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- On "Desiring Machines" in Blood Meridian
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
- Writing Back to the Empire and Re-mapping World Literature: A Study of Midnight’s Children of Salman Rushdie
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
- The (Anti-) Witch Hunt Campaigns and the Debates between Power, Morality and Knowledge in The Groves of Academe
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
- The Historical Writing and Founding Myth of Early Brandenburg-Prussia in Michael Kohlhaas
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
- Politics in Early Greece in the Odyssey
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
- City Map, Space, Imagination: The Construction of the Image of Peking in French Archives
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
- A Visual Analysis of the Articles on Language and Literature in the International Community of Digital Humanities (2010-2023)
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
- Trends and Future Directions in Literary Geography: A Critical Review of The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies
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
- Illuminating the Contemporary: An Interview with Professor Zhang Zhongzai on His Study and Teaching of British Literature
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
- Pamela or Shamela: The Textual Performance in Pamela
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