| The debate on Misty Poetry is an important event in the history of Chinese new poetry and contemporary literary criticism.Although the debate of Misty Poetry has sunk into the historical stratum,we can still gain many inspirations and lessons for the steady development of Chinese literary criticism by returning to the scene of criticism and reviewing the literary criticism in the debate.Literary criticism in The debate on Misty Poetry reveals an important reason why the debate broke out: there are differences and disagreements between critics and poets in poetic propositions,aesthetic tendencies,and ideas for poetic development.At first,the literary criticism in the debate of Misty Poetry could also focus on Misty Poetry and the poets themselves,but as critics from both sides continued to “fill in” social and historical issues,the debate on Misty Poetry eventually exceeded the scope of literary,artistic and academic debates,become a complex and important ideological battle.The supporters and opponents of Misty Poetry are limited by the influence of many factors inside and outside the literature,failed to fully develop and really push the poetics discussion deep,which is indeed a pity in the debate of Misty Poetry.On the one hand,literary criticism in the debate of Misty Poetry bears the burden of history.In the new historical period,it continues the context and development of “human literature” and “people’s literature” in contemporary literature,renews the existing formulations and past disputes in the history of new poetry,and shows the critical pattern composed of social historical criticism,aesthetic criticism and political criticism.But on the one hand,the literary criticism in the debate of Misty Poetry also foreshadows new changes in the future.Although the debate seems to end with the victory of the opponents,the supporters of the Misty Poetry represented by the “rise theory” conform to the historical trend of the country’s reform and opening up and the trend of literary theory and become uncrowned winner in the art field.The literary criticism in the debate of Misty Poetry symbolizes the profound changes that contemporary literary criticism has undergone with the social and historical movement.It indicates that literary criticism will get rid of extreme politicization and move towards the “rise” of subjectivity and aesthetics,revealing the message of changes in the pattern of criticism.It brought the sound of spring for the booming literary criticism in the 1980 s.This article focuses on the detailed interpretation of a large number of critical texts,and then makes an in-depth and systematic study of the literary criticism in the debate,including the subject of criticism,the form of criticism,the literary concept,and the acceptance of criticism,returning to the scene of the debate has realized a more comprehensive examination of the literary criticism in the debate of Misty Poetry. |