Author：Jiexin Yi, Liangdie Huang

Abstract: The representation of chivalry in Vasconselos by American Southern writer William Gilmore Simms, out of the cultural heritage of Middle Ages and the indigenous culture of the United States, boasts strong realistic allusions. The protagonist Philip Vasconselos’s choice of justice rather than loyalty as chivalric virtues alludes to the stance of the American South holding fast to slavery at the price of secession. His pursuit of love and home instead of expedition and treasure-hunting as chivalric paradigms gives prominence to the positive role of family in counteracting the negative influences of expansionism on society....

Column：American Literature Studies   125-135   Details

Author：Xiuxia Chen

Abstract: Russell Atkins is an African American postmodern avant-garde poet renowned for his dedication to breaking with tradition and innovating in poetics. His poetry-dramas exemplify his “deviating” poetics. Atkins crafts his poetry-dramas in “music-form,” employs innovative gothic narration to subtly convey his rebellion against racism, and creates the interdisciplinary theory of Psychovisualism, which he applies to his poetry-dramas writing. His work represents an experiment in postmodern avant-garde poetics, an interdisciplinary aesthetic construction, and most significantly, a challenge to the hegemony of western white culture and a new attempt at formulating language rules by an African American writer.

Column：American Literature Studies   136-147   Details

Author：Yiwen Wen

Abstract: An Interview with Professor Wang Jiaxiang on Her Study, Translation, and Teaching

Column：Lushan Bitan   148-156   Details

Author：Mingjian Zha

Abstract: Contemporary theories have deconstructed the concepts of literature and literariness, as well as the conventional aesthetic values and criticism associated with them, leading literary studies toward cultural studies. While these theories employed in cultural studies reject the idea of a fixed essence in literature, dismiss traditional aesthetics, and broaden the conceptions of literature and literariness, they also introduce new ways to deepen our understanding of literariness and challenge established aesthetic perspectives. In the “post-theory” era, new formalism emphasizes not only traditional aesthetic forms but also the socio-historical contexts that shape them, aiming to integrate both aspects. ...

Column：Topics in Literary Aesthetics   003-013   Details

Author：Chi Zhang

Abstract: In the 20th century, Western literary theory flourished, but the “literariness” advocated by formalism was not widely valued. Since the rise of structuralism in the 1960s, many schools have not studied the aesthetic value of literary works. Harold Bloom has almost single-handedly defended the aesthetic value of literature. The aesthetic turn of literary studies is not only a reconstruction of aesthetic criticism, but also a reaffirmation of the aesthetic value of literature.

Column：Topics in Literary Aesthetics   014-025   Details

Author：Qiang Hu

Abstract: As a representative figure of the Scottish Renaissance, Lewis Grassic Gibbon holds significant intellectual value for understanding Scotland's history. A Scots Quair presents the characters' burden of historical pressure with a profound sense of history, depicting a unique survival experience and emotional im...

Column：Research on Writers and Their Works   026-035   Details

Author：Qi Feng

Abstract: Ying Chen, a Chinese-Canadian female writer in french, fictionalizes in her novel L’ingratitude the story of a rebellious daughter, Yanzi, who challenges institutionalized motherhood and intends to deconstruct patriarchal centralism with her “matricide” behavior. Ying Chen constructs an unnatural story world where the boundary between life and death is blurred. Yanzi’s death and the separation of spirit and flesh not only make the dying ghost become the participant and promoter of the story waiting for Yama’s transport to get a “new life”, but also become ...

Column：Research on Writers and Their Works   036-047   Details

Author：Xiaoping Zhang, Ying Cheng

Abstract: Violence in McCarthy's novel, Blood Meridian is not only criticized by academia but also a difficult point to study. The application of the concept of Deleuze and Guattari’s “desiring machines” to explore the causes of “blood” or violence with the consideration of historical and social context of the United States as well as Ameri...

Column：Research on Writers and Their Works   048-060   Details

Author：Peilin Wang, Jianchong Nan

Abstract: Title: Writing Back to the Empire and Re-mapping World Literature: A Study of Midnight’s Children of Salman RushdieAbstract: The Indo-Anglian writer Salman Rushdie and the British writer E.M. Forster have both written about an Indian Muslim Dr Aziz. Such a coincidence deserves attention from literature, politics and culture. On the one hand, the similarity between the two Azizes forms intertex...

Column：Research on Writers and Their Works   061-072   Details

Author：Yanfang Song

Abstract: Mary McCarthy’s The Groves of Academe is set in a fictional university campus in Pennsylvania in the early 1950s. Through the story of a lecturer who engages in a power struggle to keep his job, it allegorically reflects the “witch hunt” actions and their impact under McCarthyism at the time. The protagonist disguises himself as prey to McCarthyism on the university campus to gain power by carrying out a so called “anti-witch hunt” campaign, disregarding moral conscience and abusing knowledge in the process. This behavior not only reflects the ...

Column：Cultural Studies   073-083   Details