Study On Hu He-Qing’s Literary Criticism

Hu Heqing is a unique critic of the multi-patterns criticism in the1980s, he respects theindependence of the literary text, adheres to the inner world of the works, insisted on the "truth" and "pragmatic" principle by collecting the essence of classical culture and acceptingthe traditional connotation of nourishing. Hu Heqing’s criticism which is integrating modernideas in classical criticism has been realized by Chinese contemporary literary critics.While on Hu’s literary criticism, though with some research results, there is lack ofcomprehensive and systematic study. The purpose of this paper attempts to conduct acomprehensive and systematic study on his literary criticism basing on the results of previousstudies.This paper’s introduction which is investigating the literary theory, modern andcontemporary Chinese literature, foreign literature and comparative literature has discoveredthat there are many problems of Chinese literary criticism by using the Western literary theoryto study on the local works. This part is able to reveal the significance of Hu’s critical practiceto the development of current literary criticism by combing the contributions of Hu’s criticism,in the same time, to reveal the meaning of this paper.The first part of this article attempts to describe the background and the concepts of Hu’sliterary criticism. His criticism has been based on the Chinese philosophy and the astheticconcept to build the critical reviewing by using the traditional culture. Hu has put thetraditional culture into the inner of his critical articles and explored the local culture hiding inthe works.The second part of this article focuses on the basis point and the characteristics of hu’sliterary criticism by combing his review articles on the writers. Hu Heqing used the intuitiveperception of thinking in the practice of criticism, emphasized on the works, made rationalvalue judgments and tried to integrate the classical culture with the modern criticism,integrate the oriental culture with the western culture.The Third part of this article is able to comb the problems and the confusions of Chineseliterary criticism and to sum up the significance and the meaning of Hu’s literary criticism to the current literary criticism. On the one hand, this part attempts to criticize the situations ofthe contemporary Chinese literary criticism, such as breaking with the traditional literarytheory, lacking the critical voice of the critics, lacking the critical spirit and so on. On theother hand, this part attempts to convey that Hu’s literary criticism has opened up a newtheoretical dimension of respecting the culture, reviving the essence of traditional criticismand rebuilding the critical spirit. Although Hu’s literary theory has the limitations in someextent, but the theoretical character of practicality is still of great value inspiration to ourcurrent literary criticism.