Western Philosophical Poetics of the 20th Century

Author: Wang Yuanchuan
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Publish Date: 2000-08-01
Features: The withdrawal of pure literary theorists and the focus of great philosophers on poetics have been a significant feature of Western academia in the 20th century. This book, with its unique perspective and extensive research, provides a relatively accurate overall grasp of Western philosophical poetics of the century, profoundly revealing the essential characteristics and internal connections of the following schools: philosophy of life and philosophical poetics, phenomenological reduction and ontological aesthetics, analytical psychology and its poetics model, nihilistic situation and existential poetics, hermeneutic philosophy and textual perspective, reception theory and the appeal of multiple meanings, power discourse and deconstructive strategies, philosophical poetics in the crisis of postmodernism, cultural poetics in the new historical perspective, postcolonial discourse and cultural political poetics, cultural studies and the spirit of marginal poetics. Suitable for a broad audience of aestheticians, literary enthusiasts, and researchers.