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Foreword : The Title Of Yecao = 前言 : 《野草》書名的翻譯, Nick ADMUSSEN 2014 Cornell University

Foreword : The Title Of Yecao = 前言 : 《野草》書名的翻譯, Nick Admussen

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Lu Xun's Wild Grass : Autobiographical Moments Of The Creative Self = 《野草》 : 魯迅自傳衝動時刻留下的見證, Mabel LEE 2014 University of Sydney

Lu Xun's Wild Grass : Autobiographical Moments Of The Creative Self = 《野草》 : 魯迅自傳衝動時刻留下的見證, Mabel Lee

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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論湯新楣譯《戰地春夢》 = On Tang Xinmei's Translation Of A Farewell To Arms, Man, Jasmine TONG 2014 Lingnan University

論湯新楣譯《戰地春夢》 = On Tang Xinmei's Translation Of A Farewell To Arms, Man, Jasmine Tong

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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The Poetics Of Hinting In Wild Grass = 《野草》之暗示章法, Nick ADMUSSEN 2014 Cornell University

The Poetics Of Hinting In Wild Grass = 《野草》之暗示章法, Nick Admussen

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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張翎《金山》中的通俗劇式想像及其跨國流動 = Melodramatic Imagination In Zhang Ling's Gold Mountain Blues And Its Transnational Flows, Pei Yin LIN 2014 University of Hong Kong

張翎《金山》中的通俗劇式想像及其跨國流動 = Melodramatic Imagination In Zhang Ling's Gold Mountain Blues And Its Transnational Flows, Pei Yin Lin

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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寂寞翻譯事 : 劉紹銘教授訪談錄 = A Life Borrowed In Translation : An Interview With Joseph Shiu-Ming Lau, Te Hsing SHAN 2014 Lingnan University

寂寞翻譯事 : 劉紹銘教授訪談錄 = A Life Borrowed In Translation : An Interview With Joseph Shiu-Ming Lau, Te Hsing Shan

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Researching The Avant-Garde: A Book Review Article Of New Work By Bohn And Sell, Blaž Zabel 2014 University of Ljubljana

Researching The Avant-Garde: A Book Review Article Of New Work By Bohn And Sell, Blaž Zabel

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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About Paternal Voices In Adoption Narratives, Fu-jen Chen 2014 National Sun Yat-sen University

About Paternal Voices In Adoption Narratives, Fu-Jen Chen

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In his article "About Paternal Voices in Adoption Narratives" Fu-jen Chen examines the emerging voices of fathers in adoption discourse. Breaking the reticence and challenging the stereotypical profile of birth fathers and the father overall, birth fathers in narratives resort to essentialism or victimhood, a cultural imagination in adoption discourse. Further, Chen examines adoption narratives by adoptive fathers arguing that their reluctance to call for a father-to-father relationship — either rivalry or alliance — indicates a sign of disavowal of both subjective splitness and the structural deadlock. Chen argues that in paternal adoption narratives writing does not emerge as a …


Subjectivity In 'Attār's Shaykh Of San'Ān Story In The Conference Of The Birds, Claudia Yaghoobi 2014 Georgia College & State University

Subjectivity In 'Attār's Shaykh Of San'Ān Story In The Conference Of The Birds, Claudia Yaghoobi

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In her article "Subjectivity in 'Attār’s Shaykh of San'ān Story in The Conference of the Birds" Claudia Yaghoobi discusses intersections of transgression, law, inclusion and exclusion, self and Other in Farīd al-Dīn 'Attār's (1142?-ca.1220) treatment of religion with regard to Shaykh San'ān and the Christian girl's love story in The Conference of the Birds. San'ān is an ascetic master who has never transgressed any of the Islamic laws until he embarks on a journey from Mecca to Rome after a dream only to fall in love with a Christian girl, convert to Christianity, and begin drinking wine and …


Duvakin's Oral History And Bakhtin In His Own Voice, Slav N. Gratchev, Tatevik Gyulamiryan 2014 Marshall University

Duvakin's Oral History And Bakhtin In His Own Voice, Slav N. Gratchev, Tatevik Gyulamiryan

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In their article "Duvakin's Oral History and Bakhtin in His Own Voice" Slav N. Gratchev and Tatevik Gyulamiryan examine Mikhail Bakhtin's notions of literary theory based on interviews recorded by Victor Duvakin in 1973. The collection is now held in the library of Moscow State University. As it so often happened in the Soviet Union, these unique interviews only became known many years later and Gratchev's and Gyulamiryan's analysis of the interviews sheds light on Bakhtin's thought not available when reading his published work.


Art And Politics In Latin America: A Book Review Article Of New Work By Van Delden And Grenier, Sánchez, And Cohn, Nicole L. Sparling 2014 Central Michigan University

Art And Politics In Latin America: A Book Review Article Of New Work By Van Delden And Grenier, Sánchez, And Cohn, Nicole L. Sparling

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Modern African Verse And The Politics Of Authentication, Gabriel S. Bamgbose 2014 Tai Solarin University of Education

Modern African Verse And The Politics Of Authentication, Gabriel S. Bamgbose

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In his article "Modern African Verse and the Politics of Authentication" Gabriel S. Bamgbose argues that the authenticity of modern African poetry is marked by the intricate tie between African verse and African life in its diversities and complexities. Bamgbose examines the "modern" nature of African poetry, its oral roots, its treatment of colonial, and cultural nationalist issues, its issues of négritude, language, radical consciousness, gender, and its "international" nature. Bamgbose draws on the poetry of Okot p'Bitek, Taban Lo Liyong, and Frank Chipasula of East Africa, Tchikaya U Tam'si, Tati Loutard, and Gahlia Gwangwa'a of Central Africa, and …


Intertextuality In Beckett's And Ağaoğlu's Work, Elmas Şahín 2014 University of Çağ

Intertextuality In Beckett's And Ağaoğlu's Work, Elmas Şahín

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In her article "Intertextuality in Beckett's and Ağaoğlu's Work" Elmas Şahín discusses Adalet Ağaoğlu's 1973 novel Ölmeye Yatmak (Lying Down to Die) and Samuel Beckett's 1950 Malone Dies in terms of intertextuality. Şahín employs tenets of comparative literature in order to analyze the two texts with regard to form and content and focuses on the on protagonists' worlds. In Şahín's interpretation, Ağaoğlu's protagonist Aysel is narrated in postmodern intertextuality as an individual of our days alienated from society, searching for her self/selves as she cannot succeed in dying. Both Beckett's and Ağaoğlu's protagonists attempt to "escape" from their selves and …


Embodied Cognition And The Grotesque In Calvino's La Giornata D'Uno Scrutatore And Sanguineti's Capriccio Italiano, Marco Caracciolo 2014 University of Groningen

Embodied Cognition And The Grotesque In Calvino's La Giornata D'Uno Scrutatore And Sanguineti's Capriccio Italiano, Marco Caracciolo

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In his article "Embodied Cognition and the Grotesque in Calvino's La giornata d'uno scrutatore and Sanguineti's Capriccio italiano" Marco Caracciolo analyzes the multiple dimensions of embodied experience and how they can be brought to bear on literary texts. Drawing on scholarship in cognitive science, he argues that the embodiment of people's engagement with the world emerges from the interaction between the physical structure of the body and socio-cultural practices. Caracciolo shows how such nexus of biological make-up and culture can give rise to particularly complex meanings in the representation of grotesque bodies. In order to illustrate his postulates, Caracciolo …


Laughter And The Cosmopolitan Aesthetic In Lao She's 二马 (Mr. Ma And Son), Jeffrey Mather 2014 City University of Hong Kong

Laughter And The Cosmopolitan Aesthetic In Lao She's 二马 (Mr. Ma And Son), Jeffrey Mather

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In his article "Laughter and the Cosmopolitan Aesthetic in Lao She's 二马 (Mr. Ma and Son)" Jeffrey Mather discusses Lao She's (pseudonym for Qingchun Shu 1899-1966) texts and their naturalist portrayals of social life in China during a tumultuous period. Lao She's most celebrated works include the 1937 novel 骆驼祥子 (Rickshaw Boy) and the 1958 play 茶馆 (Teahouse), both of which were made into films in China. Rickshaw Boy was translated into English in 1945 and became an international bestseller, making Lao She one of the first modern Chinese writers known in the West. …


Blanchot's "Impossible" Kafka, Antoine J. Polgar 2014 Southern New Hampshire University and Empire State College

Blanchot's "Impossible" Kafka, Antoine J. Polgar

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In his article "Blanchot's Impossible Kafka" Antoine J. Polgar challenges Maurice Blanchot's theory of the impossibility and futility of writing as applied to Kafka's struggles with the demands of writing and life. Polgar questions Blanchot's claims on the basis of close readings of the texts of Kafka's texts and explores traces of correspondence between the life and the texts yet unmentioned in Kafka scholarship. Referring to Blanchot's focus on survival as a metaphor for writing in a meta-commentary on the writer's facticity and the contingency to which literary creation is consigned, Polgar comments on the intense bio-critical interest — which …


Sisyphus In Kertész's Fatelessness, Eric Beck Rubin 2014 University of Toronto

Sisyphus In Kertész's Fatelessness, Eric Beck Rubin

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In his article "Sisyphus in Kertész's Fatelessness" Eric Beck Rubin discusses Imre Kertész's novel in relation to the philosophy of eternal recurrence, namely the notion that an individual inhabits a universe made of finite possibilities experienced and re-experienced without variation or end. Early explorations of eternal recurrence by Friedrich Nietzsche were taken up by Albert Camus, and Beck Rubin argues that certain works by both authors are fundamental to any reading of Fatelessness. Further, Beck Rubin argues that Kertész's contribution to the debate can be viewed from two perspectives: one sees Kertész as an author in conversation with …


History And Identity In Post-Totalitarian Memoir Writing In Romanian, Nicoleta D. Ifrim 2014 University Dunarea de Jos of Galați

History And Identity In Post-Totalitarian Memoir Writing In Romanian, Nicoleta D. Ifrim

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In her article "History and Identity in Post-Totalitarian Memoir Writing in Romanian" Nicoleta D. Ifrim analyzes Virgil Tănase's confessional and ego-graphic writing in his 2011 Leapșa pe murite (Playing Fetch with Death). Tănase's text is about the individual caught in history and re-writes it post-traumatically from a double perspective: that of the collective memory of totalitarianism and the personal thus functioning as a filtering mechanism for the creation of meta-historical identity. For Tănase, the experience of exile and post-exile, as well as the confrontation with the West legitimizes identity dilemmas and the construction of the individual. The book is representative …


Electronic Journals, Prestige, And The Economics Of Academic Journal Publishing, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Joshua Jia 2014 Purdue University

Electronic Journals, Prestige, And The Economics Of Academic Journal Publishing, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek, Joshua Jia

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In their article "Electronic Journals, Prestige, and the Economics of Academic Journal Publishing" Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Joshua Jia discuss the current state of the academic journal publishing industry. The current state of the industry is an oligopoly based on a double appropriation model where academics produce work for at no cost only to have publishers earn significant profit margins by selling the work back to academics. Publishers are able to do this given the price inelasticity and weak bargaining power of its main consumer, university libraries. Publishers' ability to increase prices is also supported by what the authors …


Blood And Water: Unity In The Gospel Of John(1), Matthew G. Ancell, V. Stanley Benfell 2014 Brigham Young University

Blood And Water: Unity In The Gospel Of John(1), Matthew G. Ancell, V. Stanley Benfell

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The stated purpose of the Gospel of John is that the reader or hearer “may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name” (20.31) (2). Regardless of whether the Fourth Gospel is written to a community of believers or to convert the unbelieving, as is debated, this verse points to life through Jesus Christ as the focus of the book. Each of the four Gospels offers a testimony of Jesus as the Christ. Culminating in the passion and resurrection narratives, each version presents a unique …


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