Influenced by the Wagnerian aesthetics,the symbolists,Téodor de Wyzewa,Charles Morice,Édouard Dujardin,etc,advocated the poetics of Synthesis,suggesting uniting various literary genres for expressing total life.The theoretical base of Synthesis consisted of two parts:one was Puly-human Content;the other was intermediateness of art categories or literary genres.The Synthesis,due to the misunderstanding of the nature of feeling and literary genres,however,was a fictive poetics.Nev-ertheless,from the perspective of cultural history,the Synthesis has important psychological values.By means of the Synthesis,the symbolists desired to construct among literary genres a certain degree of closed text structure,and to achieve the aim of keeping away from the rational and realistic world.The Synthesis was the epitome of symbolist Utopia.
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