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A Critical Survey Of The Researches On The Historical Materials Of Contemporary Chinese Literature, Xiuming Wu, Tao Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The historical materials of contemporary Chinese literature serve as a new form of historical documents, and in general, the research in this field lags behind, although in the past half century some remarkable progresses have been made in both understanding and practice. The paper takes the current achievements as a start and reviews the present scholarship in the study of contemporary literary materials. First, the evolution of cognition in the researchers and the adjustment of research approach become eminent from the perspective of diachronic analysis and delineation. Secondly, the current studies in the area have been examined on the synchronic …

On The Institutional Theory Of Art From The Perspective Of Cultural Sociology, Xiao Kuang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The institutional theory of art originates from the analytical aestheticians' debates on the definition of art. The discussions round Arthur Danto's "artworld" and George Dickie's "institutional theory of art" signalize a transition of focus from the "essential property" to the "relational property" in aesthetics and shows some sociologically oriented features. Sociologists such as Howard Becker and Pierre Bourdieu proceed to examine the structural rules of art institutions from the perspective of cooperation and conflict, which breaks the boundaries of the traditional philosophy of art and has made significant contribution to the interdisciplinary integration and complementation between contemporary aesthetics and sociology.

Ouyang Xiu's Research OfBook Of Changes And The Turn To Classical Style Prose, Gang Cheng

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Ou Yangxiu had been a pioneer both as a writer and a scholar of Chinese Classics. The study on Chinese Classics in Song Dynasty was uniquely important for it represented a turn to the classical way, and the Study in Song Dynasty was established against the Study in Han Dynasty. During the process, Ouyang Xiu was both the initiator and promoter with great achievements. Characteristics shown in Ouyang Xiu's style in Chinese Classics study may be summarized to be skeptical, plain, practical and laconic. Meanwhile, Ouyang Xiu had also integrated his style in China Classics study into his prose writing …

Problems With Contemporary Western Environmental Aesthetics, Yu Zhao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

While environmental aesthetics has made a remarkable contribution for its innovation to contemporary Western aesthetics, the paper argues that some problems with the contemporary environmental aesthetics include the undefined boundaries when expanding the domain of aesthetic objects, self-contradiction when expanding the dimension of aesthetic experience, and overlook of the inherent characteristics of aesthetics as a discipline when emphasizing the relations between aesthetics and other disciplines. The paper cautions that the balance between the traditional concepts and contemporary development is an emergent issue for contemporary environmental aesthetics.

Towards A Thick Description Of Maoist Discourse: With Help From Zhao Shuli, Vukovich Daniel

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

With a few exceptions much of the knowledge of modern China produced in the world either ignores or demonizes the Mao era. On the cultural front things are not much better, whether we are speaking of the "Seventeen-year's Literature" or the culture of the 1960s and 1970s. The negation of the Mao or radical era is, in short, a crucial part of contemporary Sinological-orientalism. There is however a recovery and reorientation project underway that seeks to restore the complexity of the Mao decades and its pursuit of an alternative, agrarian, and socialist modernity. As part of this project I offer …

The Concept Of Subjectivity And The Body Image In Ancient Greek Aesthetics, Xiaohua Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In the history of western aesthetics, the concept of subjectivity determines the construction of body image. As the concept of subjectivity varies, the body is accordingly represented as subject, object or subject-object. Since the generalized primitive schema of body was discarded, the construction of body image in Greek aesthetics developed in two directions, one being the understanding of body as a pure object, and the other being the understanding of body as taking the double role of subject and object. The former was represented by Socrates, Plato, Epictetus and Plotinus, while the latter was represented by Democritus, Aristotle, Epicurus and …

Cinema As Politics: On Rancière's Philosophy Of Film, Xinghua Lu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The paper surveys the recent development of Rancière's philosophy of film from the relation between cinema and politics. The paper delineates that movie-making has taken over literary realism and it had become or is becoming or will become a communist machine to negotiate with the new sensibility of human community that is to come. Movie-making actualizes the global redistribution of the new sensibility through images which configure a space of both the past and the present, and it brings the human into a brand new form of life through a new aesthetic politics.

Investigating Into The Naming Of "Expository Preface" As A Form Of Classical Chinese Generic Criticism, Chengxue Wu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Some ancient literary anthologies in China usually carry in the contents or before the main body of a volume a preface that introduces the generic evolution, and there has no commonly agreed name for this particular form of writing. The paper proposes that the name of "expository preface (xuti序题)" should be applied to it so that the research into Chinese literary genre could be conducted in a more systematic and self-conscious way. "Expository preface" is a unique and important genre of criticism in ancient Chinese literary history, and it gestates in Han Dynasty, takes its form in Jin Dynasty, and …

On The Formation Of Appreciative Criticism In Ancient China, Chunqing Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Appreciative criticism is a form of practical criticism from the perspective of appreciative judgment, and a literary criticism activity on the basis of aesthetic taste and emotional experience. As a form of literary criticism, it emerged in West Han Dynasty and matured in East Han Dynasty in China, with Liu Xiang, Yang Xiong and Liu Xin being three important figures in the developmental process. Appreciative criticism was formed in the socio-historical context in which the change of taste on the part of imperial officialdom and scholar-officials was a key factor. The paper argues that an examination of the historical formation …

On The Intervention Of Literary Means In Painting And Its Boundary, Xiaoli Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

With Chinese equivalent dictum of "Ut Pictura Poesis" as a guiding principle, literarization became a trend in Chinese painting, especially in the literati painting. Traditional literary rhetoric methods such as metaphor and symbolism were appropriated into painting so as to express personal sentiments. The inscriptions on the painting expand the planar painterly world, and strengthen the expressiveness of the painting. The intervention of literary methods in imagistic thinking is subjected to the artistic autonomy of paintings, and painting as a form of plastic art have their own aesthetic objectives that determine the boundary of the application of literary methods.

The Dissemination Of American Deconstruction And Its Reception In China, Xiaoming Chen

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper investigates how American deconstruction is received in China from 1980s and finds that American deconstruction has always been overshadowed by its French counterpart. The paper observes that deconstruction in China is disseminated with an emphasis on critical notion instead of technical analysis in the form of close reading. From the mid-1990s, American deconstruction begins to strengthen its spread and influence in China, while the deconstructive nature is downplayed due to its technical requirements in textual analysis when its dissemination works in framework of narratology. While the reaches of American deconstructive literary criticism need further investigation, the literary theory …

The Ethical Landscape In The Transformation Of Modernity In Shen Congwen'sBorder Town And After, Yan Chen

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Shen Congwen's writing of Xiangxi (the Western Hunan area) shifts its focus from legendary stories to history-directed experiences. The activities of his characters are put into the mosaic of historical experiences, so as to present the modern transformation of the ancient community life in the Western Hunan area. This transformation shows not only as the wonder and amazement in the psychological and conceptual dimensions but also as conflicts and crises in the power relations and moral order, as well as the resultant formation of an ethical landscape different from the traditional one. Although the criticism of modern urban civilization remains, …

The Jiayin Style Of Writing In A Europeanized Classical Chinese With Elasticity And Its Relation With The New Literature, Qingshu Meng

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Jiayin style of writing was shown typically in the political essays in 1910s, and this linguistic style performed a new function of prose writings in the classical Chinese language at the time when the media of literature had changed. The style showed a different standpoint from the New Literature, but had profound historical link with it. The link showed in the common acceptance, interpretation and construction of modern disciplinary system and the shared pursuit of logicality of writing style and the grammar system. They had also adopted a commensurate strategy and mode of knowledge production, and had faced the same …

The Reversibility Of Art, Lucretius, Gravity And Semâ Bekirovic'sHow To Stop Falling, Allen Graham

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper reflects on art works recently displayed in an exhibition in the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland, in 2011. In particular it focuses on Semâ Bekirovic's video art work How to Stop Falling, in order to expand upon a theory of art's reversibility. The paper uses the work of the Roman philosopher Lucretius, along with Jacques Derrida's deconstructive encounter with Lucretius in his essay "Mes chances/My chances," to meditate on art's resistance to the entropic logic of the natural world. The paper also employs Lucretius alongside modern scientific understandings of the cosmos to reflect on Bekirovic's and others' engagement …

The Significance Of Literary History In The Evolution Of Literary Meta-Language, Han Qian

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Contemporary Chinese scholars usually take the linguistic turn as a major watershed in Western literary criticism, and this view takes the intrinsic transition in literary criticism and theory as a revolutionary change. The paper argues that the "scientific turn" of the 19th century weighs more in the literary criticism history, and that the linguistic turn is merely a necessary consequence of the scientific turn. The epistemological turn of 19th century's literary criticism redefined the objectives and functions of meta-language in literature, while the creation of modern universities and the evolution of scientific discourse also led literary criticism to the epistemological …

Zhu Guangqian And British Empiricist Tradition And His Revisions Over Benedetto Croce, Lang Jin

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The British empiricist tradition is very important in Zhu Guangqian's aesthetics, which has become both the background for him to accept and the resource to revise Benedetto Croce. The study of the British associationist school on how associations worked helped to bypass the distinction made by formalistic aesthetics between aesthetic appreciation, science and morality, which also informed Zhu Guangqian's reflection over the relationship between literature and morality and led to Zhu's revision of the formalist aesthetics' overemphasis on the aesthetic autonomy. By integrating the British empiricist tradition with the spirit of Li and Yue in Chinese Confucian tradition, Zhu Guangqian …

Asians (Research Report #117), Amanda D. Cowley, Mark J. Schafer, Troy Blanchard

LSU AgCenter Research Reports

This is the third in a series of reviews. This review discusses the experiences of other Asians (not Vietnamese) in the region. Given the significant number of Vietnamese immigrants living in the southeastern United States, a vast body of literature in the social sciences has described, explored and explained the presence of Vietnamese immigrants living along the Gulf of Mexico.

The Rise Of Science In Japan: 日本科学発展と原因, Mario Harper

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日本の科学は第二次世界大戦から始まったと多くの人は思っている。もちろん、多くの発展は戦後に行われたのは事実。しかし、戦争以前にも「テクノロジージャパン」な考え方が非常に寿実していた。このスライドショーは日本科学発展の原因となることをいくつか見ています。

Lost In Seattle: What Does Nagai Kafū’S Encounter With The American Northwest Tell Us About Japanese Travel And Immigration Accounts Of The Early 1900s?, Jon P. Holt

World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations

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香港短篇小說的精神疾病書寫 (1990-2010), Pui Ting Tsang

Lingnan Theses

自古至今，疾病是文學反覆吟誦的母題。香港文學發展至今，以精神疾病作為敘事對象的作品不勝枚舉。九十年代以後的精神疾病書寫，更呈現一種眾聲喧嘩（Hetroglossia）的狀態。

疾病作為時代苦悶的象徵，是展示社會面貌及人文精神的重要表述符號， 因而在文學的主題表現上有舉足輕重的地位。精神疾病的敘事更以心靈為文本，逼視個人或社會的病態。審視兩岸三地文學發展的脈絡，在現代主義的熱潮薰陶，及社會動盪的政局與經濟發展下，精神疾病書寫的文學形式便應運而生。作家為精神疾病披上藝術的外衣，形塑扭曲的人文及都市的多維面貌，為小說提供種種歧義的解讀，增加作品闡釋的空間與美學價值。可惜到目前為止， 香港文學對精神疾病敘事的研究並不足夠。

因此，本論文以1990-2010 年間發表及出版，並以精神疾病為敘事主題的香港短篇小說作為研究對象， 結合精神病學的醫學研究成果及敘事學 （Narratology）的相關論述，以精神疾病的敘事作用作為研究框架，從「個人」 和「社會」兩個層面為切入點，分析精神疾病之於文學主題的敘事作用。最後， 探討作家如何透過（集體）書寫精神疾病，反映出香港九十年代至今的時代性， 及形塑出香港都市支離破碎、浮動而不穩定的形象，從而肯定精神疾病書寫對於香港文學的價值。