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Science-Fictional North Korea: A Defective History, Seo-Young J. Chu

Publications and Research

Kafkaesque, Orwellian, eerie, surreal, bizarre, grotesque, alien, wacky, fascinating, dystopian, illusive, theatrical, antic, haunting, apocalyptic: these are just a few of the vaguely science-fictional adjectives that are now associated with North Korea. At the same time, North Korea has become an oddly convenient trope for a certain aesthetic – an uncanny opacity; an ominous mystique – that many writers and artists have exploited to generate striking science-fictional effects in texts with little or no connection to North Korean reality. (The 2002 Bond film Die another Day, for example, draws from North Korea’s science-fictional aura to animate North Korean super-villains who …

Navigating 18th Century Haiku: Translating The Poetry Of Yosa Buson, Allan Persinger

2013 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference

One of the difficulties in translating the poetry of Yosa Buson, an 18th century Japanese poet and painter is negotiating the cultural differences between time and place, and still writing a translation that moves the audience within the limits of a haiku without doing any violence to the original text. My presentation is on the difficulties in translating a literary master from the Edo Era, Yosa Buson, especially when the poems contain embedded cultural references that the average American reader would not be familiar with as it is important to convey all of the information in a meaningful way and …

文苑 (重刊號第13期), 第十七屆嶺南大學學生會中文系系會 (朔翹)

文苑

困

Untitled (2 October 1910), Untitled (6 October 1910), And Untitled (7 October 1910) By Natsume Sōseki, Erik Lofgren

Transference

Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Erik Lofgren.

Cat, Heads, It Takes All Sorts, And Okinawan Scene By Yamanokuchi Baku, Daryl Maude

Transference

Translated from the Japanese by Daryl Maude.

Geta, My House, And Bowing Low (The Promulgation Of The Constitution) By Takamura Kōtarō, Leanne Ogasawara

Transference

Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Leanne Ogasawara.

Direction, Funeral Train, Pain, And When The World Perishes By Yoshiro Ishihara, Goro Takano

Transference

Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Goro Takano.

Beneath The Moss By Fujiwara Shunzei, Roselee Bundy

Transference

Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Roselee Bundy.

Flower On A Grave By Doi Bansui, Nicholas Albertson

Transference

Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Nicholas Albertson.

Commentary On Translating Tan Yuanchun, Zhu Heling, Song Wan, And Yao Nai, Andrew Gudgel

Transference

Notes by Andrew Gudgel on the translation of four Chinese poems into English.

Mountain Temple By Yao Nai, Andrew Gudgel

Transference

Translated from the Chinese by Andrew Gudgel.

Mapao Spring By Song Wan, Andrew Gudgel

Transference

Translated from the Chinese by Andrew Gudgel.

The Green Wutong Tree By Zhu Heling, Andrew Gudgel

Transference

Translated from the Chinese by Andrew Gudgel.

A Vase Of Plum Flowers By Tan Yuanchun, Andrew Gudgel

Transference

Translated from the Chinese by Andrew Gudgel.

Transference Vol. 1, Summer 2013

Transference

Transference is published by the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University. Dedicated to the celebration of poetry in translation, the journal publishes translations from Arabic, Chinese, French and Old French, German, Classical Greek and Latin, Japanese, and Russian into English verse. Transference contains translations as well as commentaries on the art and process of translating.

文苑 (重刊號第12期), 第十六屆嶺南大學學生會中文系系會 (玥弦牽)

文苑

矛盾

Dazai's Women: Dazai Osamu And His Female Narrators, Jamie Walden Cox

Dissertations and Theses

Dazai Osamu (born Tsushima Shûji) was a post-WWII writer who wrote a number of works using a female narrator. This thesis research focused on the reasons as to why Dazai may have written using female narratives, taking into consideration the time period and social milieu in which he was writing, as well as his own personal history with women. In addition, the history of male authors utilizing female narratives was explored, as well as the ideas of gender in the Japanese arts. Dazai works were also compared with Tankizaki Junichirô's to see how the roles of women in their works …

文苑 (重刊號第10期), 第十四屆嶺南大學學生會中文系系會 (瓏淵)

文苑

No abstract provided.

Nakajima Atsushi Influences Of Romanticism And Taoism, Evelyn Huang

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

Abstract Nakajima Atsushi (1909-1942) is an erudite writer who has combined Eastern and Western thoughts in his short stories. This thesis focuses on the influences of Romanticism and Taoism on his writings. Nakajima is skeptical of civilization and yearns for a natural and simple existence. The concepts central to Nakajima's works as articulated by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Lao Tzu are introduced in chapter l. Chapter 2 examines Nakajima's upbringing and the influences of his family, education, and work on him, as well as his thoughts revealed in his autobiographical fiction. His nostalgia for the past and nature, which concurs with …

文苑 (重刊號第8期), 第十二屆嶺南大學學生會中文系系會

文苑

No abstract provided.

Sinosummer Is To China As Kindergarten Is To College: Reflections On A Cultural (Or Maybe Not So Much) Journey, Traci Nigon

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduate requirement for the BSU Honors Program.

文苑 (重刊號第6期), 第十屆嶺南大學學生會中文系系會

文苑

No abstract provided.

文苑 (重刊號第5期), 第九屆嶺南大學學生會中文系系會

文苑

No abstract provided.

Folie Et Écriture Dans Calomnies De Linda Lê, Ching Selao

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article proposes to explore the many faces of madness through a reading of Linda Lê’s Calomnies, in which two narrative voices are presented. The following shall demonstrate how this novel reproduces a “romantic” perception of madness as encountered in Michel Foucault’s work. Although this narrative text introduces a mad narrator speaking in the “I” persona, it nonetheless points out the difficulties of letting madness speak for itself. These difficulties are also examined in this study.

文苑 (重刊號第1期), 嶺南大學學生會中文系系會

文苑

No abstract provided.

文苑 (革新號第4期), 嶺南學院學生會中文系系會

文苑

No abstract provided.

文苑 (革新號第3期), 嶺南學院學生會中文系系會

文苑

No abstract provided.

文苑 (革新號第2期), 嶺南學院學生會中文系系會

文苑

No abstract provided.

Change And Stasis In Dream Of The Red Chamber, Geoffrey Kain

Publications

“Hung-lou Meng, or Dream of the Red Chamber, stands as China’s greatest contribution to the world’s vast store of prose fiction. The eighteenth-century work, attributed to Cao Xue Qin is remarkable not only for its sheer volume but for the insight it affords into the intricacies of the old Chinese family structure, as well as into the way of life of a wealthy family having connections with the imperial court. Cao Xue Qin provides a detailed, expansive description of events within the two linked, great households of the extended Jia family, introduction hundreds of characters and chronicling the eventual falling …

The Epic Of Ezra Pound: A Modern Poet's Quest In China's Antiquity, Sun Hong

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Although the influence of the Chinese culture on Ezra Pound has long been recognized in the study of his Cantos, the question of whether his work should be regarded as a "transmission" or an "invention" requires a more substantial consideration of both his work and the Chinese tradition. This thesis attempts to supply an evidence to T. s. Eliot's answer to the question about Pound's status regarding the Chinese culture--namely, that Pound was "the inventor of the Chinese poetry for our times." To do so three features of the Cantos are considered: the philosophy of Confucius, particularly the text Da …