Author：Hong Jiang, Yunting Wang

Abstract: Throughout the entire development process of Russian philosophy of religion, it is not difficult to find that Russian philosophy of religion has deep and distinct linguistic ontology features. This is because the revival of Russian philosophy of religion directly contributed to the formation of Russian langua...

Column：Linguistic Studies   117-126   Details

Author：Guobing Liu, Mohan Zhang

Abstract: Based on COCA corpus analysis and constructional analysis, the study first checks collostructional strength of the verbs in “V+down”, then examines the semantic clustering of these cooccurring verbs and semantic mapping of this construction. The main findings show that: (1) most of the verbs occurring in the “V+down” construction represent spatial motion or a bad result state; (2) the prototypical semantics of “V+down” construction is “to move downward”, and its semantic extensions are realized by metaphorical mapping from the spatial domain to the social, psychological and the physical dom

Column：Linguistic Studies   127-136   Details

Author：Zhiyi Zhang, Binhe Liu

Abstract: The proposing and prevailing of the disciplinary big concept initiate a big wave of teaching reformation for the new era. The present study first analyzes the development of the big concept from philosophical, pedagogical as well as disciplinary perspectives and derives its defining features. Based on the academic achievements of other subjects, especially the knowledge system, specific context and practical function of geographical big concept, as well as the relation between form and content, language and thought of Chinese big concept, the present study clearly defines the disciplinary big concept for senior high school English course. Starting from this definition, the present study, different from the single construction route of teaching unit as a whole, provides multiple construction routes, to enhance the students meta-cognitive ability by stre ...

Column：EFL Education   137-147   Details

Author：Zhang Longhai

Abstract: As an influential writer and literary critic throughout the world, T. S. Eliot has left a wealth of literary treasures and has always been a hot spot in literary research at home and abroad. Research on T. S. Eliot ’s Literary Thought not only fills the blank that there is no holistic research on Eliot’s literary thought in China but also effectively overcomes the shortage of lacking Chinese perspective in Eliot’s studies abroad. ...

Column：Book Review   148-156   Details

Author：Ottmar Ette

Abstract: The relations between China, the Asian world and Latin America are centuries old, rich in tradition and intense at all times. Yet, in many cases, they are buried tradition that need to be brought back to the light of day and raised to consciousness. This article attempts to prove this thesis by means of four historical moments in different epochs and in different parts of the Latin American subcontinent. In the 19th century, the famous school of painters of Cuzco drew not only from indigenous and European traditions, but also from Asian ones, which can be traced in the form of biombos to Japan and further back to China. Already in Neo-Spanish texts of the early 16th century, for example in Chimalpahin, there is a lot of evidence for the presence of Asian delegations, which also stood for artistic traditions that can be traced through the entire colonial period. At the end of the same period, ...

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   001-011   Details

Author：Wenchu Zhang

Abstract: The most important achivement of the Chicago School of Criticism is the interpretation of literary criticism. The Chicago School of Criticism has six ideas of criticism which conclude: criticism is a remarkable activity of liberal arts; criticism should focus on literary work; the main aim of criticism should be generalization of formal elements of literary work; criticism is an activity of reason analysis; criticism should pay much attention to the discovery of the principle of generating of literary work and the primary effort of criticism is to study the history of literary theory.

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   012-019   Details

Author：Jinfeng Zhang

Abstract: The body is both biological and social-cultural, both the object and the subject. Academically speaking, body studies in many disciplines are rapidly developing. War is an activity that undoubtedly exerts a great impact on the human body, yet the human body either during actual wars or as depicted in war literature so far has been understudied. This article examines how British WWI combat writers present the Great War’s dehumanization and objectification of the human body, and then analyzes how the combatants tried to construct the subjectivity of the human body and thus maintain the dignity and meaning as human beings.

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   020-030   Details

Author：Si Yuan

Abstract: The naturalistic portrayal of cholera in Thomas Mann's novel Death in Venice reflects the writer’s documentation of the historical truth about cholera in Venice in 1911. The tracing of the “Asian plague” in the novel reflects the stigmatized Western imagery of the colonial body and space in the East, and its simultaneous spread with the spirit of the Dionysus constitutes a metaphor for the psychological changes of the protagonist. The plague has contributed to the failure of the “Hobbesian Fear” deterrent, which has led to a mass depravity of behavior in Venice, thus releasing the protagonist’s passions, which are bound up in the morality of daily civic life, and driving him to the depths of depravity, both psychologically and in his behavior. By synchronizing the awakening process of the spirit of Dionysus, a symbol of passion, and the psychology of epidemic in the heart of the protagonist, Thomas Mann realized the dramatic combination of myth and reality.

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   031-040   Details

Author：Ming Yi, Lingying Wu

Abstract: Satanic Argumentation, an essential component of Miltonic Grand Style in Paradise Lost, is mainly manifested in the argumentative lines and stanzas that Milton designs not only for Satan, but also for other epic characters like Eve who imitates Satan after being tempted and influenced by Satan. Typical characteristics of Satanic Argumentation include the crooked thinking mode, elaborate use of compound words, complex sentences, imperative sentences, and parallel patterns as well as exaggerated body language of acting which goes with speech. The article selects two exemplary episodes about Satan and Eve from Paradise Lost, aiming to analyze Satanic Argumentation, hence perceiving Milton’s inheritance of the Casuistical Tradition in English Renaissance, and helping readers better grasp the essence of Satanic Argumentation and the artistry of Miltonic Grand Style.

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   041-049   Details

Author：Lin Sun, Xiaoling Wang

Abstract: Jesmyn Ward, an African American woman writer, presents a black woman named Leonie who suffers from severe psychological trauma and ugly feelings in Sing, Unburied, Sing. Trapped by one of these ugly feelings-"irritation," Leonie is easily enraged by daily trifles, but seems to have lost her sensitivity to such matters of magnitude as racism and social justice. By employing the theory of "ugly feelings" and the thought of “becoming-literature”, this paper interprets Leonie’s "irritation" and comes to the conclusion that, deriving from "the American dilemma," "irritation" is not only the mirror of the dilemma, but also the redemption of that dilemma. Besides, Ward takes in-depth thought into the ultimate way to solve "the American dilemma" in terms of returning to its origin and reconciling different interests within it.

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   050-058   Details