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no. 3
- The Critique of Benthamite Utilitarianism and Inner Conflicts in Charles Dickens's Hard Times
Author：Guoxin Zhao
Abstract: Among the Victorian novelists, Charles Dickens is undoubtedly the fiercest opponent to the dominant ideology of the early Victorian Age: Benthamite Utilitarianism. In Hard Times, he intends to makes an obvious and full-length critique of its typical principle of the greatest happiness ...
Column：Literature Studies 001-010 Details
- Subject, Self and Identity: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Alice Munro's "The Albanian Virgin"
Author：Chuan Huang, Lan Wang
Abstract: In Alice Munro's short story “The Albanian Virgin”, the female protagonists Claire and Charlotte/Lottar took different approaches to cope with their identity crises. From the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis, this essay conducts an analysis of the heroines’ recognition and reconstruction of their subjectivity, pointing out that Claire found her ideal ego in imaginative and symbolic identification, while Charlotte/Lottar failed to integrate herself into different societies and different molding effects on the subject in the Symbolic, where language, culture, and law play dominant roles....
Column：Literature Studies 011-018 Details
- Who is Sam Fisher?: On the Theme of Poetry in A Free Life
Author：Kai Wang
Abstract: Sam Fisher is a very important character in Ha Jin’s novel A Free Life. In this novel, Ha Jin takes Allen Ginsberg as the prototype for the character, on the one hand, to emphasize his influence upon Wu Nan in his pursuit of poetry writing, and on the other hand, to increase the credibility of the protagonist and the sto...
Column：Literature Studies 019-027 Details
- The Stick of the Diviner: The Writing of Seamus Heaney's Place-Name Poems
Author：Yan Liu, Yuxuan Wu
Abstract: Place-names are a kind of language sources great valued by the people of Ireland. Following the literary traditions of Irish place-names poems (also called “dinnseanchas” in Irish), Seamus Heaney writes about the Irish community’s memories and the history of concealed conflict between England and Irel...
Column：Literature Studies 029-040 Details
- Homosociality: A Keyword of Sedgwick's Sexuality Criticism
Author：Zhen Xu
Abstract: Homosocial relates to social relationships between persons of the same sex in the context of sociology. Male bonding was considered to be a necessity of human evolution, which is significant to the formation of social cooperation. Some anthropologists believed that women were materialized and became transactions in the ...
Column：Literature Studies 041-050 Details
- The Defense of Culture in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
Author：Zhaoqian Li
Abstract: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four represents a current type of attitude: a “myth” of the defense of culture，related primarily to contemporary society. The cultural defense myth in Nineteen Eighty-Four contains two layers of meaning. First, the novel uncovers the nature of Totalitarian culture in Oceania: the Oceania...
Column：Culture Studies 051-059 Details
- A Cultural Study of the Water and Fire Imageries in Faust and Goethe’s View of Nature
Author：Yue Zeng
Abstract: Goethe, as a naturalist, discussed extensively scientific and philosophical problems in his literal works. Fire and water, two of the four elements in Ancient Greek philosophical thought, often were explored by Goethe to express his view of Naturphilosophie, while simultaneously referring to c...
Column：Culture Studies 060-067 Details
- Pragmatic Functions of Discourse Markers in C-E Consecutive Interpreting
Author：Junfeng Zhao, Dixi Ke
Abstract: This paper conducts a descriptive study on the pragmatic functions of discourse markers (DM) in C-E consecutive interpreting (CI). Four types of DM are summarized and treated as the parameters, by means of which a case analysis is conducted on the C-E CI for 2016 and 2017 press conferences by Chinese Foreig...
Column：Translation Studies 068-077 Details
- Construct Measurement of Subjectivity Operation Deficiency in Student Interpreters
Author：Liwen Chen
Abstract: An investigation of 300 student interpreters from four universities was conducted to measure and verify the construction and operation mechanism of subjectivity operation deficiency during the interpreting process by using Structural Equation Modeling AMOS 21. The findings are as follows. Firstly,...
Column：Translation Studies 078-089 Details
- Political Rhetoric and Persuasion：A Critical Analysis Model Explained
Author：Xiaoyu Zhang, Meifang Zhang
Abstract: Political discourse has been a key issue in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). With a focus on political rhetoric, Jonathan Charteris-Black has developed an interdisciplinary model which combines concepts and theories in the fields of rhetoric, psychology and conceptual metaphor studies so as to figure out ho...
Column：Translation Studies 090-101 Details