茅盾的文学批评内容繁复,形式多样。在内容上涉及文学理念、文学翻译、作家作品分析,形式上则有专著、短论、演讲、报告、序跋。面对如此浩瀚的批评文字,本文以三十年代为限,阶段性研究茅盾的文学思想。从三十年代的文学论著中,我们可以分析茅盾文学理论的基调和特色,并为茅盾文学理 Mao Dun’s literary criticism is complicated and varied in form. In the content involves literary ideas, literary translation, writers analysis, there are monographs, short stories, speeches, reports, Preface and Postscript. In the face of such a vast amount of criticism, this article attempts to study Mao Dun’s literary thinking in stages in the thirties. From the literary works of the 1930s, we can analyze the keynote and characteristics of Mao Dun’s literary theory,