This paper introduces several representative theories about the origin of literature with examples.

(1) Representative Theory. Democritus in ancient Greece first proposed that art originated from the imitation of nature.

2 god said. Beginning with Plato in ancient Greece, the emergence of poetry was interpreted as the attachment of God's inspiration to poets.

3 game theory. /kloc-Mazzoni in the 6th century advocated the theory of representation, and at the same time made public the view that "literature and art are games". Kant, a German philosopher, further regarded poetry as a "free game of imagination". By Schiller, the "game theory" of the origin of art was formally formed. Schiller believes that people are bound by both material and spiritual aspects in real life and are eager to realize freedom with excess energy, which is game; And artistic activities, that is, guiding the source in the game.

④ Theory of spiritual expression. Take art as the expression of human mind (including thoughts, emotions, etc.). ) has already appeared in ancient Greek philosophy. In the19th century, it was widely advocated by romantic artists and theorists. Shelley said in his It is said that poetry is "the savage expresses his feelings by expressing things around him" and "the expression of imagination".

(5) Witchcraft theory. /kloc-Vico, an Italian philosopher in the 0 th and 8 th centuries, first talked about the close relationship between primitive poetry and primitive religion; But he did not explicitly point out that poetry originated from witchcraft. /kloc-Since the 20th century, anthropologists, represented by Taylor, Fraser and hartland, have conducted in-depth research on the witchcraft of the existing primitive tribes, providing rich materials for the "witchcraft theory" of the origin of art.

6. Labor theory. The view that art originated from labor obviously began with a group of ethnologists and art historians in the late19th century. German Bischel pointed out in Labor, Music and Poetry that labor, music and poetry were trinity at first, and their foundation was labor.

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