Soul Expression In The Masterpieces

The literature criticism of Li Jianwu has long been regarded as the model of impressionism criticism in China. Influenced deeply by western impressionism criticism theories, especially those of France and Lemaitre, he emphasizes subjective impression, intuition sentiment, individual intervention and sensibility motivation. Meanwhile, he consciously to some extent combines Chinese traditional literature criticism with western impressionism criticism by accepting the beneficial factors in both traditional literature criticism and western impressionism criticism on the basis of available traditional literature foundation to form creatively his own special literature criticism system. In the practice of literature criticism, Li Jianwu has never gone beyond the historical background of liberalism culture. Thus, he has formed the criticism principles of"equality, independence and impartiality"and the special criticism style of"essay-like", stressing the criticism views of communication and creation. Li Jianwu made some powerful supplement to the literature criticism with left-wing literature as the mainstream at that time. His literature criticism is also of great illumination and guidance significance to current literature criticism in China.