The system: poetics
1. Codification of Poetics
1.1 Two basic components of a poetics; the author stress the role of literature in the social system. (Para 1, Page 26)
1.2 Poetics will exert a system-conforming influence on the development of literary system when it’s codified. An example is about drama. (Para 2,Page 26)
1.3 The functional component of poetics derives from the inside and outside sphere of the poetics. The example of traditional African literature can illustrate this. (Para 1, Page 27)
1.4 Codification of a poetics occurs at a certain time, and during this process, some theories of a poetics stand out, such as criticism. (Para 2, Page 27)
1.5 Critical conceptions cannot find explicit expression in all literary systems, but literary systems that rely on spoken word have some similar features. (Para 3, Page 27)
2. Rewriting in the system of a poetics
2.1 In Chinese and Japanese system, critical conceptions are contained in anthologies. Yet through the intermediary process of rewriting, the codification of a poetics take place. (Para 1, Page 28)
2.2Codification of a poetics entails the canonization of certain writer’s work. Two unknown librarians are responsible for the establishment of classical Greek literature, which still stands today. (Para 2, Page 28)
2.3 In Islamic system, the situation is similar. (Para 3, Page 28)
2.4 In systems with differentiated patronage, different critical schools have their own canons. (Para 1, Page 29)
2.5 A comparison of the story of F.R.Leavis and T.S.Eliot shows the importance of educational system as an agency of cultural continuity. (Para 2, Page 29)
3. The new life of a poetics after codification
3.1Once the codification of poetics of literary system takes place, it’ll have a new life of its own. A case of the Islamic qasidah can prove it. (Para 3, Page 29)
3.2 Change in poetics of literary system and that of the environment of system can hardly happen at the same time. Sonnet and European poetics illustrate this. (Para 1, Page 30)
3.3 Lyrical poetry influenced the critical conceptions of European literature. (Para 2, Page 30)
4. A poetics is not circumscribed by a language.
4.1 A poetics in African literary system has no boundaries among languages, ethnic and political entities. (Para 3, Page 30)
4.2 The Islamic system is constrained by common ideology. (Para 1, Page 31)
4.3 Islamic poetics was adopted by other languages and cause some effects. (Para 2, Page 31)
4.4 The similarity between Islamic and European systems is striking. (Para 3, Page 31)
4.5 The functional component of European poetics is easily ignored by relatively few readers. (Para 1, Page 32)
4.6 The success of Romanticism (the functional component of poetics). (Para 2, Page 32)
4.7 Further evidence of poetics not being circumscribed by a language. (Para 3, Page 32)
5. Rewriting seems to a good way deal with the problems concerning with poetics.
5.1Two components of the poetics behave differently under the direct influence from the environment. (Para 1, Page 33)
5.2 Particular themes dominate certain periods in the evolution of a system. (Para 1, Page 34)
5.3 Innovative and conservative influence generated by the two components of a poetics. (Para 2, Page 34)
5.4 Epic and ballad (Para 1, Page 35)
5.5 Poetics is a historical variable and not absolute. (Para 2, Page 35)
5.6 One way is to keep the absolute position of poetics. (Para 3, Page 35)
5.7 The rhyme and meter rule reigned supreme.(Para 1, Page 36)
5.8 Rewriting can be judged differently at various stages in the evolution of a literary system. (Para 2, Page 36)
5.9 People’s review on Pound’s poems. (Para 1, Page 37)
5.10 History is made by people. (Para 2, Page 37)
5.11How can literary system maintain a “steady state”? (Para 1, Page 38)
5.12 Rewritten literature plays a vital part. (Para 2, Page 38)
5.13Rewriting deeply affect the interpenetration of literary systems. (Para 3, Page 38)
6. Translation is not only a linguistic consideration but also a ideological one .
6.1 Literary histories have had little time for translations. (Para 1, Page 39)
6.2 A poem should be recreated in the same meter. (Para 2, Page 39)
6.3 The creation of words bears out the same proposition. (Para 3, Page 39)。