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Shao Yong As The Origin Of The Mind Philosophy In Journey To The West: A Critical Examination, Hongbo Zhu
Shao Yong As The Origin Of The Mind Philosophy In Journey To The West: A Critical Examination, Hongbo Zhu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Journey to the West indisputably contains the philosophy of the mind, but there is no consensus whether it is derived from Wang Yangming's mentalism. An examination of the stylistic features and the Taoist intention of mythological novels reveals a certain identity between Shao Yong's mind philosophy and that of Journey to the West and therefore establishes the significance of Shao's philosophy for the writing of the novel. This realization helps to completely understand the intention of the novel's mind philosophy. Wang Yangming's mentalism and Shao Yong's mind philosophy have something in common yet remain apart; they are not to be …
Strength Of Voice: The Making Of "Literary Culture" And The "New Individual", Jing Yang
Strength Of Voice: The Making Of "Literary Culture" And The "New Individual", Jing Yang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Bob Dylan and his rock and roll works are examples of "literary culture", and he is worthy of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. Different from ordinary popular music, Dylan's works belong to "imaginative culture", are a continuation of a profound idealistic tradition and carrier of ideological unrest. His works are actively engaged in social issues, and contemplate and interpret common concerns of the times, thus creating a poetic "literary culture" that nourish private life, safeguard free space, and realizes fairness and justice. Through empathy and imagination, they realize and enlarge "solidarity" and therefore create "new individuals", or individuals who …
Symptomatic Reading, Surface Reading, And The Renovation Of Literary Criticism In The New Millennium, Ling Yang
Symptomatic Reading, Surface Reading, And The Renovation Of Literary Criticism In The New Millennium, Ling Yang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The new millennium has witnessed the emergence of a series of new approaches to literary criticism in the United States that have posed serious challenges to the dominant paradigm of symptomatic reading and the "hermeneutics of suspicion." Focusing on surface reading proposed by Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus in 2009, this article examines the background, basic ideas, representative works, academic responses, and recent development of this new interpretative practice. It argues that the rise of surface reading is closely tied to the external and internal crises that American literary studies have undergone in recent decades. With rapid changes in contemporary …
The Application Of The Art Of Blank-Leaving In Painting To Modern Fiction And Its Significance, Huizhao Li
The Application Of The Art Of Blank-Leaving In Painting To Modern Fiction And Its Significance, Huizhao Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The art of blank-leaving is important to traditional Chinese painting. At a first glance, it is similar to Western novelists' iceberg theory and theory of vacancy, but they differ in cultural origins, subject matter and the use of skills. Writers with a decent knowledge of traditional painting and calligraphy, such as Wang Zengqi, Jia Pingwa, Wang Xiangfu, Xu Zechen, etc., have been insightful in connecting blank in painting with literature. They have demonstrated different ways of blank-leaving in fiction, and have activated a new space for the application of classical Chinese painting to modern fiction. Wang Zengqi, Jia Pingwa, Xu …
The Conflicts Between Elegance And Vulgarity: Leng Qian Prosody And The Changes Of Rites And Music In The Ming Dynasty, Shunhua Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Like the exterior and interior relations, the retro thoughts trend in literature shared a mutual interdependence with the retro trend on music in Confucian classicism. Song Lian initiated the literature of Ming while Leng Qian pioneered the musicology correspondingly. Song Lian and his followers' esteem for Leng Qian directly represented the retro thoughts of contemporary scholarofficials and their musicology ideas to reform the world with ancient music. In terms of literature, they canonized the harmony of music and poetry exemplified in The Book of Songs and Song Lian further denied the validity of poetry afterwards. Eventually the Hongwu ruling period …
The Disintegration And Reconstruction Of The "Value" In The Study Of The Book Of Songs In The Twentieth Century, Changhua Wang, Pengge Zhao
The Disintegration And Reconstruction Of The "Value" In The Study Of The Book Of Songs In The Twentieth Century, Changhua Wang, Pengge Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Before the Revolution of 1911, the study of The Book of Songs always appeared in classicism, which means that before the end of the Qing dynasty, scholars paid attention to the issue of value in it. When Zhang Taiyan took The Book of Songs as history, he initiated a shift from classicism to history, marking the beginning of deconstructing the value of The Book of Songs. Since then, a new generation of scholars such as Hu Shi regarded The Book of Songs as a historical material, and its value as a Confucian classic was further deconstructed. The literary interpretation of …
"The Unspoken Beauty": A Review Of Beauty And Sublimity: A Cognitive Aesthetics Of Literature And The Arts, Lei Yu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Patrick Colm Hogan's newly published monograph Beauty and Sublimity: A Cognitive Aesthetics of Literature and the Arts aims to explore, among others, the architectural substratum underlying miscellaneous aesthetic responses in literature and the arts, and, by having recourse to a dialogue with cognitive science, enables the previously "unspoken beauty" to secure an unprecedented cognitive attention. This review, on the one hand, focuses and elaborates upon such three crucial topoi as "information processing & emotion system," "aesthetic universals & the diversity of taste," and "variation, canonization & aesthetic argument," as illustrated in Hogan's work, and, on the other, takes issue with …
A Review Of The Sixth Youth Forum Of Chinese Literary Theory Society On "New Changes In Academic Discourse: Academic History, Ideological History And Literary Institutions", Chengguang Peng
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
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Aesthetic Freedom And Ethical Obligation: A Review Of The Construction Of Lyotard's Theory Of The Sublime, Xiaoyuan Ma
Aesthetic Freedom And Ethical Obligation: A Review Of The Construction Of Lyotard's Theory Of The Sublime, Xiaoyuan Ma
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Applying the aesthetic theory of Immanuel Kant into contemporary cultural context, Jean-François Lyotard finds that due to grand narratives such as ideology and technological sciences, aesthetic feeling is no longer a free game between intellectuality and imagination, and aesthetics has become something "permitted" and "realistic". Lyotard criticizes grand narratives, claiming that art could break up the framework of grand narratives only if it jettisons the limits of recognizable representations and presents "the unpresentable". Lyotard therefore integrates avant-garde art as well as other theories into his postmodern aesthetics of the sublime. He believes that free aesthetic activities of contemporary culture could …
Brush Strokes, Texture And Appreciation Of The Original Painting, Zhenhao He
Brush Strokes, Texture And Appreciation Of The Original Painting, Zhenhao He
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In the age of new media, people have many ways to appreciate art works. We get increasingly used to watching and appreciating them with print and electronic media, and even with our cell phone screens. But whether this way of watching can completely replace the way to see the original? Through the analysis and research of the original painting brush strokes and texture, this article explores the haptic visuality and the observer's psychic experiences with the author, so as to find out the essential difference between watching the original works and watching with the print and electronic media. Finally, this …
Digital Manufacturing, Grass-Root Innovation And Sustainable Development: Characteristics Of The Maker Movement In The Uk And The Implications, Wen Wen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The maker movement in the UK is characterized by: digital manufacturing technology as the tool, grass-root innovation as the pathway and sustainable development as the orientation. Digital manufacturing has not only promoted the digital economy in the UK, but also influenced the traditional craft and necessitated new requirements for the digital education of citizens. In the UK, grass-root innovation is not only embodied in the bottom-up formation and management of the makerspaces but also featured in the makers' daily practice. Meanwhile, aiming at sustainability in both economic and social development, makers in the UK are actively engaging in material research, …
From The Dynamic And Static Civilizations To Cultural Metaphysics: Zong Baihua's Methodological Transformation Of Constructing Chinese Artistic Conception In The 1930s And 1940s, Lang Jin
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This article aims to analyze Zong Baihua's methodological transformation of constructing Chinese artistic conception by comparing Chinese and Western paintings during the 1930s and 1940s. In the beginning, Zong Baihua describes that China and the West are respectively static and dynamic; then he turns to consider China a fusion of both by interpreting it as qiyun shengdong (rhythmic vitality), after that, he focuses on the difference between Chinese and Western painting techniques by using the ideas of "musicality" and the "perception of space" to replace the concepts of dynamic and stasis with that of time and space; and finally, he …
Literary Expression In The Discourse Of Artistic Interpretation, Chen'guang Ling
Literary Expression In The Discourse Of Artistic Interpretation, Chen'guang Ling
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The writer is the subject of literary expression in the discourse of art interpretation. They interpret paintings as a visual allegory, and penetrate the surface of the canvas to the deep meaning. They look at a picture as if it was a play, and explain an art piece like explaining a story. The main way of commenting on art works is literary rhetoric, emotional projection and semiotic imagination. Their self-positioning is a psychological analyst and their goal is to find the truth. Through the contest with painters at the levels of signs and meaning, the depth and emotional intensity of …
Mediated Subjectivity: Reflections On And Reinterpretations To Discourse Of Post-Human Subject, Xiaoxi Shan
Mediated Subjectivity: Reflections On And Reinterpretations To Discourse Of Post-Human Subject, Xiaoxi Shan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Discourse of post-human subject is formed in the process and context of of reflecting on and criticizing the discourse of modern subject. In this regard, the "Cyborg" discourse of subject, informationalism discourse of subject and "universal-vitality" discourse of subject can be seen as the representative forms of discourse of post-human subject in Western countries. When it comes to the reflections on problems related to solipsism, autonomy and modern subject of possession, discourse of post-human subject has made some achievements. However, there are still some limitations which are respectively the subject concept of adherent entity, the relationship mode between the subject …
A Reinvestigation Of Kant's Concept Of "Interesse": A Reinterpretation Of The Chief Element Of The Power Of Judgment, Xianliang Xu
A Reinvestigation Of Kant's Concept Of "Interesse": A Reinterpretation Of The Chief Element Of The Power Of Judgment, Xianliang Xu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This article takes Immanuel Kant's concept of "interesse", and investigates its meaning for understanding of Critique of the Power of Judgment. According to Kant, interesse does not mean that the judging subject is disinterested in beauty, but in the real existence of the object of judgment. Within such a frame, the freedom internal to aesthetic judgment is highlighted. Because interest always concerns the real object, aesthetic judgment without interest is free from subjective preference. Under such circumstances, the subject is entitled to the request of the same judgment from others and thus together they reach universal identity. The freedom is …
Charm Of Fictitious History: The Literary Value Of New Historical Fiction, Ping Wang
Charm Of Fictitious History: The Literary Value Of New Historical Fiction, Ping Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Focusing on the forms of new historical fiction, this article analyzes general artistic features of its narrative. Since new historical fiction no longer attempts to construct a historical stage of facts, the writing patterns of previous historical fiction have been gradually broken. In the new artistic forms — fade-out and circularity of time, "intertextualized" narrative strategy, personalized historical discourse — new historical fiction assumes new meanings, which gives its text fictitious charm. The type of fiction uses new narrative to depict history which, significantly different from the past, embodies the wisdom of literary creation and also provides a new possibility …
Readymade And The Placing/Stellen Of Truth: A Heideggerian Interpretation Of Duchamp's "Fountain", Yulong Miao
Readymade And The Placing/Stellen Of Truth: A Heideggerian Interpretation Of Duchamp's "Fountain", Yulong Miao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Through his subversive thinking of Plato's cave metaphor, Martin Heidegger has restored to truth (aletheia) its original significance. Then he bases the origin of art on its relation with truth. The so-called producing (herstellen) of the Earth and instituting (aufstellen) of the World is exactly the placing (Stellen) and placing-together (Ge-stell) of truth. A Heideggerian interpretation of Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" will attest excellently to the validity of readymade art as the placing/stellen of truth.
On Interpretative Validity Of Intentionalism Against Fallacy Of Private Language: Based On Levinson, Carroll And Davidson's Approaches, Qiao Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Anti-intentionalism always thinks that any commitment to the concept of intention will lead to the fallacy of private language, representatives of which are theoretical samples like Humpty Dumpty-ism. If Intentionalism is to continue to have interpretative validity, alternative concept of intention must be provided to get rid of the fallacy of private language. This paper presents three approaches of intentionalism revival in analytical aesthetics. The first two versions of the intentionalism reactivate the intention in text interpretation in a place, but still make concessions to anti-intentionalism. It is because both of them share the view with anti-intentionalism that language conventions …
Visual Modernity And Media Archeology:The Techniques Of The Observer And Modern Visual Culture In China, Hongfeng Tang
Visual Modernity And Media Archeology:The Techniques Of The Observer And Modern Visual Culture In China, Hongfeng Tang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Jonathan Crary's The Techniques of the Observer is one of the most important works of visual culture studies, which provides a new historical perspective on modern western vision. Crary traces modern vision to the subjective vision based on new scientific discoveries on vision and new inventions of optical apparatus of the nineteenth century. Thus a new type of observer, who is seen as a modern subject by Crary, was formed. Crary's study has enlarged the field of art history and he has conducted lots of in-depth analysis of visuality, media, perception, etc. His book especially shows two new trends in …
Xing In Mei Shi: A Theory On Genetic Poetics, Xiaoming Liu, Xiangrong Sun
Xing In Mei Shi: A Theory On Genetic Poetics, Xiaoming Liu, Xiangrong Sun
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Different from general arguments mainly concerning the expression of Poetics in Shi Jing. This article is mainly concerned with "Xing Yi" (Affective Image's inner motif) of the authors' internality, which is also in the scope of mei shi. It is not only dynamic but also uncertain. It has not been conceptualized yet and is in an unattended state. Therefore, in this way it generates infinite possibilities, which thence constitute the constitution and genesis of poetics. This paper expounds four connotations on "Xing" in mei shi, and the generative mechanism of genetic poetics. "Xing Yi" encounters emotional experience in unattended mei …
Richard Rorty And The Possibility Of A Neo-Pragmatic Literary Theory, Yonghua Tang
Richard Rorty And The Possibility Of A Neo-Pragmatic Literary Theory, Yonghua Tang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In virtue of the logic of Richard Rorty's neo-pragmatism, it is problematic to claim that Rorty's literary theory is based on his philosophy. Rather, Rorty as a neo-pragmatist and a literary theorist can both make more sense if they are put together. So we may need start from the controversy over the definition of neo-pragmatism, and activate the tension between literature and philosophy, in order to give a more thoughtful examination of Rorty's design of literary theory. Besides, we can divide theories into three types according to their function: inquiry, problematization, and therapeutics. Thus we may place better a possible …
Allure Of Things And Vicarious Causation: Harman's Poetics Of Objects, Xie Shaobo
Allure Of Things And Vicarious Causation: Harman's Poetics Of Objects, Xie Shaobo
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Graham Harman's poetics of objects challenges the linguistic turn which has dominated Euro-American philosophy in the past few decades, calling for a return to the world of things and championing a theory of autonomy and democracy of objects. Harman not only equally teats all forms of being as objects, but sees the components of any singular object as sovereign and autonomous objects in their own right. He has created a series of new concepts such as "allure of things" and "vicarious causation," urging us to look at the world from a radically new perspective and explore the ontology and meaning …
Chuxiang, Annotations And Performances Of Moon Prayer Pavilion: A Case Study Of Li Zhuowu's Annotated Edition And Ling Yanxi's Engraved Edition, Shumei Ding, Ranran Zhang
Chuxiang, Annotations And Performances Of Moon Prayer Pavilion: A Case Study Of Li Zhuowu's Annotated Edition And Ling Yanxi's Engraved Edition, Shumei Ding, Ranran Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Based on Li Zhuowu's annotated edition and Ling Yanxi's engraved edition of Moon Prayer Pavilion, the article analyzes intertextuality and connection between its illustrations and dramatic narrative. Specifically, it makes an analysis from the following aspects: chuxiang (illustrations on the upper part of a page with texts below), illustration order and inscriptions on the illustrations, textual meaning expression and performance of story scenes, figure gestures and scenic tension, etc. Considering all the aspects, the article tries to illuminate how the book reconstructs artistic conception by inserting annotations instead of only displaying the plot through pictures; how it shapes the characters …
Differentiation And Reconstruction Of Value: Function And Value Orientation Of Literary And Art Criticism In The New Era, Shuzhuo Jiang, Shi Li
Differentiation And Reconstruction Of Value: Function And Value Orientation Of Literary And Art Criticism In The New Era, Shuzhuo Jiang, Shi Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The absence, aphasia and weakening of literary and art criticism are not only related to the strong influence of marketization and western theories, but also rooted in value differentiation in the process of modernization. Xi Jinping's series of speeches on literary and art work have provided an important opportunity of constructing value of literary and art criticism in the new era. Criticism in the new era should function to improve people's aesthetic quality and cultivate modern personality. And value orientation of criticism shall be people-oriented, firmly confident in China's history and cultural traditions, and adhering to the principle of aesthetics.
Federal Literatures: Toward A Theory Of Literary Intranationality, Braz Albert
Federal Literatures: Toward A Theory Of Literary Intranationality, Braz Albert
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
There is a general tendency to associate a national literature with a nation-state, a link that at times verges on the mystical. Yet it is common knowledge that there are considerably more sociological nations than nation-states, suggesting that often there is more than one nation in a given country and likely more than one national literature. This essay scrutinizes the real contours of the national bodies of writing produced in multination states in an attempt to develop a method for examining literary production other than the “national literature” paradigm—more specifically, federal literatures.
Form In The Vein Of Pragmatist Aesthetics: Dewey's Debt To And Distance From Emerson, Xiaofang Yin
Form In The Vein Of Pragmatist Aesthetics: Dewey's Debt To And Distance From Emerson, Xiaofang Yin
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This article makes a comparative analysis of Dewey's debt to and distance from Emerson in the vein of the aesthetic theory of form. In their aesthetic projects, Dewey and Emerson, departing from the criticism of the relevant traditional theories of form, base their formal thoughts on the everyday experience, construct them into formal theories with organic and dynamic features, and eventually treat the way of achieving aesthetic form as a valid approach to human significance. But in methodology, Dewey differs from Emerson. In the aesthetic subject's detached phenomenological observation of natural facts, Emerson, in the logic of sensory-perception, transforms analogically …
Knowledge Fragment And Theoretical System: Keywords As The Philosophical Basis For The Knowledge System Of Literary Theory, Hongbo Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper discusses deep changes of literary theory as a subject of knowledge writing when keywords are used to construct the knowledge system of literary theory. It reveals knowledge assumption behind the changes from the perspectives of disciplinary boundary, meaning reconstruction, and study acceptance. According to the paper, it is fuzzy disciplinary boundary of literary theory that makes it possible to perceive and generate theory by using keywords; with the narrative of literary theories questioned, it thus becomes necessary to use keywords and reconstruct meaning. At the same time, the knowledge of literary theory marked by keywords provides readers with …
On Richard Rorty's Concept Of Imagination, Xiaolin Li
On Richard Rorty's Concept Of Imagination, Xiaolin Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Richard Rorty constructs "a poetized culture", in which literature substitutes for religion and philosophy as the leading role of culture. It is the "culture" respecting "imagination" and "liberal utopia". The "imagination" of Rorty includes not only the imagination of private perfection and human solidarity, but also the utopian imagination of the future. Rorty's "imagination" carries forward the concept of romantic literature, as well as practices the proposition of "philosophy as cultural politics" of neo-pragmatism.
Records Of What He Saw And Heard Of: The Principle And Methods In The Composition Of Classical Chinese Xiaoshuo, Ning Luo
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Xiaoshuo (lit. petty discourse) in classical Chinese, the predominant genre of xiaoshuo in ancient China, is different from vernacular xiaoshuo and western novel. Its major principle and methods are accounts of what one saw or heard of rather than mere conception or fiction. This feature finds clear expression in elaborations on ancient works about bibliography, in the naming of xiaoshuo, in the preface or postscript of xiaoshuo, and in scholarly discussions of ancient China. In modern times, due to the influence of the Western conception of the novel, modern elements and strandards of writing such as fictionality, narrative and character …
Retrospect And Re-Exploration Of Structuralism, Qichao Zhou
Retrospect And Re-Exploration Of Structuralism, Qichao Zhou
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The cross-disciplinary and multi-lingual theoretical journey of "structuralism" is one of the essential topic in contemporary international literary criticism and comparative poetics. Is "structuralism" a school or ideological trend? Roland Barthes argues that structuralism is neither a school nor a movement but an activity. Is "structuralism" a theory or a methodology? Structuralist Jan Mykarovsky believes that structuralism is neither a theory nor a methodology but a cognitive position independent from both. Structuralism de facto is not only a construction activity but a cognitive position and even an ideological paradigm. It is the structuralist criticism belonging to dialogue and interactivity, contrast …