Li Zehou and <i>The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism</i>

ZHANG Xuchun

doi:10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020323

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ZHANG Xuchun. Li Zehou and The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2020, 3(2): 261-275. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020323

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ZHANG Xuchun. Li Zehou and The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2020, 3(2): 261-275. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020323

ZHANG Xuchun. Li Zehou and The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2020, 3(2): 261-275. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020323

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ZHANG Xuchun. Li Zehou and The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2020, 3(2): 261-275. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020323

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Li Zehou and The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism

doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020323

ZHANG Xuchun

Sichuan International Studies University

Received Date: 2019-03-05
Rev Recd Date: 2020-04-10
Publish Date: 2021-03-09

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Parts of Li Zehou's Four Essays on Aesthetics have been included into the second edition of The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. This is symbolic for contemporary Chinese literary theory. This paper purports to analyze several seminal ideas in Li's post-Marxist aesthetics: 1) Li's theory of “primitive sedimentation” which is based upon “the naturalism of man and the humanism of nature” mentioned in passing in Marx's 1844 Manuscripts and supported by China's archeological discoveries as well as ancient Chinese arts; 2) a materialist re-interpretation of Kantian “purposiveness,” “subjective universal communicability,” and “sensus communis”?; 3) a reconstruction of the classical Chinese poetic idea of wen qi and gu li (literary force and bone-strength). Inspired by Li, this paper also argues that certain classical Chinese literary theories may possibly be applied to reading classical, if not modernist-postmodernist Western poetry.

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