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The Enlightenment of Liberalism Literary Criticism to the Construction of Current Literary Criticism

Wan Shu-rong

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The state of current literary criticism is looking blue.The literary criticism has got rid of being reduced to the tool of political ideology,and is approaching the aesthetic characteristic of literature itself.Meantime,it appears a trend of copying the western theory of literary criticism mechanically;There are two kinds of attitudes to literary criticism: cool criticism and flattering criticism.The liberalism literary critics have accumulated lots of experience in their theory and practice of literary criticism.To change the bad state of current literary criticism and make it develop healthily and purely,we can get some edification from them.

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The state of current literary criticism is looking blue.The literary criticism has got rid of being reduced to the tool of political ideology,and is approaching the aesthetic characteristic of literature itself.Meantime,it appears a trend of copying the western theory of literary criticism mechanically;There are two kinds of attitudes to literary criticism: cool criticism and flattering criticism.The liberalism literary critics have accumulated lots of experience in their theory and practice of literary criticism.To change the bad state of current literary criticism and make it develop healthily and purely,we can get some edification from them.

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The state of current literary criticism is looking blue.The literary criticism has got rid of being reduced to the tool of political ideology,and is approaching the aesthetic characteristic of literature itself.Meantime,it appears a trend of copying the western theory of literary criticism mechanically;There are two kinds of attitudes to literary criticism: cool criticism and flattering criticism.The liberalism literary critics have accumulated lots of experience in their theory and practice of literary criticism.To change the bad state of current literary criticism and make it develop healthily and purely,we can get some edification from them.

Key concepts: Sociological criticism, Criticism, Literary criticism, Literary science, Historical criticism, Theatre criticism, New Criticism, Literary theory

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