Absent Existence

The history of Chinese literary criticism is a very old subject, but it is also a young one in a sense. The contents of literary criticism are present in ancient times, and they have been the interests of ancient scholars by the expression of 'Commentaries and Markings'. The studies on the history of Chinese literary criticism in modern sense, sprung up in the twentieth to thirtieth of the twenties century when the western culture was entering China in succession and Chinese culture was altering sharply. The object of studying on the history of Chinese literary criticism is the criticism about Chinese ancient literary theory, and therefore it is absent from the western point of view. In the process of constructing the subject, the western culture, the concept of literary theory and the methods have played important roles in it, so it is existent in this sense. The thesis aims to make a deep research into the western influence in the course of the subject's modernization.According to the author's understanding, the studies on these ideas and methods are abstracted into keywords studies. The thesis is totally made up of five parts. The first chapter describes the culture background of the subject construction of the history of Chinese literary criticism. From the second to the fifth chapter, the thesis expounds separately 'the definition of the literary\ 'the history of the literary criticism', 'the dual opposition of Art for life's sake and Art for art's sake', and 'four factors of literary'. As far as a series of the keywords, the thesis chiefly goes back to their origins, and makes their routes of communication clearer, and uncovers their concrete impact on the construction of subject of the history of Chinese literary criticism, and gives the description of the environment in which they were accepted on the circus of literary in China.