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On The V-De Construction In Mandarin Chinese, Chao Li

Publications and Research

The paper proposes a novel classification and analysis of the V-DE construction in Mandarin Chinese. On this proposal, the V-DE construction is divided into two types, predicative and non-predicative. The predicative type can be further divided into entity-predicative V-DE constructions and eventuality-predicative V-DE constructions. With respect to the analysis of the V-DE construction, the paper identifies four different structures. It points out that the de-part (i.e. the part after and marked by 得-de) in most V-DE constructions is a clause with or without an overt subject. Moreover, with respect to the cases where the de-part has an overt NP that …

Kashmiri Marsiya (Elegy) Manuscripts: The Valuable Sources For The Dissemination, Reconstruction And Safeguarding The History And Culture-Iii, Tawfeeq Nazir

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Manuscripts are the links to the historical facts that will otherwise remain unknown to the world. They contain authentic information and facts about the social, political and cultural aspects of a nation. Therefore their intellectual value cannot be over emphasized. Many countries and nations are joining hands towards preserving such cultural assets by way of taking conservation and preservation measures including digitization and documentation.

Marsiya or Elegy has gained more importance after the Martyrdom of Imam Hussain (a.s) and his companions and household in Karbala. Marsiya has been since written and recited in order to mourning the tragic events of …

A Thematic Research Of Merleau-Ponty's Le Doute De Cézanne, Ying Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper examines the theme of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Le Doute de Cézanne and tries to trace his early thoughts and question consciousness. Albeit a well-known essay, Le Doute de Cézanne is generally regarded as a phenomenological casual essay, but this label does not explain the paradoxes from the perspective of detail and structure of the essay. Merleau-Ponty argued for the discard of personal character, life experience and artistic inheritance in the research of Cezanne but also points out that Cezanne's life and his works shared the same adventure. The essay has also devoted many words to the life of Da …

Literature And The Therapy Of Passion: Catharsis Against The Extreme Violence, Darmon Jean-Charles, Xi Xiao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Jonathan Littell's novel The Kindly Ones describes the process and details of the holocaust from the perspective of a Nazi officer and in doing so it depicts the protagonist as an ancient Greek tragic hero. This way of appropriating the antagonist to the empathy effect and literary catharsis and sympathy tries to achieve therapeutic purpose, but this way invokes much criticism. How can fiction interact with the (re) construction of emotions associated to mass extermination, especially when such emotions are reactivated from the point of view of an SS officer? After reexamining some of the questions raised by Jonathan Littell's …

Art And Annotation: On The Relationship Of Visibility And Annotation In The Visual Arts, Majetschak Stefan

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Works of the visual arts in the tradition of European and American modernism have lost many of the features that were considered for a long time to be obvious characteristics of the artistic constitution of art works as such. In fact, it proved to be the case early in the modern period that there did not have to be any features or characteristics — neither material nor phenomenal — by means of which artistic artifacts could be distinguished from non-artistic objects. For works of art and humdrum everyday objects can in borderline cases appear identical to the eye of an …

"Lament" As A Genre In Literary Mind And The Carving Of Dragons And Selections Of Refined Literature, Junling Zhao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Liu Xie's Literary Mind and Xiao Tong's Selections of Refined Literature had different definitions and understanding of the genre to lament. Liu Xie's aim was to distinguish different style, so he defined the lament as a genre with the features shown in the earlier writings such as Pan Yue's lamentations over pre-mature deaths, and he did not include into the genre the later stylistic development. Xiao Tong took Pan Yue's more ritualistic Elegy for His Wife as an example for lament style. The main reason behind their differences lies in the fact that Liu Xie's expounding covered only to the …

A Synopsis Of The Conference Of "Literary Theory And Criticism In 1980s", Chunxiao Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

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Art, Brain And Aesthetics: On The Development, Significance And Vision Of Contemporary Western Neuroaesthetics, Jun Hu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The process of aesthetic activity is an important part of aesthetic research, and aesthetic activities concerns the people, or specifically the human brain. In order to examine the process of aesthetic activity, the neural mechanisms of human brain become an important scientific basis for aesthetic research. Neuroaesthetics, emergent in Europe and America in recent years, provides not only a new perspective but also a very important scientific basis for aesthetic development. This paper intends to elaborate on the methods, scope, field, findings, aesthetic sense, deficiencies and future prospects for neuroaesthetics.

Between Language And Time: Yale School's Theoretical Generation And Its Location In The Intellectual History, Dengyun Dai

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The Yale School constructed a new mode of poetics research through its departure from the New Criticism and imbibitions of Continental thoughts, and its contribution to poetics lies in its generative poetics that shifts the focus of literary studies from the scientificalness of literary criticism, the literariness of literary texts and the factualness of literary history to the generation of literary criticism, literary text and literary history. The fundamental reason behind the Yale School's achievement lies in the fact that the Yale School theorists, under the context of linguistic turn and time philosophy turn in modern Western philosophy, with their …

On Lou Fang's Concept Of Moderation In His Prose Compilation The Recipe For Classical Prose, Xiaochuan Yu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Lou Fang's prose compilation The Recipe for Classical Prose was one of the most representative anthologies of ancient Chinese prose since its print in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Lou's commentaries in the anthology and his idea behind the compilation were emulated thereafter. The central rationale for selecting a piece of prose writing was Confucian moderation, emphasizing on the orthodoxy subject matter and moderate aesthetic taste, while the scope of selection was broad and the comments laconic and pertinent. His selection emphasized on the deliberate digression and implicitness of expression and the structuring of meaning delivery in the text, and …

Telling, Telling Style Essay And Storytelling, Jinfeng Zhou

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In ancient China, storytelling (xiao shuo, literally, trivial telling) was considered as trivial in terms of the scope of the story, and in the pre-Qin period a type of "telling-style essay" was formed on the basis of telling. With "telling" as a link, the telling-style essay was related to "storytelling." There were different types of telling-style essay, each type having different stylistic features and functions. Among these types, the one that emphasized the exposition through imagistic narrative became the transition from "telling" to "storytelling," and this type of telling-style essay exhibited some stylistic connotations and features that profoundly influenced the …

Desire, Currency And Modern Urban Space: A Rereading Of Shi Zhecun's "The Spring Sun", Xiaoping Song

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

With Shi Zhecun's (1905 年-2003 年) story "The Spring Sun" as an example, the paper aims to examine the two aspects of female experiences. The first is to explore the unique experience of the flaneuse in modern urban space and the symptoms of the female body in the heterogeneity of the traditional township space and modern urban space. The other is to analyze how the urban consumption space and the gaze evoke female desire and how money in the process of consumption constructs and deconstructs the female day-dreaming.

Žižek And The Repoliticization Of Western Contemporary Literary Theory, Xinting Liu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

By focusing on Žižek's narrative of "post-politics," the paper elaborates on Žižek's politics of enjoyment and his reflection and critique of multiculturalism and identity politics, as well as his refusal of simplistic intervention and action. The paper maintains that Žižek rethinks the relation between the particular and the universal and opens a way of repoliticizing the political philosophy and cultural theory.

Cognitive Poetics As A Bridge Between Formal And Impressionist Criticism: On Reuven Tsur's Toward A Theory Of Cognitive Poetics, Huibin He

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In Reuven Tsur' Toward a Theory of Cognitive Poetics, cognitive science is used to explain why certain literary text can produce certain aesthetic effect, and hence a bridge between formal criticism and impressionist criticism is built. In Tsur's book, convergent and divergent styles are set as the two extremes of stylistics, while wit and emotion as two extremes of aesthetic effects. Tsur can then discuss poetry from seven aspects, giving fresh explanations to such aesthetic terms the sublime and the grotesque from the perspective of cognitive science.

Ideas Of Poetry Study And The Paradigms Of Chinese Poetry Studies, Shilun Zhong

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

From "the study of poetry and prose" in the pre-Qin period (before 221-207 B.C.) to "the study of The Book of Poetry" in the Han Dynasty and to "the study of poetry" in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the idea of poetry study in China undergoes constant change from the earliest concept of "expressing will (yanzhi)" in the antiquity. "Expressing will" is "recording events (jishi)" and "writing down the speech (jiyan) ," and fictionalization has no value in the pre-Qin and Han Dynasties. The act of recording contributes the main content of Chinese ancient poetry, while the appropriation of poetry …

Ihab Hassan: The Pioneer Of The Theorization Of Postmodernism, Juan Mao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Ihab Hassan is a pioneer and key figure in the theoretical debate on postmodernism in the late half of the twentieth Century. In a relative stagnant period of literary criticism theory, he surveys various types of pioneer literature, proposes for the first time the theory of postmodernism, and elaborates on the characteristics and theoretical implications of postmodernism. He extends the theory of postmodernism further to the fields of culture and philosophy, and with it his influence has also spread from the United States to Europe and other parts of the world. Hassan defines the fundamental characteristics of postmodernism as "indetermanence." …

Karaoke-Style Rituals And Music: On The Practice Of Karaoke And The Problem Of Modernity, Guanjun Wu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

As one of the key parts of metropolitan life and popular culture in contemporary China, Karaoke has so far eluded the scope of scholarly study. This paper aims not just at analyzing the phenomena spurred by Karaoke activity but essentially at developing a structural analysis of this activity itself. By juxtaposing Karaoke against the Confucian thought on music, this paper argues that the structure of Karaoke constitutes a key feature of modernity and manifests what I call the "crisis of sincerity."

On The Idea Of Progress In The Literary Criticism In The Seventeen Years After 1949 And Its Influence, Pengcheng Kou

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

In the field of pre-modern Chinese literature, progress usually referred to the countercurrent of the revival of the ancient styles or practice and it often came with the claim that each era should have a literature with its own new spirit. The concept of progress in modern literature, however, was developed fundamentally with Darwin's evolutionism, which in literary studies displayed a temporal linear development. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the idea of progress in literature implies the literature which serves the masses and the revolution, with a proletariat ideology and a realistic approach. Progress, therefore, refers …

Reading Narrative: Deterritoralization And Becoming, Daizong Yu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Modern fiction narrative does not simply rely on the plot for centralized meaning condensation, and the narrators or protagonists in the modern fiction may often be seen to reflect, reinterpret or re-aestheticize the meaning of preconfigured theme or thematic fragments in the text. This may undermine the existent boundaries of meaning field and present a multiple perspective and a dynamic thematic wandering in the process of meaning deterritorialization. Self-interference and self disintegration contribute to the prominent features of modern fiction. Therefore, the interpretation of modern fiction should not begin with how theme is reinforced but should focus on how the …

Representing The Unrepresentable: Rancière On The Ethical Turn Of Aesthetics., Jing Rao

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

Rancière scrutinizes the obsession with "unrepresentable" from postmodernist sublime aesthetics, and after a critical reflection on the ethical turn of aesthetics, he proposes to break into the indistinct isolated space of ethics by way of dissensus. This approach plays down on the redemption appeal and reinforces the promise of emancipation, and it reverts the critical perspective of ethics to the active aesthetics of practicum.

The 18Th-Century Theories Of Reading And Contemporary Cognitive Narratology, Wen Jin

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The 18th century is a crucial era for the rise of the novel in English and the formation of modern conceptions of narrative immersion. Engaging existing scholarship on early modern and modern theories of reading, this paper primarily discusses two issues. First, it traces the discourses of narrative immersion and narrative impact in 18th-century England, bringing together moral philosophy, aesthetic theories, brain science, literary criticism, and scenes of reading from notable 18th-century novels. The second part of the paper concerns the ways in which contemporary cognitive narratology resonates with 18th-century theories of reading, while providing the latter with productive theoretical …

The Genealogy, Objects And Subjects Of Visual Culture Studies, Qiong Wu

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The rise of visual culture studies in the 1970s and 1980s in the academic field benefited from postwar French New Theory and was linked with the Western critical reflection on modernity/post-modernity, and it has brought about some fundamental changes in the methodologies and problematic in many areas of humanities research. This paper attempts to delineate the development of visual culture studies in the West, and describes the basic issues concerning its genealogy, objects and subjects.

The Origin And Development Of Verse Structure Of "Introduction, Development, Contrast, And Conclusion", Xiaowei Zhang

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The existent scholarship shows that the compositional structure of the four couplets in a regulated poem as "Introduction, Development, Contrast, and Conclusion" was first proposed by Yang Zai and Fan Peng in the Yuan Dynasty. Yang Zai summarized various comments and arguments on metric prosody in the Tang and Song dynasties, modified by his own views, while Fan Peng argued that the structuring might apply not only to regulated verse but to all the literary creation. Fan Peng had also proposed his own criteria for the structuring of regulated verse, based perhaps on his own Jiangxi local poetics. Fan Peng's …

Western Literature Or Western Learning? On Wang Tao's Experience And Practice, Huaiqing Duan

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The communication between Wang Tao (1828-1897) and protestant missionaries in the Late Qing Dynasty focused on the Western religion and learning. When discussing Western learning, Wang Tao also used the term "literature," a term that would have great influence on the developmental history of pre-modern Chinese literary thoughts. While he had a systematic exploration into the development of Western learning and the Jesuits' works in the Late Ming, Wang Tao didn't elaborate on the concept of the term "wenxue (literature)," although he had mentioned Western poetry and other genres as well as some important Greek, Roman and British poets. Wang …

Yan Lianke And Chinese Literature In The Perspective Of World Literature, Zhang Yingjin

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

This paper delineates Yan Lianke's literary status in line with David Damrosch's tripartite definition of world literature, and then reexamines the bipolar assessments of modern Chinese literature in Western Sinology in terms of international cultural politics as represented by the Nobel Prize in Literature. With reference to two key words in Mo Yan's Nobel acceptance speech — "human" and "transcendence" — the paper further explores the contemporary transformation of realism and Yan Lianke's "spiritual realism" in theory and practice.

Anime And Identity: The Reception Of Sailor Moon By Adolescent American Fans, Darrah M. Hewlett

East Asian Studies Summer Fellows

This project looks at the way fans think, talk, and feel about the anime they watch and the manga they read. Specifically, it looks at fans of Sailor Moon, a series of Japanese anime and manga made in the 1990s that have been dubbed and translated into English and have been met with an enthusiastic reception among girls and young women in the United States. Sailor Moon is considered one of the first mass cultural productions to present images of girl power and gender equality and has generated a large and enthusiastic online community of fans. Most of its …

Review Of A Cultural History Of Japanese Buddhism By Brian Ruppert And William E. Deal, Ronald S. Green

Philosophy and Religious Studies

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The Fascination Of Manga: Cross-Dressing And Gender Performativity In Japanese Media, Sheena Marie Woods

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The performativity of gender through cross-dressing has been a staple in Japanese media throughout the centuries. This thesis engages with the pervasiveness of cross-dressing in popular Japanese media, from the modern shōjo gender-bender genre of manga and anime to the traditional Japanese theatre. Drawing on theories from gender-studies and performance aesthetics to delineate the female gender in traditional Japanese theatre, I follow the roles of, representation of, and media for women, concentrating on (1) manga, a form of sequential art featuring illustrations with corresponding text, (2) anime, animated productions (where the word anime is the abbreviated pronunciation of “animation” in …

Parental Involvement, Students' Self-Engagement, And Academic Achievement: A Structural Equation Model, Cuirong Wu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In the ever-evolving landscape of China's education system, the gap between the rural and urban was always an important issue, not only the multifaceted interplay of parental involvement, student self-engagement, and academic performance. This study utilized a comprehensive national survey dataset through a thorough understanding of cultural nuances and educational intricacies specific to the Chinese context. Its aim was not only to decipher the underlying constructs of parental involvement and student self-engagement but also to investigate how these factors impacted academic achievement among students. The research unfolded in several stages using a representative sample of 10750 students from 112 schools …

Responding To “Comfort Woman” Denial At Central Washington University, Mark J. Auslander, Chong Eun Ahn

Anthropology and Museum Studies Faculty Scholarship

No abstract available.