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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.
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.
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 …
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 …