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- A Study of Xinjiang Higher Education Language Planning from the Perspective of National Security
Author：Chunyan Jia
Abstract: The security dimension of language planning is one of the major topics in the contemporary study of language planning and language policy. In order to fulfill the effects and values for language planning, it should be strengthened the study on language planning in the Xinjiang. The paper draws on two dimensions that are the current foreign languages capacities of Xinjiang higher education and an extensive survey of foreign languages demand of Xinjiang.
Column：Linguistic Studies 137-145 Details
- The First Oral English Textbook Compiled by a Chinese in Modern Chinese History: A Study on The English and Chinese Students Assistant, or Colloquial Phrases, Letters & c, in English and Chinese
Author：Haoyu Bian
Abstract: In 1826, The English and Chinese Students Assistant, or Colloquial Phrases, Letters & c, in English and Chinese was published in Malacca. The author was a student from the Anglo-Chinese College at Malacca, whose name was SHAOU TĬH. As far as the current data is concerned, the book was the first English textbook compiled by a Chinese in modern Chinese history. The professionalism, practicability and pertinency reflected in the textbook, not only exerted positive influence on English learning and teaching in the Anglo-Chinese College at Malacca at that time, but also is of great historical significance to present compilation of English textbooks.
Column：Linguistic Studies 146-154 Details
- "British Literature" or "Irish Literature"
Author：Bo Cao
Abstract: After examining the definitions of “British literature” and “Irish literature,” this paper claims that the differences between the definitions by British intellectuals and those by Irish critics result from their political or cultural? grounds, and that behind their controversy were struggles of discourse power and combat betwee...
Column：Irish Literature Studies 001-009 Details
- Dialogues with Classics: A Glimpse at Contemporary Irish Literature
Author：Li Chen
Abstract: With its ongoing richness, contemporary Irish literature deserves more critical attention. This article focuses on the trend of modern adaptations by Irish writers of classic texts, using it to showcase the basic features and prosperity of contemporary Irish literature, and exploring possible reasons for the exi...
Column：Irish Literature Studies 010-017 Details
- Witnessing History: Trauma Narratives in The Secret Scripture
Author：Luchen Wang
Abstract: Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture is based on the traumatic memory of Rosanne McNulty, a centenarian woman who has been incarcerated in a lunatic asylum for most of her lifetime, delivering the vicissitudes of the century-long history of Ireland with a lyric and elegiac tone. The exclusion of Protestants, discri...
Column：Irish Literature Studies 018-029 Details
- Bernard Shaw's Irish Complex: An Analysis of John Bull's Other Island
Author：Chengjian Li, Hongcan Deng
Abstract: Bernard Shaw is widely recognized as an English playwright. His“problem plays” explored the unpleasant social realities of England. This has led critics to overlook Shaw’s Irish identity and his Irish complex. By analyzing the Irish characters portrayed in John Bull’s Other Island, and the other two play...
Column：Irish Literature Studies 030-038 Details
- From Caliban and Ariel to Friday: The Evolution of the Identity of the Colonized in English Literature from the Late Renaissance to the Early Eighteenth Century
Author：Lu Lu
Abstract: In Shakespeare's The Tempest, written in the late Renaissance, the barbarous and rude Caliban and the intelligent but obedient Ariel form a set of oppositional slave images. By treating them as archetypes of the colonized, the present paper aims to analyze “the royal slave” Oroonoko in Aphra Behn’s Restoration work and Friday in Defoe’s early eighteenth-century novel. The paper finds that Oroonoko paradoxically unifies the characteristics of Caliban and Ariel, embodying the transitional and ambiguous nature of the colonial issues in the Restoration period, while in Defoe’s work, Friday, as a savage Caliban, is portrayed or constructed as the submissive Ariel...
Column：Literature Studies 039-047 Details
- History as a Mirror: A Reflection of Social Corruption Caused by American Dream in E. L. Doctorow’s The Waterworks
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
- A General Survey of the Aesthetic and Ritual Functions of the English Elegy
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
- Religious Conflict and Social Justice in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
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