An Inquiry Into The Idealism Of "Unity" Internal To Chinese And Western Poetics Against The Background Of Mysticism

While it is a demanding task, as is generally recognized within the poetics society, to attempt at an all-rounded definition of poetics, literary theorists and critics are simply more hard put to it in their arriving at a systematic approach toward poetic constituencies against the background of comparative cultural studies.However, the author, as is true of other practising scholars in the trade, are not to be daunted in any way. Supported by years of burning interest and its resulting expertise in judgment on the issue in focus, the author intends to generate, through this dissertation, well -grounded parameters pointing to the composition of comparative poetics as has been fashioned by mysticism, west and east. Specifically, the thesis evolves around the five interlocking facets of such poetics as follows: poetical holisticism, poetical ontology, poetical target, poetical aesthetics and poetical meaningfulness. In addressing these entwined segments, the paper, on the bases of a detailed investigation into the cultural consciousness, concept and tradition of mysticism ( ref. Chapter I, Chapter II ) which figures as mid-mother for the birth of poetics, and of an as detailed tracing of the development of poetic constructs tinged in mysticism ( ref. Chapter III, Chapter IV, and Chapter V ), discloses the secret mission of poetics internal to both Chinese and Western poetics ( ref. Chapter VI, Chapter VII, and Chapter VIII ), uncovers the aesthetic features underlying them ( ref. Chapter IX )and, finally, reveals suchcharacteristics of mystical poetics as its horizontal wing of extension, its vertical wing of imagination, its on-going drive toward transcending time and space, and its unremitting effort at striking chemistry among all and union in one ( ref. Chapter X ).Overall, this writing aims, through such commitments, at a presentation of comparative mysticism as a binding influence and shaping force in our exploration into the nature of poetics in comparativism. Equally, the author means such a projection to suggest both congruous and non-identical elements of mysticism that have helped made Chinese and Western poetics possible.