Title: The Criticism of Criticism: The Literary Thoughts of The Chicago School of Criticism

Abstract: The most important achivement of the Chicago School of Criticism is the interpretation of literary criticism. The Chicago School of Criticism has six ideas of criticism which conclude: criticism is a remarkable activity of liberal arts; criticism should focus on literary work; the main aim of criticism should be generalization of formal elements of literary work; criticism is an activity of reason analysis; criticism should pay much attention to the discovery of the principle of generating of literary work and the primary effort of criticism is to study the history of literary theory.

Keywords: the Chicago School of Criticism, literary thoughts, literary criticism

Author: Wenchu Zhang, Professor, Liberal Arts College, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China.