Le Cinéma Comme Expérimentation Philosophique,
2013
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Le Cinéma Comme Expérimentation Philosophique, Badiou Alain, Yang Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Badiou starts with three concrete situations and proposes that the mission of philosophy lies in thinking about choice, distance and exception. As cinema creates a new synthesis from ruptures, it becomes an experimentation of philosophical situation. Philosophy can reveal the implications of the cinema from five differents dimentions: image, experience of time, continuity, order of the arts and art/non-art. Cinema doesn't deny difference, but construct a new relation out of heterogeneous relations between different art forms, constructed time and real duration, forms of popular culture, models of grand moral conflicts, and between love and politics, etc. Cinema is an absolutely …
Obstacles Of Reception And The Textual Features Of Wu Jingzhi'sThe Scholars,
2013
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Obstacles Of Reception And The Textual Features Of Wu Jingzhi'sThe Scholars, Yongqiang Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper claims that the spread of Wu Jingzhi's The Scholars (The Unofficial History of the Forest of the Literati) does not live up to its artistic and thematic achievements as it requires more of the readers than other classical novels in the period. The profundity in thoughts and the ambiguity in meaning require close reading, while the density and range of knowledge provide more cultural obstacles. The implicit plot and narration demand the readers to be highly engaged, and Wu Jingzi's ancient-oriented sentiments are sometimes at odds with the mores of the present time. The paper concludes that The …
The Reality Concerns And Creative Construction Of Chinese Contemporary Literary Theory: A Symposium Survey,
2013
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Reality Concerns And Creative Construction Of Chinese Contemporary Literary Theory: A Symposium Survey, Dongmei Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
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What Is The Time Of Contemporary Art?,
2013
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
What Is The Time Of Contemporary Art?, Rancière Jacques
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Instead of opposing the glorious – or utopian – age of artistic and political modernism to the disenchanted age and the parodic forms of contemporary postmodernism, it seems more fruitful to distinguish between two ways of being contemporary to its own time. What did it mean for art to be contemporary in the age of Tatlin or Vertov? What does it mean for the artists of the beginning of the 21st century? How does each of those two forms of "contemporary art" deal with time and with the relation of time to space? How does that relation between time and …
Mutiple Faces Of "The Other",
2013
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Mutiple Faces Of "The Other", Yamin Hu, Xiang Xiao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"The other" is one of the most important key words in contemporary Western literary criticism. This paper puts the term in context and explores its different uses and connotations in Plato and Hegel's philosophy, phenomenology-existentialism, post-structuralism as well as in postcolonial criticism and feminism. The paper points out that "the other" is a relational concept and exists in two groups of relationships. One is the relation between the One/Same and the Other, and the other is the relation between the Self/Subject and the Other. The latter may be the specific display of the former. "The other" has three closely connected …
On Liu Xizai's Aesthetic Concept Of The Author's Primary Bound,
2013
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
On Liu Xizai's Aesthetic Concept Of The Author's Primary Bound, Xingchuan Tao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Liu Xizai attaches great importance to the relationship between the character of the author and the quality of an artwork, and generally refers the former to the latter in a metaphoric way. He distinguished three levels of artistic value in artworks and equated them to three kinds of author's character. The best character of an author is to keep the primary bound ("yuan fen"), the talented ("ying jie") comes next, and the mean and banal ("bei wei") lies at the bottom. This paper analyzes the characteristics of Liu's concept of "yuan fen" in four aspects. The first is rooted in …
On The Poetics Of Materiality,
2013
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
On The Poetics Of Materiality, Jin Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Materiality has always been the frame of reference of literature, and literary concept changes along with the innovations in the relationship between the material and the man. In recent decades, theorists and critics began to interpret the materiality of literary texts in the trialectics of material-sign-spirit, which highlights a critical space of the poetics of materiality. Being regarded as one of the potential trends in 21st century, such a poetics is a fusion of series of contemporary critical inquiries. This paper investigates the contexts of the 20th century literary critical practices, clarifies the successions of semiotic materiality of text, the …
Out Of "The Prison Of The Self": Maurice Blanchot On Death, Literature And "The Other",
2013
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Out Of "The Prison Of The Self": Maurice Blanchot On Death, Literature And "The Other", Lingling Zhu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Since Descartes' cogito-based subject construction, the subject has operated within the framework of self-identity and the mine-ness of experience. Henceforth, the subject has built a complicated "prison of the self" with means such as understanding, representation and practical activities. In this prison, the "I" can only encounter other individuals or objects through the perception and reason of the "I", which means that the "I" can only encounter with "the self of the 'I'". By analyzing death, literature and the other, Blanchot revealed that there is a dimension of I-less embedded in the self of the "I," and that the subject …
"The Concept Of Ben-Se" In The Horizon Of Chinese Poetic Criticism,
2013
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"The Concept Of Ben-Se" In The Horizon Of Chinese Poetic Criticism, Mingfu Pan, Zhaopeng Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The concept of "ben-se" (original color) is very important in the theoretical system of Chinese poetics. "Ben-se" may refer to the "professional" status of the author and the orthodox position of poetic works on the one hand, and simplicity of language, naturalness of expressions and genuine affection in the text on the other hand. In the development of poetic criticism from Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty to Qing Dynasty, the concept of "original color" has always shown an underlying self-perfecting dynamics. The theorization of the "original color" concept has shifting focuses along its theorization process from author-centeredness to contents, …
A Hypoplastic Philosophic Fiction: A Reperusal Of Li Ping'sWhen The Sunset Disappears,
2013
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
A Hypoplastic Philosophic Fiction: A Reperusal Of Li Ping'sWhen The Sunset Disappears, Dongfeng Tao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper is a reperusal and a reinterpretation of When the Sunset Disappears, a novel sensational in the 1980s. This novel contains a series of theoretic questions which are still significant nowadays, such as the relationships between reason and emotion, civilization and barbarism, religious forgiveness and secular punishment, etc. As a representative work of a representative intellectual group of that period, this novel is still worthy of attention, for it reflects a pattern the "Zhiqing" (Educated Youth) writers cannot break away from when thinking and writing about the Cultural Revolution: abstracting, philosophizing and moralizing specific social and historical problems. This …
A Study On The Prose Remarks In Edo And Meiji Periods Of Japan,
2013
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
A Study On The Prose Remarks In Edo And Meiji Periods Of Japan, Dongbo Bian
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The writing of the Japanese prose remarks began with reprinting and reediting the Chinese prose remarks, followed by annotations on the Chinese prose remarks. The Japanese editions have not only saved the lost Chinese writings, but their versions and collation also have significant value in themselves. Even though the mid-Edo period editions of the Chinese prose remarks tried to organize in their own system, the influence of the Chinese prose remarks was obvious. After the Meiji Restoration, Kikegawa Masataka's complete edition of Collected Annotations to A Comprehensive Collection of Refined Literary Works was the only collection of annotations to prose …
An Art-Culturological Analysis Of The Appeal For Literary Autonomy Among The Beijing School Writers,
2013
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
An Art-Culturological Analysis Of The Appeal For Literary Autonomy Among The Beijing School Writers, Qingmin Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Beijing-School writers pursued the autonomy of literature and refuse external research of literature. They used native discourse to describe the autonomic characteristics of literature and directed literary research to literature itself. Their explorative analyses on the form, technique, language and other internal factors of literary research reached a philosophical depth and theoretical level that are still inspiring today. Their appeal for literary autonomy was grounded on such factors as poetical tradition, social reality, foreign theory and professional position, and this may prove to be a unique case for scholars to interpret the complex spiritual world of literary subjecthood.
Anthropocosmic Resonance In Post-Mao Chinese Environmental Literature,
2013
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Anthropocosmic Resonance In Post-Mao Chinese Environmental Literature, Visser Robin
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In this article I examine philosophical ideas in 1980s Chinese environmental literature that, while espousing perspectives on human relations to the natural environment derived from Daoism, animism, and Buddhism primarily convey a syncretic humanist philosophy of Neo-Confucian idealism. I analyze three influential post-Mao literary works that appropriate ancient philosophical thought and praxis to critique unsustainable deforestation during the intensifying neoliberal development characterizing the Deng era. Ah Cheng's 1985 novella, King of Trees is one of the earliest examples of post-Mao ecological consciousness. Xu Gang's 1987 Woodcutter, Wake Up! launched the eco-reportage movement by appealing to the moral center of the …
On The Paradigm Transformation Of Literary Studies: From Literature To Literariness,
2013
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
On The Paradigm Transformation Of Literary Studies: From Literature To Literariness, Hanguang Ma
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The ideas of modern literature from Madame de Stael to Matthew Arnold inherit the form of traditional literature which approaches literature from the perspective of the modes and outcomes of the subject's activities on the basis of the theory of subjectivity.Thus what they revealed through literature studies is not the truth of literature itself but the subject itself i.e. how the subject forms through literary activities. The Russian formalists put forward the concept of literariness which defined the object of literature as literariness of the works.The changing literary study modes makes the discussion on literature studies transfer from the grand …
On The Reflexivity Of The Functional Specialization Of The Literary Theory Discipline System,
2013
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
On The Reflexivity Of The Functional Specialization Of The Literary Theory Discipline System, Yuyun Feng, Liming Zhou
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Reflexivity of the Specialization of the Literary Theory Discipline is modern topic which marks both historical progress of disenchantment and Reflexivity from over-autonomy to narcissist re-enchantment as well as the fragmentation of literary theory production and the construction metaphysical system. Functional specialization deprives literary theory of its practical, historical and innovation characters and then be in a dilemma. The Ghost of theory haunted everywhere, so the revival of literary theory could not only depend on traditional aesthetic concept, returning back to the classic or holding elite culture. This could neither solve the contemporary cultural problems nor redeem the central …
The Dialogue On The Study Of Ancient Prose Between Qing-Dynasty Shen Deqian And Japanese Scholar Rai Sanyo,
2013
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Dialogue On The Study Of Ancient Prose Between Qing-Dynasty Shen Deqian And Japanese Scholar Rai Sanyo, Hong Cao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Qing-Dynasty scholar Shen Deqian compiled A Critical Ｒeader of Eight Prose Masters from Tang-Song Dynasties in 1750, and with its reach into the Tokugawa-period Japan, Japanese scholar Rai Sanyo (1780-1832) added his own commentaries. The dialogue between Shen's selection and Rai's commentaries becomes an example of using Chinese cultural source on the study of ancient prose in East Asian community. Shen' selection presented a positivist way in scholarship and Qing-Dynasty scholars' reflection on Ming-Dynasty's Restoration of the Ancient Prose Movement, while Rai was prompted by Shen's selection to think about the literary development in his country. Rai addressed directly in …
The Essentialist And Anti-Essentialist Features In Gates' Literary Theory,
2013
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Essentialist And Anti-Essentialist Features In Gates' Literary Theory, Yanli He
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Gates' literary theory is a hybridity of anti-essentialism and essentialism, which shows in three aspects. First, he maintains a non-essentialist concept of race, to speak for the black people with an identity based on African origin. Second, his key criterion for black literature is the form of text and the author' DNA embedded in the text with unidentified author's racial identity. The form creates formal lines of continuity between the texts which constitute the shared text of blackness. As not all novels have formal connection with other Black texts, Gates has to find their authors' identity to prove their black …
The Theorization Of Rhythm In Modern Chinese Aestheticism,
2013
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Theorization Of Rhythm In Modern Chinese Aestheticism, Hongxia Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
As one core concept of aestheticism, "art for art's sake" in modern Chinese literature has a distinctive way of manifestation with localized forms, and the theorization of "rhythm" is the most unique one among its specific concepts. Authors and theorists help to define its trajectory of development throughout the process of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun approached it at the beginning of 20th century from the perspective of "devilish beauty" as a form of the rhythm of life. Lu Xun's conceptualization echoed among the advocator of pure poetry. Literary theorist Qian Gurong's essay "On Rhythm" can be viewed as a …
Life Post 9/11: Experiences Of Korean Americans Ten Years Later,
2013
Portland State University
Life Post 9/11: Experiences Of Korean Americans Ten Years Later, Jay Lee
Dissertations and Theses
This is one of the first qualitative studies to investigate experiences of Korean-American Christians living in New York City at the time of 9/11. This study sought to gain an understanding of how a group of Second Generation Korean-American Christians living in New York City at the time of the 9/11 attacks experienced that event and the event's impact on their religious beliefs. The study also investigated the communication context at the time of the ten year anniversary of the event, September 11th, 2011. The guiding research questions were: RQ1) What were their life experiences of 9/11? RQ2) Was their …
Tokuya Higashigawa's After-Dinner Mysteries: Unusual Detectives In Contemporary Japanese Mystery Fiction,
2013
Portland State University
Tokuya Higashigawa's After-Dinner Mysteries: Unusual Detectives In Contemporary Japanese Mystery Fiction, Jessica Claire Kindler
Dissertations and Theses
The detective fiction (tantei shōsetsu) genre is one that came into Japan from the West around the time of the Meiji Restoration (1868), and soon became wildly popular. Again in recent years, detective fiction has experienced a popularity boom in Japan, and there has been an outpouring of new detective fiction books as well as various television and movie adaptations. It is not a revelation that the Japanese detective fiction genre, while rife with imitation and homage to Western works, took a dramatic turn somewhere along the line, away from celebrated models like Poe, Doyle, and Christie, and developed into …
