On Intertextuality Of Poetic Thoughts Between Aristotle & Plato

Creatively, this paper attempts to extend the contemporary western theoretical resource of ‘intertextuality’, which was used to discuss generally the literary works,to analyze the theoretical writings. Furthermore, the paper is committed to reveal the complex and potential relationship of ‘intertextuality’ between Aristotle’s work Poetics and the absence of Plato’s poetic thoughts. Hopefully, this very paper is also dialectically explaining the ancient and modern connotation of ‘intertextuality’ in the Poetics and the deep-seated reasons behind the conversion, so that it could possibly promote and expand a new horizon of the integration of classical scholarship and the contemporary theory.This paper is made up of five major parts, including the Introduction, Chapter One “Poetics and the Theory of Intertextuality”, Chapter Two “Different Types and Themes of ‘intertextuality’ in the Poetics”,Chapter Three “the Ancient and Modern Connotation of ‘intertextuality’ in the Poetics” and the Conclusion.The First Chapter detailedly discusses on the unique character of varied explaination and instability,which is peculiar to the theory of Intertextuality, and creativlely converts this very theory from countless and timeless literature works to the theoretical ones. The Second Chapter attempts to classify the forms and themes among great number of trace on intertextuality between Plato`s works and the Poetics, and specifically concludes them into three different types: the Parallel Interaction type, the Improved Extension type, and the Critical Confrontation type. The Third Chapter profoundly considers on the behalf of modern minds, compares the consciousness of intertextuality from ancient Greeks, which may possibly existed, with the contemporary connotation in the Poetics, and devotedly widens and concludes on the rules of intertextuality among theoretical works.