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The Falsity Of Life And The Truth Of Existence: A Thematic Exploration Into Ingmar Bergman's Works, Ru Pan
The Falsity Of Life And The Truth Of Existence: A Thematic Exploration Into Ingmar Bergman's Works, Ru Pan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Human existence is one essential theme in the modern art. As a representative of the modern film art, Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman probed into the depth of despair and danger, exposing, through cinematic means, all the disguises of language, revealing the true circumstances of human existence. Bergman's representative works of different periods such as Persona, Autumn Sonata and The Life of Puppets reflected his artistic aspiration, which may be summarized as to unravel the pompous disguise of language, pierce through the frantic illusions of sexuality under the duress of power, and reveal the raging violence underlying close human ties.
The Historical Origin And Changing Connotation Of Recording "The Extraordinary" In Chinese Ancient Novels, Yueling He
The Historical Origin And Changing Connotation Of Recording "The Extraordinary" In Chinese Ancient Novels, Yueling He
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Recording "the Extraordinary (Qi)" is an essential character of Chinese ancient novels, and both its attributes and connotations have been deeply connected with Chinese ancient historical biographical writing. Chinese ancient novels and Shi (historical biography) are closely linked but not similar, as the narrative of historical biography is based on the principles of collecting the extraordinary for the purpose of instructing the sacred way and expressing the justice (Yi) through rhetorical working (Wen). The orthodox concept in "Confucius not talking about the strange and uncanny" and the general exclusion of the extraordinary in the historical biography and the restriction of …
Where Is Literary Theory Going?: A Synopsis Of The Symposium On "The Future Of Literary Theory", Liangcong Zhang, Yuyun Feng
Where Is Literary Theory Going?: A Synopsis Of The Symposium On "The Future Of Literary Theory", Liangcong Zhang, Yuyun Feng
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The context of the symposium is the contemporary theoretical reflection on literary theories. Scholastic discussions in the symposium have focused on the crisis of theory and the possible way-out of the crisis, as well as some specific problems in the research and context of Chinese and Western literary theory. In a new context, the symposium with its focus on the possible prospect of literary theory has undeniable significance in reconstructing contemporary theoretical discourse.
The Enigma Of Visibility: Merleau-Ponty's Philosophical Reflection On Painting In Eye And Mind, Yaojun Zhang
The Enigma Of Visibility: Merleau-Ponty's Philosophical Reflection On Painting In Eye And Mind, Yaojun Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Merleau-Ponty's Eye and Mind focuses on painting, but underlying the discussion in the book is the relationship between man and existence, as visuality is the sinew for the relationship. This paper proceeds from the discussion in Eye and Mind and investigates the basic characteristics of visuality before continues to analyze the reversible relationship between man and objects which the paper defines as the relationship between the visible and the invisible. The paper maintains that it is possible to approach existence by way of painting.
Theoretical Features Of Comments On Zhuangzi'S Prose In Qing Dynasty And Their Artistic Value, Bo Li
Theoretical Features Of Comments On Zhuangzi'S Prose In Qing Dynasty And Their Artistic Value, Bo Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The annotated commentaries on the prose in Zhuangzi's prose in the Qing Dynasty inherit and develop the traditional theory of literary criticism, and establish a discursive system of modern literary criticism. In particular, the interpretative studies on the narrative theory, appreciation and literary Dao have expanded the scope of Zhuangzi's aesthetics and have significant influence on theoretical development.
Trends Of Literary Theory In The Post-Theoretical Era: Towards Posthumanism, Ning Wang
Trends Of Literary Theory In The Post-Theoretical Era: Towards Posthumanism, Ning Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In response to the pessimistic opinions in the circles of literary theory in the East and West, the paper holds that the passing of the golden era of literary and cultural theory does not mean the death of theory. In the present post-theoretical era, the function of theory is no longer forceful and ubiquitous as before, but rather it is to a certain extent restricted. The rise of the so-called posthumanist trend in the West in the past decade indicates that man in the present era is nothing but one of the species in nature, whose existence and development also …
"Post-New Period" And The Structural Position Of Everyday Life, Huanjiang Qiao
"Post-New Period" And The Structural Position Of Everyday Life, Huanjiang Qiao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The "post-new period" is a concept which the academic circle in the early 1990s gave to Chinese literature. This name, the present paper argues, is a way of expressing a value expectation more than an actual description of literature at the time. In the imaginary discourse that concerns literature’s dominant status and its autonomy, the theorization of the post-new period is departed from the essential aspects of contemporary society culture, revealing its lack of historical awareness. If the literature practice after 1990s has shown some distinctive features different from the New Period literature, the reason may not the breakup in …
A Cultural Study Of Unrelated Homonym In Internet Language, Mofan Xu
A Cultural Study Of Unrelated Homonym In Internet Language, Mofan Xu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Unrelated homonym is a common phenomenon of language use in contemporary internet, in which the newly created homonyms have no relevance to the meaning of the original words. Unrelated homonym is not a way of making neologism, but a special usage conditioned by cyber communication techniques and it has become a kind of normalized language play. There are two purposes in using unrelated homonyms: to attract readers' attention through signifier noise, and to achieve an ironic effect through conveying the intended original content in an arbitrary phonetic form. The target of the irony reflects the group psychology of the contemporary …
A Critique Of Derrida's Deconstructive Mode Of Thinking, Bing Li
A Critique Of Derrida's Deconstructive Mode Of Thinking, Bing Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Despite of misunderstanding, deconstruction as a kind of way of thinking has inserted profound influence in the late 20th century. Derrida's undermining of the dualistic way of thinking may not be taken as an irrational destruction, but as a rigorously logical analysis. The heterogeneous way of thinking contains two important perspectives of time and otherness. Derrida's cross-disciplinary writing implicates a post-modern thought of dedifferentiation, which further complicates the boundaries between arts. However, the main limitation of Derrida's mode of thinking lies in its reductionist way of thought, in which language is reduced to super subject and the author's authority is …
A Synopsis Of The Symposium On "Modern Chinese Foreign Literature Studies Over Six Decades", Suzhou Liu, Jing Chen
A Synopsis Of The Symposium On "Modern Chinese Foreign Literature Studies Over Six Decades", Suzhou Liu, Jing Chen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
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Aesthetic Modernity Forms Of Contemporary Taiwanese Prose Theory, Jiangzhen Cai
Aesthetic Modernity Forms Of Contemporary Taiwanese Prose Theory, Jiangzhen Cai
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The prose theory has developed for more than half a century in Taiwan, with "modernity" as the principal axis. In the process of prose theory transformation, Yu Kwang-Chung's call for "cutting off the pigtail of prose" became a symbolic slogan with far-reaching influence, and his modernist approach of "poeticizing" prose established itself as the predominant principle. In the recent three decades, however, scholars shifted their research focus to the generic essence of prose, trying to define the generic style by deconstructing the style, while at the same time advocating the imagination and fictionality in prose which challenges the conventional concept …
Benjamin In Love: A Re-Interpretation OfMoscow Diary, Shicong Sun
Benjamin In Love: A Re-Interpretation OfMoscow Diary, Shicong Sun
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Benjamin's Moscow Diary records the complex relationship between the life and the thought, and it also penetrated with his self-projection. Neither is Benjamin in love a symbol of the "Benjamin industry" carnival, nor is the bodiless Benjamin a feminist metaphor for the aura of his thoughts. Asja Lacis, the protagonist in Moscow Diary, represents one immanent origin of philosophical critique of modernity in the era of overflowing total alienation and pseudo-experience. Individual's authentic experience has been viewed by Benjamin as the last resort to transcendence and redemption of modernity, and underlying Moscow Diary is Benjamin's philosophy of experience.
Clearing A Path To China: A Probe Into Hall And Ames' Methodology Of Sino-Western Cultural Comparison, Yunhua Liu
Clearing A Path To China: A Probe Into Hall And Ames' Methodology Of Sino-Western Cultural Comparison, Yunhua Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper focuses on the trilogy of comparative study of Sino-Western thought co-authored by David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames to make a critical survey of their methodology of cultural comparison. This paper regroups the barriers Hall and Ames find to be in urgent want of clearing and then it briefly describes and interprets the rationale behind the four groups. The paper proceeds to summarize the two scholars' neo-pragmatic concept of cultural comparison before analyzing the implications of their concept of determinants in culture and contextualized approach in relation to the two different frameworks of problematization in the two …
Continuation And Construction: On The Edition Study Of Contemporary Chinese Literature History And Its Limitation, Xiuming Wu, Tao Zhang
Continuation And Construction: On The Edition Study Of Contemporary Chinese Literature History And Its Limitation, Xiuming Wu, Tao Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The study on the editions of contemporary Chinese literary history has profound significance for the compilation of literary history, academic studies of literature, and disciplinary construction as well as scholastic development. The call for "re-writing literary history" in the late 1980s in response to the paradigm shift in literary history writing is taken as the dividing line of two periods, and the paper proceeds to compare the different editions and examine the limitations in the revisions in the two periods. The paper points out that the shift from the political to aesthetic or cultural perspective is a significant breakthrough in …
Environmental Civility: Culture, Education, Enlightenment, And Wisdom, Sepänmaa Yrjö
Environmental Civility: Culture, Education, Enlightenment, And Wisdom, Sepänmaa Yrjö
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Culture and civility, enlightenment and wisdom all relate to the environment, and the environment relates to them. Environmental civility is a conscious and emotional skill or readiness, which permits a basically positive attitude and way of acting. Civility and wisdom are close to each other and nearly synonyms. Knowledge is the foundation, but it needs the partnership of an attitude that maintains and refines life. Civility is value-positive, but as such also critical. It means proper respect and appreciation of well-done work, and always seeking something better. Eco-humanism emphasizes the positive value of humankind and human work, positive footprints: we …
History And Nationalism In Images: A Review Of The MovieBack To 1942, Guo Feng, Ao Tian
History And Nationalism In Images: A Review Of The MovieBack To 1942, Guo Feng, Ao Tian
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper examines Feng Xiaogang's movie Back to 1942 from the perspective of history and nationalism, claiming that it has remarkable merits in exhibiting history and revealing the nationalism through images. The theories informed the analysis of the film script and audio-visual language of the movie include the new historicist "plebeian history," the cultural memory related to cultural theorists like Aleida Assmann, and Northrop Frye's "archetype theory." The paper concludes that the movie Back to 1942 challenges the traditional concept of historical narrative and enforces a retrospect of national historical memory. The story in the movie is not only a …
Modernity, The Avant-Garde And Mass Culture: A Reflection Inspired By Walter Benjamin, Yong Wang
Modernity, The Avant-Garde And Mass Culture: A Reflection Inspired By Walter Benjamin, Yong Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Walter Benjamin's meditation on modernity is the most significant in his theory, and his concept of aura apparently illuminates the transformation from traditional art toward modern one but essentially reveals the characteristics of popular culture as integration and formularization. His interpretation of the tragic drama, Baudelaire, Kafka, and Proust further exposes the nature of the avant-garde as a form going beyond the content. This illumination depicts two cultural patterns of modernity: discontent with reality that leads to injection of rationality into reality, and identification with reality that leads to acknowledge the random meaning from reality. These two patterns comprise the …
Manchu Shamanist Mythology And Ecological Aesthetics, Lijie Yan
Manchu Shamanist Mythology And Ecological Aesthetics, Lijie Yan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Manchu traditional culture of fishing and hunting has maintained a relation of harmonic multi-dimensional coexistence with its natural environment. Shamanic mythology has an animistic philosophical foundation with a primitive poetic thinking, holding nature in awe and veneration. Through constant communication with nature, the human beings are situated in the ecological system, and this means that Manchu life had an ecological aesthetics dimension since early. Manchu shamanism advocates animism, the unity of heaven and earth, and the identity of object and self. In shamanic mythology, the human interacts and keeps a kinship with the nature. Shamans communicate with the human and …
Marx And The Problems Of 20th Century Aesthetics, Zhenglong Wang
Marx And The Problems Of 20th Century Aesthetics, Zhenglong Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Marx's shift of focuses first from the essence of beauty to the formation of beauty and then from the relationship between art, society and life to the liberation feeling and sensibility undermines the traditional aesthetics from the metaphysical aspect and promotes the liberation of sensibility in the 20th-century aesthetics. Marx's political economy reveals various contradictions of capitalist industrial civilization and constructs a perspective of critique and methodology to analyze the capitalist culture, which establishes the foundation for the socio-cultural turn of criticism in the 20th-century aesthetics. The relations dealt with in Marx's aesthetics have been developed, revised, and questioned or …
On Heidegger, Jameson Fredric, Yu Zhu
On Heidegger, Jameson Fredric, Yu Zhu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Heidegger's Being and Time could be considered as a project in which the translation of codes occupies a central place. As for the dialectical oppositions between "the ontic" and "the ontological", "authenticity" and "inauthenticity" etc. and the ultimate failure of translation of codes induced by the analysis of "Dasein", these conceptual operations could be grasped as a "language experiment". It is only through this movement of "transcoding" that we could approach the historical specificity of Heidegger's thought and understand his political commitment and ideological significance of his philosophical discourse.
The Conception Of Canonization InThree Hundred Tang Poems, Honglin Wang
The Conception Of Canonization InThree Hundred Tang Poems, Honglin Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper argues that Three Hundred Tang Poems was compiled on the basis of the first edition of A Collection of Differentiated Tang Poems (Tang Shi Bie Cai Ji) in terms of the number of overlapped poems in both books and of the similarity of their compilation style and principles. The selection of Three Hundred Tang Poems shows that it lays equal emphasis on the educational function and the artistic appeal of poetry. It continues to accolade the High Tang poetry as An Collection of Differentiated Tang Poems did, while reducing the weight of the Early Tang poetry to highlight …
Delivered By Aesthetics: The Buddhist Taste In Wang Guowei's Comments On A Dream Of Red Mansions And The Symptoms Of His Aesthetic Thought, Hongxiang Xu, Wei Du
Delivered By Aesthetics: The Buddhist Taste In Wang Guowei's Comments On A Dream Of Red Mansions And The Symptoms Of His Aesthetic Thought, Hongxiang Xu, Wei Du
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Wang Guowei's Comments on A Dream of Red Mansions is far from a simple reproduction of Schopenhauer's philosophy and aesthetics. Wang incorporated his knowledge of Buddhism into the general structure of world academics, in which the individual's humanistic impulses to question the essence of life functioned as the local structures to push its smooth motion and modulate the dominant direction. Different aspects in life such as the attitude toward desire, the cognition of sufferings and the state of deliverance mirrored the mind-nature tradition of Chinese Buddhist thought, and "Buddhist taste" became both the background and intermediary of the fusion of …
Ecstasy And Writing: A Reflection On The Cultural Motif Of The Celestial Script, Yongping Li
Ecstasy And Writing: A Reflection On The Cultural Motif Of The Celestial Script, Yongping Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In Plato's Dialogues, Socrates repeatedly claimed that poets were the inspired spokesmen of the god. In the Westernized context of modern disciplines, the function of story and lyrics becomes opaque and hard to understand. The so-called celestial script is an important cultural phenomenon, and from the perspective of literary anthropology, the motif of celestial script implies a long-standing tradition of oracle. The motif originates from the shaman ritual system of deity-communication, divination, disaster-prevention, evocation, and healing. The celestial script bestowed by deities and the secondary oral cultural tradition fulfill the need of the primitive people for extraordinary knowledge, ability and …
Franco Moretti's Reconstructionist "New Theory Of Literary Evolution" And World Literary History, Yuping Wu, Hanwen Fang
Franco Moretti's Reconstructionist "New Theory Of Literary Evolution" And World Literary History, Yuping Wu, Hanwen Fang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper claims that Franco Moretti's "New Theory of Literary Evolution" as one of the subjectivity theories behind the reconstruction of world literature history could be viewed as the reproduction in the postindustrial era of the evolution theory of literature in the 19th-century West. Although Darwin's evolution theory had profound impacts in the Western theory of social sciences, its limitations in epistemology and methodology have long been exposed and challenged. Moretti's plot-style interaction proposition takes into consideration formalist theory and the Western theory of world system, trying to reconstruct an innovative theory of world literature. The paper concludes that Moretti's …
Penglai, Cinnabar, And The Great Roc: The Presence Of Daoism In Du Fu's Poetry, Haoming Liu
Penglai, Cinnabar, And The Great Roc: The Presence Of Daoism In Du Fu's Poetry, Haoming Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper challenges the traditional stereotype of Du Fu as poet-sage by investigating his relationship to Daoism as is reflected in his poetry and in his life. It first discusses Du Fu's subscription to Daoism as a state ideology promoted by the Tang rulers and his representation of the court in Daoist paradisiacal imagery. It then moves to a discussion of the significance of Daoism to Du Fu as a personal faith and practice, with particular attention paid to his relationship with the doctrine of gold cinnabar. Finally, it investigates the nature and the meaning of the metamorphosis of the …
What Are The Consequences Of Literary Theory? Regarding To Stanley Fish's Non-Consequentialist Concept, Houliang Chen
What Are The Consequences Of Literary Theory? Regarding To Stanley Fish's Non-Consequentialist Concept, Houliang Chen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Literary theories have been long believed to have consequences. On the one hand, changes may be brought about in our reading experience and critical practices, and reforms may occur on the other. An entirely different argument, however, is raised by Stanley Fish, who claims that theory has no consequence because of its vain attempts to guide practice while taking a transcendental gesture so as to acquire a general hermeneutics of text from an absolutely impartial viewpoint. Literary theory is, therefore, a descriptive act of interpretation at best instead of an act of interpretation; hence, it cannot bring about any practical …
Cultural Turn And The Legitimacy Of The Theory Of Contemporary Chinese Aesthetic Ideology, Yanfeng Li
Cultural Turn And The Legitimacy Of The Theory Of Contemporary Chinese Aesthetic Ideology, Yanfeng Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper starts its investigation from the perspective of discourse legitimacy with respect to the structural transformation of contemporary social culture and the transfiguration of the mechanism of discourse production. It tries to trace the working logic underlying the historical development of the theory of aesthetic ideology and map out how its legitimacy is produced, ossified and trapped into crisis. The theory of aesthetic ideology was formed in the 1980s, and this paper takes its discursive structure, attribute and function as obvious symptoms of "modernity." Due to the fracture of "modernity," the transformation of socio-cultural structure and the transfiguration of …
How Can A Literary Theory Be In The Era Of Post Theories?, Wei Song
How Can A Literary Theory Be In The Era Of Post Theories?, Wei Song
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Theoretical paradigm of modernity is met with unprecedented challenge and crisis, amid contemporary innovation and transformation of thoughts, thinking and discourse. Issues emerging from the post theory and "after theory" become important points for academic reflection. Post theories belong to the theoretical paradigm of postmodernity with a deconstructionist critical spirit. The reconstruction of literary theory in the era of post theories is not only a response and a critical questioning to contemporary cultural transformation, and the reality concern and critical dimension are the most demanding cultural-political issues in the process of the reconstruction.
The Gestation, Evolution And Cultural Implication Of The Concept Of "Author" In Ancient China, Chunqing Li
The Gestation, Evolution And Cultural Implication Of The Concept Of "Author" In Ancient China, Chunqing Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper examines the development of the concept of "author" in ancient China from the pre-Qin to the Han-Wei Period. The trajectory can be found from Confucius's "explicating without writing down" to the claim that "the authors are too holy to be named" in The Book of Rites, and down to Cao Pi's "Jiayi could be named as a real author [on the basis that] his 'On the Qin's Governance' evaluated Zhou and Qin's merits and demerits, explicated the uninterpreted phenomena, exemplified with the mores from the past three dynasties and illuminated with the sages' teaching." This process, from the …
A Further Reflection On The References Of Verbal Signs And Images, Jingpeng Zhao
A Further Reflection On The References Of Verbal Signs And Images, Jingpeng Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Language and writing are two different systems. Language as a system of sound symbols has the unique feature of containing "image" (verbal icon) in the sounds, and while writing, compared with the other images, are images that can be pronounced. A further reflection leads to the observation that the resemblance between the verbal icon and the referent can only decide the relation between the meaning and the referent but cannot undermine the arbitrary relationship between the pronunciation and the verbal icon or between the signifier and the signified. In other words, it cannot change the nature of the linguistic sign …