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Postmodernity, Hegemony, Sexuality, Alderson David
Postmodernity, Hegemony, Sexuality, Alderson David
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Michel Foucault influentially dismissed 'Freudo-Marxism' in his History of Sexuality, vol. 1. This paper, by contrast, proposes a critique of postmodern theory, as well as theories of postmodernity, in proposing a return to the preoccupations of Herbert Marcuse in relation to sexuality. Specifically, the paper suggests that we must take account of the transformations in capitalism that have taken place since Marcuse's time when revisiting his work, but that his category of the performance principle is now even more relevant than it was when he elaborated it. Nonetheless, his theory of repressive desublimation is revised as repressive incitement, and a …
The Concept Of "Tianji" In Ancient Chinese Literary Criticism Under The Perspective Of Phenomenology, Jing Zhang
The Concept Of "Tianji" In Ancient Chinese Literary Criticism Under The Perspective Of Phenomenology, Jing Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper attempts to reflect the concept of "tianji (Heaven's secret)" from the perspective of phenomenology. It claims that "tianji" is an important concept in literary creation theory, and it maintains that the understanding of the concept should focus on the following five elements: 1) the accidental moment of spirituality in the aesthetic subject, 2) artistic vitality, 3) the intrinsic aesthetic formation, 4) the aesthetic intention within the aesthetic subject, and 5) the secret power of universe and nature. The paper claims that quite a few concepts in phenomenology can be used to illuminate our understanding of "tianji." The theory …
The Mythistorical Pattern In The Studies On Origins Of Civilization, Qian Wang
The Mythistorical Pattern In The Studies On Origins Of Civilization, Qian Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The concept of mythistory is developed in the period of the New Historiography, and it is closely related to the changing concept of history. Mythistory takes mythology as a narrative origin of history, and thus the fundamental confrontation between mythology and history is dissolved. In the research on the origins of civilization, the mythistorical pattern aims to explore how myths enter history, and to investigate the shaping function of myths in the formation of civilization. Advocators of this pattern generally agree that the mythology as metahistory is the narrative dynamic mechanism behind the emergence of history.
The Rhetoric Of "New Manchu": With A Focus OnNew ManchuMagazine In Puppet Manchurian State, Xiaoli Liu
The Rhetoric Of "New Manchu": With A Focus OnNew ManchuMagazine In Puppet Manchurian State, Xiaoli Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Manchukuo, a puppet state of Japan in the northeastern part of China, tried to create an ideology of New Manchu. This paper explored how Manchu was turned into New Manchu, and then discussed the imperialist logic behind the rhetoric of New Manchu. The logic implied that Japan was advanced, civilized and attractive but Manchu was underdeveloped, inferior and uncivilized. Further to the assumption was that Manchu needed to be educated and transformed by Japan. The paper proceeded to discuss who could be the happy subjects under the governance of Manchukuo, and from there the paper tries to deconstruct the hypocritical …
On Liu Xizai's Paradox About The Exhaustibility Of Meaning, Xingchuan Tao
On Liu Xizai's Paradox About The Exhaustibility Of Meaning, Xingchuan Tao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Liu Xizai in his General Principles of Arts proposed a paradoxical idea about exhausting the inexhaustibility of meaning with the inexhaustible, and this paper claims that his idea points at the fundamental function of aesthetic creativity. The ideas developed in Liu's book cover two sides. On the one hand, the book explicates the concept of the inexhaustibility of meaning from three aspects: the infiniteness of the macro and the micro dimensions, the incompatibility between language and meaning, and the infiniteness in the finiteness. On the other hand, the book explains the approaches to exhaust the inexhaustible from three aspects: writing …
Theoretical Traces Of Raymond Williams' "Structures Of Feeling" And "Cultural Materialism", Jifang Duan
Theoretical Traces Of Raymond Williams' "Structures Of Feeling" And "Cultural Materialism", Jifang Duan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"Structures of Feeling" is an important concept in Raymond Williams' aesthetic theory of "Cultural Materialism", and it is the starting point of his Marxist aesthetics and underlies the different stages of his theoretical development. The concept of "the structure of feeling" provides both an anchor point for retrospective criticism on his cultural materialism aesthetics and a point of departure for delineating the trajectory of his theoretical development and implications. The paper advocates a close reading of theory as it may provide an important approach to understand Williams' Marxist cultural theory as that it represents a way to break away from …
Critique Of Foucault's Theory Of Discourse, Xian Zhou
Critique Of Foucault's Theory Of Discourse, Xian Zhou
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"French theory" is another expression for the post-structuralist thought in France, with Foucault's theory of discourse being the most influential, and constructivism lies at the core of the theory. On the one hand, the theory of discourse highlights the function discourse performs in constructing subjectivity and the reality; on the other hand, it aims to reveal the symbiotic relation between the power and knowledge behind discourse. Thus, the theory dissolves the cognitive agency of the subject while foregrounding the subject's construction of discourse, and it highlights the representational practice of discourse while forecloses the social material practice of the non-discourse. …
Dialectics Between Politics And Literature: On Overseas Studies In Chinese Literature, Jin Ji
Dialectics Between Politics And Literature: On Overseas Studies In Chinese Literature, Jin Ji
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper surveys and reflects on the overseas researches on the relationship between Marxism and modern Chinese literature. Through critical analyses of major studies on Left-Wing literature and writers as well as case studies sinicization of Marxist aesthetic ideology, the paper tries to expose the struggle between knowledge and power and reveal the complexity of mutual stimulus between internal and external factors. The paper points out that the study of the sinicization of Marxism should discard the grand historical narrative with one dominant voice and be re-positioned into the multiple voiced historical site. The paper concludes that overseas studies have …
Four Characteristics Of Ancient Chinese Aesthetics, Fa Zhang
Four Characteristics Of Ancient Chinese Aesthetics, Fa Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper maintains that four characteristics can be observed about Chinese ancient aesthetics. The first one is concerned with the Chinese view of the cosmos, the second with Chinese view of the human world, while the third is concerned with the fact that Chinese theoretical norm is developed through a culture emphasizing on its totality instead of differentiality, the fourth with the cultural variety during the historical development.
Genre Criticism In Ming Dynasty And Zhu Yao'sThe Genre Of Ancient Rhapsody, Shihai He
Genre Criticism In Ming Dynasty And Zhu Yao'sThe Genre Of Ancient Rhapsody, Shihai He
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Zhu Yao's Gufu Bianti (The Genre of Ancient Rhapsody) is not only an important anthology of fu (rhymed prose, rhapsody) but also a comprehensive critical work on rhapsody. The anthology encompasses a selection of rhapsody texts and essays on the history and genre of rhapsody. It presents a systematic genre criticism which takes the six principles of poetry and exposition of personal sentiments as its criteria while taking prefatory notes and titular interpretation in ancient critical tradition as its approach, and its criticism is rich in content and logical in organization with valuable theoretical insights. The work has exerted a …
Literary Debates And Paradigm Shifts In Overseas Studies Of Modern Chinese Literature, Zhang Yingjin
Literary Debates And Paradigm Shifts In Overseas Studies Of Modern Chinese Literature, Zhang Yingjin
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
By way of reviewing paradigm shifts as manifested in three literary debates, this paper contends that overseas studies of modern Chinese literature never contain only one single voice but rather follow a trajectory similar to institutional changes and paradigm shifts in the humanities in Euro-America. As theories come and go inside and outside China, Chinese experiences have been pluralized and complicated by today’s fast development of globalization and therefore demand an exploration from multiple and even mobile perspectives.
On Plato's Religious Justice And Artistic Justice, Yun Wang
On Plato's Religious Justice And Artistic Justice, Yun Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper aims to probe into Plato's thoughts on religious justice and artistic justice through a critical reading of his Republic in terms of its contributions to the theory of justice. Plato's conceptualization of justice refers not merely to the justice in social life but also to religious justice and artistic justice, despite the fact that these term are not used explicitly per se. This paper argues that Plato's theorization of justice in The Republic proves to be the most distinctive and most valuable by putting justice in different perspectives from different areas.
Sinophone Literature And World Literature In Chinese, Fengliang Li, Ping Hu
Sinophone Literature And World Literature In Chinese, Fengliang Li, Ping Hu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Recent discussions regarding Sinophone literature demonstrate that overseas Chinese literary research circle is attempting to claim discursive power from the American sinological field and is making its way from the margin to the centre. Meanwhile, these overseas researchers, by adopting a decolonizing and decentralizing approach, try to contest with mainland China's academic circle for dominant discursive power. Beneath the discussions is a strong sense of discursive politics. Sinophone literature and world literature in Chinese are remarkably different in terms of their respective value positions, theoretical approaches and research objectives, but researches on Sinophone literature can inform the formation of modern …
Technology, Apparatus And Meaning: Two Approaches To Myth Interpretation, Jing Rao
Technology, Apparatus And Meaning: Two Approaches To Myth Interpretation, Jing Rao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper reflects on the "Davos Debate" between Cassirer and Heidegger and attempts to put it into the perspective of mythical thinking. In the debate, Heidegger refuted Cassirer's latent transcendental subjectivity that underlay the discourse on the science-myth dichotomy. On the other hand, Cassirer's subjectivity is closely related to Heidegger's reflective critique on technology. Myth and technology are homological in the sense that they are both implicitly constructed in the "Gestell" (apparatus), and the double origins of apparatus open up two approaches of myth interpretation. Although the true meaning of myth interpretation lies in the dimension of existential renewal instead …
The Fragmented Ancient Chinese God System, Dake Zhu
The Fragmented Ancient Chinese God System, Dake Zhu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Ancient Chinese mythology is different from those in other civilizations in its fragmentariness, and the fragmented nature is the result of the collective destruction of historical documents in the pre-Qin feudal states burnt down all historical documents, on top of the massive burning of books and the burying-alive of Confucian scholars during the reign of the First Emperor of Qin. This silent "cultural revolution" in the pre-Qin and Qin era resulted in the destruction of the first generation of Chinese mythology. During the wave of Asian emigration, myth fragments from India, Iran and West Asia constructed the second generation of …
The Meta-Ethical Traits: Nothingness, Différance And Spectrology, Hongsheng Wang
The Meta-Ethical Traits: Nothingness, Différance And Spectrology, Hongsheng Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
One of the foremost problems that contemporary narrative ethics must respond to is whether meaning exists. This paper reviews the different Western versions of the death of God and the various understandings of "nothingness" among Chinese and Western thinkers, attempts to distinguish "nothingness" from "nihilism", and hopes to pin down the location of the meaning formation from multiple perspectives. It proceeds to investigate Derrida's "différance" and "spectrology" and positions deconstructionism in the meta-ethical dimension of post-philosophical thinking. The paper has also summarized the basic features of the meta-ethical dimension.
The Primitive State Of Antique Chinese Elenchus In Spoken And Written Style, Dalei Hu
The Primitive State Of Antique Chinese Elenchus In Spoken And Written Style, Dalei Hu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In antique Chinese writing, elenchus as a form of debate prose takes the form of spoken and written styles, and this paper takes this approach to examine the primitive state of the genre. The paper demonstrates three main aspects of the genre of elenchus in the ancient China. The first concerns with the context, setting and scene of elenchus and there are some principles in the oral elenchus. The second concerns with the functions of elenchus. The third concerns with the connotation of elenchus exhibited in the different styles of the genre. The genre of elenchus comes into being, the …
The Return Of Beauty?, Welsch Wolfgang
The Return Of Beauty?, Welsch Wolfgang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper argues that the so-called return of beauty propagated in the aesthetic discourse is actually a return of the topic "beauty." The paper puts forward three claims in support of the argument. 1) The opposition to beauty that we find in art theory from mid-nineteenth century onward and especially in the twentieth century was not directed against beauty in general, but against specific conceptions of beauty. 2) Contemporary pleas in favor of beauty have dubious reasons and effects. 3) The talk about the attractiveness of the beautiful or the sublime, breath-taking beauty and its universality is conspicuously absent from …
The Tension Between The Enlightenment And Cultural Identity In Postcolonial Context: With Wai-Lim Yip As A Focus, Yiqing Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The awakening of self-consciousness and subjectivity resulted from the enlightenment demonstrates in the May 4th Movement as a radical criticism on tradition, and this criticism itself becomes a means to modernity. The enlightenment also resulted in the loss of Chinese cultural subjecthood, the consequence of which was felt strong in the post-colonial Taiwan and Hong Kong first. Among the intellectuals under the colonial culture, Wai-lim Yip believes that identification with Chinese culture in Hong Kong may reinstall the cultural identity of the colonized people and establish national identity. Identification with Chinese culture may prompt reflection on the constraints of the …
A Study Of Tan Ying's Reception Of And Reaction To The Zhexi School, Wei Xu
A Study Of Tan Ying's Reception Of And Reaction To The Zhexi School, Wei Xu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In the Qing dynasty, besides the Schools of Zhexi and Changzhou, Guangdong poets had also played an important role in the construction of ci poetics, among which Tan Ying, with his 177 Quatrains on Ci-Poems, could be considered as one of the most systematic and sophisticated critic-poets. Heavily influenced by the School of Zhexi, Tan Ying gave prominence to the exquisite and elegant nature of ci-poetry while also highlighting the expression of true emotion and personal integrity in ci-poetry as a rectifying measure for the desolateness and the overindulgence in rhetoric of Zhexi poetics. This paper analyzes Tan Ying's critical …
A Critical Survey Of The Researches On The Historical Materials Of Contemporary Chinese Literature, Xiuming Wu, Tao Zhang
A Critical Survey Of The Researches On The Historical Materials Of Contemporary Chinese Literature, Xiuming Wu, Tao Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The historical materials of contemporary Chinese literature serve as a new form of historical documents, and in general, the research in this field lags behind, although in the past half century some remarkable progresses have been made in both understanding and practice. The paper takes the current achievements as a start and reviews the present scholarship in the study of contemporary literary materials. First, the evolution of cognition in the researchers and the adjustment of research approach become eminent from the perspective of diachronic analysis and delineation. Secondly, the current studies in the area have been examined on the synchronic …
On The Institutional Theory Of Art From The Perspective Of Cultural Sociology, Xiao Kuang
On The Institutional Theory Of Art From The Perspective Of Cultural Sociology, Xiao Kuang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The institutional theory of art originates from the analytical aestheticians' debates on the definition of art. The discussions round Arthur Danto's "artworld" and George Dickie's "institutional theory of art" signalize a transition of focus from the "essential property" to the "relational property" in aesthetics and shows some sociologically oriented features. Sociologists such as Howard Becker and Pierre Bourdieu proceed to examine the structural rules of art institutions from the perspective of cooperation and conflict, which breaks the boundaries of the traditional philosophy of art and has made significant contribution to the interdisciplinary integration and complementation between contemporary aesthetics and sociology.
Ouyang Xiu's Research OfBook Of Changes And The Turn To Classical Style Prose, Gang Cheng
Ouyang Xiu's Research OfBook Of Changes And The Turn To Classical Style Prose, Gang Cheng
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Ou Yangxiu had been a pioneer both as a writer and a scholar of Chinese Classics. The study on Chinese Classics in Song Dynasty was uniquely important for it represented a turn to the classical way, and the Study in Song Dynasty was established against the Study in Han Dynasty. During the process, Ouyang Xiu was both the initiator and promoter with great achievements. Characteristics shown in Ouyang Xiu's style in Chinese Classics study may be summarized to be skeptical, plain, practical and laconic. Meanwhile, Ouyang Xiu had also integrated his style in China Classics study into his prose writing …
Problems With Contemporary Western Environmental Aesthetics, Yu Zhao
Problems With Contemporary Western Environmental Aesthetics, Yu Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
While environmental aesthetics has made a remarkable contribution for its innovation to contemporary Western aesthetics, the paper argues that some problems with the contemporary environmental aesthetics include the undefined boundaries when expanding the domain of aesthetic objects, self-contradiction when expanding the dimension of aesthetic experience, and overlook of the inherent characteristics of aesthetics as a discipline when emphasizing the relations between aesthetics and other disciplines. The paper cautions that the balance between the traditional concepts and contemporary development is an emergent issue for contemporary environmental aesthetics.
Towards A Thick Description Of Maoist Discourse: With Help From Zhao Shuli, Vukovich Daniel
Towards A Thick Description Of Maoist Discourse: With Help From Zhao Shuli, Vukovich Daniel
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
With a few exceptions much of the knowledge of modern China produced in the world either ignores or demonizes the Mao era. On the cultural front things are not much better, whether we are speaking of the "Seventeen-year's Literature" or the culture of the 1960s and 1970s. The negation of the Mao or radical era is, in short, a crucial part of contemporary Sinological-orientalism. There is however a recovery and reorientation project underway that seeks to restore the complexity of the Mao decades and its pursuit of an alternative, agrarian, and socialist modernity. As part of this project I offer …
The Concept Of Subjectivity And The Body Image In Ancient Greek Aesthetics, Xiaohua Wang
The Concept Of Subjectivity And The Body Image In Ancient Greek Aesthetics, Xiaohua Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In the history of western aesthetics, the concept of subjectivity determines the construction of body image. As the concept of subjectivity varies, the body is accordingly represented as subject, object or subject-object. Since the generalized primitive schema of body was discarded, the construction of body image in Greek aesthetics developed in two directions, one being the understanding of body as a pure object, and the other being the understanding of body as taking the double role of subject and object. The former was represented by Socrates, Plato, Epictetus and Plotinus, while the latter was represented by Democritus, Aristotle, Epicurus and …
Cinema As Politics: On Rancière's Philosophy Of Film, Xinghua Lu
Cinema As Politics: On Rancière's Philosophy Of Film, Xinghua Lu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper surveys the recent development of Rancière's philosophy of film from the relation between cinema and politics. The paper delineates that movie-making has taken over literary realism and it had become or is becoming or will become a communist machine to negotiate with the new sensibility of human community that is to come. Movie-making actualizes the global redistribution of the new sensibility through images which configure a space of both the past and the present, and it brings the human into a brand new form of life through a new aesthetic politics.
Investigating Into The Naming Of "Expository Preface" As A Form Of Classical Chinese Generic Criticism, Chengxue Wu
Investigating Into The Naming Of "Expository Preface" As A Form Of Classical Chinese Generic Criticism, Chengxue Wu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Some ancient literary anthologies in China usually carry in the contents or before the main body of a volume a preface that introduces the generic evolution, and there has no commonly agreed name for this particular form of writing. The paper proposes that the name of "expository preface (xuti序题)" should be applied to it so that the research into Chinese literary genre could be conducted in a more systematic and self-conscious way. "Expository preface" is a unique and important genre of criticism in ancient Chinese literary history, and it gestates in Han Dynasty, takes its form in Jin Dynasty, and …
On The Formation Of Appreciative Criticism In Ancient China, Chunqing Li
On The Formation Of Appreciative Criticism In Ancient China, Chunqing Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Appreciative criticism is a form of practical criticism from the perspective of appreciative judgment, and a literary criticism activity on the basis of aesthetic taste and emotional experience. As a form of literary criticism, it emerged in West Han Dynasty and matured in East Han Dynasty in China, with Liu Xiang, Yang Xiong and Liu Xin being three important figures in the developmental process. Appreciative criticism was formed in the socio-historical context in which the change of taste on the part of imperial officialdom and scholar-officials was a key factor. The paper argues that an examination of the historical formation …
On The Intervention Of Literary Means In Painting And Its Boundary, Xiaoli Wang
On The Intervention Of Literary Means In Painting And Its Boundary, Xiaoli Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
With Chinese equivalent dictum of "Ut Pictura Poesis" as a guiding principle, literarization became a trend in Chinese painting, especially in the literati painting. Traditional literary rhetoric methods such as metaphor and symbolism were appropriated into painting so as to express personal sentiments. The inscriptions on the painting expand the planar painterly world, and strengthen the expressiveness of the painting. The intervention of literary methods in imagistic thinking is subjected to the artistic autonomy of paintings, and painting as a form of plastic art have their own aesthetic objectives that determine the boundary of the application of literary methods.