Visual Turn And Modern Logic Of Somaesthetics,
2017
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Visual Turn And Modern Logic Of Somaesthetics, Wei Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
As the common object of visual aesthetics, body has changed multivariately in the modern aesthetic mechanism made by "visual diversion". On the one hand, modern visual mechanism clears up the established connotation of traditional "duality of body and mind" and strengthens the body consciousness of modern individuals, which promotes the aesthetic purport of body and in the meantime breeds the capital effect of body, expending the consumption characterization of body, and giving birth to the aesthetic practice of "body consumption". On the other hand, with the help of the technology of modern visual media, modern visual mechanism makes it more …
Zeng Guofan's Theoretical Ideas On Poetry And Prose And Their Modern Significance,
2017
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Zeng Guofan's Theoretical Ideas On Poetry And Prose And Their Modern Significance, Pengjun Zuo
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Zeng Guofan's theories on poetry and prose, born against a background of cultural shock and political turbulence, comprise rich content, including an accent on the interrelation between literature and change of times, an encouragement of practical studies, a stylistic view of the inheritance and combination of both masculinity theory and femininity theory on ancient style prose, an attention to functions and styles of ancient style prose with an opinion of combining parallel and non-parallel proses, an attention to formations and functions of official prose and other forms of practical writing with a pursuit of honest expression and stylistic innovation based …
Yi Shunding's Theory About Ci Poetry And His Ci Writing: Also On His Connection With The Community OfCiPoetry In The Late Qing Dynasty,
2017
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Yi Shunding's Theory About Ci Poetry And His Ci Writing: Also On His Connection With The Community OfCiPoetry In The Late Qing Dynasty, Songqing Chen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Yi Shunding, a famous poet in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic period, was keen on writing ci poetry in the early years to an extent that he could not live without ci poetry creation. Based on the be-true-to-yourself style, Yi's theory catered to spirituality, taste and tranquility with emphasis on meaning, wording, polishing, titling and so on. In addition, his theory was different from the mainstream one that ci was a spirit carrier and the concept that ci was unimportant in among all forms of literatures. Yi absorbs the essence of ci poets to express feelings and …
The Four Dimensions Of Literary Memory And Historical Consciousness,
2017
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Four Dimensions Of Literary Memory And Historical Consciousness, Yonghe Lu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The same essence of memory, history and literature is a deliberate construction (reconstruction) of the "past", which is based on the realistic context. Dilthey argues that different "human sciences" co-create a spiritual world of "productive nexus or system" on the basis of "experience" and "understanding". As two different spiritual "associations", literature and history inform each other and jointly create a whole meaning system. The concept "narrative substance" of Ankersmit is a collection of different narratives of "past". "Narrative substance" is not the objective reality of history, but the historical "image" or "metaphor". The "narrative substance" sets up for us a …
A New Investigation Of The Ideas "Fu Ji" And "Fu Xin",
2017
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
A New Investigation Of The Ideas "Fu Ji" And "Fu Xin", Hui Tao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The theory of "Fu Ji" and "Fu Xin" in Xijing Miscellanea has always been considered by scholars as an important material about Sima Xiangru and aesthetic criticism of the ode in the Western Han Dynasty. However, this theory was proposed by someone else in Wei-Jin Periods rather than Sima Xiangru. It had great significance not only because of its precise description of the ode in the Han Dynasty, but also because it revealed how the literary ideas and metaphysics in Wei-Jin Periods affected contemporary people's unique insights in terms of the noumenon and the creation of the ode.
A Veritable Memoir Of The Leavisian Scrutiny Group,
2017
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
A Veritable Memoir Of The Leavisian Scrutiny Group, Ruiqing Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper focuses on the literary and cultural criticism of F.R. Leavis and the Scrutiny group he represents. Scrutiny (1932-1953) was an academic journal started and run by the Leavises in the 20th century, which not only profoundly influenced the 20th-century cultural life of Britain, but also drew attention of the Chinese literary community, especially in the first decade of the 21st century. But it is obvious that most scholars tend to generalize the academic contributions of Leavis and Scrutiny Group as "Leavisian theory", "Leavisian group", "Leavisianism", or simply "Leavis", by taking him as "a lone hero", disregarding the important …
Adorno's Critique Of "Spontaneity" Of The Avant-Garde Art,
2017
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Adorno's Critique Of "Spontaneity" Of The Avant-Garde Art, Peijie Chang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Adorno staunchly supports modernist art. From the concept of "art autonomy," he criticizes the avant-garde's artistic ideas, which centers on the concept of "spontaneity." As he argues, the so-called "spontaneous ideas" and "immediate consciousness" are the "reified consciousnesses" which are constantly unexamined. Avant-garde's skills of creating art works, including "autonomous writing," "collage" and "montage," not only put the autonomous arts in danger, but also harm art itself. The artistic form of avant-garde is inorganic, which hampers itself to engage in reality and the critique of the capitalist system. Moreover, this situation would also be contaminated by the "cultural industry" insomuch …
Cultural Code: The Public Image Of Imagination,
2017
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Cultural Code: The Public Image Of Imagination, Hecheng Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Cultural code, as the public image of imagination, provides an analytical model for the integration of mind and social order. Vico's civil theology, through the ideas of "imaginative concept" and the "metaphor", explains the origin of human common sense, and shows the meaning of mind that the poetic wisdom brings to the community. Since the emergence of subjectivity philosophy, this has critical significance for distinguishing image from being itself. Arendt's idea of the "exemplary" combines the concrete and the common by special images' interactive communication, thereby achieving a common commonality. This is how the mechanism of the imagination progresses from …
Desktop Drama And Stage Drama: Technical Problems Of Traditional Chinese Drama In The Mid-Ming Dynasty And Shen Jing's Contribution,
2017
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Desktop Drama And Stage Drama: Technical Problems Of Traditional Chinese Drama In The Mid-Ming Dynasty And Shen Jing's Contribution, Wanshu Zhu, Wen Zhu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
When it comes to Shen Jing's idea of poetic drama writing, scholars used to confine themselves to his controversy with Tang Xianzu, instead of paying sufficient attention to and making objective evaluation of Shen Jing's other ideas. This article argues that though many literati since the mid-Ming Dynasty were active in the creation of xiqu works, the scripts they created were very difficult to be staged and sung, because there were no rules of creation to be followed. They were neither unsuitable for kunju emerged in the Wuzhong area of Suzhou. Therefore, literati were faced with "technical problems" during their …
The Confucian Character Of Late Tang And Five Dynasties Poetry, Its Role In The Bixing Tradition, And Its Construction Of Lüshi,
2017
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Confucian Character Of Late Tang And Five Dynasties Poetry, Its Role In The Bixing Tradition, And Its Construction Of Lüshi, Yao Zhong
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The appearance of the numerous poetry formats in the late Tang and Five Dynasties is the result of Confucian consciousness and the popularity of poetry as well. Poetry, interwoven with imperial examination-oriented education, becomes an important way to realize the Confucian scholars' self-cultivation. Therefore, the form of "industrious and bitter versification" reflects those Confucians' inner world. Meanwhile, the metaphorical satire embedded in Mao Shi Zheng Yi is developed into such new concepts as bixing or "image analogy and evocation", and "inner and outer meaning", which influences the valuation of "conception" and the metaphorical and imagistic thinking of late Tang poetry, …
"Totality" And "Fracture": The External Context And Internal Opportunity In The Generation Of Literary Experience,
2017
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"Totality" And "Fracture": The External Context And Internal Opportunity In The Generation Of Literary Experience, Yan Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
As a basic theory of literary research, literary experience has been a hot topic in the field of literary theory once again in the recent decade, but nowadays the understanding and use of this concept is ambiguous and random. The Western modern experience theory provides the basis for studying literary experience, which is an aesthetic presentation of human experience in the fictional world interwoven by discourses, and thus the human experience is born in the collision of perception and fiction. The world of experience is the external context for the generation of literary experience, which requires cultural memory to provide …
Art's Border Crossings, Crisis Or Rebirth Of Aesthetics: A Study Of Rancière's Critique Of Lyotard,
2017
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Art's Border Crossings, Crisis Or Rebirth Of Aesthetics: A Study Of Rancière's Critique Of Lyotard, Haochen Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Following the Utopian tradition characterized by the interaction between aesthetic autonomy and aesthetic criticism, many Western scholars have critical attitudes towards art's border crossings and therefore are pessimistic about the trend of aesthetics. Rancière, through reflections on Lyotard and the whole postmodern "ethical turn" that he represents, tries to activate the political potential within border crossings of art and thereby reconstructs aesthetics' critical dimensions. However, due to the confusion of the "unpresentable" and the "unrepresentable", Rancière does not sympathetically see Lyotard's sublime aesthetics' direction; his route of aesthetic politics also has some limitations. Both his insights and limitations as manifested …
Disenchantment: Gu Cheng And Hai Zi In The Illusion Of Cultural Memory,
2017
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Disenchantment: Gu Cheng And Hai Zi In The Illusion Of Cultural Memory, Dong Yan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In the history of Chinese new poetry since a century ago, Gu Cheng and Hai Zi have become a cultural memory symbol indispensable to contemporary culture. Their similarities in people's memory continue to affect later readers' interest, which gives them an enduring position in the age fragmented with information. However, being in the cultural memory illusion, they gradually reveal how new poetry becomes an object of consumerism and entertainment. At the same time, because of the function of the symbol system called "condensed structure" by Jan Assmann, factors within and without their poetry are mixed together and indistinguishable, which affects …
Prosthesis Of Speed, Aesthetics Of Disappearance And Logistics Of Perception: Paul Virilio's Discussions Of Cinema,
2017
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Prosthesis Of Speed, Aesthetics Of Disappearance And Logistics Of Perception: Paul Virilio's Discussions Of Cinema, Xing Zheng
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
By integrating scatted discussions of Paul Virilio, this paper will give a comprehensive mapping of his thought on cinema and reveal its inner logic. Virilio's discussions on cinema are based on his "Dromology" theory. He points out that cinema is a kind of Prosthesis of Speed. It mimics an experience of perception which is peculiar to children, and has made it reborn in the adults. In this context, a new aesthetics related to modern art and media has emerged, which is named "Aesthetics of Disappearance" by Virilio. This new aesthetics has reshaped the perception in modern society in all dimensions, …
Reconstructing The Emancipatory Aesthetic Discourse In The Globalization Era: Three Discourse Domains Of The Political Aesthetics Of Contemporary Western Marxism,
2017
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Reconstructing The Emancipatory Aesthetic Discourse In The Globalization Era: Three Discourse Domains Of The Political Aesthetics Of Contemporary Western Marxism, Yuanzhong Wen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The aesthetics of the Western Marxism is not a "pure" aesthetics, but a "political aesthetics", or an aesthetic discourse of emancipatory politics, whose objective, to use Althusser's words, is to achieve the transformation from a man of class shaped by ideological state apparatuses to a free subject. Since the 1960s-1970s, contemporary Western Marxists have learned from the Western Marxist tradition of political aesthetics, confronted the political, economic and cultural changes of the Western society in the context of globalization, and explored the way to reconstruct the emancipatory aesthetic discourse. They have reconstructed the perception of reality and history by criticizing …
Re-Packaging A Cultural Revolution Model Opera: Politics And Commerce In Tsui Hark's The Taking Of Tiger Mountain,
2017
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Re-Packaging A Cultural Revolution Model Opera: Politics And Commerce In Tsui Hark's The Taking Of Tiger Mountain, Li Han
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Tsui Hark's The Taking of Tiger Mountain (Zhiqu weihu shan, 2014) presents an unique text to examine the ramification of the Cultural Revolution in contemporary China and its interplay with the explosive growth of the mainland film industry in the global context. First of all, examined herein is the CCP's discourse on the role of cinema in its cultural enterprise plan in recent years. By situating The Taking of Tiger Mountain in the state's refreshed propaganda campaigns, the paper demonstrates how this work participates in the continuing exploration of new possibilities for the "main melody" elements. Secondly, conducted here is …
Seduction: From The "Aesthetic Stage" To The Postmodern Mirror: Baudrillard's Interpretation Of Kierkegaard's Seduction,
2017
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Seduction: From The "Aesthetic Stage" To The Postmodern Mirror: Baudrillard's Interpretation Of Kierkegaard's Seduction, Jingjian Shang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In his Seduction, Baudrillard interprets Kierkegaard's concept of seduction: he regards seduction as a behavior of the "aesthetic stage", including Don Juan's physical seduction and the spiritual seduction of Johannes, represented as the male's desire and seduction to women, and also as a guiding spirit of Socrates' maieutics and Jesus' sermons, while Baudrillard is concerned more about nature of women's seduction. He regards seduction as a game which disintegrates the hierarchy of gender, power and production with its superficiality and meaninglessness, from the post-modern perspective. He considers Johannes' seduction as an artificial strategy, which is the mirror image of the …
Tarrying With The Surface: The Screen Theory Of Slavoj Žižek,
2017
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Tarrying With The Surface: The Screen Theory Of Slavoj Žižek, Guangji Wei
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Centered around Lacan's concept "screen-image", this paper, proceeding from Žižek's interpretation of Lacanian psychoanalysis, especially from Žižek's critical theory of ideology, tries to elaborate, on the level of the image, how "the real/the Real" is visually constructed, and to demonstrate that the invisible is not the mystery beneath the appearance, but the manner with which the real "tarries with the surface".
The Bi Xing Poetics In The Late Ming And Early Qing Dynasties: The Cases Of Zhu Heling, Feng Ban, He Shang, And Wu Qiao,
2017
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Bi Xing Poetics In The Late Ming And Early Qing Dynasties: The Cases Of Zhu Heling, Feng Ban, He Shang, And Wu Qiao, Zhuoying Huang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In the late Ming and early Qing's poetry circle, a new poetics system, Bi Xing poetics, came into being with representatives of Zhu Heling, Feng Ban, He Shang, and Wu Qiao, who were discontented with the popular poetics of the time, for example, Seven-Scholar School's ancient poetics and the Jing-Ling School's natural disposition and soul theory. The Bi Xing poetics had four characteristics: multiplicity of structure, introverted aesthetic affection, the orthodox style, and strained interpretation of history. It became very popular after the advocates' detailed explanation and arguments. Significantly, this new poetics directly led to some remarkable phenomena, such as …
The Illusion Of Emergency And The Future Of Cultural Studies: Thirty Years Of Cultural Studies And Cultural Criticism In Mainland China,
2017
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Illusion Of Emergency And The Future Of Cultural Studies: Thirty Years Of Cultural Studies And Cultural Criticism In Mainland China, Zhiqiang Zhou
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Since 30 years ago, cultural studies in mainland China has established its own history, theoretical characteristics and framework of inquiries thanks to the introduction of Western theory, discussions of Chinese issues, and the engagement of active dialogue with international cultural studies. Chinese cultural studies started with a critical consciousness, then activated the drives of anti-authoritarianism, and generated an illusion of emergency. Today, it has outgrown the paradigm of the 1950s, and must establish new theories and thoughts on the basis of a new sense of criticism.
