The Essence of Kim Hyun"s Literature and Literary Theory by the Literarist : Kim Hyun"s Essays in Criticism 『The Status of Korean Literature』(1977)

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 301-336
Author(s):  
Kangmin Choi
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Korean Literature ◽  
The Status

scholarly journals Feminist Ideology in Lakshmi Novels

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
H Shobana ◽  
M Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Literary Study ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Political Position ◽  
Feminist Ideology ◽  
Political Concept ◽  
Feminist Literary Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status

Feminism is a political concept centered on the welfare of women. A political position demanding equality, liberation and justice for women. This political concept cannot be used as a theory for literary study unless it is transformed into a literary study approach. Feminist literary theory is art. In the literature the woman is portrayed as very vulnerable, consumerist, emaciated and exposed to them as opposed to being identified as a tool to fulfill her sexual needs. The aim of feminist literary theory can be to find in social literature the social factors that contribute to the status of today’s woman of inequality and freedom.

Georgic and Pastoral

2021 ◽  
pp. 84-91
Author(s):  
Alastair Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Coding Systems ◽  
Precise Knowledge ◽  
The Status ◽  
Modern Form

This chapter addresses the laws of genre in the seventeenth century. The idea of laws of genre, at least in their modern form, was imported into literary theory from linguistics. At a time when literary conventions were thought of as supplementary language rules, genres understandably came to be regarded as coding systems. The genres need to be restored to their settings in history and literary tradition, and to see them once more as diachronic existences. Among the strongest claims for the status of law is surely the arrangement of genres in pairs: epigram and lyric; pastoral and georgic; novel and romance. The chapter then looks at the connection between seventeenth-century pastoral and georgic. Pastoral is spoken dramatically by shepherds, and in consequence must use simple diction that avoids any hint of precise knowledge: a language of feeling incapable of particularization or detailed description. Georgic, on the contrary, is spoken in the poet’s own voice, and far from avoiding knowledgeability seeks to inculcate it through didacticism, albeit didacticism concealed by implicitness and sweetened by delightful details.

Transnationality and Coloniality in the Concept of Modern Korean Literature

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-99
Author(s):  
Heekyoung Cho
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
Colonial Korea ◽  
Korean Literature ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Theory Of Literature

Abstract This article discusses the discourse that appears in early theorizations of Korean literature through an examination of Yi Kwang-su’s theory of literature and related Russian and Japanese theories in colonial Korea. During the process of this formation, Korean intellectuals used the term “munhak” as a translation for “literature,” before there were any substantial works of “modern” literature in Korean. Yi’s theory of modern literature was translational and transnational from its inception, symptomatically revealing its coloniality, which became more complicated during the later colonial period. Yi frequently stressed Tolstoy’s influence on him while downplaying the impact of Japanese theorists whose ideas he used at least as much. Yi’s emphasis on Russian texts and on the materiality of Korean vernacular script, I argue, may be an indication of a colonial incongruity and predicament in which he struggled to conceal the coloniality of his own literary theory and, by extension, the coloniality of modern Korean literature. I hope that this paper will provide a better understanding of how modern theories of literature were entrenched in the complications of colonization from their foundation.

Literary Theory in North America

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Colm Hogan
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
African American Literature ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
University Funding ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Function

Like writers elsewhere, literary theorists in North America have drawn on philosophical, psychological, political, and other writings to understand the nature and function of literature. Indeed, American literary theory is in some ways best thought of as reworking—selecting, hierarchizing, interpreting, and above all synthesizing—a particular body of such precursor texts in order to produce ideas and practices that have value for literary study in an American context. To understand the precise nature of this re-fashioning of theory, we need to begin with an understanding of just what literary theory is, what topics it addresses, what varieties it comprises. Though often seen as a unitary field, literary theory may be normative or descriptive and explanatory; it may address individual works or groups of works. In short, it has many varieties. Next, it is important to consider the context in which theory and criticism are produced. Specifically, we need to understand the professional and institutional structures in which theory is articulated and applied, in particular the ways it enters into teaching and publication practices. There are also ideological or cultural influences on the nature and development of literary theory in America, including issues of national self-concept. These bear especially on the ways in which theorists address political concerns or take up political rhetoric. Of course, to understand American literary theories, one must consider not only the institutional, professional, and cultural backgrounds, but the theories themselves. These theories may be broadly organized into global and local or topical theories, theories that provide a general basis for theoretical reflection and theories that focus on specific topics, such as LGBT literature or African American literature. American literary theory has tended to be of the latter sort. In connection with this, American theory has tended to draw on a few global theories and a few “master theorists,” as we might call them. The most common way of treating these global theories and theorists in topical theories is to intertwine them syncretistically, producing mixed or eclectic theories. Finally, one might distinguish canonical and non-canonical theories, which is to say, theories that are widely recognized and taught as theories and theories that are advocated by a more limited group of partisans. This division is often consequential for the development of intellectual trends as the challenges and opportunities posed by non-canonical theories, theories that offer alternatives to the status quo, may affect the historical trajectory of literary theory, changing its course. That redirection of theory may be particularly likely in the current social context, where the humanities are threatened both politically and institutionally (e.g., in university funding).

scholarly journals Voice from the ‘Other’: A Feminist Reading of Doris Lessing’s The Summer Before the Dark

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 142-149
Author(s):  
Murugesan M ◽  
Dr. A. K. Muthusamy
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
The Status ◽  
Taking Care

The concept ‘the Other’is a literary theory, which defines one’s identity among others. It explains the state of a person who is neglected or subordinated and displays how one feels as an alien by gender, caste, religion, culture, appearance, geography, ideology and so on. Doris Lessing’s novels are mostly concerned with human race and criticize the patriarchal society, where female does not get the recognition she is due. Instead of taking care of women, appreciating their talents and providing them freedom of expression and movement, the society makes them feel ‘the Other’. Lessing has crafted the novel, The Summer Before the Dark as to expose the fate of women, who are always submissive and unassertive to their husbands and children, thereby becoming insignificant to the society. This paper examines the status of Kate Brown in her family and in the society, where she is neglected and deprecated by her ungrateful husband and children by the frame of ‘The Other’/ ‘Otherness’.

Naming the Reality of Chinese Criticism

1979 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 529-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. H. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Philosophy Of Life ◽  
Literary Art ◽  
The Status ◽  
Ethical Institutions ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
And Function ◽  
Modern Sense ◽  
The Way

The philosophical reflections on literary art produced in traditional China cannot be accurately described as literary criticism or literary theory. A scholar or writer set forth his ideas about the nature of literature in general, the value and function of imaginative writing in different genres, or the merits and flaws of specific works, but did not really criticize literature in the sense we do today, to evaluate it for those not trained to judge it. He did not claim such authority, and seldom supported his opinions with solid proofs or reasoned arguments, as literary critics are now expected to do. Having read through Ts'ao Chih's poetry, for example, Chung Hung could judge that it originated in the Kuo-feng, a class of Shih Ching poetry, and exclaim: “Alas, the status of Ts'ao Chih in literature is comparable to that of the Duke of Chou and Confucius in ethics!” but he could not expect his audience to agree with him automatically. He expressed his knowledge and taste, in other words, and the way of expressing them was so uniquely his own, so difficult for others to share, that it was what we may call a private revelation of his ideas. Chung Hung was, therefore, not offering any critical or theoretical defense of Ts'ao Chih's poetry, which does not need any promotion among the learned and does not mean anything to the uncultured. He expressed his personal enthusiasm for Ts'ao Chih's poetry, and so defined his taste and knowledge. He had added another dimension to his own personality, the dimension reflected in Ts'ao Chih's great poetry. He had, in other words, moved a step further toward the definition of his philosophy of life, which he could express in his comments and judgments on nature, on political and ethical institutions, and on literature as artistic rendition of life. What Chung Hung formulated was a private philosophy of literature; it was not literary criticism or theory in the modern sense.

scholarly journals A Study on the Status Of Korean Literature House: Larchiveum Perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 139-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Gyun Oh ◽  
Seulki Do ◽  
이명호
Keyword(s):  
Korean Literature ◽  
The Status

A Study on the Present Meaning of The Status of Korean Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-46
Author(s):  
Gye-Sook Kang
Keyword(s):  
Korean Literature ◽  
The Status

Utterance unmoored: The changing interpretation of the act of writing in the European Middle Ages

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Kittay
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Biblical Exegesis ◽  
Ethnography Of Communication ◽  
Medieval Studies ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
The Status ◽  
Teaching Of Writing ◽  
Temporal Indices

ABSTRACTWork in the ethnography of communication has barely begun to look at writing, despite the fact that the status of writing bas recently preoccupied much of literary theory. The search to locate how writing functions among a culture's communicative practices can involve identifying domains that are unique to it, for example, where some kinds of writing attain a standing such that they are not meant to be understood as the transcription of a testimony or other oral act. Such a possibility is part of our culture but not part of many others, and is, among other things, a significant cognitive development. This article takes a diachronic perspective, back to a moment in our own past when a certain class of writings began to demand a kind of understanding different from that demanded by writing in that culture up to that time. I look at the Middle Ages to examine, inter alia, the written document putting into question prevailing temporal indices; the move of the act of writing away from an identification with other constatable acts and toward a more oblique and less committed relation to those acts; biblical exegesis as elaborating a new stance of writing through its practice of written gloss; the teaching of writing skills and the professionalization of the writer; and the significance of a renewed use of the cursive hand. The changing status of writing both encouraged and is implicated in the appearance and legitimizing of a set of utterances (and the acts behind them) seen as beneficially unmoored rather than moored, in a space and time of their own. (Ethnography of communication, grammatology, medieval studies, writing)

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