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The Boat As Polis: Some Issues Of The Political Philosophy In Early Greek Poetry, Xiaofeng Liu
The Boat As Polis: Some Issues Of The Political Philosophy In Early Greek Poetry, Xiaofeng Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The early Greek lyric poetry is not only about love or love story, but also responds to the revolution of the 6th century B.C. It reflects the fundamental experiences of the transition from aristocracy to democracy, which is the focus of this paper when examining the poems of Solon, Alcaeus and Theogenis.
The Education Of Teachers Of Chinese And The Spirit Of University: On Xu Zhongyu's Literary Theory, Xiaoguang Lu
The Education Of Teachers Of Chinese And The Spirit Of University: On Xu Zhongyu's Literary Theory, Xiaoguang Lu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The uniqueness of Xu Zhongyu's literary theory lies in his people-oriented thought of "teacher education". The first remarkable characteristic is its concern with issues specific to the cultivation of the grass-root talents. Xu Zhongyu's literary theory enters into the field of College Chinese because of the implicit reason that he reinterprets the classical meaning of "normal" to relate with the spirit of university. Xu Zhongyu's literary theory and his long career in Chinese normal education may provide new inspiration to establish the spirit of university different from Western concept of "normal" education.
Zhu Guangqian And Expressionism: An Alternative Way To Bridge The Chinese And Western Aesthetics, Xun Dai
Zhu Guangqian And Expressionism: An Alternative Way To Bridge The Chinese And Western Aesthetics, Xun Dai
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper claims that the duality mode of Sino-Western comparative aesthetics research and the en vogue mentality in prevailing in China hinders our understanding of the Westernization process of Chinese aesthetics from multiple perspectives. One important thread of development that has been neglected is Zhu Guangqian's expressionist aesthetics. Influenced by the dominating lyrical tradition in Chinese poetics and the Western expressionism prevalent in the early 20th century, Zhu found it hard to buy the mimetic theory in the Western tradition and the Marxist epistemological aesthetics born out of it. Instead, Zhu developed his own expressionist aesthetics by integrating the Western …
On The Compilation Objectives Of Xiao Tong's Selections Of Refined Literature: From The Perspective Of Wei Zhao's "On Gaming", Xun Yang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Wei Zhao's (204-273) "On Gaming" had not drawn much attention before the Kingdom of Liang (502-557), probably because its tenets were at odds with the social mores promoted by Emperor Wu of Liang. Wei's text was included into the Selections of Refined Literature because on the one hand it appealed to Xiao Tong's personal taste as he wanted to express his distain toward gaming and on the other hand Xiao Tong hoped to convey a warning to some officials and to caution and dissuade his own father. This paper tries to demonstrate through the above mentioned example that specific reasons …
"Heaven's Scheme" And Randomness From The Perspective Of Comparative Literary Theories, Mingfen Huang
"Heaven's Scheme" And Randomness From The Perspective Of Comparative Literary Theories, Mingfen Huang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In classical Chinese literary theories, "Tianji" (Heaven's scheme) as a categorical concept has its root in Taoist concept of inspiration, focusing on the conditions of timing, opportunities and changes in natural existence, and it emphasizes on the artists' reaction in response to the changing circumstances. The concept of "randomness" as applied in the Western theories of digital art, comes from the mathematical theory on probability, which focuses on the contingency of artifact and takes it as the very opportunity of exploring ideas. Neither the heaven's scheme nor randomness falls within the conceptual category of pure probability, but they reflect the …
"Return What Is China’S To China": A Contrapuntal Reading Of "The Veiled And The Unveiled" And "Fu, Bi, Xing", Gang Luo
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Wang Guowei's theory about the poetic states of being "veiled (ge) and unveiled (buge)" derives from Schopenhauer's distinction between concept and intuition as well as the traditional dualistic antithesis of rationality and emotion of modern Western aesthetics. This paper argues that Wang's theory is displaced from and contradicted with the critical paradigm of "Fu-Bi-Xing (straightforward narrative, explicit comparison, implicit comparison)" in Chinese ancient poetics. Due to this displacement and contradiction, Wang Guowei regards Bi and Xing as "the veiled". The rupture inherent in Wang Guowei's poetics has long been overlooked and his theory of "artistic conception" has been treated as …
A Critical Investigation Into The Evolution Of Zhu Gongdiao's Musical Narrative Scheme, Zhimei Sheng
A Critical Investigation Into The Evolution Of Zhu Gongdiao's Musical Narrative Scheme, Zhimei Sheng
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Zhu Gongdiao ("All-Mode Tune") is a composite musical narrative art, which shows as singing various modal tunes to various keys, and it was the popular folk opera form in the Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties. Musical narrative scheme of All-Mode Tune develops from decreasing use of keys to increasing use of modal tunes, and alongside this development is the change from lyrics-centred form to operatic form. As a folk art form, All-Mode Tune succeeded the ancient "Tanci" (chanting lyrics) after the "bianwen" (transformative text) and preceded the drama in the present form. Therefore, All-Mode Tune was associated with the two …
A Critical Survey Of Xu Zhongyu's Theory Of Literature Around The Anti-Japanese War, Xuezhen Wang
A Critical Survey Of Xu Zhongyu's Theory Of Literature Around The Anti-Japanese War, Xuezhen Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Around the Anti-Japanese War (1937-1945), Xu Zhongyu wrote much in the area of literary theory which covered literary criticism, national literature, literary language, etc. His essays were positive in the value pursuit and methodologically scientific in the methodology, and they still have academic vitality and enlightenment.
An Anthropological Reflection On Lu Xun'sOld Tales Retold, Lili Liu
An Anthropological Reflection On Lu Xun'sOld Tales Retold, Lili Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper takes an interdisciplinary perspective and tries to present an anthropological reflection on the stories in Lu Xun's Old Tales Retold. For Lu Xun, the stories were important, especially the old stories in the ancient classics, and he creatively rewrote the classical stories to get across what he wanted to convey. In his rewriting, Lu Xun combined materials from many classics so as to make the retold stories take on artistic features of creative stories. Lu Xun's Old Tales Retold merged well into the development of fiction writing in Chinese literary history, which evolved from the antique myth and …
An Exposition Of Zhu Xi's "Preface To Annotations ToThe Book Of Songs", Hui Zhang
An Exposition Of Zhu Xi's "Preface To Annotations ToThe Book Of Songs", Hui Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Zhu Xi (1130-1200) had written three prefaces to The Book of Songs. His "Preface to Annotations to The Book of Songs" was not intended for the book it prefaced but for the aborted earlier book Collected Interpretations of The Book of Songs. This preface was not the later "Prefaces to The Book of Songs," which were generally referred to as The Bigger Preface and The Smaller Preface. The present paper takes "Preface to Annotations" as a transitional critical text in Zhu Xi's thought and tries to explore the dialogic relationship between this preface and the Bigger and Smaller Prefaces. The …
Between Mythos And Philosophia, Keping Wang
Between Mythos And Philosophia, Keping Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Chronologically, mythos (myth) came into being before philosophia (philosophy). Mythos tends to make people "wonder" and "think" whereas philosophia attempts to work out the meaning of this wondering. Thus it leads to a process of endless exploration. This being the case, philomythos is in a way like philosophos. In other words, he who loves myths is somewhat like a philosopher who loves wisdom and pursues truth. Plato himself is not merely a myth-lover but a myth-maker, and he therefore develops a dialogue-based philosophy saturated with poetic wisdom. It is through the interaction between mythos and philosophia that mythos becomes rationalized …
Arendt's Aesthetics Of The Political And Its Modern Politico-Philosophical Implications, Hecheng Li
Arendt's Aesthetics Of The Political And Its Modern Politico-Philosophical Implications, Hecheng Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The love for the world leads to the hatred of the world's evil; the hatred of the claustrophobia from the evil in the private leads to the passionately exploration into the human’s common conditions in the public. Arendt found her solution to the modern political predicament in the performance of virtuosity, which transcends "making" and material production. The transcendence aims to implant into the increasingly perfected political communications the ontological significance of productivity and production relations, while the performance is an experience of modernity (i.e. the aesthetic) in an effort to undermine the will to good and remove the desire …
Chinese Images In English Poetry: A Comparative Reading Between Literary Fictionalization And Western Consciousness, Fanjian Zeng, Hanbo Liu
Chinese Images In English Poetry: A Comparative Reading Between Literary Fictionalization And Western Consciousness, Fanjian Zeng, Hanbo Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
English poetry has a longstanding tradition in creating images about China. The images, from the perspective of literary anthropology by Wolfgang Iser, cannot be freed from interrelated unity of opposites between fictionalization, imagination and facts. While fictionalization and imagination are essential to poetry, their foundation and destination have to be the facts about China and the subjectivity of the Western. If native Chinese poetics is applied into a comparative reading of the images of China in English poetry, especially by focusing on the subject-object relationship shown in literary fictionalization and the Western consciousness through an empirical study based on linguistic …
From "和" To There: Marxist Hermeneutics With Chinese Characteristics, Gregory Mahoney Josef
From "和" To There: Marxist Hermeneutics With Chinese Characteristics, Gregory Mahoney Josef
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
We begin by synthesizing Karl Marx's historical periods qua modes of production with Michel Foucault's epistemological periodizations — epistemes, which we then combine with Fredric Jameson's work on ideologemes. Jameson's acknowledged weakness is a failure to address those positive if not utopian elements that might be instrumentally valuable for deconstructing or disassembling ideologemes in the course of historical progress. We then argue that such alternatives would be, ideally, concrete universals (具体的普遍), and would be both trans-epistemic and trans-historical. We then provide several reasons why it seems reasonable to search for the concrete universal par excellence within Chinese linguistic and philosophical …
Media Ontology: The Philosophical Basis Of The Research Of New Media Literature And Art, Xiaoxi Shan
Media Ontology: The Philosophical Basis Of The Research Of New Media Literature And Art, Xiaoxi Shan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
To construct media ontology is to lay a philosophical foundation for the research into new media literature and art. Media ontology, compared with media epistemology and media ousiaology, is a post-metaphysical media philosophy grounded on the theories of modern ontology, and the theoretical context is constructed by the theoretical reflections from the perspective of media philosophy and the studies on the transition from classic ontology to modern ousiaology. The three illogically interconnected propositions of media ontology are "to be is to inform," "the medium is information" and "media is being." In this light, being can be interpreted through information activities …
Review Of "Strangers At Home: History And Subjectivity Among The Chinese Communities Of West Kalimantan, Indonesia" By Yew-Foong Hui, Sharon A. Carstens
Review Of "Strangers At Home: History And Subjectivity Among The Chinese Communities Of West Kalimantan, Indonesia" By Yew-Foong Hui, Sharon A. Carstens
Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations
Review of "Strangers at Home: History and Subjectivity among the Chinese Communities of West Kalimantan, Indonesia" by Yew-Foong Hui, published by Brill, 2011.
The Narrative Function And Stylistic Significance Of The Official Papers In The Tang-Dynasty Fictions, Guofu Cheng, Liang He
The Narrative Function And Stylistic Significance Of The Official Papers In The Tang-Dynasty Fictions, Guofu Cheng, Liang He
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Tang-Dynasty fictions comprise of writings in different styles and of different genres, and official papers take up a considerable part. Official papers have prescribed function and specific purpose, and they can be divided into two categories. One category includes the official papers that go to the upper levels, which may be used in both the officialdom and the religious circle. The other category includes the official papers that are sent to the lower levels in the officialdom. Official papers in the Tang fictions function in two aspects. On the one hand, they perform the narrative functions in terms of theme …
A Critical Reflection On And Construction Of Modern Chinese Literary Theory, Yichuan Wang
A Critical Reflection On And Construction Of Modern Chinese Literary Theory, Yichuan Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This essay attempts to survey and critically reflect the development of modern Chinese literary theory. It summarizes the heritage of modern Chinese literary theory in the form of domestic stand that incorporates Western thoughts, modern position that revitalizes Chinese tradition, union between individuals and the mass, the priority of material over mind in the symbiosis of thought and art, and the necessary tension between interior intellectual system and exterior ideological institutions. The history of modern Chinese literary theory also leaves us some lessons to learn, especially such fixations as inclination to dialectic thinking, thinking taking priority over being, over-appropriating, xenophobic …
A Positioning Of China In The Global Space: Reflecting The Overseas Debate On Chineseness And Sinophone, Xiayun Yu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper tries to reveal the ideological structure and cultural manipulation behind those discussions around the recent debate on Chineseness in the overseas world. It points out that intentional misuse should be further distinguished from the misuse in the discourse of Chineseness, and that the refinement of Chineseness should not be confined in the political field but be opened to include the cultural inheritance and renovation in the native land as well as the cultural progress through the dialogue between worldwide Chinese and Western. With the dialogue seeped through the debate, Chineseness may then be curbed from degenerating into a …
Classic Literary Genres And The Canonization Of Literary Genres, Fenran Jia
Classic Literary Genres And The Canonization Of Literary Genres, Fenran Jia
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper explores the historical process during which Chinese classic literary genres of poetry and prose are canonized. The paper maintains that the identification and support from the mainstream culture is the most important among the various factors contributing to the canonization of the genres of poetry and prose. The values promoted by the mainstream culture points to the directions of literary creation and criticism and allows for the space for the poetry and literary prose to develop. As a result, genres, subjected to the influence from mainstream culture, have no choice but accept the values supported by the mainstream …
Mo Yan's Polarizations: An Interpretation Of HisBig Breasts And Wide Hips, Yong Zhao
Mo Yan's Polarizations: An Interpretation Of HisBig Breasts And Wide Hips, Yong Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Before writing Big Breasts and Wide Hips, Mo Yan has already formed a fixed mode of polarized thinking and perception, and the mode is reflected in his choice of subject matter. One the hand, he dredges from memorized history and writes with a confirmative force; on the other hand, he criticizes the realistic history and writes with a negative attitude. Big Breasts and Wide Hips displays as the reasonable extension of both polarities and shows that it is both a grace deconstruction of the memorized history and a parody of the realistic history. The characters are designed to fall into …
On Liu Gangji's Practical Ontological Aesthetics As An Advance Of Practical Aesthetics, Liyuan Zhu, Wenying Zhang
On Liu Gangji's Practical Ontological Aesthetics As An Advance Of Practical Aesthetics, Liyuan Zhu, Wenying Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In 1980s, Liu Gangji put forward and established practical ontological aesthetics as a result of reflection and critique of mechanistic and perceptual materialism. He re-interpreted the Marxist view of practice as that which is participated by both the subject and the object, and elevated practice from epistemological level to ontological level. In this way, his conceptualization surpassed the dichotomy between subject and object and transcended the material ontology in the track of old materialism which to this day is still followed by some scholars. Liu Gang Ji's concept of practice not only initiated an advance in Marxist aesthetics of practicum …
Postmodernity, Hegemony, Sexuality, Alderson David
Postmodernity, Hegemony, Sexuality, Alderson David
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Michel Foucault influentially dismissed 'Freudo-Marxism' in his History of Sexuality, vol. 1. This paper, by contrast, proposes a critique of postmodern theory, as well as theories of postmodernity, in proposing a return to the preoccupations of Herbert Marcuse in relation to sexuality. Specifically, the paper suggests that we must take account of the transformations in capitalism that have taken place since Marcuse's time when revisiting his work, but that his category of the performance principle is now even more relevant than it was when he elaborated it. Nonetheless, his theory of repressive desublimation is revised as repressive incitement, and a …
The Concept Of "Tianji" In Ancient Chinese Literary Criticism Under The Perspective Of Phenomenology, Jing Zhang
The Concept Of "Tianji" In Ancient Chinese Literary Criticism Under The Perspective Of Phenomenology, Jing Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper attempts to reflect the concept of "tianji (Heaven's secret)" from the perspective of phenomenology. It claims that "tianji" is an important concept in literary creation theory, and it maintains that the understanding of the concept should focus on the following five elements: 1) the accidental moment of spirituality in the aesthetic subject, 2) artistic vitality, 3) the intrinsic aesthetic formation, 4) the aesthetic intention within the aesthetic subject, and 5) the secret power of universe and nature. The paper claims that quite a few concepts in phenomenology can be used to illuminate our understanding of "tianji." The theory …
The Mythistorical Pattern In The Studies On Origins Of Civilization, Qian Wang
The Mythistorical Pattern In The Studies On Origins Of Civilization, Qian Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The concept of mythistory is developed in the period of the New Historiography, and it is closely related to the changing concept of history. Mythistory takes mythology as a narrative origin of history, and thus the fundamental confrontation between mythology and history is dissolved. In the research on the origins of civilization, the mythistorical pattern aims to explore how myths enter history, and to investigate the shaping function of myths in the formation of civilization. Advocators of this pattern generally agree that the mythology as metahistory is the narrative dynamic mechanism behind the emergence of history.
The Rhetoric Of "New Manchu": With A Focus OnNew ManchuMagazine In Puppet Manchurian State, Xiaoli Liu
The Rhetoric Of "New Manchu": With A Focus OnNew ManchuMagazine In Puppet Manchurian State, Xiaoli Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Manchukuo, a puppet state of Japan in the northeastern part of China, tried to create an ideology of New Manchu. This paper explored how Manchu was turned into New Manchu, and then discussed the imperialist logic behind the rhetoric of New Manchu. The logic implied that Japan was advanced, civilized and attractive but Manchu was underdeveloped, inferior and uncivilized. Further to the assumption was that Manchu needed to be educated and transformed by Japan. The paper proceeded to discuss who could be the happy subjects under the governance of Manchukuo, and from there the paper tries to deconstruct the hypocritical …
On Liu Xizai's Paradox About The Exhaustibility Of Meaning, Xingchuan Tao
On Liu Xizai's Paradox About The Exhaustibility Of Meaning, Xingchuan Tao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Liu Xizai in his General Principles of Arts proposed a paradoxical idea about exhausting the inexhaustibility of meaning with the inexhaustible, and this paper claims that his idea points at the fundamental function of aesthetic creativity. The ideas developed in Liu's book cover two sides. On the one hand, the book explicates the concept of the inexhaustibility of meaning from three aspects: the infiniteness of the macro and the micro dimensions, the incompatibility between language and meaning, and the infiniteness in the finiteness. On the other hand, the book explains the approaches to exhaust the inexhaustible from three aspects: writing …
Theoretical Traces Of Raymond Williams' "Structures Of Feeling" And "Cultural Materialism", Jifang Duan
Theoretical Traces Of Raymond Williams' "Structures Of Feeling" And "Cultural Materialism", Jifang Duan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"Structures of Feeling" is an important concept in Raymond Williams' aesthetic theory of "Cultural Materialism", and it is the starting point of his Marxist aesthetics and underlies the different stages of his theoretical development. The concept of "the structure of feeling" provides both an anchor point for retrospective criticism on his cultural materialism aesthetics and a point of departure for delineating the trajectory of his theoretical development and implications. The paper advocates a close reading of theory as it may provide an important approach to understand Williams' Marxist cultural theory as that it represents a way to break away from …
Critique Of Foucault's Theory Of Discourse, Xian Zhou
Critique Of Foucault's Theory Of Discourse, Xian Zhou
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"French theory" is another expression for the post-structuralist thought in France, with Foucault's theory of discourse being the most influential, and constructivism lies at the core of the theory. On the one hand, the theory of discourse highlights the function discourse performs in constructing subjectivity and the reality; on the other hand, it aims to reveal the symbiotic relation between the power and knowledge behind discourse. Thus, the theory dissolves the cognitive agency of the subject while foregrounding the subject's construction of discourse, and it highlights the representational practice of discourse while forecloses the social material practice of the non-discourse. …
Dialectics Between Politics And Literature: On Overseas Studies In Chinese Literature, Jin Ji
Dialectics Between Politics And Literature: On Overseas Studies In Chinese Literature, Jin Ji
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper surveys and reflects on the overseas researches on the relationship between Marxism and modern Chinese literature. Through critical analyses of major studies on Left-Wing literature and writers as well as case studies sinicization of Marxist aesthetic ideology, the paper tries to expose the struggle between knowledge and power and reveal the complexity of mutual stimulus between internal and external factors. The paper points out that the study of the sinicization of Marxism should discard the grand historical narrative with one dominant voice and be re-positioned into the multiple voiced historical site. The paper concludes that overseas studies have …