对现代文学批评的任何一位读者来说,我们面临的主要问题是:立即鉴定批评的任何定义是如此地必要而又如此地难以捉摸。从艾利斯到科林伍德;从理查兹到利维斯对此均有阐释。从定义方式去考虑,“批评的功能”、“以范畴和种类定义批评”以及描述“定义批评”等亦失之偏颇。尽管我们不会也不能够定义批评,但希望批评的定义会变得清楚明了。 For any reader of modern literary criticism, the main problem we face is that any definition of immediate appraisal of criticism is so necessary and so elusive. From Alice to Collingwood; everything from Richards to Leavis. From the point of definition, it is also biased to take “the function of criticism”, “define criticism by category and category”, and describe “defining criticism”. Although we can not and can not define criticism, we hope that the definition of criticism will become clear.