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Full-Text Articles in East Asian Languages and Societies
Acknowledgements/Image Credits, Molly Lynde-Recchia
Acknowledgements/Image Credits, Molly Lynde-Recchia
Transference
No abstract provided.
Commentary On Translating Tao Yuanming And Li Shangyin, Andrew Gudgel
Commentary On Translating Tao Yuanming And Li Shangyin, Andrew Gudgel
Transference
Notes by Andrew Gudgel on the translation of three Chinese poems into English.
Frost Moon And Autumn Arrives By Li Shangyin, Andrew Gudgel
Frost Moon And Autumn Arrives By Li Shangyin, Andrew Gudgel
Transference
Translated from the Chinese by Andrew Gudgel.
Cloudy Skies By Tao Yuanming, Andrew Gudgel
Cloudy Skies By Tao Yuanming, Andrew Gudgel
Transference
Translated from the Chinese by Andrew Gudgel.
Ryōan Temple Rock Garden By Murō Saisei, Michael Tangeman
Ryōan Temple Rock Garden By Murō Saisei, Michael Tangeman
Transference
Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Michael Stone Tangeman.
Selections From Man’Yōshū By Various Authors, John G. Peters
Selections From Man’Yōshū By Various Authors, John G. Peters
Transference
Translated from the Japanese with commentary by John Peters.
Gray Toad And Color Of The Season By Ōte Takuji, Dean A. Brink
Gray Toad And Color Of The Season By Ōte Takuji, Dean A. Brink
Transference
Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Dean A. Brink.
Mona Lisa, A Deer, That Man, And The Night Of An Artificial Satellite By Murano Shirō, Goro Takano
Mona Lisa, A Deer, That Man, And The Night Of An Artificial Satellite By Murano Shirō, Goro Takano
Transference
Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Goro Takano.
The Banyan Tree, Untitled, To --, A Dried Flower--For Someone, Palace-Cave Mountain, And Nanmu Forest By Cai Qijiao, Edward A. Morin
The Banyan Tree, Untitled, To --, A Dried Flower--For Someone, Palace-Cave Mountain, And Nanmu Forest By Cai Qijiao, Edward A. Morin
Transference
Translated from the Chinese with commentary by Edward Morin, Dennis Ding, and Fang Dai.
Ribbons Of May, Fading, Green, And Angels Of The Sea By Sagawa Chika, Rina Kikuchi, Carol Hayes
Ribbons Of May, Fading, Green, And Angels Of The Sea By Sagawa Chika, Rina Kikuchi, Carol Hayes
Transference
Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Rina Kikuchi and Carol Hayes.
Foreword, David Kutzko, Molly Lynde-Recchia
Foreword, David Kutzko, Molly Lynde-Recchia
Transference
Thoughts on the second volume by editors-in-chief David Kutzko and Molly Lynde-Recchia.
Transference Vol. 2, Fall 2014, Molly Lynde-Recchia
Transference Vol. 2, Fall 2014, Molly Lynde-Recchia
Transference
Transference is published by the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University. Dedicated to the celebration of poetry in translation, the journal publishes translations from Arabic, Chinese, French and Old French, German, classical Greek, Latin, and Japanese, into English verse. Transference contains translations as well as commentaries on the art and process of translating.
Situating A Badiouian Anthropocene In Hagiwara's Postnatural Poetry, Dean A. Brink
Situating A Badiouian Anthropocene In Hagiwara's Postnatural Poetry, Dean A. Brink
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Situating a Badiouian Anthropocene in Hagiwara's Postnatural Poetry" Dean A. Brink discusses the ecological dimension of the poetry of one of the founding voices in modern Japanese poetry, Sakutarō Hagiwara (1886-1942). Brink argues that Hagiwara developed a poetics characterized by engagements with nonhuman organisms and actants to situate the materiality of these actants in ways that diffuse the binary of "language" and "nature" and present a postnatural relationality that Bruno Latour describes. Drawing on the recent work of Alain Badiou, Brink explores materialist alternatives to representationalism—including the Lacanian triangle of the imaginary real and symbolic—by emphasizing human-nonhuman …
Ecocriticism And National Image In 舌尖上的中国 (A Bite Of China), Mingwen Xiao
Ecocriticism And National Image In 舌尖上的中国 (A Bite Of China), Mingwen Xiao
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Ecocriticism and National Image in 舌尖上的中国 (A Bite of China)" Mingwen Xiao examines the multi-faceted contents of the popular 2012 television series. Instead of exhibiting delicacies made by professional chefs in luxury restaurants, A Bite of China displays local food and dishes made by ordinary people. By focus on every-day food preparation, the show constructs a performance where class, ethnicity, gender, age, and other social markers are blurred and the geographically and ethnically diverse ways of food preparation and consumption appear as a cohesive Chinese culinary identity. Xiao argues that A Bite of China plays a role …
Three Dimensions Of Kant's Laws Of Nature, Youfeng Hu
Three Dimensions Of Kant's Laws Of Nature, Youfeng Hu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In his critical philosophy, Kant defined the duality of nature and held nature to be a thing-in-itself that was unknowable in the metaphysical sense. From the perspective of epistemology, however, Kant confined nature into the phenomenal field, claiming the priority of man over nature through the artificial legislation for nature. The inconsistence between nature in phenomenal sense and in the thing-in-itself sense was obvious. In his Critique of Judgment, Kant reconsidered the interconnection between the two different concepts of nature through his re-explanation of nature from the teleological perspective, and he eventually put forward the proposition that nature generates itself …
Chinese Drama Writing And The Evolution Of The Drama Genre, Changji Li
Chinese Drama Writing And The Evolution Of The Drama Genre, Changji Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The researches on Chinese drama style and the drama writing have much to be desired in the scholarship on ancient Chinese drama studies. This paper approaches the genre of Chinese drama from the perspectives of genetic and typological relationships, and it proposes that Chinese ancient drama form matures as the result of literati's integrating folk arts into the drama writing. In terms of narrative methods and structure, the paper analyzes the essential features of drama-prose style (xiwen) from the Southern Song to Yuan Dynasties, the plot-content style (guanmu) in the variety drama (zaju) and the legend style (chuanqi) in the …
The Pragmatic Path Of The Somatic Turn In The Western Aesthetics, Xiaohua Wang
The Pragmatic Path Of The Somatic Turn In The Western Aesthetics, Xiaohua Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Since the early 20th century, a somatic turn has presented itself as increasingly influential in the Western aesthetics. As the science of sensory recognition, it initiates a return to the body-subject and life-world. In this process, the contribution of pragmatism is prominent. Since Charles Peirce proposed the principle of practice, the perspective which values the body has been introduced. The endeavors of scholars like William James, John Dewey and Charles William Morris have all constructed the artistic-esthetic paradigm on the basis of body experience. From the 1980s onwards, scholars such as Richard Shusterman and Mark Johnson put forward and define …
"Organic Entity" And The Evolution Of Zhu Guangqian's Early Thought, Hongbing Zhou
"Organic Entity" And The Evolution Of Zhu Guangqian's Early Thought, Hongbing Zhou
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The concept of "organic entity" is the foundation of Zhu Guangqian's early intellectual thoughts since 1927. This concept was repeatedly used from 1927 to 1944 in Zhu's work to observe, describe and interpret life and art, and it was also used as a dominant concept to re-examine the evolution of Western philosophy and science in the 19th and 20th centuries, and re-examine the Kantian-Crocian influence upon him for the construction of his own aesthetic theory of "artification of life." The researches on Zhu's concept of "organic entity" are generally superficial for their focus on his organic knowledge, which has not …
A Canon Of Fantastic Literature Studies: On Tzvetan Todorov's The Fantastic: A Structural Approach To A Literary Genre, Fang Tan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Fantastic literature is an important part of the world literature, and also one of the long-term concerns of the Western literary criticism, resulting in a large amount of works and studies. In his The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre, Tzvetan Todorov defines from the perspective of the structuralist poetics the fantastic novels as a literary genre and tries to reveal the mechanism inherent in the genre. Although this book has been the subject of considerable controversy since its publication, it is still, because of its original and insightful views, a must-read canon for the study of the …
A Synopsis Of International Symposium On "Body Aesthetics And Contemporary Aesthetic Culture", Jiaxing Wang
A Synopsis Of International Symposium On "Body Aesthetics And Contemporary Aesthetic Culture", Jiaxing Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
No abstract provided.
On The Abstraction Of Modern Art And The End Of Art, Xiuyin Peng, Zhendong Wu
On The Abstraction Of Modern Art And The End Of Art, Xiuyin Peng, Zhendong Wu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper aims at analyzing the abstraction as a method in the creative process of modern art. The paper argues that the reasons for abstraction may be attributed to two aspects. One aspect is the heteronomy from social modernity, and the other is the autonomy of the development of art itself. Since the birth of modern art, the meta-narrative of abstraction has been overdrawn through repeated transformations, which results in the claim of "the end of art." However, from a perspective not limited to the idea of progressiveness of art, art has not reached its end yet. Instead, art is …
On The Reference Of Directional Positioning In The Han-Dynasty Stone Carvings, Qing Wang
On The Reference Of Directional Positioning In The Han-Dynasty Stone Carvings, Qing Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In the Han-Dynasty stone carvings, the objects positioned at the centre of the planar graph are designated as the reference of directions, with the left on the surface standing for the east and the right for the west. This is the opposite to the direction positioning practice in modern graphics or cartography. This principle of direction positioning was not confined to the stone carvings alone, but was a general rule applied in almost all of the Han rituals such as the sword-wearing ritual of kings, the formation of marching armies, the ceremonial formation of vehicles and horses, and even the …
A Revolutionist's Loyalty Crisis And Its Dissolution: A Re-Reading Of Wang Meng'sBu Li, Dongfeng Tao
A Revolutionist's Loyalty Crisis And Its Dissolution: A Re-Reading Of Wang Meng'sBu Li, Dongfeng Tao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Wang Meng's novel Bu Li ("Bolshevistic Salute") is about the loyalty crisis of the protagonist Zhong Yicheng, a Chinese revolutionist. The terror of the loyalty crisis lies in that Zhong can never be an independent being but is totally attached to revolution itself. The faith of a revolutionist and the loyalty to Chinese Communist Party serve as the foundation of Zhong's identity, and his relation with revolution becomes the sole reason and meaning for his life as well as the guarantee for him to be a "human." The only thing he can be is a revolutionist and a son of …
An Exploration Into Cao Xueqin's Notion Of Novel Writing Through The Titles Of His Dream Of The Red Chamber, Qingyu Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Cao Xueqin’s novel Dream of the Red Chamber had five different titles. These titles reflect the author’s different notions of novel writing. The title A Precious Mirror to Love Affair implies an allegorical discipline, the titles The Story of the Stone and Emotional Monk’s Record indicates authentic record of the real things, the title Twelve Beauties of Jinling tries to be a legend to question the world, and the final title A Dream of the Red Chamber expresses the notion of "a dream being the same as a play." The change of titles reflected the evolution of Cao Xueqin's notion …
Ecological Sensibility In Contemporary Western Cinema And The Theory Of Ecocinema, Shaoyi Sun
Ecological Sensibility In Contemporary Western Cinema And The Theory Of Ecocinema, Shaoyi Sun
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper aims at introducing and analyzing the theory and practice of ecocinema inspired by literary ecocriticism at the turn of the new century. Based on an examination of the main concepts and lines of thought of some prominent ecocinema theorists and thinkers in the West, the paper argues that ecocinema has acquired its own terminology and become independent of its literary predecessor. This is mainly demonstrated in four aspects. First, from the perspective of cinema as a visual medium, debates about ecocinema have centered on issues of cinematic representations, film genres, and visual languages. Secondly, from the perspective of …
Is Modernity A Mirror Or A "Flower"?: On The "Vision" Of Rojas's The Naked Gaze: Reflections On Chinese Modernity, Wei Lin
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The essential issue of visual culture is to position the self and the world through vision. Rojas's subject of research is the literature and arts in the late Qing Dynasty to modern period, and he attempts a visual interpretation of Chinese modernity through constructing a three-dimensional visual system, in which the self-mirroring subjects, audience and object co-exist. He maintains that the body, as a visual object, is both a mirror-like screen, and the unreal image in the mirror, which provides the subject of visual desire as the other with a concrete channel of presentation. Through the interrelationship between time and …
Qi Rushan And Mei Lanfang's Chinese Montage: Modernizing Peking Opera Through Recomposition, Tingting Zhao
Qi Rushan And Mei Lanfang's Chinese Montage: Modernizing Peking Opera Through Recomposition, Tingting Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper examines the efforts of Qi Rushang and Mei Lanfang to transform the traditional Beijing opera into a new art form for the modern audience during the 1930s. The method of Chinese montage they used, which they named as "recomposition," is essentially a technique that deconstructs and reassembles the elements of traditional opera, such as gestures and mise-en-scene, while keeping intact its traditional essence. This paper hopes to interpret the connections between Eisenstein, Brecht, and Peking Opera, so as to explore the strong correlations between artistic forms and montage across borders in the 1930s. It highlights the fact that …
The Practical Orientation And Hasty Theorization In The Expansion Of Literary Theory: An Unfinished Case On Literature And Literariness, Nan Gao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The expansion of literary theory has been accepted by all the related circles. However, the theoretical explorations into it appear haste and leave much to be clarified. Central to the expansion is the argument over the relationship between literariness and literature, whereas literariness becomes crucial for social life to be included into literary theory. In fact, the concept of literariness itself is not sufficient to support the theory. The leading role of literariness in the expansion arises from the so-called marginalization of literature, which reflects a strong sense of loss among the elitist thinking of literature and literary theory. However, …
A Supplement To Kant's Antinomy Of Appreciative Judgment, Junfeng Cao
A Supplement To Kant's Antinomy Of Appreciative Judgment, Junfeng Cao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The antinomy of appreciative judgment proposed in Kant's Critique of Judgment is a unique way of representing the inherent contradiction in aesthetic experience, and it embodies Kant's dialectics in its developmental form. After an elongated process of complex reasoning, Kant believed that he had elaborated clearly the antinomy but actually his solution did not achieve the desired purpose. The present paper starts with Kant's standpoint and way of thinking, and tries to supplement his elaboration of the antinomy of appreciative judgment. The re-examination of Kant's antinomy of appreciative judgment may cast some light for contemporary aesthetics.
A Synopsis Of "'Tsla Young Theorists' Forum", Jiguo Gao
A Synopsis Of "'Tsla Young Theorists' Forum", Jiguo Gao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
No abstract provided.