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Traumatic Memory: Psychic Reality And Cultural Representation, Jingrong Zhao
Traumatic Memory: Psychic Reality And Cultural Representation, Jingrong Zhao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Traumatic memory exhibits three fundamental features, namely, the individualistic nature, personal experience, and emotional nature, among which personal experience is the most important because the subject of traumatic memory has a pre-privilege of emotion and ethics. The ultimate goal of the subject with traumatic memory is to get through the negative effects of trauma on the subject and make him cope with the real life. Traumatic memory can be studied from the perspective of its origin in the reality and its cultural representation. Trauma in the form of individual suffering could become collective crisis only when it is studied in …
Towards A Pluralistic Open System Of Literary Theory Studies: A Survey Of British And American Literature Theory Textbooks In Recent 30 Years, Hongbo Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
In the past 30 years, the drastic changes in literary theories led to corresponding changes in British and American literature theory textbooks. Their textbooks focus on the study of the theories, closely related to literary texts, and exhibit the features such as the diversity of perspectives, openness of concepts, attention to the contemporary, and emphasis on practice. In comparison with them, Chinese course books of literary theories need to get rid of the constraints of essentialism in terms of literary concept and knowledge construction, and construct a student-centered system of literary theory studies that can tackle with the contemporary literary …
The Influence Of Hu Yinglin's Shi Sou On Emura Hokkai's History Of Japanese Poetry, Xin Hu, Ming Yan
The Influence Of Hu Yinglin's Shi Sou On Emura Hokkai's History Of Japanese Poetry, Xin Hu, Ming Yan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
When writing The History of Japanese Poetry, the Mid-Edo Japanese scholar Emura Hokkai (1707-1782) was deeply influenced by Shi Sou (An Anthology of Poetry) compiled by Chinese Ming-Dynasty scholar Hu Yingling's (1551-1602). In compiling method, Emura's History of Japanese Poetry was written in the way that integrated narration of history through poetry commentaries with biographical history. In thematic treatment, Emura developed Hu's concept of "qi yun" (spirit-mores) and proposed the concept of "shi dao" (generation-way), claiming that Hu's concept of "qi yun" was inherited by the Japanese and became the fundamental reason for the Japanese to develop its own poetics …
The Zen Buddhism's Thoughts Of No Difference Between Form And Empty In Dream Of The Red Chamber, Ranran Wang
The Zen Buddhism's Thoughts Of No Difference Between Form And Empty In Dream Of The Red Chamber, Ranran Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Zen Buddhism's idea of form-emptiness has often been viewed as "nothing," although form-emptiness means "no distinction between form and emptiness." The great wisdom in this notion is that on the one hand Zen Buddhism views things as dreams so man can't and shouldn't attach to any of things and on the other hand Zen Buddhism realizes that although the insight may help man cleanse of vain and evil thoughts it can remove the good in thoughts such as vitality and creativity, resulting in poverty of the good provided by things. Therefore, Zen Buddhism emphasizes that man should understand meaning of …
A Last Blow? T. J. Clark On Pollock And Abstract Expressionism, Geyi Zhu
A Last Blow? T. J. Clark On Pollock And Abstract Expressionism, Geyi Zhu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
T. J. Clark carries forward the logic of social history of art which he developed and operated in his study of Courbet and Manet into his analysis of Pollock and Abstract Expressionism. Clark argues that Pollock continued the radical tradition of modern art by resisting similarity and metaphor while Abstract Expressionism continued it with its 'vulgarity' quality. However, their resistances were devoured by the totality of capitalist culture. Clark's pessimistic conclusion is that the modernist tradition of 'negativity' can't continue.
A Study Of The Prototypes Of Romance, Limin Li
A Study Of The Prototypes Of Romance, Limin Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
As a genre, romance lasts for thousands of years, and it has fixed narrative modes, characters and situations. However, the genre cannot be long-lasting by its stable structure, characters and situations alone. By re-examining the definition, history, classification and stylistic evolution of the genre, and by way of the theories of structuralist narratology, the paper summarizes three romance prototypes, namely, structure prototype, character prototype, and situation prototype, and it proceeds to demonstrate that the changing of "satellites" which breaks the readers' expectation on romance provides the readers with reading pleasure. This explains the high popularity of romance since 12th century. …
Changing Authorship: The Evolution On Literary Practices And Theory, Miaomiao Xu
Changing Authorship: The Evolution On Literary Practices And Theory, Miaomiao Xu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Focusing on the changing concept of author, this paper tries to investigate the new demands posed to literary theory from the new media by contextualizing its argument in the combined development of literary theory, literary history and new media. The paper claims that literary theory, due to its development in the context of print culture, increasingly shows its deficiencies in the current media. In terms of the authorship, individual authors may not have been essential for literary creation, and the concept of determined authors is established in written system and the print culture and re-enforced with the regulations of intellectual …
Contemporary Chinese Art And Western Theory: The Question Of Hospitality, Kenaan Hagi
Contemporary Chinese Art And Western Theory: The Question Of Hospitality, Kenaan Hagi
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The paper takes a philosophical instead of a historical perspective to look at contemporary Chinese art, concerned with the relationship between contemporary Chinese art and "Western" theory. In the attempt to articulate the relationship between contemporary Chinese art and "Western" theory, the paper proposes "the question of hospitality" as its approach to the issue, asking who exactly the host and the guest are and what kind of dynamics is suggests by a relationship of hospitality. It begins by proposing a brief sketch of a philosophical theme or dilemma that is supposed to be crucial for the development of "theory" in …
How To Understand The Interdisciplinary Of Cultural Studies: Taking Hoggart's Uses Of Literacy As An Example, Jia Yan
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Richard Hoggart's Uses of Literacy established the basic paradigm for the interdisciplinary nature of the cultural studies, and its essential principle is to start from the "living culture" of social life, to study literary texts, especially the texts of popular culture rather than to study the texts of "classic literary works" determined by some experts and scholars, and to find how the texts influence and shape the everyday life of people (especially the working class). This purpose of cultural studies has entailed its genetic relationship with literature, popular culture and sociology, and in essence constituted a new way of literary …
Image And The Intrusion Of Antinarrative: Rosalind Krauss' Structuralist Criticism, Yubing Shen, Zheng Tao
Image And The Intrusion Of Antinarrative: Rosalind Krauss' Structuralist Criticism, Yubing Shen, Zheng Tao
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
During the late 70's to 80's in the last century, Rosalind Krauss had a structuralist turn of mind which had brought image into "structural" system, and she emphasized the difference and the synchronicity within formal system of images. Her discussions were quite distinct from the modernist narratives of Clement Greenberg, extending to the field of postmodernism. Krauss tried to detach image from the concepts such as "intention", "origin" and "authorship" so as to promote the status of structuralism criticism. If Krauss' research is viewed not from the essentialist perspective that views antinarrative to be a kind of narrative, Krauss' approach …
More Than Being Alive: On Albert Camus' Works Of Absurdity From The Perspective Of The Consciousness Of Absurdity, Bo Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
From the beginning of his writing career, Albert Camus had taken "the consciousness of absurd" as his fundamental guideline. Through a series of works, he explored how human-being with that consciousness lived in the absurd world and how they tried to redefine their meaning of life with their own forces. In L'Etranger and Caligula, Camus portrayed a picture of nihilism and despotism resulted from the consciousness of absurdity, while in La Mort heureuse and Le mythe de Sisyphe the same consciousness had led to the pursuit for happiness in the human world. This essay charts the trajectory of Camus' creative …
From "Nature" To "Nature-As-Such": A Reflection On The Object Of Ecocriticism, Qian Wang
From "Nature" To "Nature-As-Such": A Reflection On The Object Of Ecocriticism, Qian Wang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
What ecocriticism studies is not "nature" as material and substantial environment but "nature-as-such" that appearances in literary works. "Nature-as-such" is a conception between abstract idea and physical reality which could be understood by the way how natural things are described in literary works, and it could be used to explain how natural things are experienced in the real world. The conception of "nature-as-such" leads eco-criticism to step out of the first and the second wave in criticism which takes nature either as substantial environment or cultural construction, and enables ecocriticism to explain the relation between man and nature on ontological …
Lu Xun's Quartet Of Chinese Practice During The Late Qing Dynasty And The Early Republican Period, Guiliang Wen
Lu Xun's Quartet Of Chinese Practice During The Late Qing Dynasty And The Early Republican Period, Guiliang Wen
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
During the late Qing dynasty and the early Republican period, Lu Xun's Chinese practice could be depicted as a quartet. Lu Xun's pro-vernacular interpretative translation of Travel on the Moon and Travel Underground not only demonstrates his ability to use vernacular (baihua) but also exposes his entanglement among vernacular, classical Chinese (wenyan) and Europeanized Chinese. Lu Xun's idea of the unreliability of language was formed after he listened to Zhang Taiyan's exegesis of Explaining and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi) and his explanation of translating foreign fictions into classical Chinese. Lu Xun's mastery of classical Chinese can be seen in the …
A Diachronic Approach And Synchronic Interpretation Of Xu Zhongyu's Academic Lineage, Zhixiang Qi
A Diachronic Approach And Synchronic Interpretation Of Xu Zhongyu's Academic Lineage, Zhixiang Qi
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The subject of this research is Prof. Xu Zhongyu's (1915-) six-volume Collected Writings, and the paper approach his academic achievements through diachronic and synchronic methods by putting them into the social context in the past century. The three academic peaks in Prof. Xu's life can be linked by the fundamental literary thought which may be summarized as his advocacy of literature's positive role in the social progress, his promotion of art and academic freedom, and his emphasis on truth pursuit and independent thinking. His achievements are shown in four areas of Anti-Japanese War period literary theory, ancient Chinese literary theory, …
The Inter-Fusion Of Artistic Perception And Technological Perception: On The Relationship Between Mcluhan's Electric Media Perception And Modernistic Artistic Perception, Xiaoming Yi
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This article deals with the interactive relationship between the modernist artistic perception and the electric media perception in McLuhan's new media theory. The rise of modernism at the end of 19th century echoes the development of the electric age, and the electric media's molding of perception has a direct influence upon the environmental perception of modernism. Modernism serves as the literary source as well as an indispensible part of McLuhan's new media theory, as can be seen in his large amount of quotations from modern writers and artists. The modernist artistic perception can be argued to be the same issue …
"Form" As A Term In Chinese Aesthetics, Qinfang Lai
"Form" As A Term In Chinese Aesthetics, Qinfang Lai
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
As an aesthetic term, Chinese phrase "xingshi" as a translated equivalent for form has taken time to get its meaning established. The term has once been considered to be a borrowed word from Japanese, but it is actually an existent word invested with new meaning whose appearance was similar to the phrase "meixue (study of beauty)" for aesthetics. Chinese term "xingshi (pattern of shape)" came into being when translation for German formal aesthetics posed this necessity, and then the term gradually takes root into Chinese aesthetics and takes on local significance. Like in the Western context, formalism has once had …
Intention And Language: On Hirsch's Linguistic Explication Of The Author's Intention, Hong Pang
Intention And Language: On Hirsch's Linguistic Explication Of The Author's Intention, Hong Pang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
American scholar Hirsch insists on taking the author's intention as the essential premise and the fundamental basis of interpretation, and the main force which maintains his opinions is the explication, exploration and construction in linguistic dimension. Firstly, he indicates that intention is prior to language through the diagnosis of "semantic autonomism" and "ontological linguistics," and shows his critical reflection on the important cultural event — the linguistic turn. In light of this, Hirsch proposes the notion of "speaking subject" and emphasizes that intention can not be completely divorced from language and should be specified and clarified by the role of …
On Academic Confidence, Xian Zhou
On Academic Confidence, Xian Zhou
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
China's academic confidence is an emergent issue at present, but this issue is deeply rooted in the historical and cultural context configured by two parallel trends in late 19th- and early 20th-century China: the influence of the Western civilization and the decline of Chinese traditional culture. From the period of "the sick man of East Asia" to the current "China's rise," the travel of theory in the globalization ignites the appeal for academic originality. This appeal to re-establish Chinese academic confidence is not merely a slogan but a strategy with complicated cultural imports. The key to rebuild this confidence lies …
Spivak's Strategies Of Theoretical Construction For Subaltern Studies, Yihua Chen, Peiyuan Lin
Spivak's Strategies Of Theoretical Construction For Subaltern Studies, Yihua Chen, Peiyuan Lin
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Spivak is a one of the core members of Subaltern Studies. She redefined the key categories and concepts of Subaltern Studies from a subaltern perspective, redefining the critical approaches of early Subaltern Studies. The paper argues that Spivak's Subaltern Studies, in a stricter sense, should not be viewed as a branch of postcolonial studies or feminist criticism. Subaltern Studies delineates the trajectory by which Subalterns' experiences are eliminated and reveals the political significance of Subalterns' resistance, which opens new possibilities for the Subalterns to enter the field of knowledge production.
Technology And Perception: An Inter-Pretation Of Mcluhan, Heisenberg And Zhuangzi, Huimin Jin
Technology And Perception: An Inter-Pretation Of Mcluhan, Heisenberg And Zhuangzi, Huimin Jin
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper's analysis is based on McLuhan's reference and comments to Heisenberg and Zhuangzi, and focuses on the theme of technology and perception, aiming at an inter-pretation (intertextual interpretation) of the three thinkers. The paper argues that McLuhan goes directly to the unified field of subjecthood by way of electronic media while Heisenberg hovers between the unified fields of subjecthood and of objecthood. Unlike McLuhan and Heisenberg, Zhuangzi is neither subjective nor objective, but enters Dao, the world itself, by sensibility. However, for all of the three, modern technology may lead to aesthetics, that is, there is an aesthetic dimension …
An Investigation Of The Late-Tang Poetics Through The Functional Structure Of The Retro Poetic Styles In "Talent And Taste Anthology", Yi'nan Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The retro style in the Tang poetry collection Talent and Taste Anthology (Cai Diao Anthology) mainly refers the imitation of the poetic styles in the ancient Qi and Liang. The retro style showed in the poetic forms of courtly five-character regulated poems (including extended form and Qi-Liang form), music bureau form (including quatrain) and ballad forms. This style has respective functions, with five-character regulated poems focusing on objects, music bureau forms on emotions and ballad forms on both. It may be said that the retro style in the Talent and Taste Anthology had constructed a relatively complete system of functions, …
On The Psychoanalytical Practice And The Artistic Practice, Althusser Louis, Zhifeng Wu
On The Psychoanalytical Practice And The Artistic Practice, Althusser Louis, Zhifeng Wu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Initiation à la philosophie pour les non-philosophes, published by Presses Universitaires de France (January 2014), is one of Althusser's most important works. The present article is Chapters 14 and 15 of the book. In these two chapters, Althusser outlined psychoanalytical practice and showed its difficulties. He also discussed the influences that the psychoanalytical practice had on the practice and theory of arts. For Althusser, the analysis produced prodigious effects in the ideology and the philosophy, which he described as a real "Copernican reversal." Before Freud, everything in the man is believed to work in his consciousness, and the essence of …
Self-Creativity Of Chinese Humanities: From Comparative Culture, Cross Culture To Inter-Cultural Turn, Yuedi Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Chinese humanities need to participate in global dialogue with Chinese self-creativity, and the paper proposes the three stages in the participation as comparative culture, cross culture to inter-cultural turn. While comparative culture may be viewed as comparison between two parallels, cross culture is more like a bridge between cultures, emphasizing on communication. Intercultural turn, however, focuses on the integration and the blending of different cultural traditions, seeking a deeper understanding of other cultures and eventually reaching global cultural integration. The tasks of comparative culture, cross culture and intercultural turn are to develop humanities on different levels, aiming respectively at cultural …
The Ethics Of Modern Interpretation Of Classical Literary Theory: An Investigation Through Liu Xizai's General Principles Of Art, Zhongyi Xia
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
This paper starts with a discussion of Liu Xizai's General Principles of Art so as to investigate the ethics of modern interpretation of Chinese classical literary theory. The two aims of the paper are to connect the ethical spaces between classics and the modern interpretations and to elucidate an approach through the example of Liu Xizai's work. The paper proposes three ways to approach Liu Xizai's original work: to clarify the concepts in their original context, to trace the original trajectory of reasoning in the genealogy of tradition, and to interpret and pay due respect for the moral integrity reflected …
The Poetic Origins Of Media Studies: Some Quantitative Preliminary Understandings, Murvai Peter, Scheffel-Dunand Dominique
The Poetic Origins Of Media Studies: Some Quantitative Preliminary Understandings, Murvai Peter, Scheffel-Dunand Dominique
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
If the modernist model has dominated the field of literary theory at least since the second half of the 19th Century, does this mean that it also provided a conceptual and discursive framework which was to be adopted and adapted by the field of Media Studies in the 20th Century? The present study gives a tentative answer to this question by shedding light on some of the correlations between concepts found in the modernist aesthetics and in a number of canonical texts in the fields of Media and Communication. More precisely, we propose to conduct a quantitative investigation. Its purpose …
A Probe Into The Liu Xie's Concept Of Literary Virtue, Xinglu Zhou
A Probe Into The Liu Xie's Concept Of Literary Virtue, Xinglu Zhou
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Liu Xie (ca. 465-520) attached great importance to the literary virtues, and developed this unique elaboration of the concept in his Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragon. His elaborations in many chapters in the book redressed the prejudice that the literary man had no virtues, and he claimed that literary men should have the practical abilities, faith and sincerity, and personal integrity in political affairs and literary creation, no matter in the officialdom or in retreat. The paper argues that Liu Xie's emphasis on practice was rooted with his clan's quick rise and fall in the social status, and …
A Synopsis Of Young Theorists' Forum On "Contemporary Western Frontier Literary Theory", Feng Lv, Bo Zhang
A Synopsis Of Young Theorists' Forum On "Contemporary Western Frontier Literary Theory", Feng Lv, Bo Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
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An Investigation Into Chen Wenshu's Criticism On Parallel Prose Through Poetry, Jinsong Li
An Investigation Into Chen Wenshu's Criticism On Parallel Prose Through Poetry, Jinsong Li
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
Chen Wenshu's (1771-1843) "On Parallel Prose Written in the Lamplight for Zhihui" is the only long poem discussing the genre of parallel prose and it has both theoretical and practical significance. The poem not only investigates the history of parallel prose but also examines various aspects of parallel prose in an effort to promote the genre for serious writers, and it greatly helps to enrich the theoretical resource on parallel prose. Chen's survey of the history and examinations of the practice of parallel prose are characteristic of the textual criticism prevailing in the Qianlong-Jiaqing Reign.
Between Heaven And Human: On The Idea Of Heaven And The Transformation Of Poetry In The Mid-Tang Dynasty, Shun Liu
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The relationship between the Heaven and man is a central issue in the transformation of Confucianism in the Mid-Tang period. The discourses on the Heaven by Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi help to promote the transformation of Confucianism and also greatly influence the transformation in literary creation. The differences in the poetry and prose between the three authors may also be interpreted from the perspective of the difference between their perceptions of the Heaven. The changes in the relationship between the Heaven and man lead to the broadened themes, innovated vocabulary, diversified styles and varied fresh imageries. Likewise, …
F. R. Leavis And Cultural Studies: From Leavis To Hoggart, And To Williams, Ruiqing Zhang
F. R. Leavis And Cultural Studies: From Leavis To Hoggart, And To Williams, Ruiqing Zhang
Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art
The present paper aims to clarify the genetic historical relationships between F. R. Leavis's cultural criticism and the discipline of Cultural Studies. It attempts a general survey of Leavis's criticism on culture, connecting him with the early development of Cultural Studies represented by Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams in the 1950s, and examines the complexity, contradictions and struggles in the transition from Leavis to Hoggrat and to Williams. Through an analysis of Leavis's cultural criticism, Hoggart's Uses of Literacy and Williams' Culture and Society, the paper delineates the internal relationships of intertextuality. The development of Cultural Studies has been a …