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Between Medusa And Nymph: On Agamben's Theory Of Image, Jiang Lan
Between Medusa And Nymph: On Agamben's Theory Of Image, Jiang Lan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Image is born as a technology of memory, that is, the image realizes the possibility to access a disappeared past from the perspective of our finite present. However, the original image, as an object petrified by Medusa, has frozen a past which we cannot penetrate from our finitude. Indeed, Agamben doesn't think that the existence of image will thoroughly petrify our past; on the contrary, there are crevices between the petrified stones. It is in these crevices that lies the possibility to dialectically articulate the images, that is, Walter Benjamin’s dialectical image. Nevertheless, what fascinates Agamben most is not the …
Foucault And Damnatio Memoriae: An Introduction To The Mnemo-Government Of Cinema, Yang Li
Foucault And Damnatio Memoriae: An Introduction To The Mnemo-Government Of Cinema, Yang Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Foucault published several interviews and articles about cinema in 1970s, and he took the cinema as one of the dispositifs codifying the popular memory. The working class in 19th century invented many ways to write their own memory, but the cinema, by way of popular historical narration, ended the history of the people from the lower depths to write their memory. Foucault analyzed how the controversial (retro and erotic) films in 1970s represented desire and power in historical narration. This paper tries to combine Foucault's "dispositif of popular memory" with the biopolitics, and claims that the memory is also the …
Ideology In Narrative And The Surpass Of It: A Discussion Based On Ricoeur's Lectures On Ideology And Utopia, Xin Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper bases its discussion on Paul Ricoeur's Lectures on Ideology and Utopia and investigates how Ricoeur proposes his own dialectical conceptualization upon his own reading of Marx's classical texts and constructs his dimension of reflection in his poetics of narrative. Narrative, when bringing logic structure into events, becomes a process of rationalization or legitimization, and in this process the reality is distorted. Before it becomes absolute distortion, Ricoeur claims, the representation itself is one part of the materialistic and linguistic activities of a human person, a language of real life existed before distortion. When narrative links to such function, …
Gao Ershi's Concept Of The Refined And The Mundane In Calligraphic Art, Bin Zhou, Shuqiang Cui
Gao Ershi's Concept Of The Refined And The Mundane In Calligraphic Art, Bin Zhou, Shuqiang Cui
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The concepts of the refined and the mundane are a pair of important category in calligraphic aesthetics and Gao Ershi's ideas on this are reflected in three aspects. The first is to regard the classical as the refined and the contemporary as the mundane. This is realized by reviving and studying the cursive style for official writing. The second is to regard the cultured to be refined and the crafted as the mundane. This emphasizes the cultural and aesthetic implications and attributes of calligraphy. The third is to take the clear to be refined and the turbid to be mundane. …
Ironical Appropriation Of Revolutionary Signs: For Memories Buried In Forgetting, Jiwu Zhou
Ironical Appropriation Of Revolutionary Signs: For Memories Buried In Forgetting, Jiwu Zhou
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The ironical appropriation of revolutionary signs is a visual representation strategy widely used in contemporary art practice of China, with the purpose to transform invisible cultural trauma into visual text of remembrance. Amid the textual and visual narratives, hierarchical order of symbols and signs meets its deconstruction. Appropriation of revolutionary signs in contemporary art practice is evident in three aspects: 1) appropriation and contra-appropriation of visual signs; 2) displacement and transformation of visual images; 3) parody of visual texts. However, not all appropriation of revolutionary signs is ironical, and the criteria for irony should include semantic polysemy, contextual sharing, and …
Is Queer Theory Equal To Gay And Lesbian Studies？, Lanlan Du
Is Queer Theory Equal To Gay And Lesbian Studies？, Lanlan Du
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Queer theory is a field of post-structuralist critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of women's studies. Although it is related to gay and lesbian studies, it differs from and reacts to them. Since Chinese scholars tend to conflate queer theory with gay and lesbian studies, this essay hopes for a more accurate introduction of queer theory with an analysis of its main ideas.
A Critical Survey Of Four Concepts In Literary Theories Concerning "Ethics", Yuanqiao Li
A Critical Survey Of Four Concepts In Literary Theories Concerning "Ethics", Yuanqiao Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In terms of the relation between ethics and literature, some key concepts have been frequently used but sometimes the supposed distinction has not been clarified. This paper tries to survey the following four important concepts concerning the ethics in literary theories: ethical turn, ethical criticism, narrative ethics, and ethical literary criticism. The ethical turn occurs in many fields, while ethical criticism mainly applies to the field of literature and arts. The uses of narrative ethics vary in different contexts, and ethical literary criticism is a neologism in Chinese context first used by Chinese scholar Nie Zhenzhao.
Historical Totality: The Plight Of Re-Enchantment: A Critical Review Of Jameson's Major Code Of Narrative Politics, Kaiyan Zhang
Historical Totality: The Plight Of Re-Enchantment: A Critical Review Of Jameson's Major Code Of Narrative Politics, Kaiyan Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
As one of the major codes in Jameson's cultural and political hermeneutics, "the totality history," while yielding much insight, has a tendency of re-enchantment (mystification). Jameson thinks that the individual perceptual experience is not true for the totality history, while the totality history can not be recognized and grasped by any individual, so his theory has obvious mystification tendency and intrinsic paradox. Meantime, Jameson's totality history view also encounters severe query and challenge in the post-modern context. Solving the plight Jameson faced is not to deny the existence of the historical totality, but to absorb Chinese and western philosophers' wisdom …
A Discussion Of "Off-Site Requisition" In Literary Theory, Guoqiang Qiao
A Discussion Of "Off-Site Requisition" In Literary Theory, Guoqiang Qiao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Since the 20th century, the adoption of methods in cross-disciplinary studies contributes to a dominant trend in the Western literary theory hat blurs the boundary between literary theory and other disciplines. Literary theory burdens itself with or rather, is "hijacked" by many irrelevant things such as politics, ideologies, moralities, etc. Zhang Jiang believes that contemporary Western literary theory is not "pure" due to the "off-side requisition" and therefore he proposes a return to literature and a redevelopment of literary theory within the literary system. This paper presents viewpoints different from Zhang, contending that literary theory is never "pure" from its …
The Transformation Of The Ci-Poetry Studies During Late-Qing And Early Roc Period As Exemplified By The Editorial Work On Wu Wenying's Poetry, Xuejun Chen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper examines the phenomenon of the editorial work and critical annotations to Wu Wenying's Mengchuang Ci-Poems during the period from the Late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. During this period, four major scholars, namely, Wang Pengyun, Zheng Wenzhao, Zhu Zumou and Kuang Zhouni, studied Wu Wenying's poetry and, together with their disciples, promoted the fever of "Mengchuang Ci-Poems (Dreaming Window, the Art name of Wu Wenying)". These scholars and their disciples formed a lineage in criticism for Wu's poetry, which set an example for later compilation of ci-poetry anthologies and helped to establish the arguably last …
On The Generic Hybridization Between Fiction And Biography, Qinghua Wang
On The Generic Hybridization Between Fiction And Biography, Qinghua Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Biography as a literary genre comes between unofficial history and fiction, although closer to fiction. This paper examines the hybridization between fiction and biography with examples from the public and private catalogues since the Song Dynasty, and it analyzes the common ground between the two genres in terms of generic features, compilation approaches, and raw materials and investigates the boundaries of the genres in terms of functional value, thematic appeal and narrative approaches.
On Yao Nai's Poetic Quality And The Origin Of His Poetics, Yin Jiang
On Yao Nai's Poetic Quality And The Origin Of His Poetics, Yin Jiang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
It has been proposed since the early 20th century that the Tongchang School in the Qing Dynasty was a literary school of both prose and poetry, but the Tongcheng School's theoretical claims of poetry has not been given due explorations. This paper approaches Tongcheng School's poetic theory from an analysis of Yao Nai's (1731-1815) literary ideas and proceeds to examine how he developed his poetics upon Wang Shizhen (1634-1711). Then, the paper analyzes the poetic taste in New Style Poems and its illuminations to the poetics of Tongcheng School before concluding the paper with Yao Nai's theoretical and academic contribution …
The Boundaries, Implicit Speech, And Blind Areas Of The Narrative Of Love In The Red Classics, Yanbing Hui
The Boundaries, Implicit Speech, And Blind Areas Of The Narrative Of Love In The Red Classics, Yanbing Hui
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In the narrative of love, "Red Classics" in contemporary Chinese literature have left many significant narrative traces, and these traces show in the changeable boundaries, abundant implicit speech and characteristic blind areas. Through these traces we can recognize the specific historical context of those literary works and the complicated interaction between literary narrative and the dominant ideology. Symptomatic reading of the love narratives helps us to evaluate the Red Classics more objectively and understand the intrinsic nature of contemporary literature better.
Theorization And Pluralism: A Study Of Danto's Idea On The End Of Art, Bing Zhang
Theorization And Pluralism: A Study Of Danto's Idea On The End Of Art, Bing Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper argues that two key words to grasp Danto's idea on the end of art are theorization and pluralism, and these two terms explain the exposition of the end of art in Danto's philosophy. Danto's argument for theorization may be the essence of his idea on the end of art, which means that art has become a philosophy while pluralism has become the existence mode of art after the end of art. The diversity of art's existence is the result of the end of art.
Weng Fanggang's Song-Dynasty Poetics In The Perspective Of Literary History, Yunyun Tang
Weng Fanggang's Song-Dynasty Poetics In The Perspective Of Literary History, Yunyun Tang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
he relationship between the poetics of Weng Fanggang and the poetry of Song dynasty has been the research attention for many scholars. Weng's criticism focused on the texture of the Song-Dynasty poetry, and he regarded highly Su Shi and Huang Tingjian; however, his high regard was not grounded theoretically. From the perspective of poetic logic construction, Weng's Song-Dynasty poetics began with his criticism of The Anthology of the Song-Dynasty Poetry edited by Wu Zhizhen, while at the same time he revealed the essential features of the Song-Dynasty poetry. Weng grounded his criticism and argument on the logic of literary history, …
Culture Trauma, Morality And Solidarity: The Social Construction Of "Holocaust" And Other Mass Murders, C. Alexander Jeffrey
Culture Trauma, Morality And Solidarity: The Social Construction Of "Holocaust" And Other Mass Murders, C. Alexander Jeffrey
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Cultural trauma occurs when members of a collectivity feel they have been subjected to a horrendous event that leaves indelible marks upon their group consciousness, marking their memories forever and changing their future identity in fundamental and irrevocable ways. By constructing cultural traumas, social groups, national societies, and sometimes even entire civilizations, not only cognitively identify the existence and source of human suffering, but may also take on board some significant moral responsibility for it. Insofar as they identify the cause of trauma in a manner that assumes such moral responsibility, members of collectivities define their solidary relationships that allow …
Historical Changes Of The Concept Of Female Beauty In The Pre-Qin Period From The Appreciation Of Ugliness To Beauty, Yongzhen Cheng
Historical Changes Of The Concept Of Female Beauty In The Pre-Qin Period From The Appreciation Of Ugliness To Beauty, Yongzhen Cheng
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The concept of female beauty in the Pre-Qin period underwent a great historical change from the appreciation of "the ugly" to that of "the beautiful." The image of beautiful females in the prehistoric age was characteristically "ugly and muscular," highlighting the reproductive function and death function of the Great Mother, and could be argued to be the embodiment of the victory of "the mother principle." The beautiful and the ugly were blended in the image of the female beauty in the Xia-Shang period, which was mainly because the establishment of patriarchy had turned the female from aesthetic subject into aesthetic …
On The Connotations Of Hsia Chih-Tsing's Criticism With An Example From The Perspective Of Close Reading Of A History Of Modern Chinese Fiction, Wei Xia
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Hsia Chih-tsing's concept of literary criticism in his History of Modern Chinese Fiction is constructed around a group of concepts centered round moral concerns and supplemented with indirect comment and personality integrity. However, when these criticism are put into practice, personality integrity often than not takes precedence over the other concepts and sways Hsia's objectivity in evaluating literary works. The paper argues that Hsia had the edge of literary critic but was not sharp enough to be a literary theorist, although his achievements have been the most fortunate contribution to the study of modern Chinese literature.
Rethinking Camp: From Sontag's "Notes On Camp" To Camp Films, Wensi Li
Rethinking Camp: From Sontag's "Notes On Camp" To Camp Films, Wensi Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Susan Sontag's 1964 article "Notes on Camp" resurfaces to the reading public with the 10th anniversary of her death. As a term, "camp" became well known during the 1960s, yet its origin can be traced to the 17th century. As a notion of taste, the camp sensibility is active in all fields of nostalgic collections, avant-garde and independent art, rock music and fashion. As a genre of subculture, camp is closely linked with the development of the queer theory, the youth movement and the politics of homosexuality. Camp appreciation can also be seen in the film industry, which provides us …
Anti-Theory And Theory: A Study Of F. R. Leavis's Concept Of Criticism, Xiangchun Meng
Anti-Theory And Theory: A Study Of F. R. Leavis's Concept Of Criticism, Xiangchun Meng
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
F. R. Leavis's critical practice has been habitually and conveniently labeled as anti-theoretical. His debate with Rene Wellek in the 1930s on "literature vs. philosophy" was a proof to his aversion to rigid theory and abstraction. Leavis maintained that literary criticism in practice should engage itself with elements such as human nature, life, morality and reality, which led to the labeling of him as a "practical critic." What Leavis was against in the so-called "anti-theory" is essentially the routinization, dogmatism and abstraction in literary criticism practice, and Leavis held up to the empirical tradition of literary criticism, emphasizing on literariness …
Body, Aesthetics And Politics: On Eagleton's View Of Body, Wei Wang
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
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
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
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
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
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 Thematic Research Of Merleau-Ponty's Le Doute De Cézanne, Ying Zhang
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
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 …