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The "Drama-Embedded Mode" Of Popular Novels Of The Ming And The Qing Dynasties, Pengfei Li
The "Drama-Embedded Mode" Of Popular Novels Of The Ming And The Qing Dynasties, Pengfei Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The "drama-inserted mode" of the novel refers to the insertion of drama stories, diction, and other elements into the plot or the narration of the novel. In this way, these dramatic elements can be connected with the plot, the narration, or the theme of the novel, thus creating a unique aesthetic effect. The "drama-inserted mode", which can be seen as one of the "layer structures", is not only the narrative method of the novel, just like analogy, intermingled plots and repeated relation, but also the narrative structure of the novel. This skill has been frequently usedin the the world history …
Toward The Future: A New Interpretation To Liang Qichao'sThe Future Of New China, Liyuan Jia
Toward The Future: A New Interpretation To Liang Qichao'sThe Future Of New China, Liyuan Jia
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Through a close reading of The Future of New China by Liang Qichao's (1873-1929), an important novel published in 1902, the paper analyzes the way Liang narrates time, which is revealed in the dialogue relationship between the text and its annotations. It argues that the novel is neither a pure narration of the future, nor a mere review of the present, but a constant movement between the two. This fundamental narrative feature of the novel explains why the author made many mistakes, unnoticed in existing scholarship, when dealing with the conversion between the Gregorian calendar and the Chinese calendar, as …
A New Exposition Of Su Ting's Comments On Li Bai With A Comment On Li Bai's Early Literary Explorations, Qinghai Liu
A New Exposition Of Su Ting's Comments On Li Bai With A Comment On Li Bai's Early Literary Explorations, Qinghai Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The meeting with Su Ting in Chengdu proved to be an important event in Li Bai's early literary life when Li Bai was encouraged and directed. Before the meeting, Li Bai's writing was more of a local literature than of a literary master starting a new literature. Su Ting was then lauded as "Master Pen" (Da Shoubi), and his appreciation of Li Bai's literary talent, to the extent that he compared Li Bai to Sima Xiangru, was influential on Li Bai's late writing. Especially, Su Ting's comments on the relationship between rhetoric (Ci-cai 辞采) and vigor of style (Feng-gu 风骨) …
Chuanqi & Zaju By Scholar Writers During The Republic Of China Period And Their Significance In Drama History, Dahuai Yao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Before the New Culture Movement, the development of chuanqi & zaju was directed by reporter writers and adherent writers. Hereafter, they were gradually replaced by scholar writers. Influenced by such factors as national crises and individual plights, scholar writers wrote plays to call upon the struggling spirit, or express their own melancholy. As they had the most profound attainment on traditional drama during the Republic of China, scholar writers respected the essence of drama, and especially devoted more in melody, phraseology and structure. They had the highest achievement in the creation of chuanqi & zaju since the late Qing Dynasty …
Cosmopolitanism And Cultural Translation, Shaobo Xie
Cosmopolitanism And Cultural Translation, Shaobo Xie
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The global present remains saturated with various forms of xenophobia, hostility towards cultural and ethnic others, us-versus-them feelings, and ethnocentric arrogance. It is in response to such an exigency, to which one cannot respond, that cosmopolitanism and cultural translation are being globally debated and embraced at various intellectual forums, academic conferences, and in various journal special issues. This paper explores the issue of cosmopolitan cultural translation through the lens of two world-famous novels: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Ngugi wa Thiong'o's The River Between. It illustrates how the cosmopolitan reader, by way of cultural translation, perceives or recognizes culture-specific …
Some Theoretical Categories In Sanskrit Poetics, Xi-Nan Yin
Some Theoretical Categories In Sanskrit Poetics, Xi-Nan Yin
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Sanskrit poetics contain many unique theoretical categories like rasa, dhvani, vakrokti, poetic atman, camatkara and guna. These categories are of a long history with genuine Indian nature and they are still holding implications for contemporary poetics and comparative studies. The paper singles out seven categories to demonstrate how connotative and unique ancient Indian literary theory, i.e. Alankarasastra or Sanskrit poetics could be.
A Techno-Political Poetics Built On The Body: On Brian Massumi'sb Parables Of The Virtual, Yunfan Yao
A Techno-Political Poetics Built On The Body: On Brian Massumi'sb Parables Of The Virtual, Yunfan Yao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Centered round his elucidation of the concepts of "body" and "the virtual," Massumi proposes a critique toward the understanding of the process of subjectivization dominated by the symbolic operations in his work Parables of the Virtual: Movement, Affections and Sensations. He assumes that contemporary capitalist power mechanism does not abide by the logic of subjectivization that is mediated by the symbolic order; instead, with help of technology, the capitalist power can control the human-beings by intervening the intensity and direction of human affections. The hope of escaping the control relies on the objectification of human beings during the evolution of …
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 …
Ruminating On Garbage: Exemplified By Kunal Vohra's Film The Plastic Cow, Chang Chia-Ju
Ruminating On Garbage: Exemplified By Kunal Vohra's Film The Plastic Cow, Chang Chia-Ju
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper examines the way in which non-human animals are constructed as unwanted object through human language, culture and economic system, and how such construction in return affects the lives of the animals. The paper aims to think through the entangled interconnected relationship among animals, humans and environment on both the conceptual and material levels. It argues that animals are deeply enmeshed in capitalist system while the animal-garbage connection can be traced in etymological, cultural, and economic and ecological systems. In order to reflect on our culture, globalization, and modernity, an Indian documentary film, The Plastic Cow, by Kunal Vohra, …
The Inheritance Of Misty Poetry's Tradition And The Crisis Of New Poetry, Guoyuan Xu
The Inheritance Of Misty Poetry's Tradition And The Crisis Of New Poetry, Guoyuan Xu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper aims to analyze how the Misty Poetry inherited Chinese poetry tradition and how the inheritance resulted in the spiritual crisis and the entailing crisis of Chinese contemporary poetry. The Misty Poetry tries to conceal its inheritance of Chinese modern poetry with an explicit anti-traditional gesture, but due to the unbridgeable gap between the poets' self and the cultural and historical tradition, the Misty poets could not but fall into the deep trap of nihilism. The essential influence on the Misty Poetry has been the early Western modernism, especially the Symbolism, and the Misty Poetry could hardly be said …
The Influence Of Shangqing Taoist Sect's Meditation Method On The Pre-Song-Dynasty Fictions, Qingchuan Wan
The Influence Of Shangqing Taoist Sect's Meditation Method On The Pre-Song-Dynasty Fictions, Qingchuan Wan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Shangqing Taoist Sect's meditation method of "thought-holding" was similar to literary imagination in that it was characterized by a pictorial thinking, and this method inserted deep influence on the Taoist fiction writing in the pre-Song Dynasty. Some authors writing about immortal beings sat in meditation in front of the portraiture and wrote their novels, and some authors wrote out of their mystic illusions resulted from long and intensive meditation, and some authors wrote out of supernatural inspirations. The descriptions about the geography, plants, the clothes and pageants of the immortals reflected the influence from the Taoist portraiture and the process …
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
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
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
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
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 …
The Two Worlds And The Tragic Sense In Chen Yinque's Poetics, Jingru Pan
The Two Worlds And The Tragic Sense In Chen Yinque's Poetics, Jingru Pan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Chen Yinque was also a prolific poet, and his poems were full of metaphor and innuendo. Chen's poetry can be traced in spirit and culture back to his father Chen Sanli's influence, and also allows the reader to have a glimpse of his melancholic nature. These two strands of influence contribute to the two distinct worlds of images in his poetry, one pointing to the impermanent yet everlasting realistic world, and the other pointing to the other side of this world. The former world is composed of flowers and people and human affairs, while the latter is composed of the …
A Critique Of Chernyshevsky, Jianjun Li
A Critique Of Chernyshevsky, Jianjun Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In Chernyshevsky's literary criticism practice, reality has the absolute dominance over arts, and this leads to the extremity in his aesthetic concept, resulting in the one-dimensional, closed and narrow understanding of his aesthetics. This paper takes his concept of "life" as starting point to analyze his key views and examine the legitimacy and limitations of his utilitarianism, and tries to do justice to the acuteness, straightforwardness and prejudice in his literature criticism.
A Critical Review Of Xia Chengtao's Views On The History OfCi-Poetry And The Construction Of The History, Zhixi Qian
A Critical Review Of Xia Chengtao's Views On The History OfCi-Poetry And The Construction Of The History, Zhixi Qian
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Xiao Chengtao's views on the history of ci-poetry and the construction of the history resulted from his research and creative practice. One of Xia's key views was that the delicate restraint style was not to be termed as the orthodox, and this view broke away from the established understanding in the history of ci-poetry and enables Xia to reflect from a broader context on the ci-poetry history and the dualistic classification of ci-poetry. Xia's reflection on Changzhou School's view of ci-poetry history was of special importance to his views. His contributions to the study of ci-poetry included his elucidation of …
A Synopsis Of China Literary Theory Association Academic Symposium On "Reflection On And Prospect Of The Study Of Literary Theory As A Discipline", Zilu Yang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
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Common Sense, Nature Of The Mind And Humanism: A Study On Kant's Aesthetic Taste, Liqun Lv
Common Sense, Nature Of The Mind And Humanism: A Study On Kant's Aesthetic Taste, Liqun Lv
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Kant's aesthetic taste as he had expounded in his Critique of Judgment is not only the foundation for further research on aesthetics but also an important methodological significance. A detailed examination of such concepts as common sense, communicability and disinterestedness reveals the essential characteristics of aesthetic taste and its wide application range in the human domain. In the context of the crisis in the contemporary world, re-examination of the aesthetic taste may provide us a new perspective on the world and human affairs.
Cognitive Thinking And Contemporary Chinese Theory Of Literature And Art, Shousen Yang
Cognitive Thinking And Contemporary Chinese Theory Of Literature And Art, Shousen Yang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
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
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
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 …
From "Revolution" To "Practice" In Everyday Life: The Future Of Life Aesthetics As Seen From The Failure Of The Situationist International, Yuedi Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Although the construction of situations plays a key role in the Situationist International (SI) and the spectacle has become the presented image and method of presentation in the modern world, everyday life becomes another key word which has also run through the whole history of the Situtionist International. The relationship between spectacle and life has taken such a form that life is the foundation of the society with spectacle being the symptom of the society and life is fluid with spectacle being its external phenomenon. SI has realized its historical transition from revolution to practice in everyday life, and the …
From The Text Game To The Source Of Violence: The Idea Of Mimesis In Derrida And Girard, Cheng Lu
From The Text Game To The Source Of Violence: The Idea Of Mimesis In Derrida And Girard, Cheng Lu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Although the mimetic theory of representation was no longer the mainstream of western literary theory since the 19th century, the idea of regarding arts and literature as the result of "mimetic" acts still has tremendous impact today. Taking Derrida's deconstructive theory of mimesis and Rene Girand's anthropological theory of mimesis as examples and focusing on mimesis as text game and the source of violence, this article attempts to demonstrate that the logic of mimesis is still deeply rooted in the discourse of literary theory nowadays. As the minetic theory has the ethical dimension of relating to others and heterogeneity through …
Literary Mind And The Carving Of DragonsAnd The Study On Texts In The Ming Dynasty, Jianzhong Bai
Literary Mind And The Carving Of DragonsAnd The Study On Texts In The Ming Dynasty, Jianzhong Bai
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The study of Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons emerged in the Ming Dynasty for many reasons, among which the Six-Dynasty School's attention to the work was an important factor. The influence of Literary Mind was so great in the Ming-Dynasty study on texts that the first monograph on text study A General Survey of Literary Texts (Wen Tong) was written in the style of Literary Mind in late Ming Dynasty. Some of the influential and important concepts in Wen Tong were either inherited from or developed upon Literary Mind, which showed that the Ming-Dynasty scholars could both inherit …
On The Literary Ideas Of The Yangming School, Qingtao Xue
On The Literary Ideas Of The Yangming School, Qingtao Xue
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The literary idea of the Yangming School is grounded in their concept of "conscience," which differs in part from Cheng-Zhu school. In terms of relationship between the literature and Confucian ideas, Yangming School's belief is that literary reation may not be necessarily in conflict with those idleas, which is against Chengzhu School's claim of "literalure does harm to Confucian ideas," and Yaming Schol's argument helps to relieve the intense relationship between literature and Cunfucianism. Inlerms of literariness, Yangming School advocates sincerity in expression instead of indulgence in the art of rhetoric. In terms of literary creation, it opposes the simulation …
The Cultural Nature Of Material Objects And The Return Route Of Material Culture, Liang Xu
The Cultural Nature Of Material Objects And The Return Route Of Material Culture, Liang Xu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Material object is a sign which exists in the system of meaning discrimination and expression, and it is a concept in culture. Material objects in consumer society show the features of a system that is dominated by cultural ideas with the human sense of orientation. The development of material culture in consumer society necessitates the insatiable pursuit of material objects, because the prospect of material objects comprises the man-material relationship in consumer society and the foothold of consumer society falls on material. As the pursuit is based on the substantiality of material and it tries to avoid the certainty of …
The Cultural Political Significance Of Form: On The Musical Practices Of The New Worker's Art Troupe, Chunlin Guo
The Cultural Political Significance Of Form: On The Musical Practices Of The New Worker's Art Troupe, Chunlin Guo
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper examines the musical practice of the New Worker's Art Troupe from the perspective of cultural study, and focuses on the cultural political significance of forms in their practice. As a new kind of organization, the New Worker's Art Troupe purposely keeps a defiant posture to distance itself from cultural industry. They showcase many popular music works to the grass roots free of charge and their music works are usually imbued with keen sense of reality, adopting folk song's melodies and singing in dialects, and the paper observes that their musical practice is realizing the concept of "people's literature …
The Destiny Of Art: On Jean Baudrillard's Aesthetic Thought, Shuyuan Wan
The Destiny Of Art: On Jean Baudrillard's Aesthetic Thought, Shuyuan Wan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Baudrillard claims that contemporary world is a transparent world characterized by excess, while contemporary art is an obscene world in which the reality is excessive and illusion is deficient. Art has been made entirely deviated from its essence. Therefore, Baudrillard therefore calls for the return of art to its inherent way from "something" back to "nothing," returning to a form of illusion or a form of other-worldness. At the same time, Baudrillard also points out that art as a form has its own destiny, a destiny of seduction. As form of seduction, art should also become a symbolic poetics, a …
The Encounter Between François Cheng And Contemporary French Poetry, Chunfeng Wu
The Encounter Between François Cheng And Contemporary French Poetry, Chunfeng Wu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
François Cheng is the first person of Chinese origin elected to the French Academy. He has authored creative writings of poetry and fiction, with both Chinese Daoist philosophical wisdom and Western logical reasoning. This paperattempts to adopt a synchronic perspective and the thematic approach of criticism to explore how Cheng's poetry encounters contemporary French poetry so as to find out the common spirit behind the two cultures. The shared concept ofliterary writingbetween Cheng and the French poets is investigated from three aspects of the unknownness of the world, feeling and its subject, and the art of in-between writing so as …
Xia Chengtao's Ballad-Form Poetry And His Innovational Thought About Poetry Types, Xiaojuan Xin
Xia Chengtao's Ballad-Form Poetry And His Innovational Thought About Poetry Types, Xiaojuan Xin
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Famous ci-poetry scholar Xia Chengtao also attained highly in ancient poetry creation, and he was especially devoted to the song-form poetry but his achievements have not been done justice to in the academic circle. His poetic idea shown in his writing turns from his early unconventional diction to later plain style, and it reflects his pursuit of transformation of poetic forms. In the 1930s and 1940s when the social changes were drastic, Xia Chengtao tried to blend the ballad form with ci-poetic lyrics so as to create a new form. This paper examines Xia Chengtao's comments on ballad-form poetry in …
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
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
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.