The Comparison between"Non-Being"and"Being"in the"Literary Self-Awareness"of China and the West:A Case Study of Aestheticism and the Literature of the Wei,the Jin and the Six Dynasties
Both China and the West have experienced a relatively concentrated stage of liter-ary self-awareness,namely the literature of the Wei,the Jin,and the Six Dynasties in China and the aestheticism in the West.The phenomenon of literary self-awareness is accompanied by changes in aesthetic perception,involving a new understanding of the aesthetic subject and object and their relationship.With the rise of individual value,both Chinese and Western literary self-awareness has exhibited a trend of shifting the aesthetic object from"the natural"to"the artificial."This shift complemented the changes in aesthetic perception,imbuing the aesthetic process with a strong sense of temporality."Miaowu(epiphany)"in Chinese liter-ature and the"moment"in Western literature became shared temporal dimensions of literary self-awareness in both traditions.Beneath these"coincidences,"however,lies a fundamental contrast in aesthetics between China and the West."Miaowu"reflects the"non-being(wu)"of the aesthetic subject,while aestheticism projects the"being(you)"of the subject in the"mo-ment."The aesthetic perception of literary self-awareness between China and the West implies a fundamental divergence in aesthetic orientation,where Chinese literary self-awareness em-phasizes"non-self,"whereas Western literary self-awareness foregrounds"self."
literary self-awarenessaesthetic perceptionthe Wei,the Jin,and the Six Dynas-tiesaestheticism
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