The Selection Of The Scholars In Chinese Textbooks And Homogenization In The Canonization Process During The Republic Of China Period,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Selection Of The Scholars In Chinese Textbooks And Homogenization In The Canonization Process During The Republic Of China Period, Hongbo Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Ancient novels such as The Scholars, The Travel Notes of Lao Can, and The Water Margin were frequently selected into Chinese textbooks for primary and secondary schools during the Republic of China period. Because The Scholars was closely related to the Vernacular Movement and catered to the taste of young students, it came to be the most frequently selected novel, and its excerpt, "The Childhood of Wang Mian," became the most frequently selected story. During the Republican period, Chinese textbooks were arranged in accordance with the theme, language, and era of each work, and editors tended to select similar rather …
Jacques Rancière On Literarity,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Jacques Rancière On Literarity, Haiting Zheng
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Jacques Rancière reconstructs the term "literarity" through the concept of "distribution of the sensible." By considering "literarity" as the joint of politics and literature, he defines the term as the availability of mute letters and the excess of words. The unbridled wandering of mute letters expands the space of literary expression and blurs the boundary of literature, which represents not only the democracy of literarity but also the paradox of democratic literarity. Literature suppresses the democracy of literarity by various means of self-cancellation. On the one hand, this mechanism transforms the paradox of democratic literarity into a productive contradiction of …
On The Factors To "The Extraordinary Out Of The Ordinary" In The Late Ming Dynasty,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
On The Factors To "The Extraordinary Out Of The Ordinary" In The Late Ming Dynasty, Gang Chen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Teasing "the extraordinary out of the ordinary" is a prevailing aesthetic taste in the late Ming dynasty, initiated by Li Zhi in the intellectual field and proliferated into the creative writing of novels and plays. This research delineates the development of this ideal in the Late Ming dynasty, and explains the reasons for the ideal from three aspects: zeitgeist, partisan contestation and literary claims. It hopes to explore the cultural implications and values with reference to the historical context.
On The Poetic Method "Duotai Huangu": A Clarification Of Misunderstandings,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
On The Poetic Method "Duotai Huangu": A Clarification Of Misunderstandings, Changhong Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Duotai huangu(lit. grabbing the embryo and changing the bones) is an important proposition in classical Chinese poetics. However, in the process of transmission, some recipients are haunted by misunderstandings about its conceptual expression, connotation, and poetic value. These misunderstandings are mainly manifested in five aspects. First, the essence of the method of duotai is "to imitate" rather than "to see through" the original poems. Second,duotaiis often erroneously referred to as "tuotai", the meaning of which is fundamentally different from that ofduotai. Third, duotai and huangu are two correlated poetic methods separated by the degree of innovation. The conflation of duotai …
The Early And High Tang Poets' Inheritance And Development Of The Traditions Of Yanzhi O RYuanqing,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Early And High Tang Poets' Inheritance And Development Of The Traditions Of Yanzhi O RYuanqing, Qinghai Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Two main conceptualizations of the essence of poetry before the Tang dynasty are yanzhi, expressing aspirations, and yuanqing, conveying emotions. Tang poets inherited and developed both traditions, and their poetry reflected the conceptualizations in different ways during different periods. Although Tang Emperor Taizong wrote poems in the mode of expressing aspirations and ordered officials to follow suit, a majority of poets believed in the mode of conveying emotions. During the reigns of Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu Zetian, the court considered conveying emotions as the aim of poetry, while Luo Binwang and Wang Bo followed both modes of yuanqing and …
The Paragon Of Literati, The Decorum Of Essays, And The Signature Of Civil Administration: Remarks On The Term "Three Prose Writers Of Our Qing Dynasty",
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Paragon Of Literati, The Decorum Of Essays, And The Signature Of Civil Administration: Remarks On The Term "Three Prose Writers Of Our Qing Dynasty", Yingde Guo
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The term "three prose writers of our Qing dynasty" was popularized after the compilation and spreading of Song Luo's The Anthology of Three Prose Writers of Our Qing Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Kangxi. While this term was purely Song Luo's personal coinage, it was widely accepted by his contemporaries who considered Hou Fangyu, Wei Xi, and Wang Wan as the paragons of literati for their "civilian spirits", upright personality and responsibility for the country. Song's Anthology epitomizes the cultural origins and stylistic standards of classical prose, demonstrating literati's consciousness and efforts to define, mold, and exemplify the styles …
"The Pattern Of Dao": A Conceptual Study Of The Core Categories In Ancient Chinese Aesthetics,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"The Pattern Of Dao": A Conceptual Study Of The Core Categories In Ancient Chinese Aesthetics, Mingdong Gu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Dao and wen are two core categories in Chinese aesthetic tradition. The mainstream description of the relationship between these two categories was that "wen is the vehicle for Dao". In the strict sense, this view was not an aesthetic thought per se, because it reduced wen to a tool and thus obscured the inherent aesthetic relationship between wen and Dao. Perhaps Liu Xie's under-researched idea of "the wen of Dao" (the pattern of Dao) provided a more persuasive description to this relationship. This article re-evaluates the significance of the discourse on wen as an aesthetic category from the perspectives of …
Chinese Native-Soil Literature: Occurrence And A Hundred Years Of Evolvement,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Chinese Native-Soil Literature: Occurrence And A Hundred Years Of Evolvement, Cece Wei
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Chinese "native-soil literature" has constantly been interacting with world literature due to its modern consciousness. Due to a deep spiritual connection with Chinese culture, society and history, it is the best entrance to perceiving the rich connotation in modern Chinese literature with regard to the issues of China and world, tradition and modernity. It is an excellent sample for studying modern and contemporary Chinese indigenous literature, which provides us with valuable experience about how to inherit and develop Chinese literature in the dimension of indigenousness, nation, and the world. It is also an effective dimension to explore contemporary "Chinese problems". …
Narrative Function And The Order Of Life: Analyzing The Performative Mode Of Moggallāna Folk-Opera,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Narrative Function And The Order Of Life: Analyzing The Performative Mode Of Moggallāna Folk-Opera, Zhiquan Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, Mulian (Moggallāna) folk-opera about howMoggallāna saves his mother from Avici Hellhad become the main performative mode of Buddhist deity-worshipping contest. On the level of narrative function, the performance has three types of ritual: those of leading-in and leading-out ritual,, dramaturgic ritual and intervention ritual. The introduction of ritualistic elements into the contest creates a unique space for Mulian Opera in the forms of the geographical space constructed by sacrificial circles and ritual venues, the life space enacted by the rites of life and rites of custom, and the cosmic space of human-deity interaction. The …
Two Major Approaches Of The Interaction Between Literary Criticism And Historical Materials: A Data-Driven Analysis,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Two Major Approaches Of The Interaction Between Literary Criticism And Historical Materials: A Data-Driven Analysis, Xiuming Wu, Tingting Shi
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Over the past seven decades, the research on contemporary Chinese literature has witnessed a significant change from literary criticism in the narrow sense to a criticism integrated with historiographical source investigation. This change has shown its influence in the field of literary criticism. By An analysis of data on articles published in nine major journals such as Literary Review, Literature & Art Studies, and Modern Chinese Literature Studies from 2007 to 2017 shows that there have been two major forms of the interaction between literary criticism and historiographical sources, which may define as led to two approaches, namely, literary criticism …
Literary Friendship Revisited: Significance Of Wayne Booth's Literary Ethics To The Contemporary Literary Studies,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Literary Friendship Revisited: Significance Of Wayne Booth's Literary Ethics To The Contemporary Literary Studies, Yun Fan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The theories and critiques since the 1960s have snared contemporary literary studies into a predicament, and with the emergence of post-critique, reviewing Wayne Booth' literary ethics may cast some new light on the predicament. His efforts to reconstruct literary ethics, call for literary friendship, elucidate rhetoric ethics, and explore the public dimension of conduction will illuminate the reshaping of cultural character and the return to ethics and life in contemporary literary studies.
Baroque Irony In Contemporary French Fictions: A Case Study Of "Playful Fiction",
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Baroque Irony In Contemporary French Fictions: A Case Study Of "Playful Fiction", Jia Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The term Baroque irony is coined by Roland Barthes, which is considered to be representative in the so-called language turn. It represents the relationship between the signifieds within language rather than that between language and the outside world, and thus it questions language itself. The"Playful Fiction" demonstrate Baroque irony in terms of semantics, syntax, morphology and parody. Baroque irony is, the paper concludes, a kind of anti-metaphysical language that does not aim to convey fixed meanings but deconstructs them. It is an anti-rational language that brings readers to a world of texts where meanings coexist and interact. It is also …
Life, Conduct, And Scholarship: Achievements Of Prof. Xu Zhongyu,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Life, Conduct, And Scholarship: Achievements Of Prof. Xu Zhongyu, Qingbing Tong
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
No abstract provided.
Film Posters As An Alterative/Alternative Archive For Chinese Film History,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Film Posters As An Alterative/Alternative Archive For Chinese Film History, Yingjin Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The film poster generates public desire for watching the film, but its pictorial cues often exceed its intended ideological or thematic message. The excess information contained in graphic composition, star texts, and visual citations (e.g., to current fashions and other intertexts) makes the film poster an alterative para-text in the sense that it sets in motion a dynamic of circulating multilayered meanings in a medium that resonates with other media and genres of art (e.g., drawing, painting, calligraphy, photography, design, literature, drama, opera, and music). Film posters are therefore enmeshed in intermediality or crossmediality and inevitably gesture toward something outside …
The Mind Of The Other, Political Organism, And The Dramatic Nature Of Ordinary Language: A Case Study Of Stanley Cavell's Comments On Coriolanus,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Mind Of The Other, Political Organism, And The Dramatic Nature Of Ordinary Language: A Case Study Of Stanley Cavell's Comments On Coriolanus, Yunke Lin
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Stanly Cavell is the precursor to apply the philosophy of ordinary language, especially the thought of later Ludwig Wittgenstein, into analyzing literary and artistic works. Through detailed analysis of Wittgenstein's discussions on the issues of "the mind of the other" and "private language"s, Cavell claims that thinking in ordinary language is a seduction of the skepticism brought about by the myth of positivism. In his reading of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Cavell expounds "appetite" as a metaphor of political organism, demonstrating how Wittgenstein's criticism is embodied in a dramatic way. The ontological mechanism of drama realized through explorations of ordinary language is …
William James's Philosophy Of Aesthetic Temporality: About The Relationship Between The Horizontal Composition Of Stream Of Consciousness And The Integrality Of The Spatial Composition Of Art Works,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
William James's Philosophy Of Aesthetic Temporality: About The Relationship Between The Horizontal Composition Of Stream Of Consciousness And The Integrality Of The Spatial Composition Of Art Works, Yanshun Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
William James's grasp of the original practical activities underlies his aesthetic thought of pragmatism. He is well versed in describing and analyzing the aesthetic phenomena in the field where the subject and the object are not separated. On the one hand, he emphasizes the impromptu features of aesthetic behaviors driven by meaning-seeking, centering on the analysis of their fresh state, which is original, occasional while inevitable. On the other hand, he also creatively explores the horizontal features of the smooth and impromptu development of aesthetic life from the perspective of stream of consciousness or consciousness of time. He believes that …
Types And Subtypes Of Artistic Justice,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Types And Subtypes Of Artistic Justice, Yun Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Because forms of performing arts and story-telling such as drama, fiction, and film present a caricature of social life, they inevitably describe people's good and evil deeds and their conflicts. In the world history of art over two thousand years,numerous works of drama, fiction, and film have done so from a position of correct or at least relatively correct morality. In this sense, artistic justice is an eternal theme for performing arts and story-telling,and the theory of artistic justice should have been well established. However, in the present-day, works on artistic justice are mostly published by scholars in the field …
Erotic Manga, Its Artists, And The Pressures Of Censorship,
2019
Portland State University
Erotic Manga, Its Artists, And The Pressures Of Censorship, Dominique Andrée Lief
University Honors Theses
Erotic manga (エロマンガ), a genre of adult-oriented Japanese comics is subjected to censorship that may seem irrelevant or confusing to people outside of the industry. Why is erotic manga censored? How is erotic manga censored? How does censorship affect erotic manga artists? These questions are examined through use of English academic sources, Japanese academic sources and news articles, and interviews with professional erotic manga artists translated into English.
Zheng He And The American Liberal Arts Education: Contexts And Complications,
2019
Hope College
Zheng He And The American Liberal Arts Education: Contexts And Complications, Marla Lunderberg
Faculty Publications
Zheng He was a eunuch of Moslem family heritage who held great authority early in the Ming Dynasty, primarily under the Yongle emperor (reign: 1402–24), as he led seven maritime expeditions, of which three reached the eastern coast of Africa. Of recent English language projects on Zheng He, Henry Tsai (1996) explores the context of the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty in defining Zheng He’s work, and Edward Dreyer (2007) and Timothy Brook (2010) portray Zheng He within the context of the Chinese tributary system. However, other images also hold power over the Western imagination: Louise Levathes (1994) portrays Zheng …
Making The War Colleges Better,
2019
US Army War College
Making The War Colleges Better, Richard A. Lacquement Jr
The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters
No abstract provided.
