On Ihab Hassan's View Of "Paracriticism"

Ihab Hassan is a famous American literary critic in the 20 th century,and the earliest researcher of postmodernism theory.In academic circles,Hassan's contribution to postmodernism theory has been widely concerned.At present,the research on /paracriticism/ has not attracted enough attention in academic circles.In Hassan's opinion,post-modern "transcendence" has rich connotations./Para-/ is different from the traditional sense of "beyond " or " above",it is more like "in...At the side of".Therefore,from the perspective of postmodern criticism,paracriticism is a new postmodern literary criticism that pursues equality in depth and advocates diversified democracy in breadth.However,Paracriticism is not fully equivalent to hassan's postmodern literary criticism.It is a cross relation with postmodern literary criticism.Secondly,paracriticism serves as a highly serious experimental work.It transcends the openness of criticism methods by diversifying the objects,forms and expressions of criticism.Then,the theoretical deficiency of the traditional criticism,which is based on the new criticism,becomes more and more serious.Paracriticism combines the metaphor of silence with neo-gnosticism,Redefining the future of humanity and literature;Reactivate the connection between art and the human heart,between reality and literature;Restore the call of multiple artistic missions.It achieves transcendence in the process of literary criticism returning to real life.Why was paracriticism brought up? First,it has to do with the increasing conflict between globalization and localization,and the substitution of "my" era for "our" era.Criticism advocates change in the art and intellectual world,in the post-modern trend of "uncertainty,lack of faith,anti-tradition,anti-authority,etc".On the other hand,after the 1950 s,the traditional criticism mode mainly based on new criticism gradually declined,This trend provides a good opportunity for the development of paracriticism.In addition,Hassan is an Egyptian-American,He was influenced by his experiences of studying and living as a teenager and the ancient Egyptian culture.Hassan always adheres to the humanistic position,and gradually gives up the debate on postmodernism theory and turns to the practice of literary criticism in the continuous transformation of academic research.In the end,Hassan found a way to meet his humanistic ideal in paracriticism.Paracriticism is the most core theoretical label of Hassan,which was formally proposed relatively late,but it has been existing in the entire academic career of Hassan implicitly or implicitly.When Hassan dealt with the relationship between art and life,he reestablished the ideal of literary criticism,which was pursuing democracy and equality in a seemingly idealized way.The establishment of this theory helps Hassan to establish his position as a postmodern critical theorist.Paracriticism emphasizes the need to fully display the subjective initiative of "mind" as well as the creation of works,and to focus on the future state of human beings and literature,so as to finally bring literary criticism back to reality.This idea of criticism is unique in the history of criticism.Hassan's blueprint was beautiful.In order to further implement his paracriticism in reality,postmodern critics need to possess two abilities of "subversion and creation",which are the most basic critical duties they should shoulder.Paracriticism provides us with a lot of enlightenment,which will also serve as a valuable reference for Chinese literary criticism.