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Body, Aesthetics And Politics: On Eagleton's View Of Body, Wei Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Terry Eagleton's discourse on body tries to reconnect body with traditional political themes such as state governance, class contradictions and the mode of production. Researchers on the theoretical sources of his body discourse — the body of labor, the body of power, and the body of desire — often overlooks his ambitions to rebuild the rational and the political, and his commentaries on bodies under discipline, in carnival, in pain, or in terror. In this context, he emphasizes that the prevailing discourse of postmodern body is a product of failed politics of class and he accuses the discourse of over-emphasis …

Boundless Appropriation And In-Depth Exploration: New Developments In International "Bakhtin Studies" In The 21StCentury, Qichao Zhou

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper starts with a survey of the major achievements of international Bakhtin studies in the 21st century, and summarizes that Bakhtinian theory as an academic fad is no longer en vogue. However, the theoretical radiation of his theory has entered a state of "the new normal" in its cross-cultural journey, which shows in the scholarly exchange in scholarly academic circle and the regular International Bakhtin Conference. In particular, scholars from Russian Academy of Sciences have been annotating and commenting Bakthin's oeuvre in detail and conducting in-depth explorations into Bakhtin's theoretical heritage. Internationally, Bakhtin's works have been published in different …

Lyricism And The Age: The Debate Over The Function Of The New And The Old Poetic Forms And Its Significance In The Modern China, Jianwei Pan

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

An important goal of the New Literature is to reflect the social politics of the age, while lyricism is also an issue for the New Poetry. The debate over the merits of the new and old forms is one of the key issues in the New Culture Movement. Putting the debate into the perspective of the relation between poetry and the age, the paper approaches the issue by examining the differences between the function of lyricism pertaining to the new and old forms of poetry, the reason behind the forms and the influence of the choices on the forms, and …

On The Idea Of Coercive Interpretation, Yang Lu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

A remarkable event in 2014 Chinese literary criticism was the concept of coercive interpretation proposed by Prof. Zhang Jiang. Coercive interpretation aimed at a theoretical summarization from Chinese perspective of the 20th-century Western mainstream literary theories, especially the various postmodern criticism since 1970s, and it could have the potentials to be Chinese discourse's intervention in the value judgment of Western literary theories. However, coercive interpretation was conceptualized out of the discursive context of and devoid of the support of literary texts. Instead, it resorted to a preset standpoint to interpret texts. This exhibits on the one hand the internal limitation …

On Yu Yan's Poetic Thoughts, Shuzhen Yue

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The poetic theory of Yu Yan, a Ci-poetry theorist from the Ming Dynasty, is mainly presented in his Commentaries on Ci-Poetry from Yuan Garden, in which he claimed that shi-poetry, ci-poetry and qu-poetry had the same origin with ci-poetry as an indispensable developmental phase in literature along the musical aspect. He maintained that ci-poetry declined due to the loss of music for which ci-poetry functioned as the lyrics. He also demonstrated the different tastes of the Northern Song and the Southern Song Dynasties and examined the thematic approaches, styles and compositions in different forms of ci- and qu-poetry. It could …

Passion And Politics In Revolution: A Psychoanalytical Reading Of Ding Ling, Ban Wang, Xiaohua Cao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Psychoanalysis, a historically evolving discourse, has the radical and socially transformative potential. By addressing the sex centered mode in psychoanalytical criticism and by tracing certain fraught moments in Ding Ling's fiction, this paper suggests that private love can be an integral part of collective solidarity, that unconscious drives can propel the impulse for social change, and that libidinal energy can fuel political passion and collective action. Clarifying the concept of "sublimation", and analyzing "positive sublimation" process in which libidinal energy turns into political passion, this paper will challenge the rigid separation of libidinal life from social commitment, love from politics, …

The Concept Of Nature's Aid In The Literary Creation Of The Womanhood Poetics In The Qing Dynasty, Qingxiu Song

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The Nature's Aid in the literary creation is an important concept of the womanhood poetics in the Qing Dynasty literary criticism. Women's literary works resulted from the garden walks, sightseeing trips, and mind travels had all exhibited Liu Xie's literary concept of Nature's Aid. Literary women from Han-Dynasty traveling women to landscape-loving Qing-Dynasty women, due to Nature's Aid, could enrich their literary creation with profounder significance. Literary women in ancient China had promoted feminist literature by integrating feminine quality into their literary creation and developing a unique womanhood poetics.

The Study Of The Literature Of Minority Ethnic Groups: Some Reflections On The Concepts And Methods, Weiwei Yan

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Literatures of minority ethnic groups is an indispensable part of literature in China, and have attracted increasing academic attention in recent decades. The study of different approaches to literature of minority ethnic groups with reflections on the concepts and methods may bring the achievement into prominence and rectify the errors. The study may open new possibilities in the researches of the literature of minority ethnic groups, promote the harmonious co-existence and co-development of these literatures, and prompt further research into and the value reconstruction of minority literatures.

A Morphological Study Of The Antonymous Compounds In Chinese: How The Word Class Changes And Why, Yihan Zhou

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

The majority of Chinese words are compounds. Among compounds, there is a special kind of compounds. It is made up of two antonymous morphemes. The antonymous compounds undergo functional shift. In 40% percent of the cases, the compounds have different word classes from the morphemes. The thesis investigated how the functional shift happens and why it happens.

Based on the critique of the definitions of antonymous compounds used in others’ studies, the thesis comes up with a broad definition. With the help of primary sources such as dictionaries, secondary sources, and the definition, the thesis collects 292 antonymous compounds.

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Women's Wartime Life Writing In Early Twentieth-Century China, Li Guo

Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

In her article "Women's Wartime Life Writing in Early Twentieth-Century China" Li Guo discusses military diaries, prison memoirs, and autobiographical reportages. These documents offer rich insights into the political endeavors and military mobility of women. Guo analyzes Bingying Xie's 1928 war diary about the Chinese nationalists' northern expedition, Langi Hu's 1937 book about anti-Japanese activism, and Lang Bai's 1939 reportage about the Sino-Japanese War and argues that these texts allow women to reconfigure the discourse of nation through experimental life writing in order to develop the genre with tales of valor, hope, struggle, and heroism. Guo argues that contrary to …

劉台拱學術研究 : 以《論語駢枝》為重心, Zhan Huang

Lingnan Theses

劉台拱（1751-1805），字端臨，揚州寶應人，清乾嘉時期著名學者。早年習治理學，後與汪中、王念孫、段玉裁等人交遊論學，確立樸學治經方向，成為揚州學派中堅人物。本文擇取端臨學術為研究對象，論文內容計有以下數端：一、後世學者所記端臨傳世著述，或卷書有異，或篇名不同。其《儀禮補疏》為畢生精力所萃，然終未見成書。故考端臨著述之刊刻過程及著寫《儀禮補疏》之始末；二、端臨所著《論語駢枝》世譽精闢，且對劉寳楠、恭冕父子《論語正義》有直接影響。本文將詳論此書，以窺端臨論語學之要義、經學之梗概；三、端臨於經史百家，皆有涉獵，僅憑《駢枝》，無法盡見其學術大體。故又擇《經傳小記》、《荀子補注》等卷進行考證，以論端臨禮學、小學、史學、理學中的考據、義理面貌；四、誦讀文章，須知人論世。本文將以文獻史料為基礎，尤重書信、文集，敘述乾嘉時期不同學術陣營之學者（如汪中、翁方綱、章學誠等）與端臨交往論學之經過，從而考察端臨學術歷程之轉變與發展；五、揚州寶應乃清初理學重鎮，曾出朱澤澐、王懋竑等朱子學大家。端臨受家學及鄉學薰陶，精於理學。後受京城漢學氛圍影響，始重考據。舊說多以棄宋就漢為論，總結其學。然端臨對漢學、宋學之態度，實非如此簡單，值得考辨；六、乾嘉時期學術論辯、漢宋之爭等議題，受到以往學術界重視。本文將以端臨個案作為切入點，從此一未為關注之新視角，對乾嘉學術思想作出區別以往之詮釋。

李商隱詩歌的語言風格研究 : 以詠物詩為重心, Ka Chun Wu

Lingnan Theses

本文以李商隱詠物詩作研究對象，探討詩中的語言風格。從聲母、聲調、詞彙三方面，論述其詠物詩之語言特色如何形成義山詩的風格。語言是人類溝通的工具。年代愈遠，我們愈難分辨不同文學作品的差異。文藝上的感受還比較容易理出頭緒，但語言運用上，如果沒有深入研究，讀者難以僅憑閱讀便確知古典作家的語用習慣。本文分析詩中音韻特色時，借鑑語言風格學的方法，統計李商隱的語用習慣。

根據本文的分析，可以確知有以下幾項結果﹕在音韻上，李商隱詠物詩偏好用牙音與喉音字，與他徘徊低吟，纏綿綺艷的詩風有一定的關係。李商隱有刻意使用頭韻的效果來加強詩歌的韻律美感。總體而言，頭韻效果都可以加深讀者對詩句的印象，而部分頭韻用例亦有其他不同的文學功能，可分四類﹕（一）襯托，（二）借聲擬情，（三）使詩的語音結構與語義結構不同，（四）突顯題旨。聲調上，義山詠物詩喜在五言對句第三字作入聲，形成「頓挫」的音韻風格。詞彙上，義山詠物詩的季節詞彙可以創造出具體化的抒情空間，幫助李商隱抒發情感。當他在詩歌上點明時節，其情感一般是限定在某一類特殊的情感上，如﹕傷別、歸思。最後，李商隱詠物詩的季節詞彙多為偏正詞組，形成其詩設色穠麗的風格特點。

On The V-De Construction In Mandarin Chinese, Chao Li

Publications and Research

The paper proposes a novel classification and analysis of the V-DE construction in Mandarin Chinese. On this proposal, the V-DE construction is divided into two types, predicative and non-predicative. The predicative type can be further divided into entity-predicative V-DE constructions and eventuality-predicative V-DE constructions. With respect to the analysis of the V-DE construction, the paper identifies four different structures. It points out that the de-part (i.e. the part after and marked by 得-de) in most V-DE constructions is a clause with or without an overt subject. Moreover, with respect to the cases where the de-part has an overt NP that …

A Thematic Research Of Merleau-Ponty's Le Doute De Cézanne, Ying Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper examines the theme of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Le Doute de Cézanne and tries to trace his early thoughts and question consciousness. Albeit a well-known essay, Le Doute de Cézanne is generally regarded as a phenomenological casual essay, but this label does not explain the paradoxes from the perspective of detail and structure of the essay. Merleau-Ponty argued for the discard of personal character, life experience and artistic inheritance in the research of Cezanne but also points out that Cezanne's life and his works shared the same adventure. The essay has also devoted many words to the life of Da …

Literature And The Therapy Of Passion: Catharsis Against The Extreme Violence, Darmon Jean-Charles, Xi Xiao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Jonathan Littell's novel The Kindly Ones describes the process and details of the holocaust from the perspective of a Nazi officer and in doing so it depicts the protagonist as an ancient Greek tragic hero. This way of appropriating the antagonist to the empathy effect and literary catharsis and sympathy tries to achieve therapeutic purpose, but this way invokes much criticism. How can fiction interact with the (re) construction of emotions associated to mass extermination, especially when such emotions are reactivated from the point of view of an SS officer? After reexamining some of the questions raised by Jonathan Littell's …

Art And Annotation: On The Relationship Of Visibility And Annotation In The Visual Arts, Majetschak Stefan

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Works of the visual arts in the tradition of European and American modernism have lost many of the features that were considered for a long time to be obvious characteristics of the artistic constitution of art works as such. In fact, it proved to be the case early in the modern period that there did not have to be any features or characteristics — neither material nor phenomenal — by means of which artistic artifacts could be distinguished from non-artistic objects. For works of art and humdrum everyday objects can in borderline cases appear identical to the eye of an …

"Lament" As A Genre In Literary Mind And The Carving Of Dragons And Selections Of Refined Literature, Junling Zhao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Liu Xie's Literary Mind and Xiao Tong's Selections of Refined Literature had different definitions and understanding of the genre to lament. Liu Xie's aim was to distinguish different style, so he defined the lament as a genre with the features shown in the earlier writings such as Pan Yue's lamentations over pre-mature deaths, and he did not include into the genre the later stylistic development. Xiao Tong took Pan Yue's more ritualistic Elegy for His Wife as an example for lament style. The main reason behind their differences lies in the fact that Liu Xie's expounding covered only to the …

A Synopsis Of The Conference Of "Literary Theory And Criticism In 1980s", Chunxiao Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

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Art, Brain And Aesthetics: On The Development, Significance And Vision Of Contemporary Western Neuroaesthetics, Jun Hu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The process of aesthetic activity is an important part of aesthetic research, and aesthetic activities concerns the people, or specifically the human brain. In order to examine the process of aesthetic activity, the neural mechanisms of human brain become an important scientific basis for aesthetic research. Neuroaesthetics, emergent in Europe and America in recent years, provides not only a new perspective but also a very important scientific basis for aesthetic development. This paper intends to elaborate on the methods, scope, field, findings, aesthetic sense, deficiencies and future prospects for neuroaesthetics.

Between Language And Time: Yale School's Theoretical Generation And Its Location In The Intellectual History, Dengyun Dai

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The Yale School constructed a new mode of poetics research through its departure from the New Criticism and imbibitions of Continental thoughts, and its contribution to poetics lies in its generative poetics that shifts the focus of literary studies from the scientificalness of literary criticism, the literariness of literary texts and the factualness of literary history to the generation of literary criticism, literary text and literary history. The fundamental reason behind the Yale School's achievement lies in the fact that the Yale School theorists, under the context of linguistic turn and time philosophy turn in modern Western philosophy, with their …

On Lou Fang's Concept Of Moderation In His Prose Compilation The Recipe For Classical Prose, Xiaochuan Yu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Lou Fang's prose compilation The Recipe for Classical Prose was one of the most representative anthologies of ancient Chinese prose since its print in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Lou's commentaries in the anthology and his idea behind the compilation were emulated thereafter. The central rationale for selecting a piece of prose writing was Confucian moderation, emphasizing on the orthodoxy subject matter and moderate aesthetic taste, while the scope of selection was broad and the comments laconic and pertinent. His selection emphasized on the deliberate digression and implicitness of expression and the structuring of meaning delivery in the text, and …

Telling, Telling Style Essay And Storytelling, Jinfeng Zhou

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In ancient China, storytelling (xiao shuo, literally, trivial telling) was considered as trivial in terms of the scope of the story, and in the pre-Qin period a type of "telling-style essay" was formed on the basis of telling. With "telling" as a link, the telling-style essay was related to "storytelling." There were different types of telling-style essay, each type having different stylistic features and functions. Among these types, the one that emphasized the exposition through imagistic narrative became the transition from "telling" to "storytelling," and this type of telling-style essay exhibited some stylistic connotations and features that profoundly influenced the …

Desire, Currency And Modern Urban Space: A Rereading Of Shi Zhecun's "The Spring Sun", Xiaoping Song

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

With Shi Zhecun's (1905 年-2003 年) story "The Spring Sun" as an example, the paper aims to examine the two aspects of female experiences. The first is to explore the unique experience of the flaneuse in modern urban space and the symptoms of the female body in the heterogeneity of the traditional township space and modern urban space. The other is to analyze how the urban consumption space and the gaze evoke female desire and how money in the process of consumption constructs and deconstructs the female day-dreaming.

Žižek And The Repoliticization Of Western Contemporary Literary Theory, Xinting Liu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

By focusing on Žižek's narrative of "post-politics," the paper elaborates on Žižek's politics of enjoyment and his reflection and critique of multiculturalism and identity politics, as well as his refusal of simplistic intervention and action. The paper maintains that Žižek rethinks the relation between the particular and the universal and opens a way of repoliticizing the political philosophy and cultural theory.

Cognitive Poetics As A Bridge Between Formal And Impressionist Criticism: On Reuven Tsur's Toward A Theory Of Cognitive Poetics, Huibin He

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In Reuven Tsur' Toward a Theory of Cognitive Poetics, cognitive science is used to explain why certain literary text can produce certain aesthetic effect, and hence a bridge between formal criticism and impressionist criticism is built. In Tsur's book, convergent and divergent styles are set as the two extremes of stylistics, while wit and emotion as two extremes of aesthetic effects. Tsur can then discuss poetry from seven aspects, giving fresh explanations to such aesthetic terms the sublime and the grotesque from the perspective of cognitive science.

Ideas Of Poetry Study And The Paradigms Of Chinese Poetry Studies, Shilun Zhong

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

From "the study of poetry and prose" in the pre-Qin period (before 221-207 B.C.) to "the study of The Book of Poetry" in the Han Dynasty and to "the study of poetry" in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the idea of poetry study in China undergoes constant change from the earliest concept of "expressing will (yanzhi)" in the antiquity. "Expressing will" is "recording events (jishi)" and "writing down the speech (jiyan) ," and fictionalization has no value in the pre-Qin and Han Dynasties. The act of recording contributes the main content of Chinese ancient poetry, while the appropriation of poetry …

Ihab Hassan: The Pioneer Of The Theorization Of Postmodernism, Juan Mao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Ihab Hassan is a pioneer and key figure in the theoretical debate on postmodernism in the late half of the twentieth Century. In a relative stagnant period of literary criticism theory, he surveys various types of pioneer literature, proposes for the first time the theory of postmodernism, and elaborates on the characteristics and theoretical implications of postmodernism. He extends the theory of postmodernism further to the fields of culture and philosophy, and with it his influence has also spread from the United States to Europe and other parts of the world. Hassan defines the fundamental characteristics of postmodernism as "indetermanence." …

Karaoke-Style Rituals And Music: On The Practice Of Karaoke And The Problem Of Modernity, Guanjun Wu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

As one of the key parts of metropolitan life and popular culture in contemporary China, Karaoke has so far eluded the scope of scholarly study. This paper aims not just at analyzing the phenomena spurred by Karaoke activity but essentially at developing a structural analysis of this activity itself. By juxtaposing Karaoke against the Confucian thought on music, this paper argues that the structure of Karaoke constitutes a key feature of modernity and manifests what I call the "crisis of sincerity."

On The Idea Of Progress In The Literary Criticism In The Seventeen Years After 1949 And Its Influence, Pengcheng Kou

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In the field of pre-modern Chinese literature, progress usually referred to the countercurrent of the revival of the ancient styles or practice and it often came with the claim that each era should have a literature with its own new spirit. The concept of progress in modern literature, however, was developed fundamentally with Darwin's evolutionism, which in literary studies displayed a temporal linear development. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the idea of progress in literature implies the literature which serves the masses and the revolution, with a proletariat ideology and a realistic approach. Progress, therefore, refers …