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The Prosperity Of Internet Literature And The Literary Change: Synopsis Of Internet And The Transformation Of Literature Symposium, Wenfeng Ouyang, Lei Lv
The Prosperity Of Internet Literature And The Literary Change: Synopsis Of Internet And The Transformation Of Literature Symposium, Wenfeng Ouyang, Lei Lv
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The development of internet literature has become an important literature phenomenon, and the new changes brought about in literature have attracted wide academic attention and research interest. In this light, the symposium "Internet and Literary Transformation" was held in July 2013 in Lhasa, during which scholars reflected the implications and value of the literary texts on the internet. The participants claimed that internet literature should be approached without the conventional concepts about literature and the prejudice about internet literature. They promoted a broader concept of literature or culture and proposed that scholars should be engaged with the site of internet …
The Pursuit Of Subjectivity In The Minorities Literature: An Examination Of Literary Language Use In The Southwest Border Area, Yonggang Zhang
The Pursuit Of Subjectivity In The Minorities Literature: An Examination Of Literary Language Use In The Southwest Border Area, Yonggang Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The fundamental value of the national literature is embedded in the pursuit of its subjectivity, and in the post-modern cultural context, national literary language is one essential approach to understand of the subjectivity pursuit in national literatures. In terms of the complex relationship between Mandarin Chinese language and minority languages, the efforts of minority writers should be noted for their using Mandarin Chinese to strengthen their consciousness of nationality and search for the ways and meanings of cultural exchanges with the world of Chinese language. By writing in Chinese, minority writers attempt to reconstruct their national literature, to gain discourse …
The Theoretical Construction And Developmental Genealogy Of "Imagery" Aesthetics In The 20ThCentury's China, Wei Han
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In the 20th century's China, the theoretical study on "imagery" as an aesthetic category has gone through different phrases. Before 1980s, "imagery" was understood as a term imported from Western aesthetics, and in the early 1980s the study of imagery started to enter a phase of theoretical self-awareness. In the last two decade of the century, two trends emerged as the ontological construction and Sino-Western dialogue in the study of imagery. The former aims at the ontological study of images, during which the ontological construction and the generalization of images occurred simultaneously so as to gain the discourse power in …
The Variations And Eternals Of Stories From The Anthropological Perspective: Based On A Comparative Analysis On Eileen Chang And Nikolai Leskov, Lili Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper discusses Benjamin's paradox of "the story-teller" and questions the scope of his definition of the story. The premises for the question include: stories have always accompanied human activities; stories are the cognitive objects of human perception; stories meet people's need for meaning; stories adapt themselves to the changes of human needs and cultural conditions. Thus, this paper proposes a broader definition of story from the perspective of anthropology and makes a comparative analysis on Russian novelist Nikolai Leskov who was called a "story-teller" by Walter Benjamin and modern Chinese novelist Eileen Chang. The paper observes that the stories …
To Write Back Is To Write For: The Intellectual Trap In The Critique Of Western Centralism, Ning Zhou
To Write Back Is To Write For: The Intellectual Trap In The Critique Of Western Centralism, Ning Zhou
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The academic discourse of writing back to Western Centralism implicates a paradox. The paradox lies in the fact that the act of "writing back" actually constructs and reconstructs the discourse of Western Centralism it sets out to deconstruct. The paradox shows in two aspects of knowledge and value. When knowledge is concerned, the logic is that the more the West learns from and is influenced by the East the more advantaged the West is proved to be as the West is positioned and reinforced to be the master of the West. When value is concerned, the more the West acknowledges …
Multiple Metaphors Behind The Playing: An Explanation Of Hu Shi's Interpretation OfA Journal To The West, Hongbo Zhu
Multiple Metaphors Behind The Playing: An Explanation Of Hu Shi's Interpretation OfA Journal To The West, Hongbo Zhu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Hu Shi was the first to interpret Chinese classical novel A Journal to the West by taking it as a game play. Since 1920s till now, his interpretation has met with pros and cons, but his interpretive perspective is still worth examining. In the current theoretical context, this paper surveys the academic background of Hu Shi’s interpretive perspective and attempts a new explanation. The paper tries to investigate the multiple cultural implications behind the "play" interpretation of the novel from such angles as the second innocence, freedom from constraints, and anthropological structure of game and hopes to enrich the theoretical …
On The Representative Narration Of Literary History, Guoqiang Qiao
On The Representative Narration Of Literary History, Guoqiang Qiao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The concept of "historical representation" F. R. Ankersmit advances is wide spread and quite influential in the trend of narrative turn, which, to some degree, can be compared with New Historicism. However, reflected from the perspective of historical narratology, Ankersmit's concept appears to be somewhat idealistic, particularly in terms of the writing of literary history. This article appropriates Ankersmit's concept of "representation," extending it to the field of literary history, and proposes a concept of "representative narration" that associates with but differs from Ankersmit's "historical representation." The author hopes that the concept of "representative narration" could provide the interpretation and …
Schiller's Aesthetic Thoughts From Moral Politics To The Construction Of Aesthetic Utopia, Juan Li
Schiller's Aesthetic Thoughts From Moral Politics To The Construction Of Aesthetic Utopia, Juan Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Schiller's reflection on the enlightening rationality and his political concerns are the foundation to his aesthetic thoughts. At a time with manifold problems in Germany, Schiller proposed to cultivate perfect humanity and build moral politics so as to resist the instrumentality-characterized modern politics. However, moral politics is built on the constraining of human nature, and only in the aesthetic utopia can human sensibility, reason and nature be reconciled with inevitability. In this sense, aestheticization is freedom.
Speech Act And The Fiction In Literature, Dakang Ma
Speech Act And The Fiction In Literature, Dakang Ma
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Fiction in literature is the fiction in the sense of utterance performativity instead of that in the sense of representation. Authorized by cultural conventions, literature pronounces the construction of a fictional world as its primary action, and it exploits various strategies to highlight the constructive nature of utterance performativity and the illocutionary force of utterance. Thus, a new mode of intentional relationship can be constructed between people and utterance as the relationship of intersubjectivity, in which all the potentialities in people, utterances and words are summoned into the activities for constructing a fictional world. The paper concludes that, on the …
The Becoming Of A Minor-Literature From A Minor-Language, Yue Ge
The Becoming Of A Minor-Literature From A Minor-Language, Yue Ge
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Becoming-minor is regarded by Deleuze as the most efficient way of fighting against all existing forms of power. In Deleuze's sense, minor-literature that was mainly generated by minor-language was the embodiment of becoming-minor in the field of literature. This paper attempts to reframe Deleuze's thinking upon the relation between literature and politics by probing into the mechanism of minor-language forming. It can be argued that Deleuze critically approached this new relation by examining the mechanism of minor-language through the withered major-language and the blending usage of various languages with different functional and grammatical cases. From the minor-language perspective, another possibility …
Toward A Digital Poetics For Electronic And Internet Literature, Mingfen Huang
Toward A Digital Poetics For Electronic And Internet Literature, Mingfen Huang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Digital poetics covers the theoretical studies of the new forms of uprising literature from the electronic literature in the West to the internet literature in China. The primary mission of digital poetics is to sum up experience in digital literary writing and refine digital literary spirit so as to reflect the nature of literature from the new perspective provided by this new literary form. With the current emergence of computionalism, Web upgrades and the resultant development of cultural industry, digital poetics is facing new challenges and new opportunities. The paper proposes that computionalism may be taken as a world view …
Three Decades' Research On Foreign Literary Theory In Theoretical Studies In Literature And Art, Guoshan Tao
Three Decades' Research On Foreign Literary Theory In Theoretical Studies In Literature And Art, Guoshan Tao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art is a top-ranked professional academic periodical with key influence in China. Since its launch in 1980, it has been targeted at taking foreign literary theory and research as reference to Chinese literary theory. In the past three decades, it aims at connecting with international academic research, from introducing classical works in the column of Translation of Foreign Literary Theory ("FLT") to publishing domestic research papers in the column of Studies of FLT, and in recent years the journal has also published original papers written in English by scholars at home and abroad. Based on …
"Descendants Of A Blurry-Eyed Dragon": A Lacanian Analysis Of The Post-Maoist Structuration Of Chineseness, Guanjun Wu
"Descendants Of A Blurry-Eyed Dragon": A Lacanian Analysis Of The Post-Maoist Structuration Of Chineseness, Guanjun Wu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"Descendants of the Dragon" (Long de chuanren) has become one of the most popular songs within the Sinophone world since the early 1980s. It can be, however, also regarded as one of the representative texts through which one can indeed glimpse the profound construction of Chineseness in the post-Maoist mainland China. Utilizing theoretical tools provided by Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Žižek, this paper offers detailed textual analyses as well as psycho-analyses of "Descendants of the Dragon", with the goal of furthering the contemporary critical examination of Chineseness.
A Reflection On The Institutional Genealogy Of Internet Literature, Ting Ouyang, Youquan Ouyang
A Reflection On The Institutional Genealogy Of Internet Literature, Ting Ouyang, Youquan Ouyang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Internet literature's most profound influence on Chinese literary theory lies in its technical rewriting or replacing to the institutional genealogy of literature developed over many centuries. In terms of subject identity, internet literature, by adopting a grass-root standpoint, usurps the discourse power of the elite literary production. In terms of writing mode, the freedom of writing subverts existing order in literary production field. In terms of quantity of texts, internet literature has outnumbered and concealed the classics and literary canons, while in terms of value judgment the overt commercialism in the internet media has been able to compete with the …
A Synopsis Of The 18th Annual Conference Of The Society Of Chinese Ancient Literary Theory, Zicheng Zhang
A Synopsis Of The 18th Annual Conference Of The Society Of Chinese Ancient Literary Theory, Zicheng Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
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A Study On Internet "Virtual Aesthetics", Fanting Zeng
A Study On Internet "Virtual Aesthetics", Fanting Zeng
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Internet literature in the digital era is produced in the context of virtual reality provided by cyber space, and its representation is through simulation or iconicity. The aesthetics of this literature is characterized by its virtualization, and parody as a popular technique derived in the process of virtualization highlights the carnival feature in the aesthetics. This so-called virtual aesthetics is a double-edged sword. While it liberates imagination, it also causes criticism for its lack of a firm value standpoint and cultural critique spirit. The virtual illusion characterized by consumerism may likely obscure the reality of survival in the real world …
Antimonies In Transcultural Studies Of Representation, Xi Lin
Antimonies In Transcultural Studies Of Representation, Xi Lin
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper begins with a summary of the four propositions in Zhou Ning's transcultural studies of imagology, and in the spirit of Kantian dialectics proposes four counter propositions. The paper proceeds to demonstrate the approaches to prove both the propositions and counter-propositions. The four pairs of antimonies may lead us into investigating how in the post-metaphysical age a constructive breakthrough of approach may be realized in transcultural studies of imagology.
Cultural Study By Taking Image As Methodology, Yong Li
Cultural Study By Taking Image As Methodology, Yong Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The essential difference between the study of images that takes images as the object and the study of images that takes images as the methodology lies in that the latter takes the formation and cultural context of images as its research focus. The image-as-methodology approach defines images as the collective cultural imagination about the Other, and this approach, by studying the images about the Other, examines the cultural dilemma behind the imagining Subject and searches for ways to resolve the deep contradictions in the Subject's self-identity, cultural value, and cultural strategy. This approach adopts three strategies by different ways of …
Fang Hui's Reverence For Tao Yuanming And The Self-Salvation Of Jiangxi Poetry School In Late Southern Song Dynasty, Fei Liu, Houjun Zhao
Fang Hui's Reverence For Tao Yuanming And The Self-Salvation Of Jiangxi Poetry School In Late Southern Song Dynasty, Fei Liu, Houjun Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In the late Southern Song Dynasty, Tao Yuanming remained a poet widely admired by many poetic critics. Fang Hui, who was active in the late Song Dynasty and the early Yuan Dynasty, gave much attention to Tao Yuanming in his critical works, which can be taken as a typical case for study on the research of Tao. His views on poetics showed many characteristics of Jiangxi poetry school, and his study on Tao Yuanming had a profound influence.
Integrated Creation As Chinese Way Of Aesthetics: On Jiang Kongyang's Contributions To The Construction Of Chinese Aesthetics, Yanzhu Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Focusing on Chinese way of aesthetics, this article reviews the contributions of such aestheticians as Wang Guowei, Zong Baihua, Zhu Guangqian, Qian Zhongshu and Li Zehou in forming and developing Chinese way of aesthetics. In the age of information, Jiang Kongyang was the first aesthetician who elucidated, practiced and expanded the notion of integrated creation as Chinese way of aesthetics, which itself was first conceived and proposed by Zhang Dainian and supported by Wang Yuanhua in his "integrative research method" of aesthetics. Jiang Kongyang elaborated the historical necessity, time pertinency and practicability of the notion, and answered the questions of …
Literature As Event: On Eagleton From After Theory To The Event Of Literature, Yonghua Tang
Literature As Event: On Eagleton From After Theory To The Event Of Literature, Yonghua Tang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Terry Eagleton argues that literary works are unities of structures and events, facts and actions. Literary tradition as a whole is both oppositional to and interwoven with the extrinsic social history, which is not merely a reflection from the given realities and literary works but the presence of literary works in the world when they present themselves as events. The interpretation of literary works should target at events and the specific strategies by which the works present themselves instead of targeting at "objects" and "essences." Eagleton proposes that critics should get rid of the dichotomy between essentialism and anti-essentialism so …
The Rent Collection Courtyard: Theme Park As Politics, Nian Zhang
The Rent Collection Courtyard: Theme Park As Politics, Nian Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
China's contemporary large group sculpture Rent Collection Courtyard and Cai Guoqiang's Venice's Rent Collection Courtyard were created in a different time, and the relationship between the original and Cai’s work is an issue not merely of cultural industry but more of the symbolic production of history. The original group sculpture is an example of proletarian literature and art, and the tragic derailment of fate is that the object of contestation in the work has now turned into the condition for the exhibition of the work. That is, without the capital invested into the art work, there would not have been …
Theory's Estrangement From Literature And Literature's Control Of Theory: A Survey Of The Relationship Between Theory And Literature In The Last Hundred Years, Liang Xu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The capitalized "Theory" emerged from literary theories, but Theory's progress showed a gradual estrangement from literature. The "Theory" has entered almost every field from cultural semiotics to Foucault's school, but it apparently ignores the field of traditional literature. Some scholars of post- theories try to turn back to the pre-Theory period to change the trend while some scholars maintain that literature has controlled academics. The paper argues that the concept of "literature" and the relations between literature and theory should be reconsidered. The linguistic turn highlights the intransitivity of language, which leads to the ubiquity of literariness, and as a …
On The Artistic Origin Of Wen Tingyun's Music Bureau Style And Its Influence On Ci-Poetry, Qinghai Liu
On The Artistic Origin Of Wen Tingyun's Music Bureau Style And Its Influence On Ci-Poetry, Qinghai Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Wen Tingyun's poetry of Music Bureau style inherits mostly from Li He but also from Li Bai and the Music Bureau poetry of the Southern Dynasties. The artistic character of Wen's Music Bureau style comprises of a suggestive way of representation and a flowery language, and the style exerts an obvious influence on Wen's ci-poetry. Wen Tingyun introduced a pompous style into the literati's ci-poetry of late ages, but the influence of Wen's style on ci-poetry can be traced back even to Han Hong in the Dali period in the Tang Dynasty.
Power, Representation And The Advocating Of Modern Chinese Literature: With A Study On Totalistic Anti-Tradition In The May Fourth Era, Qinghua Cao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper maintains that the slogan of "Literature Revolution" in the May Fourth Era calls actually for a revolution of representation, and at the foremost of the revolution is the transformation of the means and manner of representation. The discursive construction in the content of "new literature" focuses on the discipline and description of the represented objects, the position of the representation and the relationship between representation and the represented objects, but the essential concern is on how to empower the representation. The totalistic anti-tradition in the May Fourth Era can then be understood as the totalistic anti-representation which opposes …
The Aesthetic Ideas In The Taichi Diagram And Chinese Calligraphy Art, Lei Wei
The Aesthetic Ideas In The Taichi Diagram And Chinese Calligraphy Art, Lei Wei
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
As the fruit of Chinese ancient philosophy and the vivid expression of Chinese culture, Taichi diagram is a concrete and intuitive summarization of The Book of Change. The endless flowing curve of the S-shape in the Taichi diagram represents the ideal of harmony in the binary opposition of "Yin and Yang," implying the coexistence of Emptiness and Fullness, as well as the combination of the hard and the soft. This supreme realm of harmonious integration becomes the fundamental basis of the art of Chinese calligraphy. The expression of meaning through imagery in Taichi diagram conveys ancient Chinese philosophy and aesthetic …
The Body Prescribed, The Subject Of Desire, And The Discourse Of Body In Literary Criticism, Xuezhi Niu
The Body Prescribed, The Subject Of Desire, And The Discourse Of Body In Literary Criticism, Xuezhi Niu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Literary criticism as an intellectual act about literature has caused quite some contradiction, and the most direct reason may be related to the pan-axiology of criticism. The discourse of body is a value choice of criticism focusing on the body narrative in literature. It concerns how body is conditioned by culture, how it is restrained as object of desire, and where the discourse of body as a mode of criticism functions when the body narrative goes out of control, etc. only by avoiding the contradiction of pan-axiology can this mode of criticism be so examined as to activate the dormant …
The Art Form, National Image And Culture Discount In Korean Movies: An Empirical Study Based On The North American Market, Linxia Chen, Ying Du
The Art Form, National Image And Culture Discount In Korean Movies: An Empirical Study Based On The North American Market, Linxia Chen, Ying Du
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Korean movie industry's quick rise in the late 1990s becomes an example of successful economic transformation among Asian countries in the global industrial upgrading. Korean movie industry tried to promote its commercial success through extreme narrative, which entails a kind of culture discount in the intercultural communication, leading to an overseas market share far less than Korean TV drama, music and other popular cultural products. In the North American market, the largest market with the most intense competition, Korean movies' box office is just passable, because the movies generally have strong political and nationalistic agendas, trying to create a favorable …
The Dao Shown In Skills Or Integrated Into Skills: An Examination Of Zhuangzi's Aesthetics On Skills, Huoqing Chen
The Dao Shown In Skills Or Integrated Into Skills: An Examination Of Zhuangzi's Aesthetics On Skills, Huoqing Chen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In Zhuangzi's relationship between Dao and skill, the prevailing understanding is that Dao can be shown in skills. This understanding, the paper argues, may not be internal to Zhuangzi's thought but derivative from later theorists and scholars on the basis of their understanding of artistic and aesthetic practice. The later theorization may also result from the integration of Confucian and Daoist thoughts. The within-heart epiphany and the experience of "sitting and forgetting" do not correspond to the spirit of arts or aesthetics but to the spirit of morality. The pursuit of the fantastic skills instead of the practical skills in …
The Evolution Of The Concept "Emulating Pre-Tang Regulated Verses" In Ancient Chinese Poetics, Zhanzhao Liu
The Evolution Of The Concept "Emulating Pre-Tang Regulated Verses" In Ancient Chinese Poetics, Zhanzhao Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
As an important poetic concept, the trend of "emulating pre-Tang regulated verses" arose in mid-Tang Dynasty. After its finalization of the pattern, the metrical verses were criticized by those scholars believing that the regulated verses are inferior to the pre-Tang poems, as they were believed to lack the pre-Tang's esthetic characters like Fenggu (air), Xingji (message), simplicity and naturalness. Thus, some scholars proposed the concept of "emulating pre-Tang regulated verses" to learn from pre-Tang poems' rhetoric technique, text structure, style function and writing spirit. Tang poetry advocated Bixing (two metaphorical and rhetorical qualities from The Book of Songs) in the …