Hu Feng’s book,Theory of Realism is an important turning point of his literary theoretic system’s construction,marking the beginning of his own theoretic system.This thesis mainly discusses the reasons of writing the book,the writing process,the essence characteristics of the main ideas,and its significance and impact.This thesis is mainly divided into three parts:The first part of the thesis is to explore the source of the book,teasing out why Hu Feng writes this book,and digging deeply into the complexity of its realistic background,as well as exploring the subtleties and hidden meaning behind his creation.By materials collecting and information studying,it is found that the writing background is a complex reality.Hu Feng’s writing of this book is his response to Hong Kong criticism,as well as his explanation of“Speech on literature and Art Forum in Yan’an”,and it is also his honor to Lu Xun’s spirit.The last but the most important,it is his self-creative impulse to write this book.The second part is to explore the origin of the book,finding out how the ideas in the book are gradually formed,teasing out the main literary views and the essential content of his thoughts.In a complicated but realistic way,Hu Feng explained his views on a range of literary and artistic problems,such as literature and life,subjective fighting spirit and subjective and objective compounds and other realist theory.By mixing the social needs and aesthetic standard together,he forms a unique personality characteristics of the Hu Feng’s theory of personalized expression.The third part is the understanding and evaluation the book,finding out the significant theoretical characteristics of the book,its roles in the Hu Feng’s thought and its contribution to Realism.This book has great weight in Hu Feng thought system.It is the masterpiece of his theory.It proposes an innovative theoretic point of view,so it makes Hu Feng’s thought different from other theorists in the same period and finally it stands out in the history of modern literature.At the same time,the book,to some extent,also promotes the formation of Chinese-Marxist literary theory and enriches the connotation of realism literary theory. |