Research On Shen Congwen’s Writer Theory Of1930s

Shen Congwen was a famous writer who had lots of works, and a literary critic withindividual style and artistic charm. He wrote a small quantity of review articles whichmade him well-known in the modern literary criticism circles. His writer theory fullyexpressed his literary attitude and individual character, which made a greater contributionto modern literature and reference value to our research on literature of1930s. This thesisstudies Shen Congwen’ s writer theory of1930s, and is divided into four parts:First of all, pointed out that literary criticism and Shen Congwen’ s writer theory of1930s. Writer theory had grown up in20thand developed and swept the literary circles in30th. Its developing had complicated social and historical reason. And this type of writinghad inimitable connotation and feature. Shen Congwen was famous of his capacity as anovelist of Beijing School, and his critical works were always ignored. His individualcritical style made great contributions to modern literary criticism.Secondly, at the conclusion of Shen Congwen’ s critical principle that literatureshould come back to itself. Shen Congwen had the opinion that literature should hadindependence and personality, and objected that literature joined to politics. His criticswere based on writers’ writing, analysed writers’ style. And he stressed literature’ sfeelings of morality and responsibility, which aspired after the truth, goodness, andbeauty. And he realized that readers’ importance to literature and interested in readers’reading.Again, expounded Shen Congwen’ s critical pattern that grasp writing’ s style andwriter’ s creative personality. He took an excessive interest in a balance of the style andcharacter. He said that writers should have independent personality, which was in the linewith the style of their works. And he was interested in writers’ writing-attitude, took theview that writers should write with serious and sincere manners. Shen Congwen wasgood at grasping writers’ integral manner, and he explored writers’ character withcomparison from the aesthetic angle.Finally, took a summary of Shen Congwen’ s critical style which is intuitive andawareness. Shen Congwen used impressional thought and wasn’ t limited to one type. Hiswriter theory had strong personal style and his critical language was simple, classical and poetic. His language had both traditional criticism’ s implicative beauty and accuratecompact.