Chen Si-he’s Literary Criticism As A Paradigm Of The Contemporary Literary Criticism

In the field of the Contemporary literary criticism, Chen Si-he is an active andwell-known literary critic. He sought the criticism with independence, creativity,personality and science. At the same time, he also had historic consciousness,aesthetic consciousness, social consciousness and individual consciousness in literarycriticism. Besides, he had his own original opinions on function of literary criticism.He paid close attention to the development of contemporary literary, and put theobjects on the background of current social reality and literary history when heinvestigated and evaluated them. He insisted on reading the texts carefully, andunearthed deeply the connotations and significances hiding in the texts. According tothe reality of Chinese social and literature, he abstracted series of distinctiveconceptions with the explanatory power. For instance, Folk, Temple, theUnnamed/Common name, the Psychology of warfare culture, Factors consisting ofdemons, and so on. He applied them to expound the literary phenomena and evaluatethe idiographic literary works. In the diverse, disordered and low-quality setup ofChinese contemporary literary criticism,compared with westernized literary criticismwhich swallowing foreign learning theories, Chen Si-he’s literary criticism had thestrong points of localization and seeking the truth from facts.To contrast thetraditional impressional criticism that just swallowing ancient learning theories andMarxist literary criticism, his literary criticism was original and kept up with thetimes. In other words, his literary criticism stood for a healthy and prospect literarycriticism paradigm that had a revelatory meaning to the development of Chinesecontemporary literary criticism.