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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author：Yujing Liang

Abstract: Focusing on the English pastiches of two Chinese poems by Li Bai and Xidu Heshang, this article explores the significance of imitation in the cross-cultural transmission of literature and the construction of the world literature identity. The textual similarities and differences between the two pastiches—Ezr...

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   001-013   Details

Author：Ran Huang

Abstract: The sociology of literature, a methodology proposed by Pierre Bourdieu, sheds light on the perilous voyage Katherine Mansfield has made in pursuit of artistic autonomy through interaction with literary magazines. Mansfield’s first resisting stance is made by her alliance with social art against bourgeoisie art in New Age. This revolutionary gesture is pushed further by her declaration of double rupture with both bourgeoisie art and social art in fauvist magazine Rhythm. Eventually, she elaborates her modernist aesthetics through her book reviews in Athenaeum. Her pursuit of innovation in literary forms has made a great contribution to the modernist movement.

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   014-022   Details

Author：Na Zhao

Abstract: Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl focuses on Rosa's witnessing infanticide in the concentration camp and her traumatic postwar life. Rosa has undergone a transformation from a succumber to a speaker and accuser in the heterotopia spaces of the concentration camp, a second-hand shop in New York and hotels in Miami. The characterization of victim's image spreads Holocaust history and crisis awareness, and constructs the national postwar community. Ozick reinforces the awareness of Holocaust history with special spatial art, and forms a historical memory, characterized by the electrified fence as the Holocaust carrier, and the stagnation of time and space. It clarifies the trauma subject’s inner grief and historical responsibility, and presents the historical continuity between spatial memory and the traumatic events of the Holocaust.

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   023-030   Details