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- Study on the Translation of Legends of the Condor Heroes I: A Hero Born in the English World
Author：Chengcheng Ye, Gaosheng Deng
Abstract: The publication of Legends of the Condor Heroes I: A Hero Born has attracted people’s attention to Wuxia fiction once again, which in turn has triggered discussions in academic circles on the English translation of Louis Cha’s novels and their specific cultural backgrounds. By comparin...
Column：Translation Studies 115-124 Details
- Visualization Analysis of the Translation of Journey to the West (1980-2018): Based on CiteSpace
Author：Daoying Liu, Mingsheng Zhu
Abstract: This paper explores developments in the translation of Journey to the West on the basis of 311 scholarly papers from 1980 to 2018 adopted from Chinese Knowledge Network Database (CNKI). The purpose of this paper is to deal with the current potential problems, development, and highli...
Column：Translation Studies 125-135 Details
- Specialization of Legitimation Code Theory and Its Application in Research Articles Analysis
Author：Geqi Wu
Abstract: Specialization, which can be interpreted from epistemic relation and social relation, is one of the important dimensions in Legitimation Code Theory. This article begins with an introduction to the concept of specialization, and then studies its application to the analysis of research ar...
Column：Liguistic Studies 136-146 Details
- Revisiting and Rethinking 25 Years of Research on Textual Coherence in China
Author：Hongkun Li, Jiehong Bai
Abstract: This study makes a statistical analysis of the important journal publications on textual coherence over the last twenty five years in China, examing their theoretical stance, research focus, research methodology and findings. Results of the study have shown that: 1) Textual coherence studies in China de...
Column：Liguistic Studies 147-156 Details
- On Liu Mingjiu’s French Literature Criticism
Author：Ning Wang
Abstract: As an eminent scholar and critic of China’s foreign literature studies in the contemporary era, Liu Mingjiu has a wide reputation and influence in China’s literary, critical, and academic circles. He has in a long academic and critical career worked very hard and achieved a great deal in the study of French literary history as well...
Column：Literature Studies 001-011 Details
- Transcending Tradition: A Political Reading of Ellen Glasgow’s The Battle-Ground
Author：Yan Zeng
Abstract: Ellen Glasgow's The Battle-Ground came out in the early 20th century, when American southern society experienced significant post-Reconstruction social transition and plantation romance led the literary trend among postbellum southern writers. In response to the features and embedded ideologies of...
Column：Literature Studies 012-021 Details
- The "Double" Adventure in Susan Sontag's Death Kit
Author：Siyuan Zhou
Abstract: Death Kit, Susan Sontag’s novel, is often criticized as quite abstruse and unfathomable. Inspections of the implicit artistic element, “Double”, are invited to denote the uncanny plots, to figure out the blended characters, and to clarify the historical context. By doing so, the connotations of trauma, which are knitted into characters' psychology, writer’s self-confrontation, and reflections on American history, can be highlighted.
Column：Literature Studies 022-030 Details
- Nigger, the Speaker: An Interpretation of the Re-creation of the Historical Figure in The Confessions of Nat Turner
Author： Chuanfang Zeng
Abstract: Slavery in the United States reduced slaves to ciphers or nonbeings, who were simply regarded as part of the décor of white life uncredited with human thought or sensibilities, or with the possession of a private self. William Styron, believing it inhumane to do so...
Column：Literature Studies 031-039 Details
- "Native Literary Aesthetics Must Be Politicized": The Multi-dimensional Image of Ama in Power and Linda Hogan’s Literary Creation
Author：Juan Long, Wenting Liang
Abstract: As a famous contemporary Native American writer, Linda Hogan has shown her biggest concern over the survival problem of Native Americans, focusing on Native Americans’ own stories and cultures. Power is naturally no exception. In this novel, the image of Ama has deepened our understanding of the survival predicament of Native Americans, particularly Native American women marginalized by both domestic colonial power and the patriarchal system. In Power, Hogan portrays Ama as “The Woman Who Watches over the World” though she is only a subaltern woman and is a vague, or maybe even a triple-whammy and thereby cannot speak in a court law. Undoubtedly, through the characterization of Ama, a Native American woman of multi-dimensional scope, Hogan calls for Native Americans to walk out of the survival predicament and to find the way to self-salvation. In this sense, Ama is the spokeswoman of Hogan, embodying Hogan’s view of literary creation.
Column：Literature Studies 040-049 Details
- Ntozake Shange’s Dramatic Aesthetics: A Case Study of Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
Author：Yue Long, Yanhong Zheng
Abstract: In her representative play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf, African American playwright Ntozake Shange not only expresses her understanding of traditional African American culture through the form of choreopoem, which is deeply rooted in the African tradition, but also expounds her dramatic aesthetics in terms of black feminism by dramatizing seven black girls’ pathetic experiences. By juxtaposing African American cultural awareness and black feminism in the play, Shange articulates her dramatic aesthetics and her deep concerns over African American women’s dilemma in a white dominant society. According to Shange, African American women, who have long been forgotten and despised, should be united and make their voices heard in a unique way in order to reconstruct their ethnic and gender identities.
Column：Literature Studies 050-058 Details