Full Journal Title: Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art (TSLA)
Frequency: Bimonthly
Organization: China Association for Theory of Literature and Art
East China Normal University
ISSN: 0257-0254 // CN31-1152/I
Launched in June, 1980, TSLA is the journal of the state-certified first-tier China Literary Theory Association (founded in May, 1979), one of the earliest and most prominent national academic associations of the post-reform and open-up era. It is China’s first and the leading journal of studies of literary and art theory. Rooted in China’s fundamental realities and endowed with a global reach, it has contributed enormously to Chinese scholarship.
Current Issue: Volume 44, Number 2 (2024)
A Study of Socialist Diseourse System with Chinese Characteristics: Chinese and Western Art in Cross-cultural Perspective
Why Landscape Can Be Roamed? Exploring the Physical Road and Its Transcendence in Landscape Painting
Yadan Shen
Why Pope Admired the Chinese Gardens: On Lovejoy's “Beauty of Irregularity” and Its Paradox
Yuming Hu
Ancient Literary Theory and Theoretical Study of Ancient Literature
The Concept of Chinese Classical Xiaoshuo and Its Japanese Counterpart and Modern Transformation
Shu Jiang
Issue in Focus: Studies of French Literary Theories
Fictional Narrative as an “Ethical Laboratory”: A Study of Paul Ricoeur's Narrative Ethics
Wenting Xiao
Issue in Focus: Transboundary Resources of Late Qing and Republican Literary Discourse
Legacy of Logic and Lexicon-Based Composition: Traditional Characteristics of Zhang Shizhao's Jiayin Literary Style
Fangzhou Chang
Modern and Contemporary Literary Theories
Exploring the “Original Essence of Emotions”: A Path to the Knowledge Generation in Modern Chinese Literature
Fengfeng Huang
The Humanization of Nature: The Renaissance and “Nature” in Early Modern Chinese Literature
Mingxing Wei
