Abstract：Since the beginning of the 21st Century, some of the frontier issues in the domestic literary theory, such as the prediction of the end of literature, the aestheticization of daily life, the boundary of literature and cultural studies, the essentialism and constructionism of literary theory, and the compulsory interpretation theory, etc. have been closely related to the logical changes of Western literary text theories to some extent. The emergence of disputes is due to the lack of a scientific consciousness of reflection on the knowledge form and internal logic of the development of Western literary text theories. There is an urgent need of adopting a perspective of epistemological reflection to investigate and study the knowledge form, paradigm transformation and meaning of literary text of Western literary text theories.Influenced by philosophical aesthetics, linguistics and interdisciplinary theoretical knowledge, Western literary text theories show three types of knowledge: classical text theory, modern text theory and post-modern text theory. The knowledge of classical text theory was produced mainly through the parasitic ideas of philosophy or aesthetics. In ancient Greece and Rome, “form”, as a philosophical aesthetic category, had already come into being, mainly including Pythagoras’s mathematical form, Plato’s absolutist form and Aristotle’s matter and form. Among them, Aristotle put forward the organic unified view of literary text on this basis, which became the origin of formal literary theory. In the 18th Century, on the basis of “transcendental form”, Kant put forward the views of “purposeless purpose” and “aestheticism without interest”, which initiated the formal aesthetic view with aesthetic and artistic self-discipline as the mainstream, and influenced the formal theory of literary texts. This is particularly evident in romantic literary theories. They attach great importance to texts, but because they are not derived from the pure pursuit of form within literature and are often produced by relying on philosophical or aesthetic ideas, they can only be called the classical text theory.The production of the knowledge of modern text theory is also determined by the parasitism of literary theory, which can only realize its own theoretical knowledge production by relying on the theoretical achievements of related disciplines. At the beginning of the 20th Century, a “linguistic turn” occurred in Western philosophy, which shifted from the modern focus on the relationship between subject and object to the study of the communication between subjects and the meaning of human life. As far as literary theory is concerned, the linguistic turn directly led to the emergence of the modern text theory.The production of the knowledge of post-modern text theory mainly focuses on the interdisciplinary dimension, which has emerged since the 1960s with the rise of post-structuralism and deconstructionism. It emphasizes a breakthrough of the boundaries of disciplines, i.e. to study literature as a kind of discourse or culture, no longer being confined to the knowledge of a single discipline. Intertextuality and pan-text are its important contents. Intertextuality emphasizes that any text is the result of the integration of several texts, which highlights its own value by re-reading, adapting and integrating other texts. Pan-text holds the view that all social history exists in the form of text, so the underlying cultural and political factors such as race, gender and identity can be analyzed from the perspective of language structure. The meaning of literary text depends on the dialogue and communication between the author, the text and the reader, and the textual poetics, which gives full play to the thought of dialogue, shows a good viewpoint on meaning of literary text.To sum up, by adopting a perspective of epistemological reflection, this paper elevates the Western literary text theories to the level of epistemology of the humanities, and carefully examines the key issues presented in different stages, such as the forms of knowledge production, the transformation of paradigms and the search for meaning. Therefore, it has great significance in clarifying the underlying causes of the domestic disputes and avoiding the verbal arguments beyond theoretical analysis. What’s more, it is a kind of important guidance for searching and sorting out the textual thoughts of Chinese classical and modern literary theories, as well as realizing the breakthrough and reconstruction of contemporary textual theories under current interference of hypertext.
付昌玲. 西方文学文本理论知识形态的逻辑变迁：古典型、现代型和后现代型[J]. 浙江大学学报(人文社会科学版), 2021, 51(5): 119-129.
Fu Changling. Logical Changes of the Knowledge Form of Western Literary Text Theory: Classical, Modern and Post-modern Text Theories. JOURNAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, 2021, 51(5): 119-129.
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