Author：Zhe Hu

Abstract: The Waterworks is a well-known American postmodern historical writer and E. L. Doctorow’s ninth novel. Set in New York shortly after the Civil War, it tells the story of the immoral Dr. Sartorius who uses the poor street children’s organs to practice body experiment in order to prolong the lives of wealthy white men in New York. This article borrows Fredric Jameson’s Neo-Marxist theory to analyze and interpret the novel and intends to expose several social problems that existed in American society in the late 19th century and discuss how Doctorow resorts to history to criticize American society.

Column：Literature Studies   048-056   Details

Author： Lei Zhang, Yu Peng

Abstract: The English elegy originated from ancient Greek songs of lament, assuming over its long history of developmentan extraordinary range of diversities, which has resulted in academic bewilderment over the definition and function of elegy. Lamentation has always been the key emotional basis of the elegy. By ...

Column：Literature Studies   057-064   Details

Author：Shiqin Chen

Abstract: Locating William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice in the context of the long-standing conflict between Jews and Christians during the Renaissance, this paper attempts to understand the dramatic conflict between Shylock the Jew and Antonio the Christian as well as the author’s intention o...

Column：Literature Studies   065-071   Details

Author：Siyu Tao

Abstract: In the history of Japanese literature, Yukio Mishima has been positioned as a pure literary writer, but in fact, Mishima had also created a large number of popular novels. According to statistics, the popular novels of Mishima occupy almost half of the total number of his fictions. Mishima’s creation of popular novels was not only related to the decline of pure literature and the population of popular literature at that time, but also influenced by industry peers and the economic situation of Mishima himself. In the creation of popular literary novels, Mishima gave up his unique and weird aesthetic thoughts and free writing styles. He turned instead to take real society as the background for his fiction by combining current situation and hot topics...

Column：Literature Studies   072-080   Details

Author：Minhui Xu, Junhui Guan

Abstract: The reconstruction of the illusio of poetic stories is one of the goals pursued by literary translation. This, however, has not obtained sufficient attention in the field of translation studies. Taking as a case the English translation of Shen Congwen’s poetic story “Quiet” made by Wai-lim Yip and C. T. Hsia, this paper attempts to investigate the reconstruction of the literary illusio in the translation and to explore the role of translators’ habitus in the reconstruction process. It points out that both Wai-lim Yip and C. T. Hsia are renowned literary scholars and authors, whose scholar-cum-author habitus matches with the habitus of the author Shen Congwen and have enabled them to accurately identify the literary illusio of “Quiet” and then to appropriately transfer it to the target text, which makes the translation reach a homologous literary illusio and achieve similar literary effect.

Column：Translation Studies   081-090   Details

Author：Liqun Hao, Wentie Chen

Abstract: As a term in narratology, “unnatural” is widely studied. The current translation of “unnatural” by the Chinese scholars is非自然, but the author of this paper holds that this translation is not proper. Then in what aspect is the translation problematic and what should be the more appropriate one? T...

Column：Translation Studies   091-102   Details

Author：Bing Wan

Abstract: Starting from music communication theory, this essay explores the translation of new folk songs of She Nationality into English. It concludes that the translation of new folk songs pertains to lyrics; while the communication of new folk songs pertains to music. In this sense, the translation of new folk songs of She Nationality is music communication.

Column：Translation Studies   103-114   Details

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

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

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