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Descartes's Theory Of Passion And Le Brun's Theory Of Expression: A Study Of Details Regarding The French Classicist Aesthetics During The 17Th Century, Ying Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Charles Le Brun, the first painter of Louis XVI, delivered several speeches in the Académie royale de la peinture et du sculpture and talked about the question of expressing people's passions. He developed his own theory of expression by consulting the Les passions de l''âme by René Descartes. Some scholars think that it was Descartes who influenced essentially the classicist aesthetics of Le Brun and the académie. Others think that Le Brun radically misread Descartes, and thus they depreciate his theory of painting. This article has a different opinion: the theory of expression was formed by reforming substantially the text …
Kristeva And The Generation Of Postmodernist Literary Theory, Xuemei Zhao
Kristeva And The Generation Of Postmodernist Literary Theory, Xuemei Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Postmodernist Literary Theory starts from the French poststructuralist and deconstructivist literary theory, Kristeva plays a vital role in the generation of French Postmodernism Literary Theory. In France, Bakhtin's poetics introduced by Kristeva plays a landmark role in the transition of the ideological trend from structuralism to post-structuralism. On the basis of inheriting and developing Bakhtin's dialogue theory, Kristeva proposes the Intertextuality theory, Which establishes her position as the pioneer of poststructuralist literary theory and directly contributes to Roland Barthes' transition from structuralism to poststructuralism. Kristeva also inspires the master of deconstruction Derrida. The "May Storm" in 1968, the Tel Quel …
Muses And Dongb Longf: The Literature Behind Literatures, Xinjian Xu
Muses And Dongb Longf: The Literature Behind Literatures, Xinjian Xu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Literary anthropology focuses not only on the anthropological dimension and content of literary studies but also on the literariness of anthropology. In order to explore what makes literatures literature, this paper tries to explain the existence of literature and its significance from the perspective of literary anthropology. The interpretation to the existence and significance of literature from the perspective of literary anthropology entails exploration regarding what makes literature literature. Both Muses, the inspirational goddesses of literature, science and the arts in Greek methology, and Dongb Langf, or folk bard-singers in Southwest China are associated with literature, but their identities and …
Overseas Research On Marxist Aesthetics: A Comparative Reading And Thought Construction, Song Li, Muyi Yu
Overseas Research On Marxist Aesthetics: A Comparative Reading And Thought Construction, Song Li, Muyi Yu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Marxist aesthetics had a significant position in aesthetics in twentieth century China, heavily influencing China's social transformation and thought construction. In studies of Marxist aesthetics in China, it is necessary to draw on Marxist aesthetics of the West as a frame of reference and incorporate it studies of China's history of thought. With a comparative, cross-cultural approach, Liu Kang focuses on contemporary Marxist aesthetics in China or related topics. His studies have not only offered new dimensions and methodologies for studies of Marxist aesthetics in China, but also helped to construct a frame of reference and to reflect upon contemporary …
The Awakening Of Time Consciousness And The Outset Of Modern Art: A Phenomenological Interpretation Of The Impressionist Painting, Hongbin Su
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The impressionist painting became the outset of modern art because impressionist painters had grasped the characteristics of modern life: variability. Their pursuit of variability awakened their time consciousness which was later introduced into their paintings by portraying the transient moments of objects as the theme. In order to capture that moment, impressionist painters valued perception but denied memories and imagination for perception could grasp the original impression of the certain instant while memories and imagination could only catch the past and the future in the complete time consciousness. Impressionist painters were preoccupied with the beauty of transience but ignored that …
The Classical Propositions Of Ancient Opera Studies In The Historiography Of Opera In The Period Of The Republic Of China, Jingfeng Huang
The Classical Propositions Of Ancient Opera Studies In The Historiography Of Opera In The Period Of The Republic Of China, Jingfeng Huang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Chinese opera historians in the first half of the 20 th century continued the discussion of the classical propositions of ancient opera studies in their historiography of traditional Chinese opera. They conducted historical criticism through reconsidering the classical propositions and appropriately placed them in the historical context, thus making it a part of historical narrative. There are four categories of classical propositions that entered into the historical studies in this period: classification, comparison, revelation of causes, story prototype tracing. The reconsideration of classical propositions has not only historiographical value, but also twofold significance at the level of opera history. On …
The Destiny Of Western Theory In China: Jameson And Jamesonism, Kang Liu
The Destiny Of Western Theory In China: Jameson And Jamesonism, Kang Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This essay is the first of a series of inquiries. It takes Jameson as a point of departure for the reflection on the reception, revision and transformation of western literary theories in China over the last four decades. It examines the path of "translating and borrowing", "addressing Chinese issues with western discourses" as the intellectual background, and then explores "Chinese Jamesonism" as a neo-Marxist academic discourse befitting current Chinese circumstances, invented on a selective themes of postmodernism and Third World "national allegory". Chinese Jamesonism has little to do with what Jameson thinks and writes, and this kind of selective misreading …
The Illustrations Of The Novel And Image Narration, Xianzhang Zhao
The Illustrations Of The Novel And Image Narration, Xianzhang Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The illustrations of the novel originated from the "talking and singing show" of the Tang Dynasty. Bianwen ( 变文), Bianxiang (变相) and the illustrations of scripts for story-telling are the visible forms of the early stage, which are repeated and transcended by the illustrations of the novel in late imperial China. From "talking and singing show" in the scene to the text for reading, which is the folding of the narrative of the novel, "illustrations" are inserted in the folds of the narrative text, and bring the evidence to the reader's mind. Story painting and figure painting are the two …
The Theatre Of Purgation And The Theatre Of Cultivation: As Related To The Complex Definitions And Ramifications Of Theatre, Drama, Chinese Opera In The Context Of Chinese And Western Cultures, Huizhu (William) Sun
The Theatre Of Purgation And The Theatre Of Cultivation: As Related To The Complex Definitions And Ramifications Of Theatre, Drama, Chinese Opera In The Context Of Chinese And Western Cultures, Huizhu (William) Sun
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Two important aspects of western theatre have escaped the attention of most Chinese theatre people and scholars. One of them, originated from Greek tragedies full of familial killings, is a preference for the display and purgation of things unclean. This is largely incompatible with Chinese culture, in which theatre, especially Chinese opera, tends to showcase positive role models in uplifting stories. The other ignored aspect is reflected in a huge portion of western theatre that parallels the Chinese preference for moral cultivation and/or entertainment. In China theatre studies has been dominated by western discourse on serious drama, i. e. the …
The Transition From Ritual To Text: The Value Of Poetics Of Verse Composison In The Spring And Autumn Period, Yanqing Liu, Xinke Zhang
The Transition From Ritual To Text: The Value Of Poetics Of Verse Composison In The Spring And Autumn Period, Yanqing Liu, Xinke Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In the Western Zhou Dynasty, poetry, music and dance were combined to become an important part of rituals. The spreading of poetry in this period is consistent with rituals. The rituality of poetry gradually faded and its textual value grew as poetry in the Western Zhou ceremony became verse in the Spring and Autumn period. The spreading of poetry shifted from rituality to textuality. In Spring and Autumn poetry, the consistency between poetry and ceremony began to disintegrate, but the consistency between poetry and text had not yet emerged. This situation led to multiple interpretations to the meaning of the …
The Musicality Of The Chuci Style Revisited: The Establishment Of The Music Symbol "Xi", Weihua Dai
The Musicality Of The Chuci Style Revisited: The Establishment Of The Music Symbol "Xi", Weihua Dai
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"Xi" is the symbolic symbol of the musicality of Chuci. The construction of the "standard" for the musicality of the Chuci style is based on the translation of "the songs of Yue" and "the songs of Chu" and also on the relationship between the "song" and "words" in Yufu. 兮(xi), as a function word in text, is a vocal representation of musicality. Among all the writings belong to chuci, those containing xi means that there's attempt to capture the vocal musicality of the songs, while those that do not have xi are simply purely textual transcription. The difference between "hun …
The Promise Of The Future: Dimensions Of Future In Walter Benjamin's Philosophy Of History, Guoping Hu
The Promise Of The Future: Dimensions Of Future In Walter Benjamin's Philosophy Of History, Guoping Hu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper presents the dimensions of future in Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history. Benjamin refused a systematized future which caused the oblivion of the failures. Benjamin puts forward a kind of philosophy of history whose future is illuminated by the unjustness of the past to the future. This philosophy of history which is loyal to the ethic of time regards the past as an incomplete one which carries the responsibility of the memory and establishes an ethical relation between the past and the future, opening to the others as widely as possible.
The Returning Dream-Seeking Trip: The Narrative Of America In Chinese Popular Culture Since The 1990s, Guozhan Chen
The Returning Dream-Seeking Trip: The Narrative Of America In Chinese Popular Culture Since The 1990s, Guozhan Chen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper finds an obvious change in Chinese popular culture through analyzing the stories of going abroad since the 1990s: the leading character spares no effort to seek American Dream during the early 1990s, but turns back since 2008. It has become a significant narrative mode, and clearly demonstrated the changes of the image of America. From seeking American Dream to realizing Chinese Dream, it narrates a changed China via leading character's return; and it is also a story about how Chinese Dream replaces American Dream. However, such a narrative mode reveals some problems: many of its judgments are accompanied …
The Style Of Xin Qiji's 24 Ci Poems To The Tune Of Lin Jiang Xian And Its Significance For Studies Of The Tunes Of Ci Poems, Huiguo Zhu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Xin Qiji wrote 24 Ci poems to the tune of Lin Jiang Xian. These Ci poems' conservation makes him own the largest quantity of Ci poems to the tune of Lin Jiang Xian in the northern and southern Song dynasties. Thus, he possesses a significant place in writing Ci poems to the tune of Lin Jiang Xian and its phylogeny. Xin Qiji's 24 Ci poems are all chosen the basic double tonal patterns and rhyme schemes of Ci poems with 60 characters, and its rhyme is strictly managed. Moreover, the arrangement of level and oblique tones in these Ci poems …
Mimetic Violence And The Issue Of The Other: A New Interpretation Of René Girard, Xue Li, Xiao Bi
Mimetic Violence And The Issue Of The Other: A New Interpretation Of René Girard, Xue Li, Xiao Bi
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In his study of some literary canons, René Girard, a French literary critic and anthropologist, analyzes human desire and sums up the theory of mimetic desire, which means that a person's desire, as the desire of the subject, always imitates the similar desire that belongs to the mediator of the desire. Girard distinguishes the modes of mimetic desire into two types, the external mediation and the internal mediation, and draws a conclusion that the internal mediation would inevitably lead to violence due to the competition between the subject and the mediator. Referring to Roland Barthes's mythologies, this article indicates that …
On The Misunderstanding And Reception Of "To Be A Poet In The Spare Time", Xiang Xiong
On The Misunderstanding And Reception Of "To Be A Poet In The Spare Time", Xiang Xiong
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
"To Be a Poet in The Spare Time" was a verse from Han Yu (768-824), and he praised Xi Ba with this verse. From North Song Dynasty, some people made it as an independent topic to express their own opinions. And some people even add their own understandings to Han Yu, which lead to the confusion about quoting and annotating. They had two explanations about the verse, poem was less important than essay, or poem was less important than government affairs and moral integrity. The former reflected the poetics of Ou Yangxiu (1007-1072) and others, and the latter continued traditional …
Oriental Miscellany And Theatre Reform Of Modern China, Liming Zhao
Oriental Miscellany And Theatre Reform Of Modern China, Liming Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
At the beginning of the new literature, Oriental Miscellany consciously provided a public platform for advocating theatre reform, and contributed greatly in this aspect. In terms of reforming traditional theatre, it put forward the idea of the three ways for reform, thus correcting the New Youth School's extreme idea of abolishing traditional theatre. As for the introduction of Western drama, it paid attention to transplanting advanced theatre ideas, such as nature, evolution, realism and tragedy. It advocated the reform of theatre space, and introduced Western experimental drama, thus promoting the development of the "little theater" in China. As a modern …
Personal Experience About Frankfurt School: From "Non-Identity" To "Singularity" — An Interview With Professor Samuel Weber, Yong Zhao, Weber Samuel
Personal Experience About Frankfurt School: From "Non-Identity" To "Singularity" — An Interview With Professor Samuel Weber, Yong Zhao, Weber Samuel
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In this interview, Professor Samuel Weber vividly reviews his personal study experience with Adorno in the 1960s, reveling some features of Adorno's thoughts such as the teleological tendency and non-identity. Based on Adorno's current situation and the limits of his general concept, Professor Weber and the interviewer discuss the inevitable barrier between the social critical theory and the political action plans. He further develops "repetition" and "singularity" from Kierkegaard, Walter Benjamin and Derrida, which focus on the concrete things. The interview also reveals the question of foreign words and Adorno's half Jewish identity in the discussion of Adorno's controversial saying, …
Preservation And Distortion: The Recording, Editing And Publishing Of Yangzhou Storytelling, Huarong Wang
Preservation And Distortion: The Recording, Editing And Publishing Of Yangzhou Storytelling, Huarong Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Affected by the Chinese Communist Party's policies on literature and art and the aesthetics of written literature, during the recording, editing and publishing Yangzhou storytelling, the editors revised or deleted the undesirable or negative content including the parts that did not comply with the social ideology. Meanwhile, the editors tended to follow the style of written literature to normalize the language of Yangzhou storytelling. On one hand, the recording and publishing work saved some repertoires of Yangzhou storytelling, and let more people know and enjoy Yangzhou storytelling. It also promoted the development of academic research on Yangzhou storytelling. On the …
Questions About Studies Of The Book Of Songs In The Recent Century, Yufeng Xie
Questions About Studies Of The Book Of Songs In The Recent Century, Yufeng Xie
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Many scholars such as Hu Shi have made pioneering contributions to the researches of The Book of Songs in the recent century. They have found common ground regarding some issues about The Book of Songs: it is the earliest poetry collection in China; all the poems are songs; there are three types of poems, namely, feng, ya, and song. But there might be serious misunderstandings in these aspects, which need reinvestigation. We should express gratitude to predecessors who enlighten us and misguide us simultaneously. It is our destiny that we will be permanently on the road to truth of The …
The Aesthetic Ethics Of Evil: Understanding Evil In Modernistic Narrative, Shiren Tang
The Aesthetic Ethics Of Evil: Understanding Evil In Modernistic Narrative, Shiren Tang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
With the characters of impersonality and depersonalization, the evil plots in modern fiction is often described intuitively and indifferently, that is great different from the traditional narrative which the moral attitudes are distinctively. It's difficult to understand the complex ethical tenor from the evil plots in modern narrative, so readers also need to understanding some modern aesthetic ethics concepts. These issues are also prominently manifested in Chinese contemporary literature, especially in Vanguard writing and Modernist Literature. From the perspective of evil writing, we can review the Modernistic narrative in Chinese Contemporary Novels, and explore the narrative ethics, at last point …
The Anatomy And Aesthetic On Modernity Fragments: On The Thought Genealogy Of Fragments From Simmel To The Frankfurt School, Xiangrong Yang
The Anatomy And Aesthetic On Modernity Fragments: On The Thought Genealogy Of Fragments From Simmel To The Frankfurt School, Xiangrong Yang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In the aesthetics of Simmel, the impressionism style of aesthetic experience of modernity comes from the attention to fragments, and he constructs an aesthetic redemption path in the fragments. The aesthetic modernity fragments theme of Simmel continues and amplifies in the text of the Frankfurt School, such as Kracauer, Bloch and Benjamin. Kracauer emphasizes the historical natural restoration of modernity fragments, Bloch resorts to philosophical metaphor of modernity fragments, and Benjamin hopes to achieve modern people's aesthetic redemption in the fragments and ruins. Fragments and ruins have become the common tags and marks in their texts, which constructs the aesthetic …
Traditional Misunderstanding Of "Meaning Not Fully Expressed By Language" And A Correction From The Perspective Of Philosophy Of Language, Jianzhang Zhao, Yingfang Zhao
Traditional Misunderstanding Of "Meaning Not Fully Expressed By Language" And A Correction From The Perspective Of Philosophy Of Language, Jianzhang Zhao, Yingfang Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The preposition that meaning is not fully expressed by language is a mystification of the relationship between meaning and language. There is no consciousness and language in the undivided state of the subject and the object, and therefore there are no issues of the speakable and the unspeakable. The understanding of the relationship between language and meaning in traditional thought is based on the theory of simple reflection, holding that thought is the conformity to the world and the language is the conformity to thought. From the perspective of modern philosophy of language, thought is human's understanding of the world, …
Visual Turn And Modern Logic Of Somaesthetics, Wei Zhang
Visual Turn And Modern Logic Of Somaesthetics, Wei Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
As the common object of visual aesthetics, body has changed multivariately in the modern aesthetic mechanism made by "visual diversion". On the one hand, modern visual mechanism clears up the established connotation of traditional "duality of body and mind" and strengthens the body consciousness of modern individuals, which promotes the aesthetic purport of body and in the meantime breeds the capital effect of body, expending the consumption characterization of body, and giving birth to the aesthetic practice of "body consumption". On the other hand, with the help of the technology of modern visual media, modern visual mechanism makes it more …
Zeng Guofan's Theoretical Ideas On Poetry And Prose And Their Modern Significance, Pengjun Zuo
Zeng Guofan's Theoretical Ideas On Poetry And Prose And Their Modern Significance, Pengjun Zuo
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Zeng Guofan's theories on poetry and prose, born against a background of cultural shock and political turbulence, comprise rich content, including an accent on the interrelation between literature and change of times, an encouragement of practical studies, a stylistic view of the inheritance and combination of both masculinity theory and femininity theory on ancient style prose, an attention to functions and styles of ancient style prose with an opinion of combining parallel and non-parallel proses, an attention to formations and functions of official prose and other forms of practical writing with a pursuit of honest expression and stylistic innovation based …
Yi Shunding's Theory About Ci Poetry And His Ci Writing: Also On His Connection With The Community OfCiPoetry In The Late Qing Dynasty, Songqing Chen
Yi Shunding's Theory About Ci Poetry And His Ci Writing: Also On His Connection With The Community OfCiPoetry In The Late Qing Dynasty, Songqing Chen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Yi Shunding, a famous poet in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic period, was keen on writing ci poetry in the early years to an extent that he could not live without ci poetry creation. Based on the be-true-to-yourself style, Yi's theory catered to spirituality, taste and tranquility with emphasis on meaning, wording, polishing, titling and so on. In addition, his theory was different from the mainstream one that ci was a spirit carrier and the concept that ci was unimportant in among all forms of literatures. Yi absorbs the essence of ci poets to express feelings and …
The Four Dimensions Of Literary Memory And Historical Consciousness, Yonghe Lu
The Four Dimensions Of Literary Memory And Historical Consciousness, Yonghe Lu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The same essence of memory, history and literature is a deliberate construction (reconstruction) of the "past", which is based on the realistic context. Dilthey argues that different "human sciences" co-create a spiritual world of "productive nexus or system" on the basis of "experience" and "understanding". As two different spiritual "associations", literature and history inform each other and jointly create a whole meaning system. The concept "narrative substance" of Ankersmit is a collection of different narratives of "past". "Narrative substance" is not the objective reality of history, but the historical "image" or "metaphor". The "narrative substance" sets up for us a …
A New Investigation Of The Ideas "Fu Ji" And "Fu Xin", Hui Tao
A New Investigation Of The Ideas "Fu Ji" And "Fu Xin", Hui Tao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The theory of "Fu Ji" and "Fu Xin" in Xijing Miscellanea has always been considered by scholars as an important material about Sima Xiangru and aesthetic criticism of the ode in the Western Han Dynasty. However, this theory was proposed by someone else in Wei-Jin Periods rather than Sima Xiangru. It had great significance not only because of its precise description of the ode in the Han Dynasty, but also because it revealed how the literary ideas and metaphysics in Wei-Jin Periods affected contemporary people's unique insights in terms of the noumenon and the creation of the ode.
A Veritable Memoir Of The Leavisian Scrutiny Group, Ruiqing Zhang
A Veritable Memoir Of The Leavisian Scrutiny Group, Ruiqing Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper focuses on the literary and cultural criticism of F.R. Leavis and the Scrutiny group he represents. Scrutiny (1932-1953) was an academic journal started and run by the Leavises in the 20th century, which not only profoundly influenced the 20th-century cultural life of Britain, but also drew attention of the Chinese literary community, especially in the first decade of the 21st century. But it is obvious that most scholars tend to generalize the academic contributions of Leavis and Scrutiny Group as "Leavisian theory", "Leavisian group", "Leavisianism", or simply "Leavis", by taking him as "a lone hero", disregarding the important …
Adorno's Critique Of "Spontaneity" Of The Avant-Garde Art, Peijie Chang
Adorno's Critique Of "Spontaneity" Of The Avant-Garde Art, Peijie Chang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Adorno staunchly supports modernist art. From the concept of "art autonomy," he criticizes the avant-garde's artistic ideas, which centers on the concept of "spontaneity." As he argues, the so-called "spontaneous ideas" and "immediate consciousness" are the "reified consciousnesses" which are constantly unexamined. Avant-garde's skills of creating art works, including "autonomous writing," "collage" and "montage," not only put the autonomous arts in danger, but also harm art itself. The artistic form of avant-garde is inorganic, which hampers itself to engage in reality and the critique of the capitalist system. Moreover, this situation would also be contaminated by the "cultural industry" insomuch …