Chinese Journal of Literary Criticism

No.2, 2025 

Paths and Methods to “Historian Criticism”

(Abstract)

Zhang Jun

The separation of literary criticism and literary history research is an established fact in contemporary literary research. However, just as it is necessary for literary history research (historical material research) to re-emphasize the issue of literariness, literary criticism also needs to take a historical perspective and means to establish a certain necessary “historian criticism.” This includes both the historical perspective of a long period of time and the fact that “smart people” may as well “work hard.” If literary criticism can take into account production materials, life materials, and historical materials, and start from the materials, and generate new concepts in the push and pull and entanglement between the materials and the pre-set “problem domain,” it is more likely to present the “learning of life” in the form of endogenous historian criticism.