Author：Fangmu Li

Abstract: The contemporary American novelist Tim O’Brien’s novel July, July features a powerful narrative tension and insightful thematic meaning, well beyond the one-dimensional convention of Vietnam War novels. Combined with the title, the narrative structure builds itself upon an interaction between the present and past, with a cla...

Column：Studies and Chronicles in 21st-Century English Literature   002-011   Details

Author：Xuefeng Zhang

Abstract: The narrative form of fictionalized autobiography empowers Anglophone-Caribbean women writers to assert themselves as speaking subjects, telling their lived experiences and colonial memories while articulating their discursive voices. This study examines representative fictional autobiographies by Anglophone-Caribbean women during colonial and postcolonial periods to uncover their colonial memories, explore their living conditions and psychological states, and illuminate the evolution of their identity.

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Author：Yukun Liu

Abstract: Colm Tóibín’s literary works mainly focus on fictional narratives set in specific spatio-temporal contexts. However, the publication of The Testament of Mary and House of Names demonstrates a major shift in both his writing paradigm and cultural tactics. Both works reflect the cosmopolitan Irish writer’s in-depth contemplation of the past, present, and future of Ireland and human society, while engaging with classical traditions in Western civilization. From the theoretical perspective of adaptation, this article aims to analyze how Tóibín engages in a personal dialogue with the classical world and how these myths represent contemporary concerns ...

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Author：Lu Yu

Abstract: Vietnamese-Canadian writer Kim Thúy’s Mãn uses cooking and cuisine as a lens to subvert the traditional trauma-focused narrative of refugee literature. The novel reveals how culinary practices serve as a driving force and intrinsic mechanism for refugee transformation. Rather than merely reproducing diasporic culinary culture, Kim Thúy delves into the intricate interplay of Vietnamese identity, cultural fusion, and colonial history underlying these practices. By moving from the material memory to cultural synthesis, the author constructs a “culinary citizenship” within a historical framework,...

Column：Studies and Chronicles in 21st-Century English Literature   037-047   Details

Author：Anran Zhang

Abstract: In the 21st century, Narrative Nonfiction has gradually emerged as a significant literary phenomenon in British. As an independent literary genre, Narrative Nonfiction inherits from the realist tradition of British literature and makes innovations. It is characterized by two core features: “authenticity” an...

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Author：Jian Ma

Abstract: From the standpoint that world literature is a combination of diversity and commonality, Hermann Hesse has launched a deep thinking about world literature. On the one hand, he agrees that Germany should absorb the excellent achievements of foreign literature; on the other hand, he also firmly opposes the blindness of tran...

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Author：Jiayuan Lu, Bo Wang

Abstract: At the beginning of the 1930s, the struggle between the left and right forces in Germany entered a heated stage. Against this background, Piscator, the originator of the German “political theater”, brought the play Tai Yang erwacht, which depicted the revolutionary movement of the workers in Shanghai during the Northern Expedition War in China, onto the German stage, and the tenacious and unyielding spirit of the Chinese working class became a weapon for the German Communist Party’s political propaganda. From the conception of the play to the performance, the issue of cross-cultural representation of ...

Column：German Literature Studies   079-088   Details

Author：Zitian Ding

Abstract: "The Spanish Gypsy" has never received sufficient attention from the academic community. By examining George Eliot's notebook and travel diaries, it is revealed that Eliot artistically processes the Gypsies from two dimensions: literature reading and real-life experiences. This demonstrates that Eliot responds to the common views of 19th-century historical community through literary reshaping of the Gypsy people, further highlighting the ethical consciousness of personal happiness obeying the national cause. Combining the extensive discussion on ethnic issues in 19th-century Britain and Eliot's own ideological background, ...

Column：British Literature Studies   089-104   Details

Author：Wei Wang, Meng Pan

Abstract: This article focuses on William Wordsworth’s conception of nature as the subject-matter of study. In terms of relation, Wordsworth’s notion of knowing serves as the basis for his conception of nature, and nature is integrated as the major objective for knowing, existing as an essential part of it. In terms of connotation, nature in Wordsworth’s conception not only possesses natural attributes, but also exhibits a distinct and strong subjectivity, serving as the embodiment of human passions. In the poetical works of Wordsworth, the conception of nature is richly represented. To summarize, Wordsworth’s conception of nature is born out of the empiricist tradition of British philosophy, and serves as a concise expression of certain Romantic literary ideas.

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Author：Jingbo Zhang, Xuemeng Wang

Abstract: With the development of psychiatry and the accumulation of “madness” culture, mental illness has shifted from being a physical issue to a moral one. In the “increasingly refined” Victorian society, marginalized groups who deviated from social norms were morally condemned and branded as “mad.” Mental illness also became a “feminized” condition. Victorian women, constrained by domestic life, became detached from society with the home becoming their safe space, while the social sphere turned into a physical and psychological forbidden zone. The disease and spatial writings in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette intend to ...

Column：British Literature Studies   115-124   Details