A Diachronic Approach And Synchronic Interpretation Of Xu Zhongyu's Academic Lineage,
2015
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
A Diachronic Approach And Synchronic Interpretation Of Xu Zhongyu's Academic Lineage, Zhixiang Qi
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The subject of this research is Prof. Xu Zhongyu's (1915-) six-volume Collected Writings, and the paper approach his academic achievements through diachronic and synchronic methods by putting them into the social context in the past century. The three academic peaks in Prof. Xu's life can be linked by the fundamental literary thought which may be summarized as his advocacy of literature's positive role in the social progress, his promotion of art and academic freedom, and his emphasis on truth pursuit and independent thinking. His achievements are shown in four areas of Anti-Japanese War period literary theory, ancient Chinese literary theory, …
The Inter-Fusion Of Artistic Perception And Technological Perception: On The Relationship Between Mcluhan's Electric Media Perception And Modernistic Artistic Perception,
2015
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Inter-Fusion Of Artistic Perception And Technological Perception: On The Relationship Between Mcluhan's Electric Media Perception And Modernistic Artistic Perception, Xiaoming Yi
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This article deals with the interactive relationship between the modernist artistic perception and the electric media perception in McLuhan's new media theory. The rise of modernism at the end of 19th century echoes the development of the electric age, and the electric media's molding of perception has a direct influence upon the environmental perception of modernism. Modernism serves as the literary source as well as an indispensible part of McLuhan's new media theory, as can be seen in his large amount of quotations from modern writers and artists. The modernist artistic perception can be argued to be the same issue …
"Form" As A Term In Chinese Aesthetics,
2015
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"Form" As A Term In Chinese Aesthetics, Qinfang Lai
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
As an aesthetic term, Chinese phrase "xingshi" as a translated equivalent for form has taken time to get its meaning established. The term has once been considered to be a borrowed word from Japanese, but it is actually an existent word invested with new meaning whose appearance was similar to the phrase "meixue (study of beauty)" for aesthetics. Chinese term "xingshi (pattern of shape)" came into being when translation for German formal aesthetics posed this necessity, and then the term gradually takes root into Chinese aesthetics and takes on local significance. Like in the Western context, formalism has once had …
Intention And Language: On Hirsch's Linguistic Explication Of The Author's Intention,
2015
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Intention And Language: On Hirsch's Linguistic Explication Of The Author's Intention, Hong Pang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
American scholar Hirsch insists on taking the author's intention as the essential premise and the fundamental basis of interpretation, and the main force which maintains his opinions is the explication, exploration and construction in linguistic dimension. Firstly, he indicates that intention is prior to language through the diagnosis of "semantic autonomism" and "ontological linguistics," and shows his critical reflection on the important cultural event — the linguistic turn. In light of this, Hirsch proposes the notion of "speaking subject" and emphasizes that intention can not be completely divorced from language and should be specified and clarified by the role of …
On Academic Confidence,
2015
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
On Academic Confidence, Xian Zhou
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
China's academic confidence is an emergent issue at present, but this issue is deeply rooted in the historical and cultural context configured by two parallel trends in late 19th- and early 20th-century China: the influence of the Western civilization and the decline of Chinese traditional culture. From the period of "the sick man of East Asia" to the current "China's rise," the travel of theory in the globalization ignites the appeal for academic originality. This appeal to re-establish Chinese academic confidence is not merely a slogan but a strategy with complicated cultural imports. The key to rebuild this confidence lies …
Spivak's Strategies Of Theoretical Construction For Subaltern Studies,
2015
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Spivak's Strategies Of Theoretical Construction For Subaltern Studies, Yihua Chen, Peiyuan Lin
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Spivak is a one of the core members of Subaltern Studies. She redefined the key categories and concepts of Subaltern Studies from a subaltern perspective, redefining the critical approaches of early Subaltern Studies. The paper argues that Spivak's Subaltern Studies, in a stricter sense, should not be viewed as a branch of postcolonial studies or feminist criticism. Subaltern Studies delineates the trajectory by which Subalterns' experiences are eliminated and reveals the political significance of Subalterns' resistance, which opens new possibilities for the Subalterns to enter the field of knowledge production.
Technology And Perception: An Inter-Pretation Of Mcluhan, Heisenberg And Zhuangzi,
2015
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Technology And Perception: An Inter-Pretation Of Mcluhan, Heisenberg And Zhuangzi, Huimin Jin
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper's analysis is based on McLuhan's reference and comments to Heisenberg and Zhuangzi, and focuses on the theme of technology and perception, aiming at an inter-pretation (intertextual interpretation) of the three thinkers. The paper argues that McLuhan goes directly to the unified field of subjecthood by way of electronic media while Heisenberg hovers between the unified fields of subjecthood and of objecthood. Unlike McLuhan and Heisenberg, Zhuangzi is neither subjective nor objective, but enters Dao, the world itself, by sensibility. However, for all of the three, modern technology may lead to aesthetics, that is, there is an aesthetic dimension …
An Investigation Of The Late-Tang Poetics Through The Functional Structure Of The Retro Poetic Styles In "Talent And Taste Anthology",
2015
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
An Investigation Of The Late-Tang Poetics Through The Functional Structure Of The Retro Poetic Styles In "Talent And Taste Anthology", Yi'nan Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The retro style in the Tang poetry collection Talent and Taste Anthology (Cai Diao Anthology) mainly refers the imitation of the poetic styles in the ancient Qi and Liang. The retro style showed in the poetic forms of courtly five-character regulated poems (including extended form and Qi-Liang form), music bureau form (including quatrain) and ballad forms. This style has respective functions, with five-character regulated poems focusing on objects, music bureau forms on emotions and ballad forms on both. It may be said that the retro style in the Talent and Taste Anthology had constructed a relatively complete system of functions, …
On The Psychoanalytical Practice And The Artistic Practice,
2015
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
On The Psychoanalytical Practice And The Artistic Practice, Althusser Louis, Zhifeng Wu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Initiation à la philosophie pour les non-philosophes, published by Presses Universitaires de France (January 2014), is one of Althusser's most important works. The present article is Chapters 14 and 15 of the book. In these two chapters, Althusser outlined psychoanalytical practice and showed its difficulties. He also discussed the influences that the psychoanalytical practice had on the practice and theory of arts. For Althusser, the analysis produced prodigious effects in the ideology and the philosophy, which he described as a real "Copernican reversal." Before Freud, everything in the man is believed to work in his consciousness, and the essence of …
Self-Creativity Of Chinese Humanities: From Comparative Culture, Cross Culture To Inter-Cultural Turn,
2015
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Self-Creativity Of Chinese Humanities: From Comparative Culture, Cross Culture To Inter-Cultural Turn, Yuedi Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Chinese humanities need to participate in global dialogue with Chinese self-creativity, and the paper proposes the three stages in the participation as comparative culture, cross culture to inter-cultural turn. While comparative culture may be viewed as comparison between two parallels, cross culture is more like a bridge between cultures, emphasizing on communication. Intercultural turn, however, focuses on the integration and the blending of different cultural traditions, seeking a deeper understanding of other cultures and eventually reaching global cultural integration. The tasks of comparative culture, cross culture and intercultural turn are to develop humanities on different levels, aiming respectively at cultural …
The Ethics Of Modern Interpretation Of Classical Literary Theory: An Investigation Through Liu Xizai's General Principles Of Art,
2015
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Ethics Of Modern Interpretation Of Classical Literary Theory: An Investigation Through Liu Xizai's General Principles Of Art, Zhongyi Xia
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper starts with a discussion of Liu Xizai's General Principles of Art so as to investigate the ethics of modern interpretation of Chinese classical literary theory. The two aims of the paper are to connect the ethical spaces between classics and the modern interpretations and to elucidate an approach through the example of Liu Xizai's work. The paper proposes three ways to approach Liu Xizai's original work: to clarify the concepts in their original context, to trace the original trajectory of reasoning in the genealogy of tradition, and to interpret and pay due respect for the moral integrity reflected …
The Poetic Origins Of Media Studies: Some Quantitative Preliminary Understandings,
2015
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Poetic Origins Of Media Studies: Some Quantitative Preliminary Understandings, Murvai Peter, Scheffel-Dunand Dominique
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
If the modernist model has dominated the field of literary theory at least since the second half of the 19th Century, does this mean that it also provided a conceptual and discursive framework which was to be adopted and adapted by the field of Media Studies in the 20th Century? The present study gives a tentative answer to this question by shedding light on some of the correlations between concepts found in the modernist aesthetics and in a number of canonical texts in the fields of Media and Communication. More precisely, we propose to conduct a quantitative investigation. Its purpose …
A Probe Into The Liu Xie's Concept Of Literary Virtue,
2015
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
A Probe Into The Liu Xie's Concept Of Literary Virtue, Xinglu Zhou
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Liu Xie (ca. 465-520) attached great importance to the literary virtues, and developed this unique elaboration of the concept in his Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragon. His elaborations in many chapters in the book redressed the prejudice that the literary man had no virtues, and he claimed that literary men should have the practical abilities, faith and sincerity, and personal integrity in political affairs and literary creation, no matter in the officialdom or in retreat. The paper argues that Liu Xie's emphasis on practice was rooted with his clan's quick rise and fall in the social status, and …
A Synopsis Of Young Theorists' Forum On "Contemporary Western Frontier Literary Theory",
2015
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
A Synopsis Of Young Theorists' Forum On "Contemporary Western Frontier Literary Theory", Feng Lv, Bo Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
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An Investigation Into Chen Wenshu's Criticism On Parallel Prose Through Poetry,
2015
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
An Investigation Into Chen Wenshu's Criticism On Parallel Prose Through Poetry, Jinsong Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Chen Wenshu's (1771-1843) "On Parallel Prose Written in the Lamplight for Zhihui" is the only long poem discussing the genre of parallel prose and it has both theoretical and practical significance. The poem not only investigates the history of parallel prose but also examines various aspects of parallel prose in an effort to promote the genre for serious writers, and it greatly helps to enrich the theoretical resource on parallel prose. Chen's survey of the history and examinations of the practice of parallel prose are characteristic of the textual criticism prevailing in the Qianlong-Jiaqing Reign.
Between Heaven And Human: On The Idea Of Heaven And The Transformation Of Poetry In The Mid-Tang Dynasty,
2015
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Between Heaven And Human: On The Idea Of Heaven And The Transformation Of Poetry In The Mid-Tang Dynasty, Shun Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The relationship between the Heaven and man is a central issue in the transformation of Confucianism in the Mid-Tang period. The discourses on the Heaven by Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi help to promote the transformation of Confucianism and also greatly influence the transformation in literary creation. The differences in the poetry and prose between the three authors may also be interpreted from the perspective of the difference between their perceptions of the Heaven. The changes in the relationship between the Heaven and man lead to the broadened themes, innovated vocabulary, diversified styles and varied fresh imageries. Likewise, …
F. R. Leavis And Cultural Studies: From Leavis To Hoggart, And To Williams,
2015
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
F. R. Leavis And Cultural Studies: From Leavis To Hoggart, And To Williams, Ruiqing Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The present paper aims to clarify the genetic historical relationships between F. R. Leavis's cultural criticism and the discipline of Cultural Studies. It attempts a general survey of Leavis's criticism on culture, connecting him with the early development of Cultural Studies represented by Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams in the 1950s, and examines the complexity, contradictions and struggles in the transition from Leavis to Hoggrat and to Williams. Through an analysis of Leavis's cultural criticism, Hoggart's Uses of Literacy and Williams' Culture and Society, the paper delineates the internal relationships of intertextuality. The development of Cultural Studies has been a …
Marxism's Assimilation With And Borrowing From Formalism In Fredric Jameson's Literary Criticism,
2015
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Marxism's Assimilation With And Borrowing From Formalism In Fredric Jameson's Literary Criticism, Jian'gang Yang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Fredric Jameson is undoubtedly one of the most important theorists in the history of the dialogue between Marxism and Formalism, and it may be said that his literary criticism is, to a large extent, a dialectical synthesis of the two, by assimilating with and borrowing from formalism while taking a standpoint in Marxism. This method is adopted in the whole process of his theoretical construction and literary criticism practice. Marxist criticism, which is based on the dialectical thinking, is theoretically formulated as a kind of meta-commentary, and this meta-commentary views history, politics and literary form as a kind of trinity …
Mcluhan's Media Explorations Through The Rear-View Mirror: Vortexes, Spirals, And Humanistic Training,
2015
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Mcluhan's Media Explorations Through The Rear-View Mirror: Vortexes, Spirals, And Humanistic Training, Lamberti Elena
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This essay approaches Marshall McLuhan's media investigations in relation to his solid humanistic background. In the late 1930s, his doctoral studies at Cambridge University, UK, introduced him to the liberal arts of the trivium, while alerting him on the achievements of the most daring avant-garde movements of the inter-war period. A few years later, as a young Professor of English at the University of Toronto, McLuhan started to apply "the method of art analysis to the critical evaluation of society" (The Mechanical Bride, 1951) hoping to generate "light" and not "heat" in the "collective public mind". His original approach to …
On Spectral Criticism,
2015
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
On Spectral Criticism, Yanbing Zeng
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
A critical approach or theory called "spectral criticism" has gradually risen in the West in the past two decades. Blanchot's reading theory is considered as the origin of this theory. In Blanchot's view, the act of reding has a spectral nature, which attributes to the spectral nature of the text. The spectral nature of the text in turn determines the nature of the history embodied in the text. Shakespeare's Hamlet is identified as a typical spectral work, whose spectral nature appears both as specters in the play and in the spectral nature of the work itself. The origin of spectral …
