Yuyang's Artistic Spirit Of Poetics And Dufrenne's Phenomenology Of Aesthetics

The poetics of the artistic spirit, which has its root in traditional Chinese culture, and Dufrenne's phenomenology of aesthetics, which emerged during the 20th century in the West, have no actual relation with each other, but the two hold similar views on certain issues, and their conclusions often have universal significance.The first chapter, through analysis of the connotation of the artistic spirit, points out that the poetics of the artistic spirit is an experiential one, and its presentation has the characteristics of being natural and metaphorical. The second chapter mainly deals with the theoretical system of Dufrenne's aesthetics of phenomenology, from the delimitation of the object of aesthetics, the structural analysis of the aesthetic perception, to the emotional transcendental with prior knowledge, and thus shows that emotion is always the internal link within Dufrenne's aesthetic system. The third chapter, based on the previous two chapters, tries to analyze the similarities and differences, with emphasis on the former, between the artistic spirit poetics and Dufrenne's aesthetic phenomenology in the following four ways: the role of emotion in the two theories, the way of thinking under the perspectives of the philosophical thoughts and methodology, the theory of language and meaning as well as the pursuit of definite meanings, and the emphasis on personal expression in artistic creation.From the four conclusions drawn above, some universal significance can be found: emotion plays an important part in both the literary creation and the aesthetic experience, and without emotional involvement, there can be no literary creation or aesthetic activity; the way of thinking in phenomenology is generally applicable; language can not fully express its meaning, but the claim that silence is more powerful than language depends on language itself, and this is the paradox of language, the overcome of which needs language's suggestiveness and its function to stimulate one's imagination; outstanding literary creation is in itself a personal expression.