Author：Yue Zeng

Abstract: Title: The Historical Writing and Founding Myth of Early Brandenburg-Prussia in Michael KohlhaasAbstract: Kleist’s novel Michael Kohlhaas narrates superficially a story about resisting tyranny and pursuing justice. However, from the perspective of covert progression, it is actually writing a splendid Brandenburg-Prussian dynastic history from the side with a hidden method. The novel takes the ...

Column：Cultural Studies   084-094   Details

Author：Xiaoyu Zhang

Abstract: Homer's Odyssey, one of the earliest surviving epic poems of ancient Greece, depicts the social and political landscape of Ithaca in vivid detail. Many scholars view Ithaca as a monarchical society with established kingship and statehood. According to the epic materials, the assertion that the state and kingship were fully present in Itha...

Column：Cultural Studies   095-106   Details

Author：Jing Zhou, Yuanbo Chen

Abstract: The map of Peking records and expresses changes of Peking’s urban form from a macroscopic point of view, and is an important representation of the city’s spatial evolution. From the travelogues and letters of French Jesuits in the 17th and 18th centuries to the Peking-based French novels of the 20th century, , the writers wrote and drew a map of the city of Peking according to the diversity of texts, them constructed a literary space for the image of Peking. From individual memories of aesthetic scrutiny to collective memories of shared descriptions, the ...

Column：Cultural Studies   107-121   Details

Author：Biao Liang

Abstract: This paper employs bibliometric method and utilizes CiteSpace 6.2.4 to conduct a visual analysis of the WOS indexed data of 1,128 articles on language and literature in the international community of “Digital Humanities” from 2010 to 2023. The results indicate that the annual publication volume in this field shows an overall increasing trend. The prolific authors, institutions, and countries (regions) are predominantly from Europe and North America, with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration. The hot research topics are concentrated in four ...

Column：Studies of Digital Humanities   122-137   Details

Author：Ying Liu

Abstract: The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies (2024) focuses on the latest trends in literary geography and anticipates future directions in the field. This is primarily reflected in the following three aspects. First, the Handbook explores new critical methods such as “relational literary geography” and “literary geography in the Anthropocene”. Relational literary geography studies the permeation and interaction between spaces in and out of literature under the framework of “relational geography” and Actor-Network Theory (ANT). Literary geography in the Anthropocene probes how to integrate literary geography with eco-criticism within the context of the Anthropocene. Second, the Handbook ...

Column：Book Review   138-149   Details

Author：Kaiwei Xia

Abstract: Illuminating the Contemporary: An Interview with Professor Zhang Zhongzai on His Study and Teaching of British Literature

Column：Lushan Bitan   150-156   Details

Author：Jin Tian

Abstract: The paradox between Pamela and Shamela, as a classic issue, had given impetus to fervent criticism upon the Samuel Richardson’s novel Pamela. Based on the performative theory of literature and following the interactive relationship between text and reader, this paper tries to explore the competing performative process and eff...

Column：Reinterpretation of Classic Texts   001-010   Details

Author：Lilin Chen

Abstract: As a representative of American romanticism, Edgar Allan Poe’s aesthetics has won him widespread praise as a genius, but what is barely known is that Poe’s aesthetics originated from the ancient Platonic tradition. Poe’s cosmological essay Eureka is the key to revealing the interconnection between him and the Platonic tradition. Since modern times, from Platonism there emerged two separated paths of rationalism and irrationalism. Poe’s aesthetic career is a process in which both paths coexist and the romantic surpasses the scientific. Eureka continues ...

Column：Reinterpretation of Classic Texts   011-021   Details

Author：Juexu Chen

Abstract: This paper examines the representation of sound in Heinrich von Kleist’s Novelle “The Beggar Woman of Locarno,” a work by the prominent German author around the year 1800, and explores the paradoxical experiences and the questioning of reality contained in the Novelle. The inexplicable recurrence of sounds in the Novelle seemingly embodies the will of the old woman, enacting a successful act of revenge on the Marquis. However, this sound, oscillating between clarity and ambiguity, reality and illusion, reflects a chaotic unpredictable world of ...

Column：Reinterpretation of Classic Texts   022-031   Details

Author：Weiqi Yi, Quan Yang

Abstract: North and South is a novel that describes the conditions of industrial society in the Victorian era and demonstrates the important role of sympathetic love in Elizabeth Gaskell’s community imagination. In the 19th century, Britain's industrialization and urbanization accelerated, and social transformation led to changes in the structure of feelings. The quiet and leisurely feelings of rural life in the past faded away, while cash nexus gradually became the commonsense of community members. As a result, the contradiction between labor and capital has ...

Column：Community in Literature   032-042   Details