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The Weapons Of Criticism And The Criticism Of Weapons: A Synopsis Of The Symposium Of "Contemporary Literary Theory And Criticism Practice", Kaiguo Wang, Jing Niu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

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On Some Issues Neglected In Modern Chinese Aesthetic Studies, Zuzhao Gu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The paper argues that aesthetic studies in new China belongs to modern aesthetics as it has followed the basic research modes of Western mainstream aesthetics that has involved conceptual hypothesis, presupposed system and logocentric argumentation. The paper takes for examples the debates between the four schools of aesthetics and examines some important issues overlooked in modern Chinese aesthetics. In the context of deconstructionism and postmodernism, against the background of the rich resources of Chinese classical theories, aesthetic studies in new China has gradually exhibited their overly subjective speculation, detachment from practice, and self-closure. These deficiencies show in following aspects: limitedness …

On The Modern Transformation Of Ancient Literary Theory, Yun Wang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Focusing on the contemporary research of the modern transformation of ancient literary theory in China, the paper intends to expose the implied cultural orientation behind the different ideas of and approaches to the modernization of ancient literary theory. This paper points out that, on the one hand, the approach to the modern transformation take the route from construction in the 1980s to deconstruction in 1990s and that, one the other hand, in terms of methodology, the need for an open system is widely accepted and the discursive power of closed conceptual system is undermined and dissolved. As a result, pluralist …

On Wang Youpu's Criticism On The Ancient-Style Prose And Its Value, Zukun Yu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Critical practice on the ancient-style prose is an important part of the literary activity of Tongcheng School in the Qing Dynasty, and due research attention should be paid for understanding their prose theory. Wang You-pu (1681-1760) was one key figure in developing the school's prose theory. As a disciple of Fang Bao, the founder of the school, Wang developed Fang's notion of yifa (meaning-method) by expanding on the relationship between meaning (yi) and method (fa). Wang You-pu had also combined Fang's notion of meaning-method with Jin Shengtan's (1608-61) literary critical practice and vision, which not only sharpened his perceptive and …

Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Greening Studies Of Postcolonialism, Fuguang Miao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Postcolonial ecocriticism develops in the ecocrtitical turn of postcolonialism, and as the new development of postcolonialism, it is grounded on postcolonialism and ecocriticism, starting with and ending in the study of postcolonialism. This paper starts with a retrospective analysis of postcolonialism and then it examines postcolonial ecocriticism's theoretical sources in terms of ecological thoughts, history of colonialization, ecological imperialism and postcolonialism. The paper proceeds to summarize three main tasks of postcolonial ecocriticism, namely, tracing the historical connection between racism and speciesism, exposing the paradox between development and conservation of environment, and interpreting animal and environment writings in literary discourses, so …

Re-Evaluating "Foregrounding": The Prague School's Contributions To Aesthetics, Lei Yang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

"Foregrounding" is a key term of the Prague School, and due to its similarity with "defamiliarization," "foregrounding" has caused some misreading, which further leads to the misunderstanding of the relationship between the Prague School and the Russian Formalism. Starting with this term, the Prague School constructed a sophisticated system of structuralist aesthetics and literary theory, which surpassed the Russian Formalism. The concept of "foregrounding" foretells a contextualist aesthetics, which pointed to the contextualist turn of aesthetics in the 20th century.

Representation, Working And Imagination Of Power: A Study On "The Young Newcomer To The Department Of Organization" And Other "Against-Current Novels", Qinghua Cao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

One important aspect of Wang Meng's novel The Young Newcomer to the Department of Organization and other so-called "Against-Current (Niliu) Novels" is the questioning, exposing and challenging of the way power is represented and worked and the way power is related to its representation and working in these novels, but this has been overlooked for quite a long time in the research scholarship. The paper argues that these novels call into interpellation the representation and working of power in reality while the imagination of power permeated in these novels performs the function of interpellation similar to the in-practice power interplay. …

Schapiro, Semiotics And Iconography, Xin Gao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

During the 20th century, a theory transformation brought about by semiotics has inserted profound impact on almost all the disciplines of humanities, including anthropology, literary theory and art history. Starting with the aim at theorizing these studies, the movement has evolved into a capitalized Theory during its development that shifts its focuses to the ethical and political functions of literature and art and sacrifices the aesthetic values of literary texts. When Meyer Schapiro introduced semiotic methods into his art history studies, he could avoid the hazard. His introduction of semiotics into art history study, by bypassing the essentialist or metaphysical …

Terry Eagleton's Borrowing From Aristotle's Metaphysics Thought, Zhike Yin

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Terry Eagleton's attention to theology and metaphysical issues is not a theology turn, for his thoughts on theology is not fully explicable in religious sense. God, for him, is a substitution for "essence." He insists that the postmodernists who deny the essence are actually essentialists with masks. Eagleton believes that the ultimate reason for human being is man itself, that is, the essence of mall. Essence, for him, is not common feature but the nature, and the nature is the form. The paper therefore argues that Aristotle's teleology has greatly influenced Eagleton.

The Category, Complexity, Starting Points And Methodology Of Image Studies, Jirong Chen

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The development of imagology can be traced back to the study of literary imagery, comparative studies and iconology, which covers early research on literature and society, the study of image and illusion, and contemporary study of image and discourse. Imagology has developed through the three stages develop from literary history, poetics and power discourse, while the focus of its content balances between holistic analysis and textual studies, and its methodology makes use of the models of culture studies and also tries to highlight the relation between image construction and power discourse. Therefore, the remarkable aspect to be noted in image …

The Concept Of Image In Chinese, Western And Japanese Cultures, Haohui Xi

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Global multicultural interaction accommodates the conflict between monism and pluralism. The paper examines the three different forms of beauty as reflected in the different concepts of image in Chinese, Western and Japanese cultures as art symbols of expressing feelings and ideas. The concept of image as a Western concept finds its counterparts in Chinese phrase of "xingxiang" (形象 form-image) and Japanese "sugata" (姿 idea-image). "Image" in the ancient Greece referred mainly to the exterior form, which in turn pointed to the "body" and highlighted in the geometrical "form." The concept of "form-image" in Chinese emphasizes the image over the form, …

The Ethical Responsibility Of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenological Theory Of Literature: On The Promoting Agency Of Literary Language To The Formation Of The Individual, Wei Jia

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Merleau-Ponty had revised Husserl's phenomenology of speech and Saussure's structuralist linguistics and developed his own phenomenology of speech, gaining insight into the intersubjectivity between speech and individual. His phenomenological research also shows that literary speech as a deviant form of everyday speech can not only boost the historical formation of the individual but also inherit something profound from the history.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

Abjection, Telesthesia, And Transnationalism: Incest In Park Chan-Wook's Oldboy, Daniel L. Holland

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Many consider Oldboy be the defining film of the most recent wave of South Korean cinema, with scholars such as Terrence McSweeney and Kim Kyun Hyun arguing the film's representation of South Korean culture through collective memory, trauma, and Westernization. However, most of the current scholarship that surrounds the film does not adequately address the film's prominent theme of incest. My thesis explores the anxious implications of the film's incestuous imagery and reads it as a figure for the film's transnational presence. Specifically, in my project, incest is the nucleus on which I build each argument outward. First through abjection …

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《嶺南學報》復刊詞, Zongqi Cai

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

在20世紀學術史上，《嶺南學報》曾經寫下厚重一筆，迄今依然是學界共同的記憶。此刊於1929年創辦，1952年因嶺南大學解散而閉刊，其間登載了陳寅恪、吳宓、楊樹達、王力、容庚等學界泰斗的許多重要文章，成爲他們叱咤風雲，引領20世紀學術潮流的平臺。

進入21世紀之今日，香港嶺南大學中文系復辦《嶺南學報》，以求弘揚嶺大百年學術精神，延續嶺大文史研究之優勢，進而提升本校及本港的國學研究水準。復辦《嶺南學報》，我們雖然不敢奢望恢復昔日的輝煌，但將竭盡全力保證學術水準，力爭做到無愧於先輩。面對如此艱巨的任務，我們誠惶誠恐，做好了長期艱苦奮鬥的思想準備。

袁枚《隨園詩話》與清詩話寫作之轉型, Yin Jiang

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

袁枚的詩話寫作在傳統的“辨句法，備古今，紀聖德，録異事，正訛誤”之外，更繼承王士禛《漁洋詩話》風流自賞的品格，更加露骨地自我吹噓和自我神化，同時更出於打秋風或報恩的動機而以之爲交際和牟利的手段，遂開清代中葉以後詩話寫作的市儈風氣。後來出現的許多詩話都顯示出，其取材和撰寫方式不同程度地受到《隨園詩話》的影響。

松崎慊堂與《縮刻唐石經》芻議, Yucai Liu

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

松崎慊堂是江户後期頗具代表性的考證派儒學者，雖然師承昌平學黌大學頭林述齋，修習作爲官學的朱子之學，並長期擔任藩教授，但在江户後期經學考據蔚成風尚的背景下，學術旨趣發生變化，以至成爲漢唐經注校勘之學的核心人物。松崎慊堂漢籍版本學造詣深厚，致仕後致力於漢籍翻刻校勘，而尤以《縮刻唐石經》貢獻卓著。此舉繼承中國儒經刻石傳統，以恢復唐石舊本、正定文字爲旨歸，在唐石經基礎上，廣採宋元槧及日本古本，校勘文字，辨析異體，其間既引述清儒考證成果，亦兼下己意，力求成爲可資信賴的定本。松崎慊堂《縮刻唐石經》不僅部帙宏巨，校勘精細，而且成書早於民國間張氏皕忍堂《景刊唐開成石經》近百年，雖然校訂經文不乏粗疏淺陋之處，亦未全面參校日本古本，但其草創價值仍不可小覷。

漢武帝時期的禮教 : 國家宗教神學之意識形態 : 董仲舒的禮教神學思想, Hong (Pu Hui) Zhang

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

漢武時期，董仲舒推進了先秦以來“禮”的各種功能在社會生活中的運用，大肆闡發了其宗教神學觀念，建立了一套以天與人相互感應的神學理論體系，構成了治國安邦的基本國策與國家主流意識形態，從理論上徹底完成了宗教信仰的神權、儒家倫常的父權和政治統治的皇權的三位一體化。董仲舒的儒家思想帶有濃密的神秘主義色彩，把先秦以來的原始鬼神崇拜、太極、陰陽、五行、神仙、方術等非儒家的因素，雜糅進了儒學之中，貫穿於社會的政治統治和人們的精神生活方面，實現了大一統帝國的“禮教”神學化的思想整合。國家宗教神學體系的建立，其目的是完成儒家之“禮教”的宇宙化、社會化和道德化。其“禮”的宗教信仰内容不再單純地注重於社會人事的規定，而是更加突出了“超越宇宙”的神學意味。董仲舒“禮教”思想的可貴之處則在於，它將原爲社會上層集團專有的象徵權力和權威的“禮”，貫徹於民。“禮”的下移和普及，極大地突出了其宗教信仰和社會調節的功用，有效地避免了動輒使用酷吏的行爲；董仲舒還賦予了“禮”具有“溥愛”、“德仁”的獨特内涵和特點。

移風易俗與禮樂教化, Lin Peng

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

本文首先對“風俗”二字，作歷史性的考辨，風俗既約定俗成，卻又是可以與時俱進的。就風俗而論，四夷之民性與中原的差異極大，而中原文化在當時具有先進性，故而，風化天下，幾乎成爲儒家的歷史使命。就春秋戰國時代而言，各地民衆或沾染不良風俗，於是學者就有文明拓展或衰退之憂患。其次，本文根據《史記》、《漢書》，考察兩漢移風易俗之實績，這是武帝大一統以來的政治表現；進而論及風俗之盛衰，乃繫於士大夫之表率；而禮樂教化則是移風易俗之核心，堪謂畫龍之點睛矣。