The Text Concepts Of The Theory Of Intertextuality And New Historicism

Under the affection of Structuralism and Poststructuralism, the scape of text had developed to generalize Pan-text from narrowed literary text. On this basis, theTheroy of Intertextuality broke the traditional, locked and static textual concept according to the exploration of intertextual relation and took the text as a composition course of opened and developed. This theroy showed the non-origin character of the happening of the text, the hyperlink character of the existing of the text and the unlimition character of the explanation of the text. While New Historicism would show the affection of the social energy and ideology in the text systerm composition through the research of textuality of history , the historicity of texts and the relationship between them on the basis of intertextuality while taking the relationship of literature and history as the respect.Generally speaking, the thought of inter-influence is through the Theory of Intertextuality and New Historicism, or it could be said that they were on behalf of the two way to act the intertextuality.The author compared and mastered the characters of the concepts of the Theory of Intertextuality and New Historicism macroscopically on one hand. The author researched the development from the text to the pan-text showed by the theory; the formal approch from the explanation of the corelation of the ideographical code to the exploration of the circulation of the social energy; the depth of the theroy function from the intertextuality to the cultural poetics. On the other hand, the author took the the four factors of the literature as respects in order to discover the relationship and difference between the two more deeply from the view of microscopic and specific. As we can see, there is historic explanation of the text systerm from the show of this systerm in the text aspec,the historic participation of the writers and the readers from the interactional composition in the subject aspect, the pursuing of social culture of the text from the building of the history of literature in the world aspect. Then we could know that the Theory of Intertextuality would explore the relationship between this text and that text, show the interactional influence and the utilise of each other taking the text as the beginning and ending under the equal dialogue and interactional composition, so that the tridimensional and unlimited open text systerm could be built. And, the New Historicism would take the social historical view into the scope of the research, historicize those factors of the text totally and try to show the circulation of the social energy and the changing of the ideology under the procedure of realizing of the meaning, which is provided by the ideographical action on the basis of the textual inter-influence.We should take the Comparation of text concepts between the Theory of Intertextuality and New Historicism down to the specific text examples except a thorough understanding of the theroy. The author chose two text groups, that was the texts of History and the texts of histories in this article. The former is the nonspecific, mutual and lively recording of the important history persons, events and periods. The texts of the first emperor of Qin would be the example. The later would put the folk, plural and mutual history into the scope of presentation of history and write about the living condition and spiritual experience of the commen people in the changing of the hisorical periods. They are said two ways both are the important methods of the history explanation. On one hand, there are obvious intertextuality in the content, formal approach and the reception of the subject of those texts; on the other hand, there are different specific historic significances in these inner-related historical texts due to the different contexts of history and culture.Therefore, the Theory of Intertextuality pays more attention to the explanation and reception of the text itself and New Historicism pays more attention to the relationship between the text and other social culture texts. It would discover the meaning of the social and history hidden at the back of the phenomenon of intertextuality. The Theory of Intertextuality bulids a hurge and complex text systerm, while New Historicism shows the reasons of the moving interactional composition of the texts. The former shows more on the transversal link and the objective presentation while the later shows more on the portrait research and deep discovery.All in all, the Theory of Intertextuality provides the inter-influence thought and the open text concept to New Historicism .And New Historicism leads the Theroy of Intertextuality to the field of social history culture. It enriched the Theroy of Intertextuality in a large degree. Thus the two has relationship and differences. New Historicism generates and develops the Theroy of Intertextuality. Meanwhile, the two enrich the text theroy and the action and research of it.