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Aesthetics Of The Sublime And Its Connotations And Properties In Postmodern Literature, Qi Chen, Quansheng Hu
Aesthetics Of The Sublime And Its Connotations And Properties In Postmodern Literature, Qi Chen, Quansheng Hu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper explores Kant's classification of aesthetics as the beautiful and the sublime, and with an interpretation of Lyotard's proposition that postmodern aesthetics is the aesthetics of the sublime, it suggests that postmodern sublimity lies mainly in viewing postmodern literature as an art for protest, highlighting how to tell a story instead of what a story is, and regarding the indeterminacy as the primary aesthetic principle as in the slogan of "Vive la difference," and it then achieves strangeness through radical experiment and eclecticism, and derives pleasure by adjusting expectations. The paper argues that postmodern literature, if judged by traditional …
Knowledge Reconstruction And Academic Reorientation In Postmodernist Context: A Genealogical Study And The Expansion Of Its Horizon Of The Historicization Of Contemporary Literary Studies, Xiuming Wu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Since the 1990s, in the context of globalization and postmodernism, a reorientation is emerging in contemporary literary studies from intellectual interpretation to knowledge reconstruction. The reorientation both promotes contemporary literary studies as a discipline and helps to contextualize and theoretically endorse the historicization of the studies. The reorientation is an emerging phenomenon, which is further complicated by the ambiguity of the concept of "historicization." Unlike the earlier endeavor of "rewriting of literary history," this reorientation, in terms of its scope of research and its conceptual evolution, is both influenced externally by Western Marxist theories through such theorists as Fredric Jameson …
How To Study Literature With "After Theory": Focusing On Eagleton's Event Of Literature, Yan Sun
How To Study Literature With "After Theory": Focusing On Eagleton's Event Of Literature, Yan Sun
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In The Event of Literature, Terry Eagleton tries to elucidate on the literary philosophical questions pertaining to the decline of theory, and calls for a return to literature itself by breaking through the delimitations of politico-cultural studies as in post-colonialist and post-modernist criticism. However, Eagleton does not revert to pure formal research in the "after theory" period as he does not believe formalism can save literary studies. For Eagleton who has a Catholic background, the authority of new religion lies in ethical rather than aesthetic claims. What Eagleton tries to bypass the fruitless debate over essentialism and revive Aristotelian ethnical …