Poetics and Time (Introduction to Theological Poetics)

Author: Liu Guangyao
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: This book is dedicated to the originality and systematic clarification of the self-awareness of literary cognition as a literary cognitive method, where genre is an entity-based way of perceiving literature, revealing the intuitive manifestation of human existence in time. Human existence in time has three dimensions: present, past, and future. Therefore, genres are divided into three types: lyrical, narrative, and dramatic, each expressing human existence in the present—Who am I, in the past—Where do I come from, and in the future—Where am I going. They are also associated with emotion—literature of listening, reason—literature of seeing, and will—literature of belief. Since existence itself exists in the world according to its own "image" and the "pattern" of creating the temporal aspects of its logical elements within itself into temporal aspects in the world, and since the Christian portrayal of the Trinity as the "being itself" of God clearly holds greater truth, the three dimensions of human existence in time and the three genres correspond to the tripartite structure of the Triune God. Whether in the order of occurrence or in their intrinsic poetic qualities and functions, the three genres exhibit a structural correspondence with the three persons of God, each ultimately leading to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. On this basis, the book offers new interpretations of the epistemological characteristics of various genres, their related stylistic features, and numerous fundamental poetic categories and concepts such as "representation," "representation," and "mimicry." It also proposes a series of new concepts and categories, demonstrating a new path for theology to lead to poetics and poetics to lead to theology.