中国文学批评史研究的开端是随着20世纪初文学观念的净化、中国文学史的撰写、批评意识的觉醒而展开的。1.文学创作和文学批评领域,纯文学观念在对传统"载道"观念进行反驳提倡文学艺术性的同时,载负了国民启蒙的历史使命。2.纯文学对中国文学史观念的改造起了直接作用,从情感、想像和思想等因素入手并从体裁上加以界定,现代阐释之文学观念已经不同于传统。3.文学观念的净化、批评意识的觉醒、进化思想的渗透,是中国文学批评史研究得以展开的关键原因,从而产生了具有现代学科意义的独立的中国文学批评。

In the early 20th century, researches on history of Chinese literary criticism began with the purification of literature, writing of Chinese history of literature and awakening of criticism consciousness. 1. In the field of literary creation and literary criticism, the concept of pure literature has its critical and constructive function. 2. The concept of pure literature leads to the purification of Chinese literature and its stylistic definition from the angles of emotion, imagination, thought and so on. The idea of romanticism has made a positive effect on literature scholars. Hence comes the new history of Chinese literature. 3. With the reflections on what literature is and what the real history of Chinese literature is, Chinese literary criticism became a new discipline with its own independence and modern significance. The literature scholars inherited the "remarks on poetry and prose"(诗文评) in a critical way, so the history of Chinese literary criticism was written with its practical significance.