On The Lyrical Tradition Of Chinese Prose,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
On The Lyrical Tradition Of Chinese Prose, Jianhui Chen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Chen Shih-Hsiang's argument that Chinese literature is destined to be dominated by lyricism because lyrical spirit is a tradition in Chinese literature has a far-reaching scholarly influence. By tracing the development of the lyrical tradition of Chinese prose, this article summarizes three emotional patterns — "leaving and returning," "joy and worry," and "happiness and sorrow." In terms of lyrical standpoints and content, Western lyricism tend to focus on individual liberations and dreams of an ideal world, emphasizing subject value of individuals and the expression of self-feelings, while Chinese lyrical proses pay more attention to the unity of personal expression and …
On The Genealogy Of Heresy In Revolutionary Literature,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
On The Genealogy Of Heresy In Revolutionary Literature, Huiying Xie
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In the late 1920s, the debates about the nature, function, direction and position of "revolutionary literature" were accompanied by various conflicting voices. In each stage of the revolutionary literature developed afterwards, there were "alien" elements that diverged from literary mainstream and authoritative discourse. With the development of history, these "alien" authors constantly developed and finally formed a continuous genealogy of heresy. In the context where mainstream culture became increasingly conservative and ideological discipline turned stricter, they were gripped in a historical dilemma. Originally, Chen Duxiu and Lu Xun were two revolutionaries with the same ultimate goal, but they had different …
The Emergence And Development Of "Chinese Aesthetics" In The Modern Times: A Historical Inquiry
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2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Emergence And Development Of "Chinese Aesthetics" In The Modern Times: A Historical Inquiry , Qiang Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Over the last century, the legitimacy of Chinese aesthetics has been gradually confirmed in the studies of aesthetics and the writings of the history of aesthetics by Chinese and Western scholars. Cultural exchanges between China and the West have promoted the indigenization of aesthetics in China and deconstructed the universality of Western aesthetics, thus giving rise to the plural concept of "world aesthetics", which paved the way for the modern construction of "Chinese aesthetics". Due to its importance, the way to interpret Chinese aesthetics has become "the meta-question" that promotes the study and writing of the history of "Chinese aesthetics".
"New Literature" And "Old Tradition":The Interaction Between Modern And Traditional Zhanghui Novels,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"New Literature" And "Old Tradition":The Interaction Between Modern And Traditional Zhanghui Novels, Bingru Guo
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Zhanghui novel epitomizes classical Chinese fiction and is one of the main constituents of its narrative tradition. The different and varying understandings of zhanghui novels by new literature in different historical periods influenced not only the relationship between new literature and "old tradition," but also, significantly, the concept of modern fiction and its creative practice. Despite Western literature's impact on modern Chinese fiction, it still developed in close relation to old traditions, including the zhanghui novel. This phenomenon displays new literature's complicated relationships with literary tradition, historical context and social reality, as well as its historical trajectory of genesis, …
The Receptive Dimension Of "The Music Of Today Derives From The Music Of Antiquity",
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Receptive Dimension Of "The Music Of Today Derives From The Music Of Antiquity", Miaodan Chen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The discussion between Mencius and the King Xuan of Qi on music was aimed at political benevolence, and "the music of today derives from the music of antiquity" was not Mencius's deliberate theorization. As this concept has no further elaboration in its original context, it has caused intellectual controversies for later generations. Basically, scholars of the Song dynasty denied the notion from historical and Neo-Confucian perspectives, while those of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties accepted it by justifying the value of "the music of today." Among the supporters, there were two different voices, that is, to consider "the music …
From "Image" To Simulacrum: Derrida's Discussion On Writing,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
From "Image" To Simulacrum: Derrida's Discussion On Writing, Shubao Dong
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Writing is one of the key words in Derrida's deconstructive philosophy. In his Of Grammatology, Derrida refers to the claims of writing from Plato to Rousseau and down to Saussure, confuting their idea that "writing is the image of speech". However, Derrida, inspired by Saussure's principle of difference that "in language there are only differences," and expounds the relationship between writing and difference, by which he transforms Saussure's static difference into the dynamic difference. Writing plays the game of difference in simulacra, and fills up the simulacrum in the supplemental movement of "image", Writing finally becomes a roaming orphan, which …
Political Or Ethical: Chen Duxiu's Motive For Writing "Towards A Literary Revolution",
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Political Or Ethical: Chen Duxiu's Motive For Writing "Towards A Literary Revolution", Xu Xu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Chen Duxiu's motive for writing "Towards a Literary Revolution" has been widely understood on the political level. This conception is based on its historical consequence and therefore controversial among scholars. To put the article into its original context, a solid correlation can be found between the debate on literary revolution and the slogan of "reforming national characters." Combined with the anti-Confucian revolution back then and the textual performance of the article, it can be argued that, for Chen Duxiu, the concern of ethics was more imperative than that of society or politics. In this view, to reconnect "Towards a Literary …
The In-Betweenness Of Humankind And Thing: A Crisis Of Modernity From The Perspective Of Philosophy Of Technology,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The In-Betweenness Of Humankind And Thing: A Crisis Of Modernity From The Perspective Of Philosophy Of Technology, Zhengbo Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The harmony between humankind and Thing is the normative basis on which ecological balance and stable social development are maintained. With the development of industrial revolution, information technology, and neurosciences, this due harmony has been disturbed by such crises of modernity as the schism between humankind and Thing, the excessive connection between humankind and Thing, and the bewildered in-betweenness of humankind and Thing. These predicaments may lead to consequences like ecological imbalance, moral bankruptcy, emotional distortion, and even the destruction of human beings. In this regard, it is through returning to the "undifferentiated world," facilitating the mutual exchange between humankind …
The Innovation On Early Modern Language And The Change Of Fiction's Language Style,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Innovation On Early Modern Language And The Change Of Fiction's Language Style, Xiaojun Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The change of early modern fiction's language style was closely related to the language innovation movement. Under the impetus of the movement of oral-written languages integration and the movement of national language unification, the language style of early modern fiction saw a decline in the influence of classical Chinese language and an increase in vernacular Chinese language. In this process, vernacular Chinese language absorbed the essence of classical Chinese language, received the influence of translated works, and combined the elements of classical and mandarin Chinese languages, thus forming a heteroglossia style. The completion of the change in the style of …
The Paradox Of "Self": New Literature's Ethical Problems Of "Individual Liberation",
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Paradox Of "Self": New Literature's Ethical Problems Of "Individual Liberation", Jianhua Song
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The new literature relies on the form of "natural person" to pursue the ideals of "self" and "freedom", which indeed promoted the historical progress of Chinese society. However, this type of absolute "self" and "freedom" also directly destabilized the ethical relationship in traditional culture, thus making people's behavior disordered. Once the "self" was placed above society and broke away from the control of social moral norms, the opposition between the "self" and society emerged, and the "self" eventually fell into ideological confusion as it could no longer exist. For new literature, the shift from blind optimism to rational thinking in …
An Analysis Of The Phenomenon Of Titling Fu With Poetry In The Tang Dynasty,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
An Analysis Of The Phenomenon Of Titling Fu With Poetry In The Tang Dynasty, Haoyu Tang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Poetry and fu (prosy ode) both flourished during the Tang dynasty, and thus with the mutual infiltration and development of poetry and fu, there was a phenomenon of using poetical lines in the title of fu, which influenced its content and purport. This phenomenon also reflected similarities and differences of poetry and fu in expressions and characteristics, and clearly revealed the trend of confluence of poetry and fu in the development of literary styles during the Tang dynasty. This article lists all the works in The Complete Fu of the Tang Dynasty that used poetry in titles and analyzes their …
On The Experiential Basis Of Beauty,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
On The Experiential Basis Of Beauty, Hongxiang Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The concept of beauty has been abused in contemporary popular aesthetics, which attributes the beautiful to the superficial experience of human body and fails to understand the spirituality of true beauty. In contrast to beauty in everyday sense, true beauty exists in ecstasy, a holistic experience integrating body and mind, in which people may feel a transcendental sense of reality. Different from pathological illusion, the ecstatic sense of beauty signifies nature's manifestation in human life and testifies to the intrinsic harmony between humankind and the universe. Through the lens of ecstasy, this article examines true beauty in three dimensions: reflections …
The Artistry In The Historical Storytelling Scripts Of The Song And Yuan Dynasties,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Artistry In The Historical Storytelling Scripts Of The Song And Yuan Dynasties, Dajun Xu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Song dynasty saw the development of telling historical stories in both official functions and folk gatherings, and both occasions reflect the popularization of historical knowledge not only in these occasions but also in the sociocultural environment. Artisan's storytelling performance and popular history books represent two representational forms of the oral and written products, and historical storytelling scripts thus emerged. These scripts are the results of the popularization of historical knowledge, the prosperity of popular historical books, the attitude to and the ability in vernacular Chinese during the Yuan dynasty. In this process, the style of expression of historical storytelling …
The Diversification Of Poetic Preferences In The Light Of The Ranking Of Su Shi And Huang Tingjian In The Late Northern And Early Southern Song Period,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Diversification Of Poetic Preferences In The Light Of The Ranking Of Su Shi And Huang Tingjian In The Late Northern And Early Southern Song Period, Guochao Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
As two prominent representative poets in the Northern Song dynasty, Su Shi and Huang Tingjian set the key of poetry of the Song dynasty. The ranking of Su and Huang against each other has always been contested in poetry criticism of the Song dynasty. The first wave of the contention culminated during the two Song Dynasties, when there appeared tour types of critics, namely, "Huang-esteemers," "Esteemers for both Su and Huang," "Su-esteemers" and "Censurer of both Su and Huang". The appreciation of Su and Huang's poems and the transformation of critical practices during this period reflected the diversification of poetic …
An Exploration Of Literary Ontology From The Perspective Of Friedrich Kittler's Media Theory,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
An Exploration Of Literary Ontology From The Perspective Of Friedrich Kittler's Media Theory, Guang Yang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Friedrich Kittler is an important media theorist and a unique critic of media literature. Kittler examines the discourse network constructed by the technical media between 1800s and 1900s, and concludes that "media determine our situation." This conclusion can be understood as a media ontology that emphasizes the materiality and the preexistence of technical media. An analysis of the relationship between Kittler's media theory and Foucault's discourse theory may reveal triple-aspected logic behind the formation of Kittler's media ontology and the logic behind the transition from issues concerning media ontology to issues concerning literature. Through his media ontology, Kittler makes the …
Augmented Reality And The Spatial Turn: The Situational Writing Of Cyber Literature And Its Aesthetic Transformation,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Augmented Reality And The Spatial Turn: The Situational Writing Of Cyber Literature And Its Aesthetic Transformation, Moyong Han
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The situational writing of cyber literature displays three typical modes: the spatial sights, the virtual reality, and the locality narrative. Despite their differences, they all tend to shape and characterize through such elements as position, site, space, and visuality. These tendencies and features distinguish cyber writing from conventional literary writing and lead to changes in literature. Specifically, in terms of the relationship between literature and reality, literature begins to be transformed from imitating reality into augmenting reality. Conventional writing, based on imitation, pursues truth behind its fictive surface, while cyber writing is virtual in nature despite its surface verisimilitude. In …
Can "Contemporaries" Know How To Read?,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Can "Contemporaries" Know How To Read?, Rabaté Jean-Michel
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In order to respond to Kyoo Lee's theses on reading, this essay focuses on obscurity and difficulty, terms often associated with modernism. Moving from a controversy opposing Mallarmé and Proust in the last decade of the 19th century to Lacan's use of a Mallarmean language when he describes how symptoms can be read, that is not by thinking naïvely that we are "poets" but by understanding that we are unconsciously scripted "poems," the essay posits a mediation provided by Ezra Pound when he invents both Comparative Literature and Translation Studies.
From Neutrality To The Other: Levinas On Blanchot,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
From Neutrality To The Other: Levinas On Blanchot, Jiajun Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Levinas's and Blanchot's literary theory coalesced while maintained a tension in between. They both tried to break through Heidegger's ontological literary theory, but Levinas used "the other", and Blanchot used "the outside" as the weapons to achieve this goal. In general, Levinas and Blanchot showed us two different and yet connected ethics and literature. The former intended to use ethics to transcend the totality of philosophy, but ultimately found the literary language in the depth of this ethics, which made the ethics become literary; the latter intended to use literature to transcend the identity of philosophy, but ultimately found the …
History, Miscellaneous History And Fiction,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
History, Miscellaneous History And Fiction, Jinfeng Zhou
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Ancient Chinese fiction had a very close relationship with history. The development of historiography led to the separation of history books. Miscellaneous history and fiction were the products of this process, hence the idea of "the remaining of history". From history to miscellaneous history and to fiction, historicity gradually declined and fictionality increased, in which miscellaneous history became transitional between history to fiction, hence its dual nature. Miscellaneous history had both connection to and difference from fiction. They both had the function of persuasion and supplementing history, but also had many differences in content and style.
Ways Of Seeing: Historicization, Technologization And Chinese Artistic Experience,
2019
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Ways Of Seeing: Historicization, Technologization And Chinese Artistic Experience, Tairan Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Marx raised the issue of "the historicization of senses", arguing that the fundamental feature to distinguish humans from animals is that humans can use their techniques to foresee certain types of things in the future which are not given by the nature but are created by humans. However, issues such as the relationships between technology and the body, between technology and labor, and between technology and the ways of human-sensing invite further investigation. Chinese artistic experience enables us to separate "historicization of senses" from "technologization of senses" under new historical conditions, and then we may reflect on the globalization and …
