2019 Vol. 2, No. 4

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Mirror of Enigma and Mirror of Magic: Textual Evidence for Setting the Ground of East-West Comparative Literature
ZHANG Longxi
2019, 2(4): 601-613.
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Given the huge linguistic, cultural, historical, and social differences between the East and the West, what constitutes the ground for comparison poses a serious challenge to any comparative work. For Chinese-Western comparative studies, it is very important not just to make theoretical claims, but ...
The Formation of the Concept of Language Family from the Perspective of Comparative Language History in Europe
Daniel Petit,
2019, 2(4): 614-632.
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This article aims to provide a brief overview of the different milestones of language comparison in Europe from Antiquity to the present day. Whereas Ancient Greeks and Latins were relatively indifferent to language comparison and scholars of the Middle Ages stuck to a Biblical model treating Hebrew...
China after Japan’s “Dawn to the West”: Modern Japanese Literature through the Eyes of a Chinese Scholar
ZHENG Guohe
2019, 2(4): 633-657.
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It may be argued that every reader of foreign literature is a comparatist. In his effort to interpret a foreign writer or identify the dynamics and characteristics of a foreign tradition, he cannot but proceed through the lens of his own cultural background. The title of Donald Keene’s Dawn to the W...
Renaissance towards Classical Spirit: On the Inner Logic and Intellectual Roots of Li Changzhi’s Reevaluation of the May Fourth Movement
JIN Lang
2019, 2(4): 658-670.
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During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Li Changzhi’s reevaluation of the May Fourth Movement and his welcoming of the Chinese Renaissance were mutually exterior and interior. Although Li Changzhi denied the popular saying that the May Fourth Movement was the Renaissance of China, instead of excluding ...
Formative and Alternative Reading of Scripture: Ichij Kaneyoshi’s Interpretation of the Nihon shoki in Fifteenth-Century Japan
Tokumori Makoto
2019, 2(4): 671-683.
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The Nihon shoki, or Chronicles of Japan, was originally compiled in 720 as the official history of the origin of Japan and the imperial family. Since then, up to and including modern times, numerous recurring lectures and interpretations of the narrative have established it as an authoritative text....
Different Modes of Waiting for the Same Moses: Review of Mo Yan’s “Waiting for Moses” from a Cross-Textual Perspective
LIU Ping
2019, 2(4): 684-711.
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This paper conducts a comparative study between Mo Yan’s “Waiting for Moses”(2018), a contemporary Chinese version of the prodigal son narrative, and the Torah, or the“Five Books of Moses,”and the Book of Ruth from the Hebrew Bible / the Tanakh from a cross-textual dialogue perspective. Starting wit...
Aesthetics and Hermeneutics: Between Symbol and Allegory
José F. Zúñiga
2019, 2(4): 712-727.
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In this article I argue that in the Western tradition there have appeared three different conceptions of art that correspond to three different philosophical positions: according to the first, the Platonic-Christian, there would be a close relationship between art and truth; according to the second,...
Fat Women, Surprise of the Wild: Reflection on the Western Female Body in Jenny Saville’s Paintings
SU Dianna
2019, 2(4): 728-750.
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By using the method of iconography, visual culture, and feminist theory, this essay presents a case study of the bodies of“fat women” in Jenny Saville’s representative works, aiming to investigate the formulation and significance of Western female body image with the aesthetics of savage culture. Th...
Methods of Narrating Disaster: Poetry of the Siege of Leningrad
ZHANG Meng
2019, 2(4): 751-764.
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The poetry written during the Siege of Leningrad consists not only of the mainstream poems distributed through official media sources, but also of “underground writings” that have received attention from researchers in recent years. Comparing the official poems of Olag Bergholz with the underground ...
Topological Meaning of the Concept of “Place”
SHI Yan
2019, 2(4): 765-788.
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In this paper, we borrow the concept of“place” from spatial critique in humanistic geography and architectural phenomenology, and use it to analyze the“images of place” in literature. Meanwhile, we compare the differences between the two concepts of“place” and“scene.” Under the framework composed by...
An External Perspective on China: Interview with Professor Eric Reinders
Eric Reinders, CHEN Tingting
2019, 2(4): 791-802.
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Professor Eric Reinders elaborates on his view of classical literature and literary translation by combining theological investigation and practical research based on his philosophical background and experience of translation and religious study. Professor Reinders believes literary theory should be...
LI Qiang
2019, 2(4): 805-807.
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CHEN Fangdai
2019, 2(4): 808-810.
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WANG Bin
2019, 2(4): 811-814.
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