Dissociation-cohesion-wholeness in the Montage Vortex
by Zhang Hui
About This Novel
The starting point of this article is to explore the relationship between montage and Döblin's "holistic" thinking, subjectivity criticism, philosophy of language, and his novel poetics, aiming to abandon the cliché that "montage originates from cinematography". Subversive assumptions require an alternative theoretical perspective. Drawing on the close relationship between Döblin and Chinese Taoist philosophy, as well as the philosophical similarities with other thinkers of the same period, the article sharpens Zhuangzi's "yan" as a theoretical tool. It goes against the common practice of using Western theory to guide Chinese literary phenomena, and reversely uses literary theory discourse with national characteristics to analyze a typical modern Western literary phenomenon. In order to enrich the rationale of the explanation, the article gives some new concepts, such as "cultural isotopes", and newly organizes and defines a series of seemingly unobjectionable concepts, such as "montage", "wholeness", "chaos" and so on. The article is divided into two parts: philosophical comparison and literary comparison.
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