From Comparative Poetics to World Poetics: A Proposed Theoretical Construction

Abstract: This article puts forward, from a Chinese and international perspective, a theoretical construction of world poetics, based on preliminary researches in the field. Its theoretical foundation mainly lies in three aspects: (1) World poetics is a theoretical sublimation of the research results of world literature and comparative poetics. (2) So far almost all the relatively universal literary interpretive theories are produced in the West, which can hardly cover all literary and theoretical categories and experiences. (3) Chinese literary theorists are always concerned about the cutting-edge issues in international literary theory, and they have paid particular attention to comparative poetics.