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On Yao Nai's Poetic Quality And The Origin Of His Poetics, Yin Jiang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

It has been proposed since the early 20th century that the Tongchang School in the Qing Dynasty was a literary school of both prose and poetry, but the Tongcheng School's theoretical claims of poetry has not been given due explorations. This paper approaches Tongcheng School's poetic theory from an analysis of Yao Nai's (1731-1815) literary ideas and proceeds to examine how he developed his poetics upon Wang Shizhen (1634-1711). Then, the paper analyzes the poetic taste in New Style Poems and its illuminations to the poetics of Tongcheng School before concluding the paper with Yao Nai's theoretical and academic contribution …

The Boundaries, Implicit Speech, And Blind Areas Of The Narrative Of Love In The Red Classics, Yanbing Hui

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In the narrative of love, "Red Classics" in contemporary Chinese literature have left many significant narrative traces, and these traces show in the changeable boundaries, abundant implicit speech and characteristic blind areas. Through these traces we can recognize the specific historical context of those literary works and the complicated interaction between literary narrative and the dominant ideology. Symptomatic reading of the love narratives helps us to evaluate the Red Classics more objectively and understand the intrinsic nature of contemporary literature better.

Theorization And Pluralism: A Study Of Danto's Idea On The End Of Art, Bing Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper argues that two key words to grasp Danto's idea on the end of art are theorization and pluralism, and these two terms explain the exposition of the end of art in Danto's philosophy. Danto's argument for theorization may be the essence of his idea on the end of art, which means that art has become a philosophy while pluralism has become the existence mode of art after the end of art. The diversity of art's existence is the result of the end of art.

Weng Fanggang's Song-Dynasty Poetics In The Perspective Of Literary History, Yunyun Tang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

he relationship between the poetics of Weng Fanggang and the poetry of Song dynasty has been the research attention for many scholars. Weng's criticism focused on the texture of the Song-Dynasty poetry, and he regarded highly Su Shi and Huang Tingjian; however, his high regard was not grounded theoretically. From the perspective of poetic logic construction, Weng's Song-Dynasty poetics began with his criticism of The Anthology of the Song-Dynasty Poetry edited by Wu Zhizhen, while at the same time he revealed the essential features of the Song-Dynasty poetry. Weng grounded his criticism and argument on the logic of literary history, …

Culture Trauma, Morality And Solidarity: The Social Construction Of "Holocaust" And Other Mass Murders, C. Alexander Jeffrey

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Cultural trauma occurs when members of a collectivity feel they have been subjected to a horrendous event that leaves indelible marks upon their group consciousness, marking their memories forever and changing their future identity in fundamental and irrevocable ways. By constructing cultural traumas, social groups, national societies, and sometimes even entire civilizations, not only cognitively identify the existence and source of human suffering, but may also take on board some significant moral responsibility for it. Insofar as they identify the cause of trauma in a manner that assumes such moral responsibility, members of collectivities define their solidary relationships that allow …

Historical Changes Of The Concept Of Female Beauty In The Pre-Qin Period From The Appreciation Of Ugliness To Beauty, Yongzhen Cheng

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The concept of female beauty in the Pre-Qin period underwent a great historical change from the appreciation of "the ugly" to that of "the beautiful." The image of beautiful females in the prehistoric age was characteristically "ugly and muscular," highlighting the reproductive function and death function of the Great Mother, and could be argued to be the embodiment of the victory of "the mother principle." The beautiful and the ugly were blended in the image of the female beauty in the Xia-Shang period, which was mainly because the establishment of patriarchy had turned the female from aesthetic subject into aesthetic …

On The Connotations Of Hsia Chih-Tsing's Criticism With An Example From The Perspective Of Close Reading Of A History Of Modern Chinese Fiction, Wei Xia

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Hsia Chih-tsing's concept of literary criticism in his History of Modern Chinese Fiction is constructed around a group of concepts centered round moral concerns and supplemented with indirect comment and personality integrity. However, when these criticism are put into practice, personality integrity often than not takes precedence over the other concepts and sways Hsia's objectivity in evaluating literary works. The paper argues that Hsia had the edge of literary critic but was not sharp enough to be a literary theorist, although his achievements have been the most fortunate contribution to the study of modern Chinese literature.

Rethinking Camp: From Sontag's "Notes On Camp" To Camp Films, Wensi Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Susan Sontag's 1964 article "Notes on Camp" resurfaces to the reading public with the 10th anniversary of her death. As a term, "camp" became well known during the 1960s, yet its origin can be traced to the 17th century. As a notion of taste, the camp sensibility is active in all fields of nostalgic collections, avant-garde and independent art, rock music and fashion. As a genre of subculture, camp is closely linked with the development of the queer theory, the youth movement and the politics of homosexuality. Camp appreciation can also be seen in the film industry, which provides us …

香港九〇年代短篇小說中的「房子」, Fong Wong

Lingnan Theses

邁入二十世紀九〇年代，香港正式面對回歸中國的過渡期，並與全球一起面對二十世紀末的到來。這個時期的香港，不單充滿了過渡期的焦慮，還有全球化的衝擊，以及面對回歸不久便來臨的世紀末。九十年代的複雜語境，使得這時期的香港文學蘊含了豐富多彩的價值，十分值得關注。

文學中的空間，無論是對於敍述者或是讀者都起著重要的作用。然而，過往的研究中，時間敍事往往成爲研究的焦點，文學中的空間研究卻寥寥可數。在此情況下，實在有必要對文學中的空間多加關注。當代西方地理學家大衛‧哈維（David Harvey）肯定了「空間」研究的價值 ——「空間」可謂當今文學研究中的關鍵詞。他更提出：「掌握空間作爲一個關鍵詞的要點，是要辨認出這個概念如何更好的整合到既有的社會、文學和文化後設理論中，以及效果爲何。」

本論文欲從香港九〇年代的語境（九七回歸、全球化等）開始，梳理當時備受關注的主題（九七、女性、都市異化）。進而以「房子」作爲視角，透過分析香港九○年代的短篇小説，發掘「房子」此空間在不同主題中的意義，以及文學作品如何以「房子」此空間來敍述主題且敍述了主題的什麽面向。本論文試圖以「房子」爲例，嘗試將「空間」概念整合到文學分析中，發掘空間在文學中的價值。

張彝宣傳奇研究, Wing Yan Tsang

Lingnan Theses

張彝宣，一名大復，明末清初戲曲作家。現存九部傳奇，包括：《醉菩提》、《海潮音》、《釣魚船》、《吉祥兆》、《金剛鳳》、《讀書聲》、《快活三》、《紫瓊瑤》和《雙福壽》。是次研究期望達到兩個目標，一是評定張彝宣劇作的文學價值，二是衡量張彝宣劇作的戲臺演出價值。本文研究方法包括：排場關目分析、喜劇元素分析、行當角色分析、情節編排分析、主題思想分析等。

論文分七章：第一章為研究概況。第二章至第六章分論劇作。第二章討論《紫瓊瑤》與《雙福壽》的排場藝術，分兩部份：第一部份分析單齣排場。第二部份討論腳色人物的調配、關目情節與劇本體製的設計乃至內場與外場的配合。第三章討論《快活三》與《讀書聲》的民間娛樂色彩，分四層面：一、「娛樂」主旨、二、喜劇人物塑造、三、關目技巧、四、插科打諢的喜劇效果。第四章：《海潮音》與《醉菩提》佛教人物的臺上示現，包括妙善觀音與濟公和尚的形象改造，重要的是分析「因緣果報應」和「通神」的主題思想及其舞臺效應和濟公的玩世因緣。第五章討論《吉祥兆》與《金剛鳳》的敘事程式。第六章討論《釣魚船》對《西遊記》的改編及其意義，特別研究劉全夫妻之恩情重義及其意義。第七章是總結。

Anti-Theory And Theory: A Study Of F. R. Leavis's Concept Of Criticism, Xiangchun Meng

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

F. R. Leavis's critical practice has been habitually and conveniently labeled as anti-theoretical. His debate with Rene Wellek in the 1930s on "literature vs. philosophy" was a proof to his aversion to rigid theory and abstraction. Leavis maintained that literary criticism in practice should engage itself with elements such as human nature, life, morality and reality, which led to the labeling of him as a "practical critic." What Leavis was against in the so-called "anti-theory" is essentially the routinization, dogmatism and abstraction in literary criticism practice, and Leavis held up to the empirical tradition of literary criticism, emphasizing on literariness …

Body, Aesthetics And Politics: On Eagleton's View Of Body, Wei Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Terry Eagleton's discourse on body tries to reconnect body with traditional political themes such as state governance, class contradictions and the mode of production. Researchers on the theoretical sources of his body discourse — the body of labor, the body of power, and the body of desire — often overlooks his ambitions to rebuild the rational and the political, and his commentaries on bodies under discipline, in carnival, in pain, or in terror. In this context, he emphasizes that the prevailing discourse of postmodern body is a product of failed politics of class and he accuses the discourse of over-emphasis …

Boundless Appropriation And In-Depth Exploration: New Developments In International "Bakhtin Studies" In The 21StCentury, Qichao Zhou

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper starts with a survey of the major achievements of international Bakhtin studies in the 21st century, and summarizes that Bakhtinian theory as an academic fad is no longer en vogue. However, the theoretical radiation of his theory has entered a state of "the new normal" in its cross-cultural journey, which shows in the scholarly exchange in scholarly academic circle and the regular International Bakhtin Conference. In particular, scholars from Russian Academy of Sciences have been annotating and commenting Bakthin's oeuvre in detail and conducting in-depth explorations into Bakhtin's theoretical heritage. Internationally, Bakhtin's works have been published in different …

Lyricism And The Age: The Debate Over The Function Of The New And The Old Poetic Forms And Its Significance In The Modern China, Jianwei Pan

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

An important goal of the New Literature is to reflect the social politics of the age, while lyricism is also an issue for the New Poetry. The debate over the merits of the new and old forms is one of the key issues in the New Culture Movement. Putting the debate into the perspective of the relation between poetry and the age, the paper approaches the issue by examining the differences between the function of lyricism pertaining to the new and old forms of poetry, the reason behind the forms and the influence of the choices on the forms, and …

On The Idea Of Coercive Interpretation, Yang Lu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

A remarkable event in 2014 Chinese literary criticism was the concept of coercive interpretation proposed by Prof. Zhang Jiang. Coercive interpretation aimed at a theoretical summarization from Chinese perspective of the 20th-century Western mainstream literary theories, especially the various postmodern criticism since 1970s, and it could have the potentials to be Chinese discourse's intervention in the value judgment of Western literary theories. However, coercive interpretation was conceptualized out of the discursive context of and devoid of the support of literary texts. Instead, it resorted to a preset standpoint to interpret texts. This exhibits on the one hand the internal limitation …

On Yu Yan's Poetic Thoughts, Shuzhen Yue

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The poetic theory of Yu Yan, a Ci-poetry theorist from the Ming Dynasty, is mainly presented in his Commentaries on Ci-Poetry from Yuan Garden, in which he claimed that shi-poetry, ci-poetry and qu-poetry had the same origin with ci-poetry as an indispensable developmental phase in literature along the musical aspect. He maintained that ci-poetry declined due to the loss of music for which ci-poetry functioned as the lyrics. He also demonstrated the different tastes of the Northern Song and the Southern Song Dynasties and examined the thematic approaches, styles and compositions in different forms of ci- and qu-poetry. It could …

Passion And Politics In Revolution: A Psychoanalytical Reading Of Ding Ling, Ban Wang, Xiaohua Cao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Psychoanalysis, a historically evolving discourse, has the radical and socially transformative potential. By addressing the sex centered mode in psychoanalytical criticism and by tracing certain fraught moments in Ding Ling's fiction, this paper suggests that private love can be an integral part of collective solidarity, that unconscious drives can propel the impulse for social change, and that libidinal energy can fuel political passion and collective action. Clarifying the concept of "sublimation", and analyzing "positive sublimation" process in which libidinal energy turns into political passion, this paper will challenge the rigid separation of libidinal life from social commitment, love from politics, …

The Concept Of Nature's Aid In The Literary Creation Of The Womanhood Poetics In The Qing Dynasty, Qingxiu Song

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The Nature's Aid in the literary creation is an important concept of the womanhood poetics in the Qing Dynasty literary criticism. Women's literary works resulted from the garden walks, sightseeing trips, and mind travels had all exhibited Liu Xie's literary concept of Nature's Aid. Literary women from Han-Dynasty traveling women to landscape-loving Qing-Dynasty women, due to Nature's Aid, could enrich their literary creation with profounder significance. Literary women in ancient China had promoted feminist literature by integrating feminine quality into their literary creation and developing a unique womanhood poetics.

The Study Of The Literature Of Minority Ethnic Groups: Some Reflections On The Concepts And Methods, Weiwei Yan

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Literatures of minority ethnic groups is an indispensable part of literature in China, and have attracted increasing academic attention in recent decades. The study of different approaches to literature of minority ethnic groups with reflections on the concepts and methods may bring the achievement into prominence and rectify the errors. The study may open new possibilities in the researches of the literature of minority ethnic groups, promote the harmonious co-existence and co-development of these literatures, and prompt further research into and the value reconstruction of minority literatures.

Language Policy And Bilingual Education For Immigrant Students At Public Schools In Japan, Naomi Asakura

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis discusses the current Japanese language (nihongo) education for immigrant students at public schools in Japan and provides recommendations through the study of language policy and the comparison of bilingual education in the United States. The current situation of a decreasing birth rate and increasing aging population in Japan has led to the acceptance of more foreign workers. Due to this change, language education in Japan has increasing development. The focus of chapter 1 is on the theories of language policy. This paper particularly focuses on the ideas of Wright (2004), Neustupný (2006), Spolsky (2004), and Cooper (1989), and …