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重讀張愛珍的《秧歌》與《赤地之戀》, Der Wei, David Wang

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

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Playing On The Air : Recollections From A Hong Kong Childhood, Rey Chow

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

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王宏志 :《思想激流下的中國命運——魯迅與"左聯"》與《文學與政治之間——魯迅．新月．文學史》, Yuanqing Gu

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

此文評論王宏志著的《思想激流下的中國命運——魯迅與"左聯"》及《文學與政治之間——魯迅．新月．文學史》。

黃子平 :《革命．歷史．小說》, Jingyuan Zhang

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

此文評論黃子平著的《革命．歷史．小說》。

Kirk A. Denton, Ed. Modern Chinese Literary Thought : Writings On Literature, 1893-1945, Gang Yue

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

This article reviews the book "Modern Chinese Literary Thought: Writings on Literature, 1893-1945", edited by Kirk A. Denton.

Building A National Literature In Modern China : Literary Criticism, Gender Ideology, And The Public Sphere, Yingjin Zhang

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

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Rey Chow. Primitive Passions : Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, And Contemporary Chinese Cinema, Wendy Larson

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

This article reviews the book "Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema", written by Rey Chow.

Greater China And The Twenty-First Century, Chen, Eugene Eoyang

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

On the occasion of this meeting of Chinese comparatists, and as a conclusion of the fifth annual meeting of the American Association of Comparative Literature, I wish to offer some fin de siècle meditations and reminiscences along with some prospects, if not prophecies, about the future that awaits us in the twenty-first century.

From The Editor = 編者的話, Leo, Tak Hung Chan

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

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Cao Yu, 1910-1996, Aixue Wang

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

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中國現代文學的整體維度及其局限, Zaifu Liu

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

本文我想借助文學維度這一視角進一步考察中國現代文學在審美內涵上有哪些缺陷和局限。這裏包括兩個問題：（1）作為審美主體的作家，他們的思考、想像、情感的維度層面有何局限；（2）作為審美成果的作品，它所展示的想像空間在維度上有何局限。在考察這一局限的同時，我還考察本世紀的作家為跨越 局限而作的努力，特別是八十年代之後的大陸新作家所作的努力。

Beyond Cultural And National Identities : Current Re-Evaluation Of The Kominka Literature From Taiwan's Japanese Period, Sung Sheng, Yvonne Chang

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

This paper is an offshoot of a larger, ongoing project that intends to deal with the relationship between various artistic formations and the dominant culture in Taiwan's post-1949 era. Though the lifting of martial law in 1987 has demarcated this era into two drastically different periods and a clearer contour of the new period seems to be just beginning to emerge in the mid-1990s, various cultural forces are still busily negotiating with each other. Nonetheless, there seems to be a general consensus as to what constitutes a core of the new dominant culture: the spirit of pen-t'u, or a nativist …

Wreath-Laying In Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, Carol A. Martin

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

The nineteenth century was an age of travellers, including many famous British women travellers. Lady Hester Stanhope lived for years in the Middle East, Mary Kingsley explored the jungles of Gabon and died while performing medical work in South Africa, Isabella Bird Bishop journeyed around the globe and wrote books on Malaysia, China, Japan, the Hawaiian Islands, the Sinai Peninsula, and the valleys and peaks above 10,000 feet in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.

George Eliot was also a woman interested in travel, though in ways different from those of the women I have just named. Several of the earliest …

Wreath-Laying In The George Eliot Memorial Garden Nuneaton, Ruth Harris

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

I am deeply grateful for the honour of being invited to lay a wreath in memory of George Eliot, and to lay it in a place that meant so much to her.... Nuneaton. Before the heavens opened, I pictured us all gathered outside surrounded by green grass, trees and flowers, and able to imagine the spirit of George Eliot not in her study surrounded by books but out-of-doors, enjoying the fresh air. Some imagination is needed to visualize a little girl gathering flowers in the sunshine, or running towards a Round Pool after her older brother, or leaping with delight …

Reading The Wreckage: De-Encrypting Eliot's Aesthetics Of Empire, Paul Douglass

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

The writer examines an aesthetics of empire evident in Eliot's The Waste Land. He contends that though this work's formal innovations appear “revolutionary,” its aesthetics fit into modernism's reactionary character and reflect the cultural politics of the British conservatism that Eliot had adopted. In decoding the poem's fragments and allusions, he illustrates Eliot's preoccupation with empire. He also shows how The Waste Land may be seen as part of a British literary tradition of “reading the wreckage” that goes back at least to Edward Volney's Ruins (1791).

Intertextuality In Sinister Street, Lamyaa Ibrahim El-Sahn

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Classicism And Romanticism (Fall 1997) (Whitman College), Robert D. Tobin

Syllabi

This course was taught by Robert Tobin at Whitman College. Professor Tobin worked at Whitman for 18 years as associate dean of the faculty and chair of the humanities, and was named Cushing Eells Professor of the Humanities.

"Classicism and Romanticism attempts to provide an overview of the European literature in translation that arose in the so-called classical and romantic periods. Very roughly speaking, one could say that Classical literature was written in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while Romantic literature was written in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries."

Front Matter

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Classicism And Christianity In Hélisenne De Crenne's Les Angoysses Doulouoreuses Qui Procedent D'Amours, Megan Conway

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Although Renaissance philosophers and theologians like Marsilio Ficino strove mightily to show Plato and Plotinus compatible with Saint Paul, writers of popular prose and poetry suffered no such qualms. While it appears curious and often shocking to modern readers to find reference to the apostles and Apollo in successive paragraphs, many Renaissance writer followed Dante's example in The Divine Comedy and saw nothing incongruous in embracing classical mythology while espousing Christian doctrine. A fascinating example of this combination of traditions is the popular French work of a female author of the early Renaissance—Hélisenne de Crenne's Les Angoysses douloureuses qui procedent …

To "Eche Out Our Performance With Your Mind": Making Performance Pedagogy Intellectually Sound, Sharon A. Beehler

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When the Chorus in Henry V instructs the audience about what to expect in Act III, it reiterates the point made earlier in the play that the spectator must take an active role in helping the players achieve their goal of presenting an effective drama: "eche out our performance with your mind" (line 35), says the Chorus. This would seem to be a commonplace of theater theory, but unfortunately, recent attempt by some teachers to incorporate televisual performance activities into the Shakespeare classroom have all too often neglected the intellectual participation of students with "performance texts," that is, with printed …

1997 Allen D. Breck Award Winner: A Woman's Life As Ancillary Text: The Printed Texts Of The Biography Of Elizabeth Tanfield Caary, Jesse G. Swan

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As the first woman to write and publish an original play in English, Elizabeth Tanfield Cary, Viscountess Falkland, has become the subject of increased attention and appreciation over the last few decades. Since a major reason for studying Cary has been the feminist motivation to document women's contributions to the English language and its literature and culture, biographically informed criticism has naturally drawn much attention. With Cary, biographically informed criticism has been fostered by the existence of the Life of Cary, a biography written within a couple of decades of her death primarily by one of her four conventual daughters, …

Review Essay: Bjork, Robert E. And John D. Niles, Eds. A Beowulf Handbook. University Of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1997. 466 Pp., Illustrations. $60.00., Joyce Tally Lionarons

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Bjork, Robert E., and John D. Niles, eds. A Beowulf Handbook. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1997. 466 pp., illustrations. $60.00.

Review Essay: Busby, Keith, Ed. Word And Image In Arthurian Literature, James A. Rushing Jr.

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Busby, Keith, ed. Word and Image in Arthurian Literature. Garland, New York, 1996. x + 380 pp. $75.00.

Review Essay: De Weever, Jacqueline. Chaucer Name Dictionary: A Guide To Astrological, Biblical, Historical, Literary, And Mythological Names In The Works Of Geoffrey Chaucer, Sigmund Eisner

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de Weever, Jacqueline. Chaucer Name Dictionary: A Guide to Astrological, Biblical, Historical, Literary, and Mythological Names in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 709. Garland Publishing. New York, 1996. xxi + 451 pp. $24.95.

Review Essay: Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel. The Beggar And The Professor: A Sixteeth-Century Family Saga, Amy Nelson Burnett

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Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel. The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997. viii + 407 pp., 26 half-tones, 5 maps, 1 table. $29.95/$15.00.

Review Essay: Schröder, Werner. Variable Verschriftlichung Eines Märe. Ein History Von Eim Edelman Vnd Sinem Knechte Heinrich, Albrecht Classen

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Schröder, Werner. Variable Verschriftlichung eines Märe. Ein History von eim Edelman vnd sinem Knecht Heinrich. Sitzungsberichte der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M., XXXIV, 3. Steiner, Stuttgart, 1996. 180 pp. DM 64.

Review Essay: Sigal, Gale. Erotic Dawn-Songs Of The Middle Ages: Voicing The Lyric Lady, Peter Dinzelbacher

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Sigal, Gale. Erotic Dawn-Songs of the Middle Ages: Voicing the Lyric Lady. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1996. xii + 241 pp. $49.95.

Crossing Boundaries: Land And Sea In Jane Austen's 'Persuasion', Laura Vorachek

English Faculty Publications

Jane Austen suggests in Persuasion the pressures that the increased mobility of the middle class placed on the established aristocratic society in her time. Anne Elliot especially brings to light the inherited assumptions of her society. She can marry within her social rank (Mr. Elliot or Charles Musgrove) or marry below her (Wentworth at age 23), but either is a choice within the limits established by her society. One owns land or one does not. But when Wentworth returns a man of name and wealth, he is not a member of the landed gentry nor is he below Anne in …

"The Doors Are Made Against You": Domestic Thresholds In Ben Jonson's Plays, Ann C. Christensen

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The gates made fast? Brother, I like not this;

For many men that stumble at the threshold

Are well foretold that danger lurks within.

—Richard of Gloucester, Henry VI, part 3 4.7.10-12.

Signior, is all your family within?

Are your doors lock'd?

—Roderigo and Iago, Othello 1.1.84-85

Review Essay: Chance, Jane, Ed. Gender And Text In The Later Middle Ages, Lisa Weston

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Chance, Jane, ed. Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 1996. xv + 342 pp. $59.95.