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- On Translation of the May Fourth Period and the Emergence of Eco-cosmopolitanism
Author：Jiao Li, Haiyan Xie
Abstract: During the May Fourth Period, Chinese intellectuals were greatly influenced by western cosmopolitanism. As they attempted to translate western literary works into Chinese, many translators intentionally incorporated ecological concerns into their cosmopolitan outlook, displaying a broader view beyon...
Column：Translation Studies 123-135 Details
- Change and Transformation: Common Core of Interlingual Transformation and Intersemiotic Shift
Author：Xiujuan Guan, Wanqi Zhang
Abstract: Translation variation and complete translation are a pair of translation categories. Change is the essential attribute of translation variation, featured with a big change (qualitative change) while transformation is the essential attribute of complete translation, characterized with a small change (quantitative change). This paper reviews the improvement process and application fields of translation variation and complete translation with “change” and “transformation” as their cores respectively, attempts to extend these interlingual transformation rules to intersemiotic shift, and explores the multi-modal conversion laws. It is found that the ...
Column：Translation Studies 136-145 Details
- Literature without Borders: An Interview with Chen Zhongyi
Author：João Cezar de Castro Rocha
Abstract: Literature without Borders: An Interview with Chen Zhongyi by João Cezar de Castro Rocha
Column：Lushan Bitan 146-156 Details
- American Magic: From Brilliance to Darkness
Author：Zhao Yifan
Abstract: Johan Galtung, a Norwegian writer published in 2008 a book entitled The Fall of the US Empire. This book declares the USA enjoys its “magic” Power, just as the Roman Empire did before. But the US Empire is bound to collapse, so long as its “magic” Power is gone, as the Roman history tells us. Professor Galtung’s prediction about ...
Column：China and the US by ZHAO Yifan 001-012 Details
- Gender Politics and Post-colonial Writing in Annamarie Jagose’s Slow Water
Author：Min Tan
Abstract: Annamarie Jagose’s novel Slow Water is a neo-Victorian novel based on the colonial history of the British Empire in New Zealand. As a modern novelist, Jagose presents and reconstructs an eclipsed historical event which happened in Victorian age, revealing how the British Empire applied gender politics t...
Column：Contemporary New Zealand Literature Studies Details
- The Overseas Literary Representation of Bougainville Civil War: On Cultural Identity Construction in New Zealand Novel Mister Pip
Author：Luechang Liu, Le Wu
Abstract: Due to the intervention of multiple external forces, the Bougainville Civil War in Papua New Guinea has evolved into a regional issue. New Zealand contemporary novelist Lloyd Jones provides a representation of the civil war in Mister Pip, revealing the cultural identity construction of different communities in Melanesia. From the perspective of cultural identity as proposed by Stuart Hall, this paper argues that Mr. Watts who represents the immigrants on Bougainville Island, Dolores and her daughter on behalf of two generations of aborigines, construct their own cultural identities through grafting British culture, protecting native culture and blending the two cultures together. To some extent, Mister Pip metaphorizes the cultural trajecto
Column：Contemporary New Zealand Literature Studies 023-033 Details
- Ineffable Desire: On Ethical Anxiety in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Author：Yanwen Guo
Abstract: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” shows the complicated psychological process of courtship. However, the unidentified woman in the poem possibly lacks the reality of presence, while Prufrock obviously shows his sexual desire for women. Yet facing with the ethical dilemma, the poet Eliot skillfu...
Column：Literature and Culture Studies 034-043 Details
- A Review of “the Naipaul Fallacy”: Post-colonial Writing in A Bend in the River
Author：Yuchen Hua
Abstract: A Bend in the River, as a post-colonial literary canon, epitomizes the literary controversy of “the Naipaul Fallacy.” The main narrator Salim has “double vision” in the sense of Homi Bhabha, through whose perspective the dual desires of colonial empire and nation state are presented objectively...
Column：Literature and Culture Studies 044-053 Details
- From “Black/White” to Cosmopolitanism: A Study of Limits in Jessie Fauset’s Plum Bun
Author：Dingying Wang
Abstract: Jessie Fauset, an important guide to the Harlem Renaissance, should have been a landmark in the history of African-American literature, but has been overlooked long due to her sentimental Victorian style. Based on Angela’s experience of transgression, this article will analyze the multiple l...
Column：Literature and Culture Studies 054-064 Details
- On Wu Mi’s Acceptance of Irving Babbitt’s Literary Thought
Author：Zhengqi Liu
Abstract: Influenced by Babbitt’s literary thought, Wu Mi believes that “literature is the representation of life” and his literary creation and criticism are based on and oriented by his concern for human beings and his reflections on human nature. Wu’s acceptance of Babbitt’s literary thought covers mainly three aspects: ...
Column：Literature and Culture Studies 065-075 Details