The hybridity of words in literary texts and the multiplicity of theoretical discourse fundamentally determine the cross-cultural attributes of literary studies.This feature holds significant value for understanding d...The hybridity of words in literary texts and the multiplicity of theoretical discourse fundamentally determine the cross-cultural attributes of literary studies.This feature holds significant value for understanding different cultural traditions and presenting one’s cultural traits in a mutually contextualized manner.By analyzing the cross-cultural essence of literary studies with a focus on word transformation and critical discourse and also emphasizing that literary studies should fully consider the linguistic elements of literary texts,the theoretical origins of critical terminology,and the cultural stance of the researcher,it becomes possible to understand the important role of literary studies in humanistic academic knowledge production.展开更多
The series A Study on Ethical Literary Criticism exhibits key achievements in the major program of national social sciences by scholars headed by Professor Nie Zhenzhao,who are devoted to the research of foreign liter...The series A Study on Ethical Literary Criticism exhibits key achievements in the major program of national social sciences by scholars headed by Professor Nie Zhenzhao,who are devoted to the research of foreign literatures,studies in philosophy and social sciences,and interdisciplinary study of world literature,who dedicated themselves to the construction of the ethical literary critical theory and methodology with the application of ethical literary criticism in practice.This series organically combine the generality of ethical literary criticism with the individuality of specific writers and combine the theoretical guidance with realistic practicality in academic research,which will be conducive to the development of world literary criticism and region and country-specific studies in the new era.展开更多
discipline of the study of traditional Chinese literary forms;literary form history;literary form criticism;literary form theory;the study of literature;the study of traditional ChineseliteraryformsScholars dedicated ...discipline of the study of traditional Chinese literary forms;literary form history;literary form criticism;literary form theory;the study of literature;the study of traditional ChineseliteraryformsScholars dedicated to establishing and developing the discipline of the study of traditional Chinese literary forms,such as Wu Chengxue,have achieved significant accomplishments regarding research objects,research scopes,research methods,and concept maps.However,within this emerging discipline,traditional Chinese literary form studies and establishing the academic framework are still under exploration,with substantial areas still awaiting further investigation and extension.Inspired by Rene Wellek's division of literary studies into three realms:literary history,literary criticism,and literary theory,this article proposes an academic framework of traditional Chinese literary form study,which also encompasses three realms:literary form history,literary form criticism,and literary form theory.Based on a review of the research achievements in the discipline of the study of literary forms and the three sub-fields over the past two decades,this article analyzes the uniqueness of each sub-field and their influence on each other.Furthermore,this article validates the theoretical soundness and rationality of restructuring the academic framework of the study of traditional Chinese literary forms,citing the original and historical forms of these three sub-fields.展开更多
The study of Chinese literary form,with a long and profound history,has long been at the center of literary scholarship in China.However,under the impact of Western learning during the late Qing and early Republican p...The study of Chinese literary form,with a long and profound history,has long been at the center of literary scholarship in China.However,under the impact of Western learning during the late Qing and early Republican periods,the tradition of Chinese literary form studies was gradually overshadowed and marginalized.It was not until the 1980s that this tradition began to revive,rapidly developing into the most vibrant frontier of academic growth and becoming a focal point of scholarly attention.In terms of the overall research landscape,there is significant emphasis on the study of the literary form and history of literary forms,yielding a wealth of related achievements.In contrast,discussions surrounding literary form concepts and theoretical exploration remain relatively weak.It is crucial to summarize and reflect on the modern theoretical studies in literary forms over the 20th century,as this will promote the further development of traditional literary form studies and contribute to constructing a literary theoretical discourse system with Chinese characteristics for a new era.展开更多
Interviewee:Anna Poletti is a researcher affiliated with Gender Studies at Utrecht University,where they previously held the position of Associate Professor of English Language and Culture.Trained in literary studies ...Interviewee:Anna Poletti is a researcher affiliated with Gender Studies at Utrecht University,where they previously held the position of Associate Professor of English Language and Culture.Trained in literary studies and philosophy at La Trobe and Newcastle Universities in Australia,Anna's research focuses on contemporary forms of life narrative.Anna's first book,Intimate Ephemera:Reading Young Lives in Australian Zine Culture (2008) explores autobiographical writing produced and consumed in a youth subculture.展开更多
Professor Deidre Lynch from the Department of English at Harvard University published a chapter entitled“Love of Literature”in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory in 2022.During the author’s visiting scholar...Professor Deidre Lynch from the Department of English at Harvard University published a chapter entitled“Love of Literature”in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory in 2022.During the author’s visiting scholarship at the Department of English at Harvard from 2022 to 2023,an interview was conducted with Professor Lynch focusing on this chapter,exploring the role of“love of literature”in literary studies.Lynch discusses the continuity between her 2015 book Loving Literature:A Cultural History and her 2022 chapter in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory,emphasizing her long-term focus on the historical evolution of literary affections,which originated from classroom interactions,particularly teaching Jane Austen.She critiques the misleading dichotomy between literary theorists and“literature lovers,”arguing that affective engagement has always been central to literary scholarship and teaching.The interview delves into the“affective turn,”“return to aesthetics,”and their connections to the“ethical turn”in Western literary theory in the 21st century,noting parallels with developments in Chinese literary theory.Lynch highlights how literary affections intersect with intersectional politics,enabling social changes through shared literary experiences.Through tracing back to the 18th-century structural transformation in reader-text relationships,which privatized literary intimacy,Lynch offers insights on the value of literary studies in contemporary education of humanities amid global challenges.展开更多
Crossover picturebooks attract readers of different ages.The trend of refocusing on the body in children’s literature criticism,especially under the influence of literary cognitive studies as Maria Nikolajeva points ...Crossover picturebooks attract readers of different ages.The trend of refocusing on the body in children’s literature criticism,especially under the influence of literary cognitive studies as Maria Nikolajeva points out(2016),provides a context to reconfigure our understanding of crossover picturebooks.Informed by literary cognitive studies,particularly the theory of brain laterality,the project selects the picturebook that may have crossover potential to start with,then investigates the actual readers’engagement with the potentially crossover picturebook,and finally feeds the insights gleaned from the empirical study back into the understanding of the selected text,and possibly crossover picturebooks generally.The project aims to learn about the crossover picturebook through exploring how it impacts readers.It was a small-scale case study,conducted in the east of England,UK.Colin Thompson’s How to Live Forever was used with two adults and two children.Observation and interviewing were used to collect data.Text-related creative activities served to support or clarify the oral response.The project reveals:the multileveled nature of crossover picturebooks that many scholars emphasize may correspond to the multileveled engagement that texts can elicit from readers,which is partially the outcome of cognitive-affective skills and mechanisms engaged differently across children and adults.This study also shows the crossover potential particular to picturebooks:picturebooks may use the visual to flesh out the embodied experience,which can springboard further thinking about abstract,complicated notions.This mode of representation corresponds to the way the human mind works,thus engaging children and adults alike.展开更多
The concept of"landscape"has the attribute of self-sufficiency,and a series of sub-disciplines have formed around it.Landscape literature research is an inevitable interdisciplinary direction in the landscap...The concept of"landscape"has the attribute of self-sufficiency,and a series of sub-disciplines have formed around it.Landscape literature research is an inevitable interdisciplinary direction in the landscape discipline realm,with values independent from literary landscape research.Based on landscape writing,landscape literature takes landscapes as its starting point and focuses on examining the rich coupling relationship between scenery and observation,as well as the expressive experiences in it.In practice,ancient Chinese landscape literature takes traditional literary forms such as poetry and prose as its core.Ancient Chinese landscapes can be divided into four categories:natural landscapes(celestial phenomena,landforms,hydrological conditions,physical forms,etc.),social landscapes(cities,villages,markets,folk customs,etc.),historical landscapes(sites,temples,etc.),and human landscapes(architecture,gardens,skills,etc.).The creation of landscape literature in ancient China featured the integrated development of human,social,natural,and historical landscapes,which had become a magnificent sight by the Tang and Song dynasties.Landscape literature documents are often classified into the secondary level under the general catalogue of literary forms,and various encyclopedic works and classified collections also provide frame reference and text sources for landscape literature research.By comparing the poems of Su Shi苏轼in Southbound Journey Anthology南行集written by the“Three Sus”,namely Su Shihimself,hisfather Su Xun苏洵,and his younger brother Su Zhe苏辙,with his poems in Zhuangyuan Wang's Classified Collection of Su Shi's Poems with Annotations from Different Scholars王状元集百家注分类东坡先生诗,this article reveals the important value of Su Shi from the perspective of landscape poetry.展开更多
文摘The hybridity of words in literary texts and the multiplicity of theoretical discourse fundamentally determine the cross-cultural attributes of literary studies.This feature holds significant value for understanding different cultural traditions and presenting one’s cultural traits in a mutually contextualized manner.By analyzing the cross-cultural essence of literary studies with a focus on word transformation and critical discourse and also emphasizing that literary studies should fully consider the linguistic elements of literary texts,the theoretical origins of critical terminology,and the cultural stance of the researcher,it becomes possible to understand the important role of literary studies in humanistic academic knowledge production.
文摘The series A Study on Ethical Literary Criticism exhibits key achievements in the major program of national social sciences by scholars headed by Professor Nie Zhenzhao,who are devoted to the research of foreign literatures,studies in philosophy and social sciences,and interdisciplinary study of world literature,who dedicated themselves to the construction of the ethical literary critical theory and methodology with the application of ethical literary criticism in practice.This series organically combine the generality of ethical literary criticism with the individuality of specific writers and combine the theoretical guidance with realistic practicality in academic research,which will be conducive to the development of world literary criticism and region and country-specific studies in the new era.
文摘discipline of the study of traditional Chinese literary forms;literary form history;literary form criticism;literary form theory;the study of literature;the study of traditional ChineseliteraryformsScholars dedicated to establishing and developing the discipline of the study of traditional Chinese literary forms,such as Wu Chengxue,have achieved significant accomplishments regarding research objects,research scopes,research methods,and concept maps.However,within this emerging discipline,traditional Chinese literary form studies and establishing the academic framework are still under exploration,with substantial areas still awaiting further investigation and extension.Inspired by Rene Wellek's division of literary studies into three realms:literary history,literary criticism,and literary theory,this article proposes an academic framework of traditional Chinese literary form study,which also encompasses three realms:literary form history,literary form criticism,and literary form theory.Based on a review of the research achievements in the discipline of the study of literary forms and the three sub-fields over the past two decades,this article analyzes the uniqueness of each sub-field and their influence on each other.Furthermore,this article validates the theoretical soundness and rationality of restructuring the academic framework of the study of traditional Chinese literary forms,citing the original and historical forms of these three sub-fields.
基金supported by the National Social Science Fund of China titled“Compilation of Selections from Various Periods and Relevant Literary Concept Studies”(21&ZD254).
文摘The study of Chinese literary form,with a long and profound history,has long been at the center of literary scholarship in China.However,under the impact of Western learning during the late Qing and early Republican periods,the tradition of Chinese literary form studies was gradually overshadowed and marginalized.It was not until the 1980s that this tradition began to revive,rapidly developing into the most vibrant frontier of academic growth and becoming a focal point of scholarly attention.In terms of the overall research landscape,there is significant emphasis on the study of the literary form and history of literary forms,yielding a wealth of related achievements.In contrast,discussions surrounding literary form concepts and theoretical exploration remain relatively weak.It is crucial to summarize and reflect on the modern theoretical studies in literary forms over the 20th century,as this will promote the further development of traditional literary form studies and contribute to constructing a literary theoretical discourse system with Chinese characteristics for a new era.
文摘Interviewee:Anna Poletti is a researcher affiliated with Gender Studies at Utrecht University,where they previously held the position of Associate Professor of English Language and Culture.Trained in literary studies and philosophy at La Trobe and Newcastle Universities in Australia,Anna's research focuses on contemporary forms of life narrative.Anna's first book,Intimate Ephemera:Reading Young Lives in Australian Zine Culture (2008) explores autobiographical writing produced and consumed in a youth subculture.
基金supported by the Project of Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of Ministry of Education in China(21YJA752006)the project of China Scholarship Council(202208320170).
文摘Professor Deidre Lynch from the Department of English at Harvard University published a chapter entitled“Love of Literature”in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory in 2022.During the author’s visiting scholarship at the Department of English at Harvard from 2022 to 2023,an interview was conducted with Professor Lynch focusing on this chapter,exploring the role of“love of literature”in literary studies.Lynch discusses the continuity between her 2015 book Loving Literature:A Cultural History and her 2022 chapter in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory,emphasizing her long-term focus on the historical evolution of literary affections,which originated from classroom interactions,particularly teaching Jane Austen.She critiques the misleading dichotomy between literary theorists and“literature lovers,”arguing that affective engagement has always been central to literary scholarship and teaching.The interview delves into the“affective turn,”“return to aesthetics,”and their connections to the“ethical turn”in Western literary theory in the 21st century,noting parallels with developments in Chinese literary theory.Lynch highlights how literary affections intersect with intersectional politics,enabling social changes through shared literary experiences.Through tracing back to the 18th-century structural transformation in reader-text relationships,which privatized literary intimacy,Lynch offers insights on the value of literary studies in contemporary education of humanities amid global challenges.
基金The writing up of this study is supported by the research project“Contemporary Western Picturebook Theory”(18WWC005)funded by Jiangsu Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science and the project“Chinese Picturebooks and Their English Translations”(2017SJB1318)funded by Jiangsu Education Department。
文摘Crossover picturebooks attract readers of different ages.The trend of refocusing on the body in children’s literature criticism,especially under the influence of literary cognitive studies as Maria Nikolajeva points out(2016),provides a context to reconfigure our understanding of crossover picturebooks.Informed by literary cognitive studies,particularly the theory of brain laterality,the project selects the picturebook that may have crossover potential to start with,then investigates the actual readers’engagement with the potentially crossover picturebook,and finally feeds the insights gleaned from the empirical study back into the understanding of the selected text,and possibly crossover picturebooks generally.The project aims to learn about the crossover picturebook through exploring how it impacts readers.It was a small-scale case study,conducted in the east of England,UK.Colin Thompson’s How to Live Forever was used with two adults and two children.Observation and interviewing were used to collect data.Text-related creative activities served to support or clarify the oral response.The project reveals:the multileveled nature of crossover picturebooks that many scholars emphasize may correspond to the multileveled engagement that texts can elicit from readers,which is partially the outcome of cognitive-affective skills and mechanisms engaged differently across children and adults.This study also shows the crossover potential particular to picturebooks:picturebooks may use the visual to flesh out the embodied experience,which can springboard further thinking about abstract,complicated notions.This mode of representation corresponds to the way the human mind works,thus engaging children and adults alike.
基金the Major Project of the National Social Science Fund of China,"Collation and Research on Propositions of Ancient Chinese Aesthetics"(No.21&ZD068).
文摘The concept of"landscape"has the attribute of self-sufficiency,and a series of sub-disciplines have formed around it.Landscape literature research is an inevitable interdisciplinary direction in the landscape discipline realm,with values independent from literary landscape research.Based on landscape writing,landscape literature takes landscapes as its starting point and focuses on examining the rich coupling relationship between scenery and observation,as well as the expressive experiences in it.In practice,ancient Chinese landscape literature takes traditional literary forms such as poetry and prose as its core.Ancient Chinese landscapes can be divided into four categories:natural landscapes(celestial phenomena,landforms,hydrological conditions,physical forms,etc.),social landscapes(cities,villages,markets,folk customs,etc.),historical landscapes(sites,temples,etc.),and human landscapes(architecture,gardens,skills,etc.).The creation of landscape literature in ancient China featured the integrated development of human,social,natural,and historical landscapes,which had become a magnificent sight by the Tang and Song dynasties.Landscape literature documents are often classified into the secondary level under the general catalogue of literary forms,and various encyclopedic works and classified collections also provide frame reference and text sources for landscape literature research.By comparing the poems of Su Shi苏轼in Southbound Journey Anthology南行集written by the“Three Sus”,namely Su Shihimself,hisfather Su Xun苏洵,and his younger brother Su Zhe苏辙,with his poems in Zhuangyuan Wang's Classified Collection of Su Shi's Poems with Annotations from Different Scholars王状元集百家注分类东坡先生诗,this article reveals the important value of Su Shi from the perspective of landscape poetry.
