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- On the Representation of Game Spirit in Children’s Literature Translation
Author：Derong Xu, Fangfang He
Abstract: Game spirit is the core value of children’s literature, which can be shown through many stylistic features of lexical or grammatical category, figures of speech, and context and cohesion in the texts. The representation of game spirit is an important standard for children’s literature translation. This ...
Column：Translation Studies 115-127 Details
- Construction and Rule: The Syntactic Commonality of English and Chinese Resultatives
Author：Yuzhi Shi
Abstract: English resultative consfruction has been the focus of the research on the interaction between syntax and semantics, and it serves to be a central issue in exploring grammar. In the generative tradition, all the grammatical constructions are called ‘surface structure’ which is derived from a s...
Column：Linguistic Studies 128-138 Details
- Scientometric Analysis of China's Relative Clause Studies
Author：Xiaoyang Shen, Yunhua Deng
Abstract: This paper takes the core literature themed on “relative clause” in CNKI (1990-2017) as the object of bibliometric analysis. By employing the scientific measurement software known as CiteSpace, it conducts a series of visualized analysis on the selected literature, including “annual dispatch quantity analysis”, “the...
Column：Linguistic Studies 139-149 Details
- World Vision, "Cross-Consciousness": Commentary on The Study of Dickens' Academic History in the United Kingdom, the United States, and China Series
Author：Ziyu Zhou
Abstract: The Study of Dickens' Academic History in the United Kingdom, the United States, and China Series by Zhao Yanqiu, Liu Bai, and Cai Xi are the first books in the study of Dickens’ academic history. Their value and significance are not only reflected in the field of English literature, but also reflected in the field of cross-cultural comparative literature research. This is a set of academic history studies which is characterized by being interdisciplinary and cross-cultural. It has a worldwide research perspective, and its interdisciplinary criticism and cross-cultural research stances run through the entire series.
Column：Book Reviews 150-153 Details
- The Critique of Benthamite Utilitarianism and Inner Conflicts in Charles Dickens's Hard Times
Author：Guoxin Zhao
Abstract: Among the Victorian novelists, Charles Dickens is undoubtedly the fiercest opponent to the dominant ideology of the early Victorian Age: Benthamite Utilitarianism. In Hard Times, he intends to makes an obvious and full-length critique of its typical principle of the greatest happiness ...
Column：Literature Studies 001-010 Details
- Subject, Self and Identity: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Alice Munro's "The Albanian Virgin"
Author：Chuan Huang, Lan Wang
Abstract: In Alice Munro's short story “The Albanian Virgin”, the female protagonists Claire and Charlotte/Lottar took different approaches to cope with their identity crises. From the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis, this essay conducts an analysis of the heroines’ recognition and reconstruction of their subjectivity, pointing out that Claire found her ideal ego in imaginative and symbolic identification, while Charlotte/Lottar failed to integrate herself into different societies and different molding effects on the subject in the Symbolic, where language, culture, and law play dominant roles....
Column：Literature Studies 011-018 Details
- Who is Sam Fisher?: On the Theme of Poetry in A Free Life
Author：Kai Wang
Abstract: Sam Fisher is a very important character in Ha Jin’s novel A Free Life. In this novel, Ha Jin takes Allen Ginsberg as the prototype for the character, on the one hand, to emphasize his influence upon Wu Nan in his pursuit of poetry writing, and on the other hand, to increase the credibility of the protagonist and the sto...
Column：Literature Studies 019-027 Details
- The Stick of the Diviner: The Writing of Seamus Heaney's Place-Name Poems
Author：Yan Liu, Yuxuan Wu
Abstract: Place-names are a kind of language sources great valued by the people of Ireland. Following the literary traditions of Irish place-names poems (also called “dinnseanchas” in Irish), Seamus Heaney writes about the Irish community’s memories and the history of concealed conflict between England and Irel...
Column：Literature Studies 029-040 Details
- Homosociality: A Keyword of Sedgwick's Sexuality Criticism
Author：Zhen Xu
Abstract: Homosocial relates to social relationships between persons of the same sex in the context of sociology. Male bonding was considered to be a necessity of human evolution, which is significant to the formation of social cooperation. Some anthropologists believed that women were materialized and became transactions in the ...
Column：Literature Studies 041-050 Details
- The Defense of Culture in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
Author：Zhaoqian Li
Abstract: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four represents a current type of attitude: a “myth” of the defense of culture，related primarily to contemporary society. The cultural defense myth in Nineteen Eighty-Four contains two layers of meaning. First, the novel uncovers the nature of Totalitarian culture in Oceania: the Oceania...
Column：Culture Studies 051-059 Details