CONSTRUCTING THE CRITICAL METHOD OF LITERARY ETHICS WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS -- ON THE ETHICAL SYMBOLISM OF PETER I IN ANTICHRIST: "PETER AND ALEXEI"
Since the beginning of this century, ethical literary criticism has developed rapidly in Chinese academic circles as a literary criticism method. Because it has established its own theory and constructed the discourse system, therefore, it has been widely recognized and highly 152Известия НАН КР, 2021, № 3evaluated in the world. This theory emphasizes reading, analyzing and interpreting literary texts and literary phenomena from an ethical perspective, and emphasizes the didactic function of literature, which is consistent with the turn of Western literary criticism since the 1970s. It is a new literary criticism method with the characteristics of cultural poetics, which is formed on the basis of absorbing the theoretical resources of various western criticism methods and drawing on the research methods of ethics. The theory has three characteristics: it includes strong contemporary problem consciousness and pertinence of solving China’s realistic problems practically; It indicates the clear and conscious position of Chinese scholar in main body; It embodies a strong innovative spirit at the level of learning theory. As an example, this paper attempts to use this theory to analyze the ethical symbolic meaning of the image of Peter in Peter and Alexis to reveal the Sphinx factor in his character and the ethical dilemma he faces. As well, the humanist nature of the Dmitry Merezhkovsky philosophy it represents