These works do not have high art value only, but also reflect Jiang Yan s viewpoint on literature criticism from another perspective and to some extent influence the development of the subsequent literal theories.

When interpreting The Scarlet Letter from the point of ethical literary criticism and analyzing the psychology of Dimmesdale,we can find that Dimmesdale is always in the state of self-victimization.

This paper is to explore the issues on practicability and validity of ethical literary criticism.

Nie Zhenzhao proposed to treat ethical literary criticism as a method.

Therefore, as far as literary ethical criticism is concerned, it is necessary and important to investigate the moral consciousness and judgments imported through the competing voices from narratori.

A new method of literary criticism--Literary Ethical Criticism-- is adopted to interpret Dubliners in the paper, by which we can find how the moral state of the country is recorded at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, concerning the political moral state, religious moral state, and the moral state of love, marriage and family, even personal moral state.

Down through modern times,the style of ancient Chinese literary criticism had achieved a gradual modernization and standardization.