缘事诗学纂论

Study of Poetics Based on Events

人类在制造、叙述事件中生存,缘事诗学就是基于事件的一种历史文化诗学。创作是理、事、情相融相推的结果,而事一以贯之。情只有缘事才能真实感人,无病呻吟不可能成为优秀的抒情性作品;事只有缘事才能扑朔迷离,就事论事不可能成为经典的叙事性作品;理只有缘事才能顺理成章,以理说理不可能成为出众的哲理性作品。就中西比较诗学而言,西方重事件连续性,是自足的时间叙事;中国重事件功能性,是表象的空间序事。中西格义、参古望今,当前中国诗歌亟需缘事诗学的出场。

Human exists in making and narrating events all his life. Poetics based on events is a kind of the historical poetics of culture which comes from the events of the daily life. Creation is a result of the corporale efforts of reason, fact and emotion, among which fact is the most important factor. Emotion can move people for it comes from fact, but if a writer makes feelings for the non--existent events, his work will never he a great lyric work. When we talk about an event in the respect of fact, it can be whirling; otherwise, it will not be a classical narrative work if we consider it as it stands. Only if reason comes from fact, can it be logical. If the work uses one theory to interpret other theories, it will not be an outstanding philosophical work. Compared the western and the Chinese poetics, find that the western poetics pays much attention to the continuity of the event, a selfsufficient narrative, while the Chinese one pays attention to the function of the event, a superficial space narrative. According to the comparison between the west and China, with the reference of ancient history and expectation of today, current Chinese poetry is badly in need of poetics based on events.