The Study On Western Theory Of Literary Texts

"Text" concept emerged in the1960s, is used to distinguish Roland Barthesproposed the "text" and "work" are two different areas, work is still a closed system,and the meaning of the text is a dynamic production process. Western literary textsfrom ancient Greece until the beginning of the neoclassical, the main concern at thisstage whether the text is a parody of the world, namely the relationship between thetext and the world; Then Sidney from1595published "Poems debate" began,gradually replaced the text pragmatic theory imitation theory;1800, Wordsworthpublished "Lyrical Ballads Preamble", marking the start of the text on theperformance of mature lasted for about four decades, the main concern is therelationship between the work and the author; Western theories of the20th centurytext, there are two forms, one is based on the analysis of text. Russian formalism wasdominant against the image of the center of literary theory and symbolism linguisticsmode,proposed a "strange" Theory. Anglo-American New Criticism proposed text"close reading" of the research methods, and cited a number of specific text analysismode of operation. The structuralist then use the results of analysis of structurallinguistics literary texts, especially those with very rich theoretical achievements, butalso theorists had a great impact on the structure of poetry and fiction narrative isconcerned. But these three theoretical schools are closed study how to generate text itsmeaning, was questioned and criticized newcomer school.The second is the hermeneutic model, which considers the meaning of the text isgenerated uncertainty, although the language structure is fixed, but its significance isinfinitely diverse. Roland Barth considered deconstruction text is the result of thecontinuous weaving, the reader understand the text is to rewrite the text. Kristevaproposes intertextuality, there is the phenomenon of text and text generated text, theformer is static objects, the deep structure of the latter is behind the phenomenon, withthe production of functional significance, text meaning in the process of continuouslygenerated. Derrida text is floating signifier, its meaning differences arising fromdelayed unlimited space and time on words, we can only find a sense of the trail, but can not find a definite meaning. Friedman emphasizes rhetorical texts, literature andart is a rhetorical expression, text analysis based on hard work, from various angles toanalyze the rhetorical device, tap its infinite variety of meaning. So generallyexperienced throughout the Western literary texts to a text from work, from free toconstruct two changes.