With the advent of the media’s noumenon and the media age, ancient literary criticism is experiencing a profound change of the criticism attribute, the subject and the object, the discourse system, the value standard and so on.This paper focuses on several emerging critical patterns of literary criticism in the media age: Media criticism, crossmedia criticism, audiovisual media criticism and microcriticism, and analyzes and demonstrates its nature, characteristics, significance and value.

ontologization of media; media criticism; crossmedia criticism; audiovisual media criticism; microcriticism