文学批评曾被美国著名学者雷内·韦勒克多次论及:“18世纪和19世纪都曾被人称为‘批评的时代’,然而把这个名称加给20世纪却十分恰当。我们不仅积累了数量上相当可观的文学批评,而且文学批评也获得了新的自觉性,取得了比从前重要得多的社会地位,在最后几十年内还发展了新的方法并得出了新的评价。”韦勒克除指出20世纪是“批评的时代”的原因外还在其《20世纪文学批评的主要趋势》中具体列出20世纪文学 Literary criticism has been repeatedly remembered by the famous American scholar René Wellek: “Both the 18th and 19th centuries were once called the ’era of criticism’, but it is quite appropriate to give this name to the 20th century. Not only are we not only Accumulated a considerable amount of literary criticism, and gained new consciousness in literary criticism, attained much more social status than before, and in the last decades also developed new methods and reached new evaluations . ”Wellek, in addition to pointing out that the twentieth century was the cause of the“ era of criticism, ”also listed 20th-century literature in its“ Major Trends in 20th Century Literary Criticism ”