Thought on the Social History Criticism in Modern Times

The traditional historical view of social history criticism obeys the stipulations of historical collectivity,and follows the logic principle of historical magnificent narration.However,the new historical view thinks history is a kind of explanation and has an open nature,submitting to the visual threshold and the standpoint of the elucidator.The literary view of traditional social history criticism was based on its historical view,so literature is historicalized and literary narration has some characteristic of historical narration.Whereas the new literary view focuses on the narrative function of literature,in which narration is a kind of symbol and the relation between literature and life is not reflection but imagination.The social history criticism should absorb new theoretic nourishment to complement the improvement in the new historical circumstances.