A Synopsis Of The Symposium Of “Literature And Images” And The Books Launch Of A History Of Literature-Image Relations In China,
2021
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
A Synopsis Of The Symposium Of “Literature And Images” And The Books Launch Of A History Of Literature-Image Relations In China, Wenbo Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
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A Study Of The Concept Of “Cyborg”,
2021
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
A Study Of The Concept Of “Cyborg”, Guodong Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
“Cyborg” has gradually become a popular term in academic research and popular culture since the 1960s, but its connotation is often ambiguous. From the perspective of its conceptual genealogy, the term “cyborg” invented by Manfred E. Clynes and Nathan S. Kline is based on the image of the mechanized man, but the definition of “cyborg”—“cybernetic organism”— covers the idea of pure machine. Interpreting “cyborg” from the perspective of postmodern philosophy, Donna J. Haraway explicates it as an ontological metaphor and a political myth of irony, producing an intellectual discourse about cyborg that separates the concept from what it originally signifies. …
An Exploration Into The “Essence Of Things” In The Poetics Of The Jin And Song Dynasties,
2021
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
An Exploration Into The “Essence Of Things” In The Poetics Of The Jin And Song Dynasties, Danjun Cai
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The discovery and representation of the sound and color of things became the core content in the development of the poetics of the Jin and Song Dynasties, a trend criticized by such critics as Zhong Rong and Liu Xie, who denounced the poetry that indulged in description of things and maintained that poetry should resume the traditions of metaphor and evocation (bixing 比兴) from the Han and Wei dynasties and of the relationship between the object and the self as expressed in “correspondences between feelings and objects.” Such criticism was advocated by later generations, and resulted in many negative comments …
Cultural Studies And The Intellectual Genealogy Of Chinese American Scholars: The Controversies On Lydia H. Liu's Study Of The “National Character” And Beyond,
2021
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Cultural Studies And The Intellectual Genealogy Of Chinese American Scholars: The Controversies On Lydia H. Liu's Study Of The “National Character” And Beyond, Shi Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Lydia H. Liu's criticism on Lu Xun's discourse of national character is not an isolated case in literary criticism, but part of the theoretical nomadism of “translated modernity.” Be it Lydia H. Liu’s conceptualization of “translated modernity,” Leo Ou-fan Lee’s “pursuit of modernity,” David Der-wei Wang’s “repressed modernity,” Rey Chow’s “repressed visuality” or Shu-mei Shih’s “lure of the modern,” the theoretical purport of theirs tends to examine the complex relationship between Chinese literature and politics in the 20th century from the perspective of power criticism, and reflect on the “repressive regime” behind the modern nation-state. The formation of this knowledge …
Cruelfictions Of Psychoanalysis: From Freud To Kafka; From Derrida To Mignotte,
2021
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Cruelfictions Of Psychoanalysis: From Freud To Kafka; From Derrida To Mignotte, Rabaté Jean-Michel
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Derrida has asserted that the main problem encountered by psychoanalysis is the existence of cruelty, a question that has never been solved. Touria Mignotte has responded to these criticisms and queries in Cruelty, Sexuality, and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis by deploying a concept of cruelty that is not simply cultural but psychoanalytical. Following Mignotte’s lead, I attempt to situate the investigation at a foundational level that looks at the body. Derrida’s argument about psychoanalysis is compared with Deleuze’s essay on sadism and masochism, after which I outline points of convergence in their approaches, which leads to discussions of texts by …
Evaluation Of The Identity Of “Fengren” In Classical Chinese Poetics,
2021
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Evaluation Of The Identity Of “Fengren” In Classical Chinese Poetics, Shiwei Lv
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
“Fengren” is a reference of identity from The Book of Poetry. Classical Chinese poetics has formed a unique evaluation of the identity relevant to the discourse of “Fengren,” which is suggestive of the ethics in The Book of Poetry. In contrast to the identity of “Saoren,” “Fengren”’s identity is linked with political criticism and sarcasm. As “Feng” and “Ya” are gradually distinguished, “Fengren” is differentiated from “Cairen” and becomes increasingly recognizable in terms of expressing meanings metaphorically through things. Thanks to the author community and the content of “Feng,” the style of folk lyric is formed with “Fengren” at its …
From Textual Experiments To Experimental Texts: Expressive Repetition In “Artificial Intelligence Literature”,
2021
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
From Textual Experiments To Experimental Texts: Expressive Repetition In “Artificial Intelligence Literature”, Tianhua Zhu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In the 70 years since the birth of artificial intelligence, attempts at literary “creation” with computers have run through the course of technological development, creating what one might call “artificial intelligence literature” (AI literature). Evolving from “textual experiments” carried out by technological researchers to “experimental texts” that explore the possibilities of literary conceptualization, AI literature integrates original problematics including machine thinking, text generation, and machine creation, which exhibits the two-way interaction between social ideas and technological practice. In the early stage, the closed-loop of mutual verification between artistic ideas and technological choices turned out to be a failure, while AI-driven …
Hong Shen’S Artistic Experience And Psychological Journey In The Early 1920s: A Study Of Newly Discovered Correspondence Between Hong Shen And George Pierce Baker,
2021
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Hong Shen’S Artistic Experience And Psychological Journey In The Early 1920s: A Study Of Newly Discovered Correspondence Between Hong Shen And George Pierce Baker, Tingting Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
I did archival research at Harvard University in the summer of 2019 and found that there were eight letters between Hong Shen and his mentor, Professor George Pierce Baker, from 1920 to 1923. Moreover, a letter that Professor Baker wrote to a certain editor referred to Hong Shen. Most of these letters have never been mentioned in the literature, and those that were mentioned require further study. As these letters from a hundred years ago are valuable to research on Hong Shen, I have specially translated them into Chinese and have done a preliminary study. These letters not only reveal …
How The Althusserian Critics Inherit And Develop Marx’S Thought Of Artistic Production,
2021
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
How The Althusserian Critics Inherit And Develop Marx’S Thought Of Artistic Production, Jifang Duan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
How Althusserian critics inherited and developed Marx’s thought of artistic production is an important theoretical issue in the development of Marxist theory on literature and art. Louis Althusser, Pierre Macherey and Terry Eagleton put forward important theoretical concepts such as “symptomatic criticism”, “silence” and “aesthetic ideological criticism” within the framework of Marxist philosophy and ideology, expanding Marx’s thought of artistic production in the light of the relation between ideology and aesthetic discourses, and thus they have enriched the theoretical connotation of Marx’s theory and promoted the thought of artistic production, enabling it to take root in textual criticism and move …
How Did Yuan Zaju Become “Literature Of Its Time Period”: Revisiting The Idea “Every Time Period Has Its Own Literature”,
2021
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
How Did Yuan Zaju Become “Literature Of Its Time Period”: Revisiting The Idea “Every Time Period Has Its Own Literature”, Dajun Xu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The sequence of literary form that “poetry of the Tang dynasty, ci-poetry of the Song dynasty and drama of the Yuan dynasty” is often used to advocate the value of Yuan zaju. However, it does not necessarily lead to the assertion that “every time period has its own literature”. In each period of history this assertion conveys different meanings, including the origin, coordination and variation of Yuan zaju, but the value judgements were based on Yuan zaju’s property of verse, considering it as successor of folk-song-styled verse, the exemplary model of dramatic poetry, or the highest level of Chinese poetry. …
Adapting: A Chinese Philosophy Of Action,
2021
Gettysburg College
Adapting: A Chinese Philosophy Of Action, Mercedes Valmisa
Gettysburg College Faculty Books
If you are from the West, it is likely that you normally assume that you are a subject who relates to objects and other subjects through actions that spring purely from your own intentions and will. Chinese philosophers, however, show how mistaken this conception of action is. Philosophy of action in Classical China is radically different from its counterpart in the Western philosophical narrative. While the latter usually assumes we are discrete individual subjects with the ability to act or to effect change, Classical Chinese philosophers theorize that human life is embedded in endless networks of relationships with other entities, …
「社會主義時期」的藏地「生態政治」與「政治生態」: 以阿來「機村史詩」爲例,
2021
Lingnan University
「社會主義時期」的藏地「生態政治」與「政治生態」: 以阿來「機村史詩」爲例, Huaji Xu
Lingnan Theses (MPhil & PhD)
藏族作家阿來在「機村史詩」中以非凡的創造力描繪出了當代中國政治變動和社會風潮影響下的邊疆風貌，「民族」與「生態」成爲他文學中至關重要的命題。明乎此，本論文從移風易俗、勞動生產、救災行動三方面入手，把作家的藏地生態書寫置於毛時代的「民族話語」和「國家敘述」中加以考察，揭示出藏地從傳統「山神社會」向現代「國族社會」轉變的艱難歷程及其仍在進行時的歷史形態。在阿來的史詩創作中，毛時代的歷次革命/政治運動和諸種民族建制力圖將藏族作爲「少數民族」納入到「中華民族」，訴諸於「想象的共同體」式的國族認同；然而包括異域風情、自然資源、信仰習俗和民族心理特質在內的藏地「人類生態體系」自始便是此宏大敘事的重要一環，在國族整合中扮演重要角色，而且在這組交織纏繞、二律背反的關係中帶出當地藏民平等和正義的種種困局以及各式「被壓抑的聲音」。概言之，本論文聚焦阿來作品中「社會主義時期」（1949—1979）的「生態政治」與「政治生態」及其文學特色，以民族/族羣理論和生態批評爲主要研究方法，既期望對尚待開掘的內地少數民族文學研究和海外熱門的中國研究作初步的探討與迴應，也希冀藉阿來對「階級鬥爭爲綱時代的藏地」的生態描摹與文學重塑，燭照今日之西藏問題。
Confucian Leadership Democracy: A Roadmap,
2021
San Jose State University
Confucian Leadership Democracy: A Roadmap, Yutang Jin
Comparative Philosophy
What kind of polity is justified by classic Confucian values? Adopting an interpretive approach, this paper explores the idea of leadership democracy being expressive of classic Confucian values by first introducing the models of leadership democracy associated with Weber and Schumpeter and second connecting Confucian elitist values to them. I argue that leadership democracy best realizes the Confucian emphasis on the people as the source of legitimacy and the ruler as the engine of good governance. The Confucian idea of people-rootedness is borne out by citizens behaving as democratic plebeians who are empowered to choose their leader but devoid of …
Theory And Philosophy: Antonyms In Our Semantic Field?,
2021
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Theory And Philosophy: Antonyms In Our Semantic Field?, Jay Martin
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Building on the argument of a 1996 piece called "For Theory," which situated "theory" in a force field of its putative opposite terms, this essay explores the way "philosophy" has come to be considered an antonym of "theory" in much contemporary discourse. It argues that despite their often contrasting meanings and connotations, the two terms would benefit from a dialogue in which the strengths of each were acknowledged without their being either hierarchically positioned or turned into bland synonyms.
Literature's Loss Of Status? Which Status? Whose Status?,
2021
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Literature's Loss Of Status? Which Status? Whose Status?, Carvalhão Buescu Helena
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Humanities' loss of symbolic status and, most especially, literature's loss of symbolic status have, in the last decades, been stated, and frequently overstated. The pessimistic position is to consider that there will be no way back – as if we were at the famous "end of history" that Fukuyama thought to have foreseen with the end of the Berlin wall and the pivotal historical moment lived in its wake. I propose to look at this question with a deeper historical insight, taking into consideration that status (either gained or lost) is always a matter of perspective, of position, and of …
"Asked Of Everyone As If A Duty": On Immanuel Kant's Question About The Idea Of A Common Sense,
2021
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"Asked Of Everyone As If A Duty": On Immanuel Kant's Question About The Idea Of A Common Sense, Chen Chen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"Whence the feeling in the judgment of taste is asked of everyone as if a duty" is a question that Kant asked at the end of Section 40 of Critique of Judgment. The answer to this question is related to one's understanding of the relationship between two parts that are ostensibly irrelevant – Sections 31-40 and Sections 41-42 of "Deduction of Judgments of Taste". Although scholars raised numerous explanations to unite these two parts and to interpret the latter part, they have not reached an agreement due to the difficulty in understanding Kant's question. In order to solve this problem, …
On Liu Yin's Idea Of "Relaxing In The Study Of Cultural Arts" And Literary Thoughts,
2021
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
On Liu Yin's Idea Of "Relaxing In The Study Of Cultural Arts" And Literary Thoughts, Wanli Yang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Liu Yin (1249—1293), a Neo-Confucian scholar in the early Yuan dynasty, had achievements not only in the Neo Confucianism, but also in literature, calligraphy, painting, zither and chess. He proposed the concept that "arts are fundamental practices", and for the first time compared literature and arts to the "six arts" in the ancient times, enhancing the status of arts in Neo-Confucianism. In his practice of cultural arts, Liu connected the thought of "observing things" with the spirit of "acquiring knowledge through observations of things". Furthermore, he expressed a desire for secluded life in the artistic world, showing a relaxed attitude …
Shock And Immersion: The Complex Aesthetic Experience Of Chinese New Mainstream Film,
2021
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Shock And Immersion: The Complex Aesthetic Experience Of Chinese New Mainstream Film, Xiaofang Lu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The new mainstream cinema in China, instead of providing a simple mixture or hybrid of artistic styles and genres, advocates that audiovisual spectacles created by film technologies should "break into" the established experience of audiences and their customary protective mechanism of consciousness so as to produce a psychological strike. Meanwhile, new mainstream cinema also creates an aesthetic experience, through which the audience are drawn deeply into the film thanks to their surrealistic sensory and emotional engagement. The surrealistic sensory experience brings "shock" to the audience, while emotional identification results in "immersion." Provided with such aesthetic effects, the new mainstream film, …
The Significance Of Concept Differentiation,
2021
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Significance Of Concept Differentiation, Dakang Chen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Concept is a fundamental element in literary studies, and concept differentiation may influence the content, methods and judgment of the studies. This article discusses three kinds of concept uses, which determine the research direction, value estimation and time connotation, and further expounds on the significance of concept differentiation.
The Establishment Of Modern Art Law Of "Do Whatever You Want" And The Reconstruction Of Pan-Art Category: Case Study Of The Ready-Made Works Of Marcel Duchamp,
2021
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Establishment Of Modern Art Law Of "Do Whatever You Want" And The Reconstruction Of Pan-Art Category: Case Study Of The Ready-Made Works Of Marcel Duchamp, Weisheng Xiao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The ready-made works of Marcel Duchamp made it impossible to define art, which actually implied the possibility of "artistic freedom." This was the new artistic principle determined by the ready-made, a principle that has established the modern art law "do whatever you want." This law makes art a judicial "precedent" event. It only stipulates a form consistent with the universal, so its judgment is a reflective aesthetic judgment. By restoring the tradition of pan-art, Duchamp brought language art back into the category of fine art so that paintings once again served the human thought. This particular strategy of returning to …
