英国浪漫主义诗人塞缪尔.柯勒律治和美国后现代派作家威廉.加斯虽然生活在不同的历史时代,但都注重于对创作的理论探讨。他们都关注日常语言和文学语言二者之间的联系,对诗性语言功用十分推崇。但他们对日常语言和文学语言之间关系的理解上有着本质性的不同,即柯勒律治通过诗歌创作,目的是使读者走向“最深奥的真理”;加斯则通过充满诗性语言的小说创作,将读者从通往“最深奥的真理”的幻象转到“最虚构的文本”的现实上来。 British romantic poet Samuel Coleridge and American postmodernist William Gargas, although living in different historical periods, all focus on the theoretical discussion of creation. They all pay close attention to the connection between the daily language and the literary language, and are highly praised for the poetic language function. However, they have an essentially different understanding of the relationship between everyday language and literary language. That is, Coleridge’s rule through poetry aims at bringing the reader to the most profound truth. The creation of language novels shifts the reader from the illusion of “the most profound truth” to the reality of “the most fictional text.”