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The Origin And Evolvement Of Aesthetic Poetics From The Perspective Of Genealogy, Jianchang Xing, Hao Zhang
The Origin And Evolvement Of Aesthetic Poetics From The Perspective Of Genealogy, Jianchang Xing, Hao Zhang
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This article is a genealogical investigation of the origin and evolvement of aesthetic poetics in China since the 1980s. Its prelude originated from the "imagistic thinking Debate" in the 1950s and 1960s, which was revived at the end of the 1970s. The outcome of this debate was a common recognition that the image, rather than concepts, features literature and art. The evolvement from image epistemology to affectionism paved the way to an aestheticism-based theory. However, the emphasis on the functions of aestheticism to appeal, to educate, to save, and to liberate indicates that the aesthetic poetics was a utilitarian literary …
A Study Of The Name And Connotation Of "Literature" In Early Modern China: From Zhu Xizu To The Zhou Brothers, Xuehu Chen
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The paper tries to analyze the modern name and connotation of "literature" and its emergence and evolution in early modern China. The establishment of literature in China bearing the Western name and connotation was marked by Zhu Xizu's paper On Literature, when professors of literature at institutions of higher learning at that time tried to define literature and its boundaries through academic papers whose influence reached out to the entire social community. Zhu's literary concepts mainly came from the Zhou brothers, who studied in Japan in the early 1900s. The Zhou brothers were among the first advocates for literature in …
Body, Life-World, And The Reconstruction Of Literary Theory, Xiaohua Wang
Body, Life-World, And The Reconstruction Of Literary Theory, Xiaohua Wang
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Since the end of the 20th century, literary studies have gradually become conventionalized and entered into the so-called "post theory" period. What caused this situation? An easily acceptable answer is that there is a "stoppage" in the connection between literature and the life-world. In our view, the underlying cause is the oblivion of man's embodied being. In order to investigate the cause, this article reviews the primitive linkage of the life-world and the body in Husserl's phenomenology, analyzes the "ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy", demonstrates the symptom of "poetics of amnesia" which separates the body and the life-world, and …
English Scholarship On Modern Chinese Literature In The Past Fifty Years, Zhang Yingjin
English Scholarship On Modern Chinese Literature In The Past Fifty Years, Zhang Yingjin
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This article is a condensed version of the general introduction to A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature and covers three agendas. First, it delineates the parameters of modern Chinese literature by discussing its three composite terms. Second, it reviews the academic institutionalization of modern Chinese literature, especially its development in North America. Third, it provides a framework of "history and geography" for A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature. The first section on "history and geography" tracks the historical development of modern Chinese literature in different geopolitical areas. The second section on "genres and types" reviews key major genres (poetry, fiction, …
The Logic Construction Of The Principles Of "Aesthetics Of Pleasant Feeling", Zhixiang Qi
The Logic Construction Of The Principles Of "Aesthetics Of Pleasant Feeling", Zhixiang Qi
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This paper is a general introduction to aesthetics of pleasant feeling, aiming at explicating its logic structure. The fundamental function of aesthetics as a philosophy of beauty is to produce pleasant feeling, and the paper claims that the principles of aesthetics can be termed as the principles of aesthetics of pleasant feeling. On the basis of reconstruction after deconstruction of the definition and methodology, this paper argues that beauty is pleasant object with values, and built on this definition of beauty, the paper explores into the category, laws, characteristics, forms and styles of aesthetics and the characteristics of aesthetic practice. …
The Principles And Significance Of A Research Paradigm For Deep Integration And Transformation In Liberal Arts And Humanities Studies, Lili Liu
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The paper proposes a research paradigm for the deep integration and transformation in the liberal arts and humanities. It takes as its cases the three categories of literary canons, story and methodology and their deep integration and transition. Through case studies, the paper concludes that the new issue emerged from the deep integration and transformation presents a better approach to deepen the research because a new issue raised for any category in the liberal arts and humanities implies an internal mechanism which requires for deep integration and transformation of issues so as to find a new approach and logic to …
Cognitive Thinking And Contemporary Chinese Theory Of Literature And Art, Shousen Yang
Cognitive Thinking And Contemporary Chinese Theory Of Literature And Art, Shousen Yang
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Due to the specificity of historical development, mores of the age and cultural tradition, contemporary Chinese theory of literature and art is dominated by what Hegel termed as the pragmatic, isolated and partial cognitive thinking. Cognitive thinking has till recently been under its negative impact to the extent that the views on many issues have gone into the extreme. In order to promote the development of the contemporary Chinese theory of literature and art and the renaissance of national culture, we should understand the relationship between sensibility, intellectuality and reason, and be wary of extreme deficiencies of intellectuality by emphasizing …
Different Types Of Modern Chinese Literary Criticism, Zidong Xu
Different Types Of Modern Chinese Literary Criticism, Zidong Xu
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In the development of modern Chinese literary criticism since the May Fourth movement, stylistic criticism flourished in the 1920s which resulted in partisan criticism in the 1930s. Organized by the left-wing groups, partisan criticism was divided into three different types, known as "criticism of the others," "internal debate" and "top-down approach," with differed historical contexts, writing styles and strategies. Their evolution, integration and transformation deeply influenced the development of modern and contemporary Chinese literature. It was until the 1980s that academic-style literary criticism, developed in the 1940s, had a direct impact on contemporary Chinese literature. In the Internet Age, many …
A New Terrain Of Textual Research: On Xia Chengtao's Study On Jiang Kui'sci-Poetry, Qin Guan
A New Terrain Of Textual Research: On Xia Chengtao's Study On Jiang Kui'sci-Poetry, Qin Guan
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Prof. Xia Chengtao started his studies on ci-poetry in the late 1920s, with a focus on Jiang Kuia. Prof. Xia's remarkable contributions to Jiang Kui Studies include his final colloation of Jiang Kui's music for ci-poems, textual studies on various editions of Jiang Kui's works, and insightful examination and interpretation of Jiang Kui's poetic intent upon explorations into his life. His grand and detailed book Annotations to Jiang Baishi’s Ci-Poems in Chronological Order is a classic and model in ancient texts collation and research, and his methods opens a new terrain of textual criticism for 20th-century study on ci-poetry.