Mao Dun’s Literary Criticism Of Literary Value And Its Contemporary Significance

In the20th century, Mao dun was a master writer in the history of Chinese literature, his literary criticism achievements are remarkable.His60years’literary criticism resources not only had a significant impact at the time, even today still showing irreplaceable significance. Among his richful Literary Criticism heritage, we especially need to re-depth understanding and grasp his literary value today. Mao Dun’s literary criticism of literature values refer to Mao Dun reflected ideas of Literature values in literary criticism statement and in works by authors criticism, it is mainly showed through the Mao Dun’s value judgment and value-oriented on Literature. Mao Dun’s Literature values had unique meaning and distinctive characteristics. Its meaning includes "for life","for society "," for the Times " and " advocate real" this four levels. Its main characteristics are as follows:emphasis on ideological and artistic value of literature; literary and political balance and advancement. Mao Dun’s literary criticism values are shown in the literature and scientific advancement, Mao Dun’s Literature values are positioned in service for life、for the society、for the era, which are undoubtedly captures the essence of the meaning of literature.As is Well-known to literary critics, the contemporary literary criticism has many problems, one of the most prominent problems is the literary value, which is mainly manifested as follows:literature values are inadequate, the ultimate value of the literature is enoughly disconsidered, literary value judgments blurred, literature value false or misleading and so on. There are three main aspects reasons that cause these problems:First, the demand for human and social development concerns are not enough, due to not fully understanding the function of literature so that the separation between man and literature; Second, thoughts are influenced by Western criticism and the current literary criticism trying to get rid of the bondage of politic.Third, the impact of diversification commercial interests. Given the problems that exist in literary criticism of the literary value,contemporary literary criticism needs to rebuild its literary value.Reconstruct literary value of the contemporary literary criticism, the meaning of Mao Dun obviously can not be ignored. Its significance can be broadly summarized as pointing to three aspects:First, boot the nowadays literary criticism to establish a sound literature values.In Mao dun’s literary values, is one of the main features of literary thought value and artistic value, look at the current literary criticism, the latent artistic value of literature on literature thought value not enough, and many other problems So by maodun literature values of reference and guiding the present literary criticism establish the idea of the value of literature thought and literature and art. second, enlight contemporary literary criticism fully understand the ultimate value.Mao dun’s literature values made the ultimate value of literature on the basis of "for life" and "for the society", the contemporary literary criticism is not has a clear understanding of the ultimate value, so it is necessary for us to learn to Mao dun’s literary values, which inspired the present literary criticism fully aware of the ultimate value of literature, attaches great importance to the performance of literary criticism in the role of life to guide and promote social development.Third,inspiring the contemporary literary criticism to make the right judgment and the guidance.The present literary criticism value position is seriously lack, value concept confusion, examine the literature values of Mao dun’s literary criticism, we found that Mao dun always insisted on his own value judgment standard,he advoided been manipulated by market and profit, so it can inspire the current literary criticism make the right guidance and judgement on the value of literature.