2020 Vol. 3, No. 2

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Why Modern Chinese Poetry? Challenges and Opportunities
Michelle Yeh
2020, 3(2): 211-222. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020321
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This essay, based on the keynote address at the biennial conference of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature in August 2019, is divided into three parts. Part One is an overview of the development of modern Chinese poetry as an academic field in the English-speaking world, mainly Nor...
A Metaphor of Time and Space in the “Bird” Images of Han Dynasty Stone and the “Gansu Flying Horse”: Taking the Visual Interpretation of “Inverted Expression of Images” as Logical Starting Point from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
MA Kaizhen
2020, 3(2): 223-260. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020322
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This paper abstracts a classic visual practice of “inverted expression of images” from Han Dynasty stone art, which belongs to the giant gene pool of human visual culture, to implement induction and reorganization. This specific visual practice is situated in a cross-cultural perspective of world ar...
Li Zehou and The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
ZHANG Xuchun
2020, 3(2): 261-275. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020323
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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...
Between German Frühromantik and Goethe: On Walter Benjamin's Literary Thoughts in Zwei Gedichte der Hölderlin
YAO Yunfan
2020, 3(2): 276-288. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020324
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For many major thinkers of the twentieth century, exegeses on Friedrich Hölderlin's poems were once an essential medium for manifesting their thoughts, of which Martin Heidegger's were the most influential. In contrast to Heidegger's Erläuterungen zu Höelderlins Dichtung, Walter Benjamin's interpret...
From Monroe to Mishima: Gender and Cultural Identity in Yasumasa Morimura's Performance and Photography
HUANG Bihe
2020, 3(2): 289-300. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020325
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Japanese contemporary artist Yasumasa Morimura is renowned for his parodies of female characters in Western paintings and film stars in Western mainstream movies through performance and photography. In this essay, through an analysis of Morimura's Marilyn Series (1996) and “Seasons of Passion” (2006...
The Other Edge of Literature: The Reinterpretation of Baudelaire's “Modernity-Genesis Field” in Les Fleurs du mal
HE Guangshun
2020, 3(2): 301-317. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020326
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The “modernity” revealed in Baudelaire's work Les Fleurs du mal can not only be examined singly within the internal development of Western civilization, but can also be seen within the spirit of the genesis field that Chinese literature stressed, in order to help reveal its unique quality as a model...
World Literature and Modern Chinese Fiction
LIN Xiaoxia
2020, 3(2): 318-334. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020327
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Goethe's “invention” of Weltliteratur in the late 1820s helped shape a post-Napoleonic world. The revival of world literature has now become another cutting-edge theoretical topic on which both eminent Western and Eastern scholars are focusing today. Although scholars often debate globalization's fa...
On the Relatedness of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure to Chinese Literature and Culture
FEI Xiaoping
2020, 3(2): 335-354. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020328
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Thomas Hardy's last novel Jude the Obscure is one of his most mature works, and together with Tess of the d'Urbervilles and The Return of the Native, is considered as an “intellectual novel.” In terms of theme, plot and culture, the novel bears some similarities to Chinese literature and film. Howev...
Review and Reflection: Compilation of The History of Literary Exchanges between China and Foreign Countries (17 Volumes)
QIAN Linsen
2020, 3(2): 355-366. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.2020329
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The seventeen-volume book series The History of Literary Exchanges between China and Foreign Countries published by Shandong Education Press, which is based on numerous documentary sources as well as relevant theoretical resources, contains studies on Chinese narrative by foreign writers, the recept...
Medical Humanities, COVID-19, and Global Healing: An Interview with Prof. Karen L. Thornber
Karen L. Thornber, QU Yang
2020, 3(2): 367-375. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20203210
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As a leading scholar in the fields of comparative and world literature and environmental humanities, Professor Karen L. Thornber has recently published a major scholarly monograph, Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care (Brill, 2020), which is a monumental work on medical and health humanities a...
WANG Jiajun. Being, Exoticism, and the Other: Emmanuel Levinas and Contemporary French Literary Theory
BI Xiao
2020, 3(2): 379-383. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20203211
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Nicolai Volland. Socialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945-1965
XU Hangping
2020, 3(2): 384-387. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20203212
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FANG Weigui. The Historical Weight of Conceptions
JIN Wen
2020, 3(2): 388-391. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20203213
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Zhang, Yu. Interfamily Tanci Writing in Nineteenth-Century China: Bonds and Boundaries
LIU Wenjia
2020, 3(2): 392-396. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20203214
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