On The Characteristic Of Literary Criticism Of Raymond Williams’ Works The Country And The City

It is showing multiple characteristics of “criticism” that Raymond Williams’ work The country and the city makes a cultural analysis of the writing of the country and the city in English literature.This paper is based on “literary criticism”,focuses on text analysis,combines related works and keywords,and tries to in-depth study from four aspects of writing formational background,selected objects,used method and effectiveness.The text is divided into four chapters.The first chapter is about critical formation of The country and the city.Since the1950 s,Raymond Williams has devoted himself to exploring “culture and society” and formed a series of achievements,which provides an important academic background for him to study the relationship between urban and rural areas in literature.The flow of life from the countryside to the city,however,is incompatible with the city life.His unique life experience provides experience and basis for his writing country and city.The second chapter is about mapping literature of The country and the city.Literature is the product of creative culture and society.Raymond Williams outlines the writing history of villages and cities in English literature on the premise of selective narration.He started his literary criticism with pastoral poetry and modern novels,criticizing the wrong ideas of “disappearing rural economy” and “progressive idea of urbanism”.His comprehensive examination of literary tradition and reality also reflects his intention to seek a way out to solve modern urban problems.The third chapter is about the cultural analysis of The country and the city.Cultural analysis is as analysis method that regards the analysis of literary works as the“documentary” analysis in culture,and finally points to the “social” level.The work highlights self identified “emotional structure”,which has been accumulated for a long time,owning historical structure and contemporary significance.At the same time,the“boundary” space between urban and rural areas has been constructed separately by examining rural space and urban space.The temporal and spatial literary criticism also makes the cultural analysis no longer just a method but an end in itself.The fourth chapter is about critical effectiveness of The country and the city.From a historical perspective,the work constructs a literary criticism text with cultural background and highlights the tension of between history and form.It is comprehensive embodiment of“literature and culture” that critical attitude of “pseudo objective attempt” is hold and“common culture” is advocated.The literary criticism has strong antagonism,which expecting to reveal the deep relationship of literature through culture.The country and the city represents a literary criticism of Raymond Williams’ style.It is promoted the development of western critical theory through the upgrading form“Textualism” to “culturalism”.But this kind of criticism pays too much attention to the whole and cultural analysis,which easily leads to the obscuration of the value of aesthetics.It is imperative to focus on the “aesthetic” revolution of human pleasure,emotion and sensibility.Following the way of interpreting the relationship between urban and rural areas provided by The country and the city,we should rationally understand and think about some current practical problems.