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A Dream Of Red Mansions And Xu Zhenya's Novel Writing, Yingjie Bai
A Dream Of Red Mansions And Xu Zhenya's Novel Writing, Yingjie Bai
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This article discusses the influence that A Dream of Red Mansions had on Xu Zhenya's novel writing. In his early years, Xu Zhenya wrote sixty Ci-poems about A Dream of Red Mansions. These Ci-poems indicate his understanding of characters in the novel and the love tragedy of Baoyu and Daiyu. When writing novels, he always uses A Dream in Red Mansions as an exemplar. Although Her Sacrifice and The History of Tears are autobiographical novels, Xu imitates A Dream in Red Mansions in terms of characterization and plot. Two Servant Girls, his third novel, is entirely a duplicate of A …
A New Interpretation Of "Xing, Guan, Qun, Yuan", Qizhou Wang
A New Interpretation Of "Xing, Guan, Qun, Yuan", Qizhou Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Confucius puts forward the idea that "poetry helps to inspire, to observe, to keep company, and to express grievances" (xing, guan, qun, yuan), which had a huge impact on Chinese poetics. Among numerous interpreters of this idea, Zhu Xi was the most important authority. While he argues that the interpretation of "guan" by scholars in the Song Dynasty was unreliable, his own interpretations of Confucius's words were not logically consistent, either. Situated in the context of his own educational ideas and practices, one would discover that Confucius's words are about neither the composition nor ontology of poetry, but its use. …
Behavior Language, Unconscious Structure And Literary Activities, Dakang Ma
Behavior Language, Unconscious Structure And Literary Activities, Dakang Ma
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Human's consciousness is constructed by the memory of speech acts, and the unconscious is constructed by the memory of behavior language. The similarities and differences between the two languages (behaviors) determine the relation and differentiation between the structure of consciousness and that of the unconscious. Therefore, it does not hold water that Lacan uses the structure of language to explain the unconscious. Aesthetic activities are the full cooperation between consciousness and the unconscious, so the characteristics of the two kinds of behaviors (languages) determine the dual character of aesthetic and artistic activities.
Black Noise, White Noise, And Ghostly Sound: The Ontology Of Noise In The Context Of Deleuze's Conception Of Event, Yuhui Jiang, Yan Zheng
Black Noise, White Noise, And Ghostly Sound: The Ontology Of Noise In The Context Of Deleuze's Conception Of Event, Yuhui Jiang, Yan Zheng
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
As a complicated concept, Deleuze's "event" has traversed different phases of his thinking. However, one should always return to Logique du sens to have a thorough and proper understanding of this idea. Through detailed interpretation of the Stoic theory about "incorporeal", causality and temporality, this article intends to justify the ontological priority of event. The most recent arguments from the speculative realism have also shed a new light on this guiding line implicit in LS. This emerging correlation took its initial shape especially through the contemporary noise music that not only serves as the figurative counterpoint to the philosophical argument, …
From Discourse Of Political Practiceto Strategy For Cultural Interpretation: Jameson's Aesthetic Transformation Of Mao Zedong Thought, Yuyu Wu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
After the Western left-wing movement suffered setbacks in reality, its practice experience has been transformed into a method of textual interpretation. However, there are very limited studies to question how the failure of such political practice is reborn in a new discourse. This paper tries to explain its process through the case of Jameson's transformation of Mao Zedong thought into aesthetic. The transformation finds its expression in three aspects: 1) theory travel — variation occurs as the text travels; 2) the impact of the practice — deviance happens when the text is decontextualized; and 3) the transformative borrowing — the …
Highlights Of Symposium On "Studies Of Contemporary Art: Philosophical And Sociological Dimensions", Zheng Tao
Highlights Of Symposium On "Studies Of Contemporary Art: Philosophical And Sociological Dimensions", Zheng Tao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
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On Literary Theory: Its Way Of Unveiling, Semiotic Rectangle And Absolute Deterritorialization, Jin Zhang
On Literary Theory: Its Way Of Unveiling, Semiotic Rectangle And Absolute Deterritorialization, Jin Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In the 21st century, literary study has started a self-reflection on the multiple facets of theory, thus giving rise to anti-theories, meta-theories and after-theories, all of which cast doubt on theoretical study and literary theory. However, all the facets of theory are the inherent dimensions of theory per se. The exploration of the unveiling way of theory lies in a comprehensive view and an unveiling of theory itself. The theoretical rectangle reveals the varied and interconnected connotations within theory per se. The absolute deterritorialization of theory offers a dialectical possibility among territorization, deterritorization and reterritorization. The after theory is a …
On The Rise Of The Early Notion Of Literary Genres Inchina, Chengxue Wu, Guanlan Li
On The Rise Of The Early Notion Of Literary Genres Inchina, Chengxue Wu, Guanlan Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Research on the generation of the notion of literary genres is the point of departure and a cornerstone for studies of the history of Chinese literary genre theories. The establishment of the notion of literary genres is marked by authors' having a clear knowledge of the characteristics of a certain genre, and applying it constantly and consistently, or in other words, by a consciousness of the very forms of literary genres. The notion of genres, in the beginning, is found, either in the application, or in the unambiguous definition and quotation, of the genres concerned. The birth of such a …
Rethinking Writers’ Ethnic Identity: Essentialism Vs. Free Choice, Jianhua Yu
Rethinking Writers’ Ethnic Identity: Essentialism Vs. Free Choice, Jianhua Yu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper is a rethinking of writers' ethnic identity by, first of all, summarizing the basis on which ethnic writers are often categorized, namely by blood, nurturing, professed recognition or inclination, and analyzing the defects of such classification. Following this analysis, it discusses the subjective part of ethnic writers' identity selection, focusing mostly on the often neglected elements of identity — its performativity and its temporality; it argues that we need to abandon essentialism by embracing the theory of social constructionism. In today's multilateral and shifting world, the identity of ethnic writers should increasingly be viewed as a constructive process …
The Triple Connotations Of Eagleton's "Event" In The Event Of Literature, Zhike Yin
The Triple Connotations Of Eagleton's "Event" In The Event Of Literature, Zhike Yin
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Is there any connection between Terry Eagleton's The Event of Literature and the philosophy of event? If any, why does he discuss "event" in the final chapter of this book? Why is it confined in only one chapter? To answer these questions, one needs to clarify the concepts he uses. His Structure/Event is based on Claude Levi-Strauss's mythology, Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics, Anthony Giddens's "Structuration", and Wolfgang Iser's "Strategy". Nevertheless, Eagleton's "eventness" differs from Alain Badiou's "event", and is actually closer to Derek Attridge's literary ethics. As literature and art have to bring out actual effect, they are for Eagleton open …
Double Inscription And The Concept Of Origin In Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan , Yu-Kai Lin Carlos
Double Inscription And The Concept Of Origin In Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan , Yu-Kai Lin Carlos
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
To many Western readers, Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, published in 1904, is a seminal work of what they perceive as Japanese kaidan literature. The fact that this work was first published in English for Western readers reveals the transcultural as well as translational nature of this literary genre that is called kaidan in the English-speaking context. The question of the origin of kaidan therefore makes it an interesting case of translation, since this book, in effect, is at once a translation and an inscription of the origin of Japanese kaidan literature in the Western context. …
A Feminine Gaze: A Lacanian Analysis Of The Tv Series Journey To The West, Guanjun Wu
A Feminine Gaze: A Lacanian Analysis Of The Tv Series Journey To The West, Guanjun Wu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The TV series Journey to the West, first shown on China Central Television in 1986, is undoubtedly a seminal work in the history of Chinese television. As a TV remake of the classical Chinese novel bearing the same title, this work, following the principle of "faithfulness", substantively makes itself a symptomatic excess to the original novel. Through the "feminine affection" depicted by the general director Yang Jie, the original novel's phallocentric perspective is replaced in a revolutionary way by a feminine perspective of the Queen of the "Feminine Kingdom". In the end of the TV remake when Tripitaka has "completed" …
From Guowen, Zhongwen T OHuawen: The Localization Process Of Chinese Textbooks In Singaporean Secondary School, Bing Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Due to the impact of political and cultural contexts, Chinese textbooks in Singaporean secondary school experienced a long and tortuous process of localization. In the early British colonial era and the Japanese occupation of Singapore, almost all Chinese textbooks in Singapore were imported from China and entitled guowen. From the end of World War II to 1979, with dramatic changes in China and Malaya, textbooks were primarily used to promote the consciousness of localization under the concept of Malayalization. Correspondingly, the publication of Chinese textbooks tended to be autonomous and their titles changed to zhongwen, yuwen or huawen. From 1979 …
Li Jinxi's Theory Of Chinese Language And Literature Education In Tertiary Institutes: "Integration" And "Remedy", Fengxia Cao
Li Jinxi's Theory Of Chinese Language And Literature Education In Tertiary Institutes: "Integration" And "Remedy", Fengxia Cao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In the 1940s, due to the lack of systematic education, university students had an imbalanced command of Chinese language and literature. Li Jinxi, a pioneer in Chinese language and literature education, published a series of papers on the ideas of "Tong Chou" (integration) and "Jiu Ji"(remedy) in Chinese language and literature education in tertiary institutes. "Integration" refers to the standardization of the number of essays in Chinese textbooks, focusing on improving reading and writing skills. Meanwhile, based on students' levels of Chinese, teachers could be flexible in terms of teaching methods, which is "remedy". Similar problems still exist today: there …
Literature Through The Lens Of Davidson's Event Theory, Qiao Zhang
Literature Through The Lens Of Davidson's Event Theory, Qiao Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In contemporary literary theory, we discuss literary eventlargely withthe theoretical source of continental philosophy. This articleaims to draw an analytical philosophical picture forliterary event through Davidson's event theory. It investigates Davidsonianliterary event from two aspects. On the one hand, according to Davidson's ontology of event, the nature of literature should beseen as the particulars, and the way of discussing literature should be changed from "existence" to "happening", hence the shift from ontology of literature to performance of literature. On the other hand, literary event represents intentional literary action, and a successful literaryaction presents how the writer usesidiolects to communicate successfully …
Mirror Image Deviation In Cross-Cultural Transmission: A Reevaluation Of The Debate On H. D. Thoreau As A Hermit Or A Fake Hermit In Dushu, Luechang Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In the dissemination of H. D. Thoreau in China over the past 90 years, one heated debate with Dushu as the main platform occurred over Thoreau as a hermit or a fake one. By nature, this debate is a false statement, because Thoreau has never claimed to be a hermit. Being similar to the hermit and Chinese yinyi culture, a visible tendency to detach oneself from society and live in seclusion, Thoreau is arbitrarily judged as a hermit or a fake one. From the perspective of Chinese yinyi culture, some Chinese scholars analyzed the period, place, motivation and lifestyle of …
Prefaces And Postscripts In Early Dunhuang BianwenAnd The Establishment Of Research Paradigm For Modern Folk Literature, Yajing Wang, Xun Sun
Prefaces And Postscripts In Early Dunhuang BianwenAnd The Establishment Of Research Paradigm For Modern Folk Literature, Yajing Wang, Xun Sun
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Top scholars in China attracted by findings of Dunhuang Bianwen in 1907 sorted out these newfound materials and wrote prefaces and postscripts for them, which indicated their understanding of various aspects related to Bianwen. Firstly, studies of Bianwen's value brought folk literature to modern academics; secondly, the differentiation and analysis of Bianwen's literary forms opened up the path of emphasizing intrinsic characteristics of literature; thirdly, textual criticism on origins and development of stories in Bianwen introduced an important and new research method for narrative literature. All these paradigms and outlines of Bianwen studies established earlier have displayed Chinese academics' achievement …
Rewriting And Rewritology: A Poststructuralist Approach To Literary History, Jinlong Xiao
Rewriting And Rewritology: A Poststructuralist Approach To Literary History, Jinlong Xiao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Research on literary history is the most fundamental way to construct the knowledge system of literature, which is mainly divided historically into two schools: contextualism and formalism. They both have major defects, which are caused by their thinking in logocentric binary opposition. A shift of our perspective to poststructuralist binary complementation may enable us to realize that all texts of literary discourse are formed by a rewriting of other discursive texts. Correspondingly, the most proper approach to literary history is to probe into the dynamic complicated relationship between a text of literary discourse and its pretexts. This approach,termedrewritology,includes four major …
Symptomatic Reading, Event, And Iconography: A Brief Discussion Of Georges Didi-Huberman's Image-Knowledge, Wen Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
As one of the most active art historians in France, Georges Didi-Huberman takes "event" as his theoretical basis, by which he makes possible the renewal of the critical tradition of Aby Warburg. Didi-Huberman is innovative because, on the one hand, he confirms Warburg's special epistemology that is situated within Walter Benjamin's horizon of event-truth implied in dialectic images, and, on the other, he legitimizes Benjamin's symptomatic reading of events by introducing Warburg's image-knowledge into iconographical studies. Didi-Hubermanian critical iconography has changed the look of contemporary French art history, disrupted the linear historical narrative of art in academic tradition, and ultimately …
The Debate On "National Characteristic" And The Mindset Of Binary Opposition In Contemporary Intelligentsia, Yugao He
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In the debate on Lu Xun's "national characteristic" at the turn of the 20th century, Feng Jicai and Liu Hewereseverely criticizedfor their post-colonial stance. However, all these critics misunderstood Liu He's point. Through analysis, one finds that critics' mindset of binary opposition such as "China/west, tradition/modernity" was the main cause of the misreading. Meanwhile, Liu He's post-colonial practice also betrays dogmatic binary thinking. The mindset of binary oppositions inherent inmodern Chinese academic thought throughout history has restrained intellectuals' talent, hence a waste of intelligence. To avoid such mindset, Chinese literary scholars should be more sensitive and receptive tofindings in other …
The Earliest Experiment Report Of College Chinese: A New Interpretation Of The Teaching Of Practical Writings By Liu Bannong, Eryuan He, Wenli Feng
The Earliest Experiment Report Of College Chinese: A New Interpretation Of The Teaching Of Practical Writings By Liu Bannong, Eryuan He, Wenli Feng
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
After Gui-Mao education system enforced in 1904, preparatory courses lasted and became an organic part of modern Chinese higher education. As the predecessor of First-year College Chinese in the Republic of China, "preparatory Chinese courses" indicated the early form of College Chinese. Liu Bannong's "Teaching of Practical Writings", finished in 1917 and published in the next year, was the earliest research article and experiment report in modern Chinese as a discipline. Situated within the background of New Culture Movement, this article could have a better display of Liu Bannong and his colleagues' ideas of Chinese language education. Among them, the …
Event And Art: Lyotard's Politics Of Phrase And The Postmodern Sublime, Hui Zhou
Event And Art: Lyotard's Politics Of Phrase And The Postmodern Sublime, Hui Zhou
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Starting from the relationship between modern French philosophy and event and time, this article attempts to expound the main idea of the politics of phrase oriented to différend, to compare the differences and similarities between Kant's reflective judgment and the judgment of Lyotard, to analyze the reasons why postmodern art finally leads to the sublime, and thus to point out the special significance of event to postmodern theories. In the end, this article reflects on the oscillation of postmodern theories between the activeness and passiveness of the subject, and the price that elites have to pay for detaching themselves from …
The Primer Tradition And Reflections On Chinese Education Over The Past 100 Years, Zihui Zhu
The Primer Tradition And Reflections On Chinese Education Over The Past 100 Years, Zihui Zhu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"Initiating Children's literacy by musical language" has been an important characteristic and fine tradition of elementary Chinese education in ancient China. In primers of this kind, it is characterized by syntactical antithesis and rhyming which were derived from the profound understanding of the ancients about the characteristics of the Chinese language. In the elementary education, it not only satisfies children's "willingness and readiness" to learn, but also exposes them to the aesthetic of Chinese language and culture. However, unfortunately, in the past one hundred years, due to the unscrupulous transplant or absorption of foreign education thought, the fine primer tradition …
The Transforms Of Linguistic Literary Theory By Media Literary Theory, Xiaoxi Shan
The Transforms Of Linguistic Literary Theory By Media Literary Theory, Xiaoxi Shan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
If the 20th century is a century of language and linguistic literary theory, then the 21st century is a century of new media and media literary theory. Media literary theory, as a form of the post-linguistic literary theory, represents the sublation and transformation of linguistic literary theory. Linguistic literary theory occurred in the context of "the linguistic turn", while media literary theory is the outcome of "the media turn". Literary form is not only of linguistic structure but also the structure of the media system. The literary world is not only the real world constructed by language but also the …
The Turn Of Heidegger's Thought And The Structure Of His Inquiries Into The Problem Of Being, Yunpeng Zhang
The Turn Of Heidegger's Thought And The Structure Of His Inquiries Into The Problem Of Being, Yunpeng Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In his inquiries into the problem of Being, there was an obvious shift between the earlier and later periods of Heidegger's thought. Heidegger himself and the academia have different opinions on the shift in question. From the perspective of structure, the so-called "turn" of thought was essentially the transformation of the structural pattern of his inquiries. The period of Being and Time belonged to the pattern of the binary structure of "Dasein (being-there) to being"; when shifting from Dasein (being-there) to Being per se, the binary structure was turned into a unitary structure, that is "Being", which was an orientation …
Espen J. Aarseth's Thought On Hypertext Aesthetics, Chunhua Nie
Espen J. Aarseth's Thought On Hypertext Aesthetics, Chunhua Nie
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Espen J. Aarseth's reflections on popular theories about the hypertext have primarily led to his distinction between the structure and the reading of the hypertext, since, for him, it is the hypertext' nonlinearity rather than multi-linearity that determines the real differences between the hypertext and the traditional text. He analyzes the power relation between the author and the reader of the hypertext, and criticizes some popular claims about the hypertext such as "reader-as-writer", "de-centralization", and "interactivity". On the basis of the distinction of the structure and the reading of the hypertext, he poses that the hypertext is of non-narrative structure …
How Horizontality Became A Medium: Rosalind Krauss On Pollock's All-Over Paintings, Yubing Shen, Qiuyue Mao
How Horizontality Became A Medium: Rosalind Krauss On Pollock's All-Over Paintings, Yubing Shen, Qiuyue Mao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Art historian Rosalind Krauss argues that Jackson Pollock has introduced a new medium in art practices by creating horizontal space in his all-over paintings. Such a medium has transcended the physical dimension of the object and become a persistent model, which greatly illuminated the subsequent minimalism and pop art. While setting out from a classic modernist approach, Krauss's criticism takes on a Structuralist outlook different from modernism. Centering on the co-participation of the artist, the environment and the work, her observation is more inclusive and powerful as a method of interpretation than modernist theories.
Imagining And Constructing "Popular Literature": The Popularization Of Literature And Art In China Since The "May Fourth" Movement, Zhiping Zhang
Imagining And Constructing "Popular Literature": The Popularization Of Literature And Art In China Since The "May Fourth" Movement, Zhiping Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Since the May Fourth Movement, enlightenment became the basic strategy and approach by which the literary and art circle participated in politics; thus the movement of the popularization of literature and art was a by-product of this enlightenment strategy. The purpose for the movement of the "popularization of literature and art" was to construct "popular literature" that appealed to both the more and the less cultured, a modern genre in accordance with the new vision of literature. The road map of "popular literature" imagined and designed by the literary and art circle comprised three steps: 1. writers devoted to popularizing …
Intercultural Theatre Under The Lens Of Cultural Appropriation, Wei Feng
Intercultural Theatre Under The Lens Of Cultural Appropriation, Wei Feng
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The concept of "intercultural theatre" has been under debate since the birth of this neologism. In theory, the content of intercultural theatre has varied several times, with expanding forms of intercultural theatre practices. The interweaving of theories and practices in recent decades has caused confusion and misinterpretation in academic discourses. Re-categorizing intercultural theatre practices with the term "cultural appropriation" into text appropriation, form appropriation, motif appropriation, and subject appropriation is effective to clarify meanings and forms of intercultural theatre, as well as the object of ethical, political, and aesthetic discussions, so that indiscriminate use of concepts can be avoided during …
Literary Consumption In The Era Of Electronic Media, Youfeng Hu
Literary Consumption In The Era Of Electronic Media, Youfeng Hu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Literary consumption in the era of electronic media is characterized by technological, symbolic and entertaining inclinations. Literary consumption and literary production are mutually reactive, and this mutual reaction has been reflected by the synchronization of image production and omnimedia publishing, the medialization and literary consumption, the idolization of literary production and fans-based consumption, and the marketization of literary production as entertainment. The typical mode of literary production in the era of electronic media is the film adaptation of internet literature. Internet literature provides scripts for films and TV series, and, on films and TV programs help to spread Internet literature …