The discourse of Chinese literary theory and the dialogue between Western literary theory and Chinese literary

Abstract

Some people believe that the Discourse of Chinese literary theory merely covers the categories such as qi(Airs), fenggu (Wind and Bone), shen-yun (Spiritual Resonance), bi and xing (Analogy and Evocative Images), miao-wu (Marvelous Enlightenment) and yi-jing (Artistic Moods) etc. However, from a culture prospective we analyzed the traditional Chinese Literary theory and sort out that the Discourse of Chinese Literary theory is not the above-mentioned categories but its own way to express in literature, just as the ancient Chinese put it” What is written doesn’t give the fullness of what is/was said; what is/was said does not give the
fullness of the concepts in the mind”. Therefore, the Chinese Scholars
have strongly believed that the only way to convey meaning is to
“establish the Images”. It is this discourse that has been highlighted
in the Chinese Literary theory. On the basis of the former research the
present paper aims at furthering the study of dialogue between Western
Literary theory and Chinese Literary Theory by making it more specific
and systematic. And four basic principles and five methods of starting
dialogue between the two are put forward as the result.