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The Concept Of Witty Humor In The Poetry In The Qianlong-Jiaqing Reign Of The Qing Dynasty, Jieling Liang
The Concept Of Witty Humor In The Poetry In The Qianlong-Jiaqing Reign Of The Qing Dynasty, Jieling Liang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In the period of Qianlong and Jiaqing reign of the Qing Dynasty with the relative social stability, the leading poets pursued a style with witty humor, which led to the social fashion in poetry. Though Yuan Mei's taste was looked upon as poetic objective, it would be an interpretation to theoretically generalize it into the doctrine of a poetry school. The connotation of witty humor was the author's poetic sentiments toward social phenomena, which showed the poet's artistic craft. The denotation of the concept was relative to the poetics emphasizing moral function of literature. While the concept of witty humor …
The Motivation And Practice Of The Rise Of Classical Aesthetics Research In The 20th Century's China, Wei Han
The Motivation And Practice Of The Rise Of Classical Aesthetics Research In The 20th Century's China, Wei Han
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Chinese classical aesthetics research began in the 1980s, in an effort to establish the discipline of Chinese aesthetics under the complicated historical context. It was spurred by both the trend of cultural root-seeking against the background of enlightenment modernity and the pursuit of discourse power. In practice, studies on Wang Guowei and Zong Baihua formed the earliest mode of research, which in turn displayed the charm of ancient Chinese aesthetics. The studies had also constituted a potential model for and established a foundation stone for the classical aesthetics research in the years that followed.
The Thinking Mode And The Literature Originated From Chinese Characters: The Value-Added Intersection Between Comparative Literature Studies And Cultural Linguistics Studies, Naiqiao Yang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Scholars posit that thinking mode originated from Chinese characters and the formation principles of Chinese characters show cultural psychology of Chinese. The formation principles of Chinese characters may take on the nature a cultural meta-code, and morphological features of Chinese language as a symbol system define Chinese literature as s literature grounded in Chinese characters. Comparative literary studies need to investigate how Western comparatists and sinologists grasp Chinese thinking mode that is encoded by Chinese characters as different languages will shape different ideas of literary writing.
Modern Myth And Its Types Of Presence, Xianglin Yan
Modern Myth And Its Types Of Presence, Xianglin Yan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Myth is still alive in modern society and even in post-modern society, but its mode of existence, constructed as contemporary myth, is different from that of the traditional myths. Contemporary society also has its mythical thinking and mythological patterns. Contemporary myth is the contemporary creation responding to the creator' purpose and motivation, and it embodies the aesthetic characteristics of industrial society and cultural industry. The existence types of contemporary myth include the myth of science, myth of nation, myth of ethnic group, myth of heroes, myth of politics, and myth of consumption. To some extent, social ideology and literary production …
On The System Theory Tendencies Of Contemporary World Literary Theory, Lan Hao
On The System Theory Tendencies Of Contemporary World Literary Theory, Lan Hao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Since the turn of the century, explorations into world literary theories have taken on the nature of general systems theory, which has been particularly benefited from the impact Immanuel Wallerstein's world system theory. This trend in the study of literary theories represents an attempt to simultaneously transcend the modern and post-modern paradigm. For this trend, world literature system is constructed with the assumption that literature can be holistically approached, which may foreshow an ambition of a systematic macro-reconstruction after post-modern fragmentation, but this trend may be distinguished from the unity of modernism as it rejects unicentrism. The paper argues that …
A Study On The Framework Of "Literary Research Methodology" In 1904 Educational System Reform, Xuehu Chen
A Study On The Framework Of "Literary Research Methodology" In 1904 Educational System Reform, Xuehu Chen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper attempts to discuss the framework of "Wenxue Yanju Fa" (Literary Research Methodology) in the 1904 educational system reform and tries to describe and understand the space which this reform carved out for the coming knowledge production and theory formation. During the late Qing dynasty and the early Republic of China period, the institutionalization efforts to construct the discipline of literary studies kept much of Chinese traditional culture and its literature. As a specific device, the envisaged course of "Literary Research Methodology" was constructed mainly on traditional learning and local imagination, and it was marked with the characteristics of …
Apocalypse Now: Walter Benjamin And The Legacy Of Political Messianism, Wolin Richard
Apocalypse Now: Walter Benjamin And The Legacy Of Political Messianism, Wolin Richard
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Walter Benjamin's essay on the "Kritik der Gewalt" (Critique of Violence) has had a curious afterlife. When it first appeared in 1921, it passed almost unnoticed. However, following the collapse of communism, among proponents of the Cultural Left it acquired a canonical salience, in large measure owing to Jacques Derrida’s systematic reliance on it in "The Force of Law: the Mystical Foundation of Political Authority" (1994). However, many of these later interpretations have overlooked the pivotal role that Benjamin's justification of "divine violence" played in his early attempts to revivify political theology, in "Kritik der Gewalt" and related texts. Finally, …
Moé: Soft Politics In Contemporary Visual Culture, Ming Wu
Moé: Soft Politics In Contemporary Visual Culture, Ming Wu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Moé is a word frequently appearing in Chinese pop culture vocabulary in recent years, but its semantics and usage require clarification. Moé, which was borrowed from Japan, has broken the boundary of anime subculture and become a buzzword in mass media. The visuality of moé pertains some typical postmodern traits such like entertainment and flattening. Faux-moé has an extensive popularity that accelerates the confusion between the right and the wrong, the good and the evil. A moé object, constructed by a faux-moé player, could impose soft control and systematic violence to the persons who patronizes it. In this sense, moé …
New Changes And Redemption: On The Russian Formalism's Genre Theory, Jun Chen
New Changes And Redemption: On The Russian Formalism's Genre Theory, Jun Chen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Russian Formalism has two key features of defamiliarization and scientification, and with these features, Russian Formalism is certain to oppose the classical principles of genre classification. Through the mediation of historic procedural poetics, Russian Formalism is linked with literary genre. Genre can be understood as an aggregated system of characteristic procedure, and the nature of its development can be seen in procedure renovation, the replacement of elegant genre with vulgar ones, and genre subversion. The relationships of different schools of normative poetics are not opposite to each other but continual and successive. Historic procedural poetics enables Russian Formalism to play …
On The Interrelated Dimensions Of Materiality In Literary Criticism, Jin Zhang
On The Interrelated Dimensions Of Materiality In Literary Criticism, Jin Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Since the end of 20th century, the worldwide literary criticism has turned to the study of materiality and manifested the four interrelated dimensions of literary materiality, namely, the materiality of the signifier of literary language and the material properties of texts, the materiality of literary context concerned with the limitations imposed by the social world of economics and politics, the materiality of the perceiving subject and the body through which an aesthetic experience occurs, and the materiality of the represented objects in response to which the experience takes place. The interaction of these dimensions shifts the focus in literary research …
Revolution And Transcendence: The Aesthetic Transformation In The "New Novel" In The Late Qing Dynasty, Jun Zhu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The rise of the "New Novel" started the "revolution in the circle of fiction writing" in the late Qing Dynasty. In literary history, the New Novels have not been done justice for the traditional ethics shown in these works were in contradictory with the modern political system. However, it is undeniable that these works had left rather deep influence on Chinese ideology, politics and culture in the 20th century. From Kang Youwei to Liang Qichao, Chinese literature had witnessed a historical process from external transcendence (triggered by the import of exotic political and scientific culture) to immanent transcendence (aroused by …
Social Conventions: The Structural Elements Of Literature, Dakang Ma
Social Conventions: The Structural Elements Of Literature, Dakang Ma
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In literary activities, social conventions are not only a more important and fundamental structural element in the narrative structure of discourse but also the fundamental premise for the comprehensibility, creditability, authenticity and criticalness of literary works. The universality of literature originates from the universal validity of social conventions. Social conventions are constructed in the process of social history, and invariably ideologically grounded with embedded power relations. The paper concludes that one major critical function lies in its exposure of the working of power hidden in the social conventions.
The Human-Nature Relationship In The Pre-Cultural-Revolution 17-Year Literature, Yu Wang, Liu Hong
The Human-Nature Relationship In The Pre-Cultural-Revolution 17-Year Literature, Yu Wang, Liu Hong
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper argues that the human-nature relationship in the literature of 17 pre-Cultural-Revolution years cannot be interpreted from the sole perspective of ecological ethics, but it should be examined together with the way and the knowledge background under which the relationship was represented. The relationship shows to be two-folded. On the one hand, man regards nature as "the other," when the consciousness of war culture is introduced in the field of man-nature relationship, taking nature as the target to be conquered through in spiritual and technological levels. One the other hand, nature becomes part of the constructive process of the …
The Differentiation Aesthetics In The Representations Of The Clothing, Food, Residence And Traveling Of Migrant Peasant Workers, Bo Feng, Deming Xu
The Differentiation Aesthetics In The Representations Of The Clothing, Food, Residence And Traveling Of Migrant Peasant Workers, Bo Feng, Deming Xu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Clothing, food, residence and traveling make up the daily life of people, and the first three are the basic needs of life while traveling becomes the condition for the three. The different preferences in clothing, food, residence and traveling means of the migrant peasant workers reflect the politics based on the distinction between the urban and the countryside. In the novels about the migrant peasant workers, the representations of their daily life in terms of clothing, food, residence and means of traveling highlight the aesthetics of differentiation. The pursuit of the lifestyle of the citizens is shown as the motivation …
The Implication Of History-In-Poetry And The Reception Of Li Shangyin In The Late Qing-Dynasty Poetry Circle, Weizhong Ma, Chen Li
The Implication Of History-In-Poetry And The Reception Of Li Shangyin In The Late Qing-Dynasty Poetry Circle, Weizhong Ma, Chen Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The debate over emulating the Tang or the Song Dynasty poetry was an important link in the evolution of the Qing-Dynasty poetry, in which the reception of Li Shangyin both pointed a direction for the retro poetics and became in most areas a continuation of territory poetics. The three acceptance models culminated the multi-perspective study of Li Shangyin's poetry. Taking into consideration of the complex social context, the paper claims that the concept of history-in-poetry could become the starting point to investigate the theoretical value of the reception of Li Shangyin in the late Qing-Dynasty poetry circle.
The Landscape Sentiments As The Chinese Symbol And Expression Of An Ecological Art, Guoming Yin
The Landscape Sentiments As The Chinese Symbol And Expression Of An Ecological Art, Guoming Yin
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In Chinese literature and arts, the sentimens in "shanshui" (mountains and waters, landscape) not only embody an aesthetic pursuit but also form a traditional cultural symbol. The sentiments display the artists’ consciousness of life and manifest the ecological connotation of "man in nature." The preposition of the landscape sentiments as a theoretical categorization may be helpful for the discovery of the universal value and new meaning of Chinese litearay theory in the context of comparative and cross-cultural studies.
The Public Nature And The Governance Of Contemporary Visual Culture, Xueqin Min, Liyong Zheng
The Public Nature And The Governance Of Contemporary Visual Culture, Xueqin Min, Liyong Zheng
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Contemporary visual culture is encroaching on daily, social and political lives of the public with diversified content and in hi-tech forms. The public nature of contemporary visual culture brings much convenience for itself to integrate into public space, guide public value and participate into public governance. Empirical investigations show that visual culture representing everyday life tends to provide entertainment and interest, and visual culture reflecting social life is hypersensitive to the public nature, while visual culture referring to political life is becoming more pronounced for its remedying social inequality and nurturing participation habits. Visual culture is provided with an unprecedented …
The Sociality Of The Aesthetic And The Reconstruction In Critique: From Zhu Guangqian's "Misreading" Of Croce, Lang Jin
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper investigates the construction of sociality in Zhu Guangqian's aesthetics by analyzing his acceptance of Croce. Misreading is almost a consensus in the studies of Zhu Guangqian's acceptance of Croce, while this might also overshadow his aesthetics construction. When returning to Kant as his point of re-departure, Zhu Guangqian not only directed his critique toward Croce but also the western tradition of idealist philosophy in general, and it is his continuous concern of the sociality of the aesthetic that lies behind his critique. This concern of his starts with his critique of Croce's aesthetics and is realized when he …
The Weapons Of Criticism And The Criticism Of Weapons: A Synopsis Of The Symposium Of "Contemporary Literary Theory And Criticism Practice", Kaiguo Wang, Jing Niu
The Weapons Of Criticism And The Criticism Of Weapons: A Synopsis Of The Symposium Of "Contemporary Literary Theory And Criticism Practice", Kaiguo Wang, Jing Niu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
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On Some Issues Neglected In Modern Chinese Aesthetic Studies, Zuzhao Gu
On Some Issues Neglected In Modern Chinese Aesthetic Studies, Zuzhao Gu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper argues that aesthetic studies in new China belongs to modern aesthetics as it has followed the basic research modes of Western mainstream aesthetics that has involved conceptual hypothesis, presupposed system and logocentric argumentation. The paper takes for examples the debates between the four schools of aesthetics and examines some important issues overlooked in modern Chinese aesthetics. In the context of deconstructionism and postmodernism, against the background of the rich resources of Chinese classical theories, aesthetic studies in new China has gradually exhibited their overly subjective speculation, detachment from practice, and self-closure. These deficiencies show in following aspects: limitedness …
On The Modern Transformation Of Ancient Literary Theory, Yun Wang
On The Modern Transformation Of Ancient Literary Theory, Yun Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Focusing on the contemporary research of the modern transformation of ancient literary theory in China, the paper intends to expose the implied cultural orientation behind the different ideas of and approaches to the modernization of ancient literary theory. This paper points out that, on the one hand, the approach to the modern transformation take the route from construction in the 1980s to deconstruction in 1990s and that, one the other hand, in terms of methodology, the need for an open system is widely accepted and the discursive power of closed conceptual system is undermined and dissolved. As a result, pluralist …
On Wang Youpu's Criticism On The Ancient-Style Prose And Its Value, Zukun Yu
On Wang Youpu's Criticism On The Ancient-Style Prose And Its Value, Zukun Yu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Critical practice on the ancient-style prose is an important part of the literary activity of Tongcheng School in the Qing Dynasty, and due research attention should be paid for understanding their prose theory. Wang You-pu (1681-1760) was one key figure in developing the school's prose theory. As a disciple of Fang Bao, the founder of the school, Wang developed Fang's notion of yifa (meaning-method) by expanding on the relationship between meaning (yi) and method (fa). Wang You-pu had also combined Fang's notion of meaning-method with Jin Shengtan's (1608-61) literary critical practice and vision, which not only sharpened his perceptive and …
Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Greening Studies Of Postcolonialism, Fuguang Miao
Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Greening Studies Of Postcolonialism, Fuguang Miao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Postcolonial ecocriticism develops in the ecocrtitical turn of postcolonialism, and as the new development of postcolonialism, it is grounded on postcolonialism and ecocriticism, starting with and ending in the study of postcolonialism. This paper starts with a retrospective analysis of postcolonialism and then it examines postcolonial ecocriticism's theoretical sources in terms of ecological thoughts, history of colonialization, ecological imperialism and postcolonialism. The paper proceeds to summarize three main tasks of postcolonial ecocriticism, namely, tracing the historical connection between racism and speciesism, exposing the paradox between development and conservation of environment, and interpreting animal and environment writings in literary discourses, so …
Re-Evaluating "Foregrounding": The Prague School's Contributions To Aesthetics, Lei Yang
Re-Evaluating "Foregrounding": The Prague School's Contributions To Aesthetics, Lei Yang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"Foregrounding" is a key term of the Prague School, and due to its similarity with "defamiliarization," "foregrounding" has caused some misreading, which further leads to the misunderstanding of the relationship between the Prague School and the Russian Formalism. Starting with this term, the Prague School constructed a sophisticated system of structuralist aesthetics and literary theory, which surpassed the Russian Formalism. The concept of "foregrounding" foretells a contextualist aesthetics, which pointed to the contextualist turn of aesthetics in the 20th century.
Representation, Working And Imagination Of Power: A Study On "The Young Newcomer To The Department Of Organization" And Other "Against-Current Novels", Qinghua Cao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
One important aspect of Wang Meng's novel The Young Newcomer to the Department of Organization and other so-called "Against-Current (Niliu) Novels" is the questioning, exposing and challenging of the way power is represented and worked and the way power is related to its representation and working in these novels, but this has been overlooked for quite a long time in the research scholarship. The paper argues that these novels call into interpellation the representation and working of power in reality while the imagination of power permeated in these novels performs the function of interpellation similar to the in-practice power interplay. …
Schapiro, Semiotics And Iconography, Xin Gao
Schapiro, Semiotics And Iconography, Xin Gao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
During the 20th century, a theory transformation brought about by semiotics has inserted profound impact on almost all the disciplines of humanities, including anthropology, literary theory and art history. Starting with the aim at theorizing these studies, the movement has evolved into a capitalized Theory during its development that shifts its focuses to the ethical and political functions of literature and art and sacrifices the aesthetic values of literary texts. When Meyer Schapiro introduced semiotic methods into his art history studies, he could avoid the hazard. His introduction of semiotics into art history study, by bypassing the essentialist or metaphysical …
Terry Eagleton's Borrowing From Aristotle's Metaphysics Thought, Zhike Yin
Terry Eagleton's Borrowing From Aristotle's Metaphysics Thought, Zhike Yin
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Terry Eagleton's attention to theology and metaphysical issues is not a theology turn, for his thoughts on theology is not fully explicable in religious sense. God, for him, is a substitution for "essence." He insists that the postmodernists who deny the essence are actually essentialists with masks. Eagleton believes that the ultimate reason for human being is man itself, that is, the essence of mall. Essence, for him, is not common feature but the nature, and the nature is the form. The paper therefore argues that Aristotle's teleology has greatly influenced Eagleton.
The Category, Complexity, Starting Points And Methodology Of Image Studies, Jirong Chen
The Category, Complexity, Starting Points And Methodology Of Image Studies, Jirong Chen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The development of imagology can be traced back to the study of literary imagery, comparative studies and iconology, which covers early research on literature and society, the study of image and illusion, and contemporary study of image and discourse. Imagology has developed through the three stages develop from literary history, poetics and power discourse, while the focus of its content balances between holistic analysis and textual studies, and its methodology makes use of the models of culture studies and also tries to highlight the relation between image construction and power discourse. Therefore, the remarkable aspect to be noted in image …
The Concept Of Image In Chinese, Western And Japanese Cultures, Haohui Xi
The Concept Of Image In Chinese, Western And Japanese Cultures, Haohui Xi
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Global multicultural interaction accommodates the conflict between monism and pluralism. The paper examines the three different forms of beauty as reflected in the different concepts of image in Chinese, Western and Japanese cultures as art symbols of expressing feelings and ideas. The concept of image as a Western concept finds its counterparts in Chinese phrase of "xingxiang" (形象 form-image) and Japanese "sugata" (姿 idea-image). "Image" in the ancient Greece referred mainly to the exterior form, which in turn pointed to the "body" and highlighted in the geometrical "form." The concept of "form-image" in Chinese emphasizes the image over the form, …
The Ethical Responsibility Of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenological Theory Of Literature: On The Promoting Agency Of Literary Language To The Formation Of The Individual, Wei Jia
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Merleau-Ponty had revised Husserl's phenomenology of speech and Saussure's structuralist linguistics and developed his own phenomenology of speech, gaining insight into the intersubjectivity between speech and individual. His phenomenological research also shows that literary speech as a deviant form of everyday speech can not only boost the historical formation of the individual but also inherit something profound from the history.