On Li Jianwu's Literary Criticism

In the history of Chinese modern literary criticism,Li Jianwu is a critic with unique personalities and important achievements.On the one hand,his literary criticism pays attention to people's orientation,discovers the unique value and significance of people by exploring the human factors in the works.On the other hand,he pays attention to the orientation of beauty to reveals the aesthetic characteristics of the object of criticism.In the fusion of these two dimensions,Li Jianwu completed his pursuit of humanistic ideals and aesthetic ideals with a view of humanistic aesthetic criticism.In the 1930 s and 1940 s,the social-historical critics dominated the mainstream of Chinese literary criticism.They focued on rational judgment and advocated literary criticism based on social and historical factors.They stressed that criticism should serve the society and politics.They had strong utilitarianism and ignored the analysis of the beauty of the works.Li Jianwu's literary criticism pursued freedom and beauty,and pursued the artistry and independence of criticism.At that time,Li Jianwu brought vitality and vigor into Chinese literary criticism.Therefore,Li Jianwu's literary criticism is extraordinarily brilliant in the history of Chinese modern literary criticism.This article takes Li Jianwu's literary criticism in the 1930 s and 1940 s as an object of study and takes his literary criticism practice as research texts.This article pays attention to the orientation of “human” and “beauty” to explore its connotation,causes,and value implications,hoping to provide references and inspiration to contemporary literary criticism.This article is divided into three parts: introduction,body(four chapters)and conclusion.The structure of the paper is as follows:Section 1.Introduction.This part mainly introduces Li Jianwu's literary criticism activities;combing the current research status of Li Jianwu's literary criticism;discusses the reason and significance of this topic,puts forward the problems and main points in this paper;and introduces the research ideas,research methods and innovations of this article.Section 2.The body part.The body part is mainly divided into the following four chapters:The first chapter discusses the critical dimension of “human”.This article believes that human orientation runs through Li Jianwu's literary criticism,which is embodied in three aspects: one is self-expression of the subject,the second is concern for humanity,and the third is based on life.Li Jianwu stands in a broad humanistic perspective and pays attention to human factors in his criticism,which embodies not only his affirmation of the subjectivity and personality of individual human beings,but also shows his respect for the lofty will of the whole humanity and artistic activities.The second chapter discusses the critical dimension of “beauty”.This article believes that Li Jianwu consciously infused aesthetic ideals for literary criticism,which is embodied in three aspects: one is to appreciate the beauty in an aesthetic intuition,the second is to pursue the beauty of the style of criticism,and the third is to adhere to the artistic beauty of the work.Li Jianwu respects the beauty of art,he enters the artistic world of the works with intuitive experience and grasps the overall impression of the work.He writes the critical text as an essay,his critical writing is the creation of art.He sticks to the aesthetic characteristics of literature and grasps the object of criticism through the internal rules of literature.Inclusion,Li Jianwu is both appreciating beauty and creating beauty.The third chapter analyzes the causes of Li Jianwu's literary criticism.The critical dimension of “human” and “beauty” are influenced by western literary thoughts and traditional Chinese literary thoughts.In addition,Li Jianwu's personal experiences and creative practices are critical to his literary criticism.Chapter 4 evaluates Li Jianwu's literary criticism.Li Jianwu's literary criticism has unique personality achievements.The critical orientation of “human” and“beauty” constitute the humanistic aesthetic criticism.This kind of critical perspectivehas both humanistic concern and aesthetic ideal.It has important significance in the history of modern literary criticism.Li Jianwu's literary criticism orientation has enlightening effect on contemporary literary criticism.However,his literary criticism also has certain limitations and should be evaluated comprehensively and objectively.Section 3.Conclusion.This part summarizes Li Jianwu's study of literary criticism.