Repetition And Difference:the Literary Classic Under The Intertextual Theory

Post-modern western literary theory is different from the traditional literary theories that included the characteristics about multiple, opening and rheological. It aims at revising and integrating the traditional theory of metaphysics. In this developing tendency of theory, the French scholar Julia Christiva in the end of1960s, first put forward the intertextual concept that has established the original form of the intertextual theory. Intertextual theory emphasizes on the reference, disruption, uncertainty and opening of the text itself, which greatly breakthrough of theoretical forms about static state, isolated and closed that can be operated conveniently. Therefore intertextual theory plays a more and more important role in the literature research and literary writing with revealing the fascination of itself.The thesis will reveal the theme about intertextual theory from three aspects of philosophy, poetics and literature.For the first one, the philosophy principle of intertextual theory will be explored from Deleuze’s theory of "differences and repetition". Deleuze is known as the "philosopher of difference", his masterwork Differences and Repetition had drawn inspiration from Nietzsche’s philosophical concept "eternal recurrence", which was at the base of difference that was not at the base of identity. From this view Deleuze had understood the multiple world where is a place that past, present and future exist at the same time. The essence power of difference and repetition means a world that is flowing, changeable and generated. Therefore, the philosophical theory of differences and repetitions can be regarded as the powerful support to the intertextual theory that emphasizes intertexts, mutual interpretations, deconstruction and reconstruction. In a word, Deleuze’s theory "differences and repetition" is one of important philosophical foundations of intertextual theory in the field of literary study.For the second one, the poetic intension of intertextual theory will be explored from J. H. Miller’s literary criticism about "fiction and repetition". J. H. Miller is one of important members in the Yale’s school of deconstruction, who is a famous literary critic in the world and familiar to the field of Chinese literary theory. He combined Deleuze’s philosophical concept "differences and repetition" and the practice of European literary criticism. In his masterpiece Fiction and Repetition, he had criticized seven volumes novels such as Tess by Thomas Hardy. Miller distinguished between the Platonic on homogeneous repetition and Nietzsche-Deleuzian heterogeneous repetition in order to explore the poetic meaning and display his literary text analysis of Deleuze’s poetics of fine characteristic and subtle influence. In addition, in his poetical concept he still present three forms of novel repetitions, that is, microscopic, medium and macroscopic repetitions. These three forms of repetition interpreted the novel poetic from different views.For the third one, under the view of intertextuality theory, with the use of Deleuze’s philosophy "differences and repetition" and Miller’s "repetition" poetic view, we can review literary classic and discuss the internal power of repetition and difference of literary classic under the view of intertextuality. Each theory of literary classic arts witness, roughly present two directions, a literary classic is as critical weapon, in this sense, the intertextual theory gradually combined with cultural studies, deconstruction criticism and new historicism; The other is looked as description practical tools, which concrete embodiment of "repetition" for the practice in order to explore the power of the difference. Therefore, under the view of intertextual theory, literary classic can have different interpretations that under the guidance of the intertextual theory. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, for example, can be used the intertextual theory to reconsider, because it is repeated, borrowed the ancient classic literature and then is becoming to the new classic literature by "writing along the classic". Contemporary American-Russian writer Nabokov’s famous novel The Lolita filled with the elements of repetition and parody is considered the postmodern important specimen. In the field of Western intertextual theory, Miller’s theory of "repetition" and Deleuzian aesthetic proposition of "differences and repetition" could be introduced to examine three new dimensions of Lolita:"repetition","parody" and "difference", and in so doing, it can enlighten us more profound comprehension postmodern literary characteristics, understand Deleuze’s thought power of philosophic-poetics which emphasizes difference and not the identity, deepening the theory consciousness of contemporary literary criticism and cultural poetics. Through the overwriting, inverse writing and rewriting literary classics, minority literature repeat the past, present in order to create the future new dimension. Therefore, in the view of the intertextual theory and the power of the repeat practice, not only is the classic literature can be diversified interpretation, and traditional poetics of static state can also be challenges. Humans’ inertial thinking mode is broken, the territories that constitute the literary world is arranged and combined again, which are extended varies kinds of possibilities.So in a word, intertextual theory is filled in the power of difference philosophy, which has the deconstructive implication of poetic theory and the opening literary space. Intertextual theory deepens human cognition for literature, and is also a way to the opening and flexible research. It create a thoroughfare between internal criticism and external criticism that means the normal form of literature will have an important change which emphasizes the form of multiple and reversible space instead of the form of time that is one-dimensional and unilateral. Therefore it can conform to the literary aesthetic of poststructuralism about "territorialization-deterritorialization-reterritorialization", which is an academic method that filled in the consciousness of contemporary literary science.