Review of Confidant: Considering Liu Xie's Artistic Literary Criticism in his "Wen Xin Diao Long .Confidant

Artistic Literary Criticism starts the research of the theory of literary appreciation. From the relationship between aesthetic subject and object, and that between literary appreciation and literary creation, Liu Xie points out the idea that it is hard to find a confidant and discusses the causes that have brought this problem. He further puts forward the essential requirement of a reader as the aesthetic subject in the course of literary appreciation, which is of referential significance to the literary appreciation and literary criticism today.