Symbolist Synthesis and the Construction of Utopia
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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