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- The Old Testament and the Expression of Hebraism
Author：Lixin Tang
Abstract: Hebraism is the lasting and established ideology and values of the Jewish people，which can find vivid expression and metaphorical embodiment in the Old Testament, that is, the human-God contract, monotheism, chosen people, prophet, moralism under the constraints of the Judaic laws and Messianic redemption. The basic concepts of J...
Column：Jewish Culture Studies 035-044 Details
- Blacks, Jews, City People: Racial Issues in Saul Bellow's Mid- and Late Urban Fictions
Author：Tian Zhang
Abstract: Saul Bellow renovated the Black image in the urban fictions of his mid- and late writing career. Discussion of racial issues is offered unsparingly in his novels such as Mr. Sammler’s Planet, The Dean’s December, More Die of Heartbreak and Ravelstein. With repeated affirmation of his Jewish...
Column：Jewish Culture Studies 045-055 Details
- Return to "Nature": Language and Science in A. S. Byatt’s Babel Tower
Author：Chenghe Yao
Abstract: A. S. Byatt’s interests cover both art and science and concern natural history and scientific research in both her fictional and critical works. For instance, the association between science and language in Babel Tower goes beyond issues of the symbol and the language-reality relationship. From the perspec...
Column：Literature Studies 056-064 Details
- Post-Colonial Trauma in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Later Indian Fiction
Author：Ran Huang
Abstract: Trauma studies originate from Freudian trauma theory. Post-colonial scholars including Ashis Nandy, Frantz Fanon, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Homi Bhabha apply the method of trauma studies in the field of post-colonial studies. Post-colonial trauma studies examine the damaging effects of colonialism and ra...
Column：Literature Studies 065-078 Details
- Marginal Men in Australian Literature of the National Period: The Image of the Chinese in Henry Lawson's Works
Author：Jiasheng Zhang, Baoqi Lin
Abstract: During the time of the Australian National Period, Australian intellectuals were creating a national literature and seeking Australian-ness. In the literary works of this time, the Chinese were marginalized. In Henry Lawson’s works, the Chinese, the sojourners, were c...
Column：Literature Studies 079-088 Details
- The Manifestation of the Interactive Register Feature in the Translation of Children’s Literature: A Comparative Study of Three Chinese Versions of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories
Author：Xuemei Chen
Abstract: This paper investigates the interactive register feature of children’s literature based on Kipling’s Just So Stories. It first examines how interaction is embodied in the book’s register, especially in terms of linguistic features such as vocatives, tones, and colloquialism, based on which it then compares three Chinese versions. It is argued that interaction is an important register feature of children’s literature and it is essential for translators to reproduce it in translation. The translators can imitate the social role and tone of the author, and they can also read the translation aloud to children, by which they can better interact with them.
Column：Translation Studies 089-100 Details
- A Study of the Translation Strategies and Readers’ Reception of Four English Translations of Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen
Author：Bing Xu, Ying Zhang
Abstract: Huang Di Nei Jing has value for a range of qualities, e.g. as classic literature, ancient philosophy, technology, and science, etc. Translators of the different English translations of Huang Di Nei Jing usually had their particular focuses (such as the book’s m...
Column：Translation Studies 101-112 Details
- On the Theatrical Quality of Cao Yu's Translation of Romeo and Juliet
Author：Yunyan Liu
Abstract: Cao Yu's translation of Romeo and Juliet, a typical theatre translation oriented for stage performance instead of personal reading experience, highlights movements, conversational objects, and other stage facilities to boost dramatic conflicts. Compared with Xu Zhimo and Zhu Shenghao’s translation, Cao’s v...
Column：Translation Studies 113-124 Details
- Critical Thinking at the Metacognitive Level: Framework and Education Principles
Author：Sha Zhang
Abstract: This paper, based on the literature review of theories of metacognition and critical thinking, constructs the theoretical framework of critical thinking at the metacognitive level (CTM). CTM consists of three components, namely, CTM knowledge, CTM skills, and CTM experiences. Each of the three compo...
Column：Liguistic Studies 125-135 Details
- Implicit Foreign Languages Policies and Their Influence on American Foreign Language Education
Author：Hui Luo
Abstract: The history of the development of American education is a history of North American immigration as well as a history of the development of languages. For a long time, from American colonization to independence, foreign language education was not a problem which needed urgent considerat...
Column：Liguistic Studies 136-144 Details