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The Achievements Of And Inspirations From The Psychology Of Tragedy, Ersu Ding
The Achievements Of And Inspirations From The Psychology Of Tragedy, Ersu Ding
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Psychology of Tragedy (1933) by Zhu Guangqian is a monumental work in the history of Chinese theories of tragedy. Written from the unique perspective of a Chinese scholar and moving with ease among major Western theories of tragedy, its author had raised therein a good number of great insights that are still valid today. Zhu Guangqian's greatest contribution to the theory of tragedy lies in his modification of Aristotle's theories of "catharsis" and "hamartia", legitimating the plot of innocent suffering and introducing into the mix of tragic feelings such important concepts as love and regret. Probably due to his …
The Complete List Of Theoretical Studies In Literature And Art, Vol. 1-6, 2020, Studies In Literature And Art Theoretical
The Complete List Of Theoretical Studies In Literature And Art, Vol. 1-6, 2020, Studies In Literature And Art Theoretical
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
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The Essence Of Qian Gurong's Aesthetic Personality, Jun Wu
The Essence Of Qian Gurong's Aesthetic Personality, Jun Wu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Focusing on the editorial arrangement of Qian Gurong's collection of self-selected works, this article explores Qian's theoretical system of "literature as a study of humanity" and the characteristics of his literary criticism. It also investigates the features of his critical theories and examines, based on the stylistic analyses of his essays, the aesthetic personality of Qian. In terms of intellectual experience and cultural taste, Qian is an academic, who blends the ancient and the modern, the foreign and the domestic in his studies. He emphasizes, in particular, the personalization of classic aesthetics, and views the continuation of traditional culture as …
The Poverty Of Experience And Its Wayout In The Information Age: An Exammination From The Perspective Of Walter Benjamin, Bin Sun, Yanfen Zhang
The Poverty Of Experience And Its Wayout In The Information Age: An Exammination From The Perspective Of Walter Benjamin, Bin Sun, Yanfen Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Experience generates from memory. However, if memory only serves as an accurate recollection of the past, it is destined to be replaced by modern technology, which can provide information instantly. Therefore, memory is presented in the form of story, which makes it possible to pass on experience across generations. But the art of storytelling is reaching its end due to the challenge of information, a new form of communication. The essence of information is instant verifiability. This even cancels the distinction between impression and idea since instant information renders all perceptions forceful and lively impressions. Yet, it is its force …
Reinterpreting The Aesthetics Of "Zerstreuung": From Walter Benjamin To Jonathan Crary, Peng Zhang
Reinterpreting The Aesthetics Of "Zerstreuung": From Walter Benjamin To Jonathan Crary, Peng Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Walter Benjamin's and Jonathan Crary's respective understanding of the concept of "Zerstreuung" is in sharp contrast to each other. Benjamin detects not only a connection between "Zerstreuung" and the bourgeoisie in the capitalist entertainment industry, but also an unconscious collusion between "Zerstreuung" and the public in the early film technology. Such collusion has created a state of "Jetztzeit" for the audience by using the technique of montage in film, so that the audience could reconstruct their historical consciousness, which is transformed into a collective experience from that of the individual, thus assigning early cinema with the potential of politicizing aesthetics. …
The Way Of Life, "The Third Sex", And The Method Of Reconstructing "Literary Native Soil": Centering On Yan Lianke's They, The Women, Zhudi Ye, Leiguang Wang
The Way Of Life, "The Third Sex", And The Method Of Reconstructing "Literary Native Soil": Centering On Yan Lianke's They, The Women, Zhudi Ye, Leiguang Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
There are three key points for the understanding Yan Lianke's non-fictive work They, the Women: the way of life, the study of women centering on "the third sex" and the imagination of native-soil China with non-fiction as the method. They respectively correspond to three dimensions of the work: the content, the author's thought, and the creation of literary style. These three dimensions are closely intertwined and focus on one issue: how to understand and imagine contemporary native-soil China. The numerous characters and their stories in They, the Women are woven together by the author's language and thought with strong subjectivity, …
Classic Literary Criticism As The Embryo Of Productional Literary Criticism, Wenfang Yao
Classic Literary Criticism As The Embryo Of Productional Literary Criticism, Wenfang Yao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
A significant development of Euro-American literary criticism in the 20th century is its progress regarding the issue of "art production," which, by including into it the practice of literary reading and literary criticism, breaks through the previous theoretical assumption that "art production" is limited to literary creation. Classic critics such as Albert Thibaudet, T.S. Eliot, Ivor Armstrong Richards, and Northrop Frye have, through practical experiences of literary criticism, discovered and confirmed the production of literary criticism. They have not only embarked on verifying such production through scientific experiments, but also conceptualized the ways in which productional criticism can be conducted …
Development, Pragmatism, And Innovation: Classical Xiqu Studies In Shanghai In The Past 70 Years, Jingfeng Huang
Development, Pragmatism, And Innovation: Classical Xiqu Studies In Shanghai In The Past 70 Years, Jingfeng Huang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Since 1949, five generations of scholars on classical xiqu studies have emerged continuously in Shanghai. Scholarship in the three major fields of research, namely, ancient theories and criticism of xiqu, chronological research of ancient xiqu writers and works, and interdisciplinary research, has engaged scholars of all generations and exerted great influence. The research on ancient theories and criticism of xiqu has witnessed a process of pioneering the filed, expanding purviews, integrating studies as a whole, reinvestigating the entire scholarship, and exploring the core inquiries. Such interlacing process of horizontal expansion and longitudinal excavation is typical of the historical path of …
Indexicality Strikes Back: From The Photographical Past To The Digital Present, Jia Peng
Indexicality Strikes Back: From The Photographical Past To The Digital Present, Jia Peng
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Indexicality as a logic category of signs anchors semiotic cognition and reality. As photographs record the existence of objects, indexicality is considered as the evidence of the "objectivity" of photographic signs. With the development of digital technology, indexicality seems to decline and even disappear, since the objects of images no longer necessarily exist. Yet, in Peircean semiotics, the relationship between indices and objects could be either "existential" or "empty", and the latter is further interpreted by Roman Jakobson with the concept of "shifters", a term re-visited in contemporary semiotics of art and image. In the semiotic production of digital images, …
Reflection And Development: A Review Of 70-Year Study On Ci-Poetry In Shanghai, Guozhong Peng, Zehhua Liu
Reflection And Development: A Review Of 70-Year Study On Ci-Poetry In Shanghai, Guozhong Peng, Zehhua Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The study of ci-poetry in Shanghai since the founding of the People's Republic of China can be divided into three stages: transition, prosperity, and development. In the transitional period, the study of ci-poetry in Shanghai focused more on ideological content than on artistic characteristics, and more on the style of "haofang" (the bold and unrestrained) than "wanyue" (the graceful and restrained). During its prosperous period, the study of ci-poetry in Shanghai began to reflect on the previous research. Driven by the fever for aesthetics and methodology, Shanghai has witnessed fruitful production of scholarly works on ci-poetry. After entering the stage …
Reflections On Post-Human Discourse: Centering On Slavoj Žižek, Xinting Liu
Reflections On Post-Human Discourse: Centering On Slavoj Žižek, Xinting Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
There has been a joint effort seen in 21st-century philosophy and cultural theories to understand and respond to the impact of current technological revolution on social culture and the existence of subjecthood. Slavoj Žižek has always placed his elaboration on and questioning of the two post-human schools and tendencies in his ideological criticism of digital capitalism. The common tendency between post-human thought of the Cultural Left and the singularity theory of trans-human theory is shown in the "Promethean shame" and the new myth of the human-machine hybridity. Žižek's works over the decades have always focused on the development of cutting-edge …
The Progressive Logic Of Contemporary Literary Theory And Its Theoretical Reflection, Daren Lai
The Progressive Logic Of Contemporary Literary Theory And Its Theoretical Reflection, Daren Lai
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
From the perspective of history of scholarship, contemporary literary theory does not transform or develop in a simple linear fashion, but rather evolves in a more complex spiral cycle, which specifically constitutes three rounds of transformation and development, namely, the three reciprocal stages of breaking established traditions, introducing foreign theoretical resources, and constructing new critical ideas and forms. The external track of development and internal logic of progress of contemporary literary theory are, on the surface, related to the social and cultural structure in the context of grand historical changes, and echoes the developments of modern Chinese literary theory in …
Transformational-Generation: Dynamic Mechanism Of Literary Speech (On The Language Poetics Of The "Yale School," Part Ⅱ), Dengyun Dai
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The linguistic thought of the "Yale School" mainly includes three aspects: (1) the intuition about three dimensions of language (the signified dimension, the inter-dimension, and the self-reflective and referred dimension), (2) the revelation of the transformational-generative mechanism of literary speech, and (3) the new verdict on the primal paradox of the unspeakable. The contents of these three aspects form an organic whole, which cannot be discussed separately. In general, the transformational-generation of the three dimensions of language refers to a mysterious mechanism: from the establishment of the signifier-signified relationship to the loss of reference, from the establishment of the inter-subjective …
What Is "Die Reine Sprache" About: A Discussion On Walter Benjamin's Early Philosophy Of Language, Fanke Wan
What Is "Die Reine Sprache" About: A Discussion On Walter Benjamin's Early Philosophy Of Language, Fanke Wan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Walter Benjamin's philosophy of language centering on "pure language" (die reine Sprache) is considered as the primary motive power of all his further theories. It is not only related to many themes in Benjamin's philosophical landscape, but also shows a writing style, the philosophical background of which is known as "Irrkünste". However, in the scholarly discussions on Walter Benjamin in China, this critical stage was either marginalized or reduced to be the adjuvant of some grand theories, overshadowing its theoretical potential and connotation. This article analyzes the key term of Benjamin's early philosophy of language, "pure language", specifically by looking …
On Xu Zhongyu's Thoughts Of College Chinese Education, Huaping Cheng
On Xu Zhongyu's Thoughts Of College Chinese Education, Huaping Cheng
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
As a pioneer in the reintroduction of college Chinese courses in the 1980s, Xu Zhongyu, after many years of exploration, established college Chinese as a course based on the unity of the humanistic and the instrumental, with focus on cultivating and enhancing the humanistic literacy and language skills of college students. Through teaching selected essays in the textbook, he intended to subtly cultivate student's sentiments, independent thinking and critical spirit. Xu Zhongyu emphasized students' writing training by advocating the study of exemplary texts in order to make students comprehend their artistic achievement and borrow their creative methods. Through extensive writing …
From Function To Semantics: History And Theories Of The Picture Frame, Yuan Gao
From Function To Semantics: History And Theories Of The Picture Frame, Yuan Gao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
As a key element linking art history and art theory, the frame inherently has both historical and theoretical implications; its historical transformation, either in form or conceptualization, is inextricably linked to methodologies and theoretical discourses in art history. This study begins with the historical transformation of a form and its function, and discusses, combining the discourse of various theorists, the generation and development of the picture frame, especially its application to art history. It also introduces theoretical perspectives from the twentieth century on the shift and interdisciplinary significance of the concept of the picture frame in the field of visual …
Li Bai's "Twelve Imitations Of The Old Poems" And Its Image Construction, Yinan Zhang
Li Bai's "Twelve Imitations Of The Old Poems" And Its Image Construction, Yinan Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Li Bai's cycle of poems "Twelve Imitatations of the Old Poems" is an imitation of "Nineteen Old Poems". It was preceded by Lu Ji's method of imitating other texts and could be seen as part of the practice of imitating older poems from the Six Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty. Li Bai's imitations are richer both in "images" and "implications" than those in the imitated poems, perhaps because he borrowed some techniques from the Qi and Liang Dynasties to enhance the traditional modes of conveying and inspiring, and Li Bai tried to combine expressionist and representational techniques to demonstrate the …
Innovation And Development: The Innovative Development And Route Of Chinese Literary Theory In The New Era, Shiwen Liu
Innovation And Development: The Innovative Development And Route Of Chinese Literary Theory In The New Era, Shiwen Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
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A Methodological Exploration Into The Conceptual History Of Style As Key Concept In Art History, Ting Zhang
A Methodological Exploration Into The Conceptual History Of Style As Key Concept In Art History, Ting Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"Style" is a key concept in modern art history. Its rich implications and inherent contradictions, however, make its connotation ambiguous. By way of examining the birth, development and evolvement of this concept in art criticism, this paper tries to expose the meaning of style which shifts from "maniera" to "stile," and describe its constant transformation in the evolving history of style. The analysis in the paper shows that it is the rich connotation and evolution of style that makes the history of style a dominant paradigm in the construction of traditional Western art history, while the dilemma that the history …
A Study On "Standardizing By Chinese Characters" In Zhang Taiyan's On National Learning, Xuehu Chen
A Study On "Standardizing By Chinese Characters" In Zhang Taiyan's On National Learning, Xuehu Chen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Building on the foundation of traditional philology (xiaoxue) and extending to multiple schools of thought, Zhang Taiyan's work On National Learning is a very important work in Chinese intellectual history. The seven essays on literature in its middle volume, which address such issues as literary and cultural traditions situated between the study of Chinese characters and philosophy, play a key role in the mainstream study of literature and culture. This article analyzes Zhang's idea of "writing based on Chinese characters" and his principle of "standardizing by Chinese characters" in literary criticism, as well as their significance to and function in …
An Investigation Of Gao Qi's Poetic Theory, Zhaoming Liu
An Investigation Of Gao Qi's Poetic Theory, Zhaoming Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Gao Qi's poetic theory consists of one general standard and three specific concerns. The general standard for a great poet is to be well-rounded and versatile. The three specific concerns are listed according to their priority. The first and foremost concern of poetry is ge (form), yi(will), and qu (taste). What follows are secondary component of poetry: sheng (prosody) and yan (language). In terms of the source and function, he emphasized the importance of travelling across the landscape, as well as the autobiographical and archiving function of poetry. His poetic theory was not only tethered to the legacy of Yan …
Beginning, Elaboration, And Counterpoint: The Intention And Method Of Edward Said's Music Criticism, Sheng Li
Beginning, Elaboration, And Counterpoint: The Intention And Method Of Edward Said's Music Criticism, Sheng Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
As an important part of Edward Said's critical practice, music criticism, on the one hand, inherits critical methods from Beginnings, Orientalism, Humanism and Democratic Criticism; on the other hand, it resists these methods due to music's semantic ambiguity. In this interaction between acceptance and resistance, Said develops his unique music criticism based on the concept of elaboration. Specifically, he acknowledges the dynamic relationships between history and subject, world and text, original work and criticism, politics and aesthetics, before contrapuntally interpreting these concepts in a detailed and unprejudiced way. In doing so, his elaborations on music not only activate subject, text, …
Confrontation With The Unconscious: A Reading Of C. G. Jung's The Red Book, Jianchang Xing
Confrontation With The Unconscious: A Reading Of C. G. Jung's The Red Book, Jianchang Xing
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The Red Book is the most difficult work among the oeuvre of C. G. Jung (1875-1961), and it is Jung's "self-experiment" on his "inner images" from 1913 to 1930, a "personal diary" written to himself, and a psychological work on literary themes. It "contains the nucleus of" and is "the key" to Jung's later works. The theme of the book is an exploration of the "the spirit of the depths" and the exertion of "refinding the soul" by means of images or metaphors rather than logical thinking and intellectual intervention. Jung held that "the spirit of the times" seemed powerful, …
Cultural Studies Revisited And Renewed: An Interview With Professor John Storey, Cong Zhang, Bing Zhao
Cultural Studies Revisited And Renewed: An Interview With Professor John Storey, Cong Zhang, Bing Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In this interview, Professor John Storey, one of the most renowned scholars in the field of cultural studies, not only revisits the history of cultural studies by investigating some of its key issues, but also shares his latest book Radical Utopianism and Cultural Studies in which he looks at the concept of utopianism from a cultural studies perspective and argues that radical utopianism can awaken the political promise of cultural studies. In so doing, he revisits the founding fathers of cultural studies and points to a radical utopia by defamiliarizing the naturalness of the here and now.
Literary Theory Should Adapt Itself To The Times: On Prof. Xu Zhongyu's View Of Literature And Art, Fengjie Liu
Literary Theory Should Adapt Itself To The Times: On Prof. Xu Zhongyu's View Of Literature And Art, Fengjie Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper maintains that the emergence of aesthetic reflection theory in China was largely the contribution of Prof. Xu Zhongyu as the result of his respect to and explorations into the artistic law of literary creation. Prof. Xu first incorporated the notion that "literature is the study of man" into the literary theory course books in China and demonstrated the profound interconnection between literature, humanity and humanitarianism. He also stressed the unique greatness of Chinese literature and anticipated the advent of "the paragon of the writing in the world". Prof. Xu devoted himself to the establishment of modern and contemporary …
On Anti-Conventionality And Limitation Of Non-Fictional Writing, Zhigang Hong
On Anti-Conventionality And Limitation Of Non-Fictional Writing, Zhigang Hong
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Non-fiction Writing is not a particular genre, but a narrative strategy with anti-conventional characteristics. It relies heavily on the specific value of the subject matter itself and the subjective thinking of the writer, and thus makes it difficult to take into account the inherent artistic value of the work per se. Throughout the process from identifying the subject matter to narrating, the writer is an ever-present figure, providing irrefutable facts for the narrative. However, the ever-presence of the writer also leads to the fragmentation of the narrative and the silhouette effect of characters. Such a way of writing, which lays …
On The Perspectives Of Gender Representation And Ethical Contradiction In Women's Self-Portraits, Chenguang Ling
On The Perspectives Of Gender Representation And Ethical Contradiction In Women's Self-Portraits, Chenguang Ling
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Concerns with and reflections on self-portraits afford a perspective to glimpse numerous dimensions in social and cultural issues, including gender representation. Self-portrait is a record of the result of self-presentation. As a special artistic style, women's self-portraits have distinctive images and implications, and are irreplaceable in the consideration of gender issues. Women's self-portraits demonstrate female artists' unique pursuit in the constructions of self-image, performances of interpersonal relationship, and means of expression. Female artists' special connection to mirrors during the process of self-portrayal and their reflection on this relationship are an important approach to understand feminist ideas. The contradictions and conflicts …
Reconsideration Of Humanism And Literature, Gong Zhang, Yuneng Zhang
Reconsideration Of Humanism And Literature, Gong Zhang, Yuneng Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The issue of "humanism and literature" was once a forbidden area in Chinese literary theory. After the Reform and Opening-up, the emancipation of mind promoted the breakthrough in this forbidden zone and launched an in-depth discussion to bring order out of chaos and clarify the source of such thoughts. It not only did justice to the humanistic thought in modern Western literature and art, but also re-evaluated the "human literature" and "humanistic literature" in the May Fourth new literature and literary theory. It enabled fair evaluations of the view that "literature is a study of humanity" and played an important …
The Art Of Guan Hanqing's Dramaturgic Structure, Jianzhong Xu
The Art Of Guan Hanqing's Dramaturgic Structure, Jianzhong Xu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The 15 existing plays by the Yuan-Dynasty playwright Guan Hanqing reflect the playwright's originality in processing subject matter through transformation of conventional themes and his realistic concerns with profound thoughts. Guan Hanqing's plays, literally variety dramas in Chinese, demonstrate a variety of structural types with different dramaturgic techniques. The plot from suspense, misunderstanding, and discovery to return is well adapted into plays with each act comprising two sections, and this greatly promotes the expressiveness of the plays. His story is strengthened by his thoughtful construction of plot with added sections that broke through the "one-play-of-four-act" convention. In Guan's ingenious casting, …
The Body And Its Theoretical Problems In Virtual Art Experience: An Investigation Based On Physical Practice In Vr Films, Xiaoxi Shan, Xueli Li
The Body And Its Theoretical Problems In Virtual Art Experience: An Investigation Based On Physical Practice In Vr Films, Xiaoxi Shan, Xueli Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The mode of typical interactive experience comes into being in virtual art activities represented by VR films. According to the degrees of "freedom" of the experiencer's body, the interactive experience of VR films can be divided into three types: three-dimensional freedom, six-dimensional freedom, and multi-dimensional freedom. In different types of interactive activities, technology extends to body, and body assimilates technology to makes it function as body, which gives rise to the "technical embodiment"; in the meantime, consciousness rests on body and body covers consciousness, which gives rise to the "conscious embodiment". With the increase of body's freedom, "technical embodiment" and …