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- University Teachers' Identity under the Background of Educational Evaluation Reform: A Case of English-Major Teachers
Author：Hongqiang Zhu, Minyan Wu
Abstract: English major of higher education in China has currently witnessed a shift from "extensional" to "intensional" development model. In this context, the paper investigates the recognition of English-major teachers' identity in domestic colleges and universities. Findings show that, first, in the context of the transformation of English major' education model, English teachers emphasize the significance of improving the quality of English as a major, constructing the identity of "supporter" in the development of English intensional education model. Second, there is a contradiction between teaching and researching. A majority of English teachers identify themselves as "instructor" instead of "researcher." Third, by showing the need for self-development, the identity of "learner for self-development" is therefore recognized. Moreover, teachers' identity is an interactive relationship formed between teachers and the institutional discourse.
Column：Linguistic Studies 138-149 Details
- How Should We Read V. S. Naipaul, William Golding and Other Novelists Today?
Author：Wei Ruan, Zhaocheng Gao
Abstract: rofessor Ruan Wei got his doctor’s degree from Edinburgh University,and have published many works both in contemporary English literature,Comparing of Chinese-Western culture and the western Classics. As an important part in western literature as well as in world literature,the 20th century British literature are read and studied by students both from Chinese department and English department in China. In this interview, Doctor Gao Zhaocheng talked five contemporary British writers with professor Ruan Wei.
Column：Lushan Talks 150-156 Details
- The Divergence of Interpretation: Western Feminism between Racial and Gender Discourses
Author：Wen Pan
Abstract: There is a divergence of interpretation since the second wave of the western feminism: the divergence between “the racial discourse” and “the gender discourse”. Comparing the interpretations made by bell hooks and Judith Butler to the same literary texts, we can see vividly this divergence. In deeper analysis, this is the divergence between “the social politics” and “the personal politics”. Before the 2008 economic crisis, “the personal” has always overshadowed “the social”. However, the more “personal” side of interpretation has gradually shown two main problems: west-centrism and banality and discursive exhaustion. Today such a divergence still exists, though in somewhat different discourses.
Column：Literature and Culture Studies 001-013 Details
- Monarchal Images and the Concept of Monarchial Power in German Baroque Dramatist Gryphius’ Carolus Stuardus
Author：Jue Wang
Abstract: The trial and execution of the king of England, Charles I, by the Independents led by Oliver Cromwell, is considered to be one of the most stunning events in the European history of the 17th century. The German dramatist Andreas Gryphius wrote the tragedyCarolus Stuardus, based on this regicidal event. In this tragedy, Charles was shaped as Christ-like figure, which made an analogy between Charles’s martyrdom and Jesus’ crucifixion. Moreover, Gryphius created Charles as a virtures monarch and Cromwell as morally despicable tyrant in this martyr drama. As matter of fact, Gryphius’ concept of monarchial power was fully demonstrated in his depiction of the monarch.
Column：Literature anc Culture Studies 014-023 Details
- Walter Pater's Decadent Fashioning of the Mona Lisa and the Aesthetic Modernity
Author：Xueying Zhou
Abstract: Diverging from traditional interpretations, the Decadents fashioned the image of the Mona Lisa in a modern light. Following Gautier's discovery of Satanism in Mona Lisa's smile, Pater not only fashioned her as sinister, but also proposed to see her as a representative of Decadents. Wilde, as well ...
Column：British Literature Studies 024-035 Details
- Moral Preaching, Entertainment and Laughter: The Representation of Life Writing in English Plague Literature
Author：Xiuli Zhang
Abstract: In English plague literature, human sentiments and frames of mind are represented by either moral preaching or by jubilation and wine. On the one hand, plague was a metaphor for moral corruption in order to persuade people to behave well, while on the other it offers a picture of moral collapse in wine and pleasure. The apparent conflict between the moral preaching and sensual revelry in the plague literature actually points to the underlying anxiety of the mass. The balance of the two indicates the effort to confront collective anxiety with laughter.
Column：British Literature Studies 036-045 Details
- Community Imagination in Ben Jonson's Court Masques
Author：Meiqun Wu
Abstract: The fashioning of state imagery was inseparable from scholars’ literary imagination and discourse construction in early modern England. Ben Jonson, one of the most famous playwrights in the English Renaissance, actively takes part in the fashioning of English state imagery and national consciousness imaginatively portrayed in...
Column：British Literature Studies 046-054 Details
- Toxic Material, Toxic Bodies and Material Ethics: A Study on Indra Sinha's Animal's People from the Perspective of Material Ecocriticism
Author：Wenzhong Fu
Abstract: Indra Sinha's novel Animal's People may be rated as an outstanding text on toxic discourse. Analysis of this novel under the lens of material ecocriticism reveals that during and after Khaufpur chemical disaster, toxic material, possessing agency, constantly traverses, traffics and transits between humans and non-human beings, finally not only constituting the toxic bodies of Khaufpuris represented by Animal, but also constituting the toxic bodies of flora, fauna and other non-human natural beings in Khaufpur. Human beings are just a part of the material community, but if they have no material ethics and ignore the constant material traffic between human and non-human beings, similar ecological disasters may happen again.
Column：British Literature Studies 055-064 Details
- George Santayana's Literary Practice of Platonism
Author：Minmin Xie
Abstract: George Santayana was one of the most renowned and reputable intellectuals during the 20th century. He had multiple personas as a philosopher, novelist, and poet, which made his ideological system rich and diverse. Taking Santayana's poems and the novel The Last Puritan as the text, this paper analyzes how Santayana expressed h...
Column：American Literature Studies 065-074 Details
- Who Is American: Blood Meridian and American Identity in the Mid-19th Century
Author：Lin Fu, Shidan Chen
Abstract: In Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy reexamines the discourse of American identity in the mid-19th century. Constructed from the perspectives of racism, sexism and civilization, the ideology of Manifest Destiny helped shape American identity in the mid-19th century, provided legitimate discourse for west...
Column：American Literature Studies 075-083 Details