On The Practical Characters Of Modern Chinese Novel Criticism

Modern Chinese novel criticism of the 20th century arose prior to contemporary literature.It was initiatory elites' intensely emphasis on and extensively propaganda of the enormous effects of the novel style in the course of social improvement that inspired the whole society with unprecedented highest hopes of it. The realistic requirements of enlightenment and salvation chose the alliance of the object of criticism and the style of novels, and resulted in modern novel criticism. In the process of the lateral implantation of Western civilization and the longitudinal inherit of ancient tradition, the context of the special age of modern Chinese history and the centuries-old cultural tradition and practical reasoning spirit of China's intellectuals turned out the practical characters of modern Chinese novel criticism.Demanding the modern history, modern novel criticism resorted to the value standards of pragmatism, and played down the aesthetic character of China's classical literary on the one hand. Different from the western novel criticism, which concentrates on the pure theoretic essence of novels and the construction of the system of criticism theories, on the other one, modern novel criticism emphasized the character of the social cognitive and the function of civilization, standing out realistic impact in absorbing the western ideas, and turned to the practical principle while learning the western theories. With a dynamic style, modern novel criticism makes for the society, commenting on the bad and praising the good, to make a living in the cultural enlightening practice of modern history and pursue its better future in the political struggle. Moving around the subject of the age, novel criticism conducted and regulated the creative practice of modern novels, and pushed their growth and development. Therefore, novel criticism formed its passion of enlightenment and...