Shen Congwen’s criticism from the angle of aestheticthingking,we also further excavates the ideological roots of his independent literaryconcept,in order to perfect the cognition of Shen Congwen’s literary criticismcharacteristics and his literary views.The full text consists of preface text conclusion.The text is made up of two part.The first part is about the aesthetic dimension of Shen Congwen’s criticism.(a)Specific aesthetic.Shen Congwen’s literary criticism few evaluates literaryworks from the author or the work thought,but valuates the works from the angle of“beauty” to dicide the success or failure of a work.This stems from Shen Congwen’sspecific aesthetics.It means he has a religious faith on the “beauty”,and he has found“God” from the beauty.(b)Independent literary view.Since money,power have no chance to meetbeauty,literature represents beauty,so it must establish a boundary from politics andcommerce to maintain the purity of the literature.Thus Shen Congwen was involvedseveral controversies, his views has a positive significance on the literary field of thetime.(c)The aesthetic characteristics of literary criticism. Shen Congwen’s specificaesthetic and his independent literary view urges Shen Congwen put forward theperspective that literature must establish a boundary from politics and commerce,andattaches great importance to the aesthetic character of literature.The thought wascarried out by his criticism.We will grasp the aesthetic characteristics of his literarycriticism mainly from the following three aspects.1.The application of intuition incriticism.2. The application of emotion in criticism.3. The application of imagine incriticism.The second part is about the ideological roots of Shen Congwen’s literarycriticism.(a)The political view of Shen Congwen.Shen Congwen doesn’t dopping of anypolitical ideas in his literary criticism,he opposes the literature in politics,this has arelationship with his political suspicion and mistrust.(b)Shen Congwen’s outlook on life.The dependence of literature to politics,thecommercialization of literature were formed by the profit tendency in a portion ofauthors,the literature was therefore lost “beauty” and “sacred” essential feature.From the proposition that againsts the politicization and commercial of literature,we shouldsee Shen Congwen’s view of life that hidden behind.In general,literary criticism that uses aesthetic as the center element has itsdeletions,but its importance lies in the true qualities that Shen Congwen hadreserved.He had guarded the sacred field of literature,and reflect an artest’s nobleethics in the process of guarding the arts field.