Aesthetic Experience and Literary Hermeneutics - Frontiers of the Century

Author: (German) Hans Robert Jauss
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: The Century Humanities Series encompasses five sub-series: "The Century Library," "The Century Frontier," "Miniature Classics," "University Classics," and "Open Humanities." Each sub-series is distinct yet complementary. "Clarifying the context of Western thought and renewing the academic tradition of China" serves as the editorial principle of "The Century Library." The library is divided into two major book series: the Chinese Studies series and the Western Studies series. The Chinese Studies series, starting from the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, comprehensively organizes academic works since modern China, aiming to provide a progressive framework for contemporary reflection on China's social and spiritual condition. The Western Studies series aims to systematically translate and introduce classic texts from ancient Greece and Rome to the present, thereby showcasing the emergence and evolution of Western thought traditions and laying a solid textual foundation for addressing core issues in modern China. In response, "The Century Frontier" focuses on significant academic and intellectual topics and recent advancements since World War II, showcasing recent achievements in various disciplines and the evolving dimensions of contemporary cultural trends. "Miniature Classics" collects classic works by renowned masters in distinctive styles, offering both depth and interest in a more concise form. In this book, Hans Robert Jauss employs rigorous hermeneutic principles and his extensive knowledge to interpret aesthetic experience, advancing the study of literary theory into a reflection on art, aesthetics, and even culture as a whole. He explores the development of aesthetic experience theory, creatively distinguishing it into three categories: creation, reception, and catharsis (Chapter); he redefines and affirms aesthetic identification (Chapter 2); his analysis of the comic factor (Chapter 3) undoubtedly initiates a revolution in theoretical circles. Chapter 4 provides an example of stylistic history research guided by literary reception theory. The final chapter extends literary reception theory to the study of the social communicative functions of literature at various levels.