Research On Harold Bloom’s "Aesthetic Reading"

Harold Bloom is a famous American literary critic and literary theorist.He promoted the Literary Aesthetic Turn of western literary theory circle by appreciating British Romantic poetry and reading classics such as drama,novel and prose.Bloom is not only the leader of Aesthetic Turn in the history of contemporary western literary theory,but also the founder of western aesthetic reading theory.His theory closely combines the context of the times,pays attention to the latest trend of reading theory and defends classical aesthetic reading.The topic of aesthetic reading has become a hot topic in today’s academic circles.This paper comprehensively combs and summarizes the development process and theoretical connotation of his aesthetic reading theory,and takes it as a reference to promote the in-depth development of Chinese aesthetic reading theory.The paper is divided into three parts: introduction,body and conclusion.Introduction: put forward the urgency and necessity of the research on the subject of aesthetic reading theory,summarize the current research status of bloom at home and abroad,investigate the research trends of Bloom’s aesthetic reading theory,and clarify the innovation of the research.The main body is divided into three chapters.The first chapter expounds Bloom’s understanding of aesthetic concept and literariness,and tells his views on "aesthetic reading".The second chapter summarizes Bloom’s aesthetic reading field horizontally and vertically,and discusses his reading practice of literary classics.The third chapter focuses on Bloom’s aesthetic reading theory,and deeply explains its theoretical connotation from three aspects: the attribute,method and significance of "aesthetic reading".The fourth chapter discusses Bloom’s criticism and innovation of western aesthetic reading theory,points out Bloom’s contribution and deficiency of aesthetic reading theory,compares it with Chinese aesthetic reading theory,and explores the enlightenment significance to the construction of Chinese literary theory.Conclusion: it further summarizes Bloom’s aesthetic reading theory and explores the in-depth development of Chinese aesthetic reading theory.