Chung Wai Literary Monthly and the Studies of Chinese/Taiwan Literature: An Investigation from the Perspective of “Academic Literary Journals”
Resource
中外文學, 41(4), 143-176
Journal
中外文學
Journal Volume
41
Journal Issue
4
Pages
143-176
Date Issued
2012-12
Date
2012-12
Author(s)
Mei, C.L.
Abstract
“Academic literary journals” refer to journals published by academics
at high-level educational institutions. As scholars and students are the main
editors and writers for them, these journals represent not only the latest results
of academic research but also instructional materials that are now available to
the reading public. The present study adopts this perspective for a preliminary
investigation of the decades-long relationship between Chung Wai Literary
Monthly and the Chinese/Taiwan literary research. This study focuses on the
following questions: how did Chung-Wai Literary Monthly use its academic
position to intervene in the establishment of such contemporary discipline
as comparative literature and to influence college/university-level education
accordingly? And how did Chung Wai Literary Monthly introduce newly
emerging theories and thus facilitate interactions between Western literary
studies and those of (ancient) China and (modern/contemporary) Taiwan
to the effect of reinventing the former and establishing the latter as a new
academic discipline.
Subjects
《中外文學》，學院派文學雜誌，中國文學，台灣文學
Chung Wai Literary Monthly, academic literary journals, Chinese literature,
Taiwan literature
Taiwan literature
Type
journal article