Poetics as Action:Reinterpretation of the "Theory of Mimesis"
The Western philosophical/poetic tradition,with Plato as the precursor,has created an epistemological philosophy/poetic paradigm based on the perspective of the knower.The linguistic foun-dation of this paradigm,namely the "theory of mimesis",embodies conceptual confusion and referential displacement.Artistic "mimesis"is not a mirror-like reflection but a creative action.The misrecognition of the"theory of mimesis"obscures the action attribute of existence and the creative attribute of literature.Action means the continuous construction and reconstruction of"relationships,"and implies the continu-ous occurrence of"relationships."Since "relationships"encompass everything,action inevitably manifests as a monistic process and a dualistic link.Action is the entanglement of unity and duality,and the inter-weaving of language and time.In literary action,the world is presented as a system of intertextuality with displaced differences,the subject is shaped into a multi-subject with "thousands of millions of relation-ships,"and history is constructed as a layered accumulation of paradigmatic order/disorder.All of these provide clues and possibilities for a new philosophical/poetic paradigm or a civilizational imagination.
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