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On Auscultation, Xiuyan Fu
On Auscultation, Xiuyan Fu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The absence of auscultation, listening for precise judgement, in the perceptual experience entails the phenomenon of the employment of eyes for ears in the present "era of pictorial-reading." Listening has been entrusted with the power to resist the increasingly noisy self-talking in modern life. The earliest literary activity in mankind history is story-telling through listening, and due to the absence of auscultation, some important information only available to listening has been unrevealed from literary works. The paper argues that to re-read literary works from the perspective of listening facilitates to offset the perceptual imbalance caused by visual hegemony.
On The Aesthetic Significance Of Kant's Concept Of Schema, Hongbin Su
On The Aesthetic Significance Of Kant's Concept Of Schema, Hongbin Su
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Schema is an important concept in Kant's philosophy, but Kant delimited it to the territory of epistemology. This paper argues that schema is also an important aesthetic concept. Schema is grasped through intuitive activities, and it follows that schema has certain aesthetic value. Schema is an object of aesthetic activity, but most often it also participates indirectly in aesthetic activities as the source of artistic images. The homogeneity between cognitive schema and aesthetic schema shows the homology of cognitive activities and aesthetic activities.
On The Significance Of "Bone" And The Unique Connotation Of Liu Xie's Concept Of "Wind And Bone", Aibin Yao
On The Significance Of "Bone" And The Unique Connotation Of Liu Xie's Concept Of "Wind And Bone", Aibin Yao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In the structure of life, "bone" is positioned between the inside and the outside of life structure, taking the special position of the inner side of the outside and the outer side of the inside. In The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons, Liu Xie's concept of "wind and bone" is composed with multiple combinations of analogies of bone to analog different forms of the overall structure of writing. Main types include the following. First, "bone and flesh-skin (or hair)" is used to refer to the duality of "intent (concept) and words (language)," with "bone" indicating the concept of …
Qian Gurong In Literary Criticism From 1949 To 1966, Jianjun Xu
Qian Gurong In Literary Criticism From 1949 To 1966, Jianjun Xu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The first seventeen years from the establishment of P. R. China to the Cultural Revolution (1949 to 1966) is a special period for literary survival. In this period, the constraints and restraints of politics on literature co-exist with literature's rebellion against and escape from politics, which are intertwined with the dialogue and communication between the "integrated" literary norms and the heterogenic literary criticism. Under this historical context, Qian Gurong went through three important stages in his life, namely, the anxiety of political identity, the return to literary identity, and the adherence to "humanistic study." In each stage, Qian Gurong managed …
Reflections On The Literariness In The Post-Theoretic Era: The Dispersion Of Meta-Narration And The Plight Of Essentialist Poetics, Yanfeng Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In the context of the dispersion of meta-narrative and the break-up in modernity, the paradigm of essentialist thinking faces the increasing crisis of representation of knowledge. The history of "big theory" is coming to an end, and the "post-theory" emerges as a new paradigm of discourse and system of knowledge. Post-theory takes on an anti-essentialist, non-centralist, pluralistic and historized standpoint of knowledge to reconstruct the validity of legitimacy, opposing rigid essentialism, logocentrism and the logic of totality and identification. With the advent of post-theory, the discourse paradigm of essentialist literariness and the essentialist poetics are faced with the question over …
The Audience Awareness In The Self-Annotations Among Mid-Tang Poets Such As Bai Juyi And Yuan Zhen, Zhiyue Yu
The Audience Awareness In The Self-Annotations Among Mid-Tang Poets Such As Bai Juyi And Yuan Zhen, Zhiyue Yu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In Mid-Tang dynasty, self-annotations to poems were frequently practiced in Bai Juyi (772—846), Yuan Zhen (779—831) and other poets. This act as an extension of literary creation became an important means to assist their poetic expression, and it showed strong audience awareness. This act was especially practiced when poets edited their works for an expected interpretation of their works in later reading. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen's desire to be memorized by later generations appeared to be stronger than other poets of their age. Bai Juyi assumed a relatively lower expectation of his readers, so he made many annotations to …
The Distinction Of Han And Wei Dynasty's Poetry And Its Poetic Significance, Honglin Wang
The Distinction Of Han And Wei Dynasty's Poetry And Its Poetic Significance, Honglin Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Poetry critics from the Ming and Qing dynasties explored the different features of the Han and Wei poetries, which resulted in the distinction between the poetries of the Han and Wei dynasties. Their explorations also indicated that the stylistic principles of poetry began to take shape. Wang Shizhen first claimed that Cao Zhi's achievements were lower than Cao Cao's, while Hu Yinglin examined the differences between the Han poetry and the Wei dynasty poetry, maintaining that Han poetry was unadorned and elegantly simple while Wei poetry was embellished with rhetorical strategies. These claims about Han and Wei poetry influenced the …
The Function Of Generalization In Art History: Understanding Art Across Traditions, Davies David
The Function Of Generalization In Art History: Understanding Art Across Traditions, Davies David
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper considers how one might assess the adequacy of art-historical accounts that exemplify what Michael Baxandall terms the 'inferential criticism' of paintings, where the latter is an instance of what Wollheim called 'criticism as retrieval'. The problem is to reconcile the interpretive nature of such accounts, and their claims to provide us with trans-cultural and trans-historical understandings, with more general 'scientific' constraints on explanation. I draw a parallel with a problem in interpretive ethnography considered by Clifford Geertz, and sketch the latter's claim that the former involves 'generalising within cases' rather than 'generalising across cases'. I offer a 'pragmatic' …
Wen Yiduo's Translation And The Formation Of Metrical Poetics, Liming Chen
Wen Yiduo's Translation And The Formation Of Metrical Poetics, Liming Chen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Wen Yiduo translated English poems with different metrical forms, and consciously applied English metrical poetics in his poetry writing and the theoretical configuration of new Chinese poetry, as an attempt to resist the prevailing poetic trends during the May 4th New Poetry movement predominantly spoken vernacular in nature and to promote the modern Chinese poetics with contemporary metrics and prosody. Through an examination of Wen Yiduo's long neglected translation of Byron's "Isles of Greece," the paper demonstrates his metrical poetics was constructed in and by his practice of translation and creative writing. The paper argues that Wen's practice helped to …
Liu Cixin'sThe Three-Body Problem And The Desire To The Future, Feng Wang
Liu Cixin'sThe Three-Body Problem And The Desire To The Future, Feng Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Science fiction is a description to the possible world of the future, and the future is a special time dimension which cannot be reached but can only be treated as a vision upon reality. Liu's The Three-Body Problem provides us with the possibility of the evil in the future. The description of the future reveals in words a future not yet experienced, and it does so in a way that treats the unexperienced as a world already in existence, and therefore it is more an interpretation than factual description. The interpretation of the future in such description operates on the …
On The Stylistic Construction Of Wang Guowei's History Of Traditional Opera In The Song And Yuan Dynasties, Yanlin Xu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Wang Guowei's pioneering work History of Traditional Opera in the Song and Yuan Dynasties is both a theoretical summarization of his studies on opera and a systematic exposition of his stylistic thoughts. Influenced by Western studies and inherited from Chinese academic tradition, the book reviews the classification, naming, features, origins of this genre and the debasing social attitude to it, and proceeds to highlight the genre with a strong consciousness of stylistics. It delineates the evolution of Chinese opera from the perspective of stylistics, and proposes that Chinese opera has integrated features of patterns, observable stylistic development from narrative to …
Reflections On The Post-Modernist Concept Of Literary History In A New Literary History Of America, Song Li
Reflections On The Post-Modernist Concept Of Literary History In A New Literary History Of America, Song Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Greil Marcus and Werner Sollers' New Literary History of America from Harvard University Press sets a new paradigm for literary history writing in the aspects of style, organization and methodology. It has the following major features. First, it holds a literary view of culture vision. Therefore, the connotation of literature is expanded greatly and the boundary between literature and culture is blurred. Secondly, it embodies the principle of dedifferentiation in post-modernism culture. Thirdly, it advocates a constructional view on literary history. Fourthly, it disassembles the meta-narrative of an ontological history and emphasizes on the micro-narrative of history transection. Lastly, it …
Singularities Of The Three-Body Problem, Or Chinese Logic In The Era Of Science Fiction Globalization, Jun Zeng
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper aims to analyze the singularity event of why Liu Cixin's Three-body Problem can single-handedly upgrade Chinese science fiction literature to the world prominence in the era of science fiction globalization. The paper argues that the scientific imagination in The Three-body Problem starts at the scientific frontier of "singularity" and expands on the spectacle of singularity. In The Three-body Problem, the essentialism of identity politics is transcended, which allows for the conceptualization of internal diversity of the post-human and the establishment of a cosmetic sociology on the principle of the dark forest. Therefore, it is possible for an analysis …
The Clash Of Civilizations And The Culture Self-Consciousness: Science Fiction And Social Reality In The Three-Body Problem, Qi Chen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
From the perspective of the relation between science fiction and social reality, the core question of Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem Trilogy is the clash of civilizations between human and Trisolaran, which causes the future possibility of the end of human history. The narrative perspectives of the trilogy are the intelligentsia narrative of Wang Miao (Book I), the heroic narrative of Luo Ji (Book II), and the narrative of "the last man" of Cheng Xin (Book III). If the future civilization of the human beings is likely to encounter the cosmic catastrophe caused by the clash of civilizations between human …
Unfinished Subject: Empathy And Subject-Construction In Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep？, Simeng Miao
Unfinished Subject: Empathy And Subject-Construction In Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep？, Simeng Miao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? not only invites us to think about the problems of androids' identity, but also forces people into rethinking the existence of ourselves. As the subject, a man recognizing himself is firstly concerned with "identification/distinction." In the constructed world of the novel, the core of identification/distinction lies in the identification between a human being and an android. Empathy plays an important role in subject construction, which indicates that the subject can grasp others through bodily experience to achieve self-construction. However, it is merely imaginary to grasp the subjectivity of others through …