Modern Literature Commons^™

Editor's Note = 編者的話, Zijiang, Chris Song

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

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Bizarre Circuses, Barbaric Costumes : Hong Kong And The Aspirations Of Translation = 詭奇馬戲及蠻裝 : 香港與翻譯之所向, John Minford

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

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Notes On Contributors = 作者簡介

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

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沉默的她者 : 重探呂赫若，龍瑛宗與翁鬧作品中的女性角色 = The Silent Other : Re-Exploring The Female Characters In The Works Of Lü Heruo, Long Yingzong And Weng Nao, Pei Yin Lin

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

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Foreword = 前言, Sze Pui, Uganda Kwan, Wang Chi, Lawrence Wong

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

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Omens Of History : Su Tong's Southern Landscape And Dynastic Histories = 歷史的凶兆 : 蘇童的南方景觀和朝代歷史, Pui Yin, Vivian Lee

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

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Uncle Tom’S Cabin In The National Era: Commentary On Chapter 1 And 2, Melissa J. Homestead

Department of English: Faculty Publications

In the first chapter of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe warns her readers that the “indulgence” of slave owners and the “affectionate loyalty” of the slaves themselves towards their masters have misled some observers to believe the “poetic legend” of slavery as a benevolent “patriarchal institution.” She does not deny the genuineness of these emotions, but she warns that “the shadow of a Law” makes a mockery of the human relationships that develop between masters and slaves: “So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to a …

Postmodern Subjects And The Nation: Contemporary Arab Women Writers' Reconfigurations Of Home And Belonging, Ghadir Khalil Zannoun

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

A lot has been said about the declining status of national paradigms. Most recently, the forces of change have been located in the transnational and global phenomenon. Contemporary Arabic literature, however, identifies globalism as only one among many factors undermining the existing national formations in the Arab countries. Among these factors is the postcolonial condition, and in the case of Palestine, the struggle against the continuing military occupation of Palestinian lands, wholesale and unsystematized modernization, and complex internal Social, cultural, religious and racial differences exacerbated by neo-colonialism. The contemporary Arab women writers' fiction analyzed in this dissertation posits yet another …

Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma

Department of English: Faculty Publications

We were fishermen.

Father first called us so after he whipped us sore for fishing at the Ala stream in the summer of May 1995. Earlier that year, the bank had transferred him from our hometown of Akure to Yola, a volatile and violence-prone city in the north of Nigeria. Father wouldn't move us with him so he lived apart and visited only once in two weeks, always coming at midnight on Fri- days and disappearing at dawn on Sundays. Each time he returned, mother would detail how the house had fared in his absence - a breakdown of home …

Fulfillment Of Woman And Poet In Elizabeth Barrett Brown's Aurora Leigh, Beth Leonardo

English Student Scholarship

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From Larva To Butterfly: Sophia In Ding Ling’S Miss Sophia’S Diary And Coco In Wei Hui’S Shanghai Baby, Xiaoqing Liu

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Sophia and Coco are two characters in Ding Ling's Miss Sophia's Diary (1928/1995) and Wei Hui's Shanghai Baby (1999), respectively. Like a larva, Sophia, who enters society in the early twentieth century, is weak and immobile. Coco, who lives at the end of the twentieth century, is like a butterfly leading an outlandish lifestyle. The differences between Sophia and Coco reflect the achievement of official feminism, which liberated Chinese women from traditional patriarchal control in the social sense. However, gender issues for women remain unresolved. To fight against traditional patriarchy and especially challenge gender oppression in official feminism, both Sophia …

Introduction: A Tale Of Our Own Times, Melissa J. Homestead

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Catharine Sedgwick and the American Novel of Manners

In his preface to his novel of manners Home as Found (1838), James Fenimore Cooper repeats what were already commonplaces about American society as the subject matter for fiction. Lamenting "that no attempt to delineate ordinary American life, either on the stage or in the pages of a novel, has been rewarded with successful he admits Home as Found is another such attempt but professes he has "scarcely a hope of success. It would be indeed a desperate undertaking, to think of making anything interesting in the way of a Roman de …

Universal Identities And Local Realities: Young Poland's (Mis)Readings Of Synge, John A. Merchant

Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The problems Young Poland experienced in understanding the work of John Millington Synge were informed by precisely the same kind of behaviors that Daniel Corkery described in his argument for a truly native Irish national literature in the 1930s. Overcome by a strong sense of self, Poles were not fully able to appreciate the complexities and nuances of Synge's work and by extension, the Irish-Ireland movement. In the end, then, Young Poland was incapable of really understanding the Irish, and so the best they could do was to associate with them. As a result, Poles may have been able to …

Inverting The Haiku Moment: Alienation, Objectification, And Mobility In Richard Wright’S ‘Haiku: This Other World’, Thomas Lewis Morgan

English Faculty Publications

Richard Wright’s haiku — both the 4,000 he wrote at the end of his life and the 817 he selected for inclusion in Haiku: This Other World (1998) — remain something of an enigma in his larger oeuvre; critics variously position them as a continuation of his earlier thematic concerns in a different literary form, an aesthetic departure from the racialized limitations imposed upon his earlier work, or one of several positions in between. Such arguments debate the formal construction as well as the strategic reinvention of Wright’s haiku. The present essay engages both sides of this conversation, arguing that …

Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. ISBN 90-420-0534-3 299 pages, bibliography, index. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek presents a framework of comparative literature based on a contextual (systemic and empirical) approach for the study of culture and literature and applies the framework in audience studies, film and literature, women's literature, translation studies, new media and scholarship in the humanities and in the analyses of English, French, German, Austrian, Hungarian, Romanian, and English-Canadian modern, contemporary, and ethnic minority texts. Copyright release to the author in 2006.

Wordsworth And Milton: The Prelude And Paradise Lost, Colin Mccormack

English Student Scholarship

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The James Brothers And The Tragic Beauty Of Individualism, Corey Plante

English Student Scholarship

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Migrants In A Strange City : (Dis-)Locating The China Imaginary In Post-1997 Hong Kong Films = 陌生城市中的移民 : 後一九九七香港電影中國想像的位(錯)置, Vivian Lee

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

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Traditional Culture And Contemporary Performance : Adaw Palaf's The Great Flood = 傳統文化與當代表演 : 阿道．巴辣夫的《大洪水》, Terence Russell

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

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Couching Race In The Global Era : Intra-Asian Racism In Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon = 全球化年代的種族表述 : 從《臥虎藏龍》看亞洲內部的種族主義, Nick Kaldis

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

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小說家的辯言 : 包天笑的小說和困境 = A Defense Of The Novelist : Bao Tianxiao's Novel And Dilemma, Feng Ying Ming

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

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Notes On Contributors = 作者簡介

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

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Liu Yichang And The Temporalities Of Capitalist Modernity = 劉以鬯與資本主義的時間性, Kwai Cheung Lo

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

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Centering And Decentering Methodologies : Wang Anyi's Migratory Mythology And Descriptive Historiography = 向心與離心 : 王安憶的移民神話與歷史描寫, Y.F., Howard Choy

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

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Heartburn On A Map Called Home : Yau Ching And The (Im)Possibility Of Hong Kong Poetry As Chinese Poetry = 叫做家的版圖上心的抽搐 : 游靜與香港新詩作為中國詩之(不)可能, Jennifer Feeley

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

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劉以鬯作品年表 = Liu Yichang's Bibliography

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

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Reading Hong Kong Literature From The Periphery Of Modern Chinese Literature : Liu Yichang Studies As An Example = 從現代中國文學的邊缘看香港文學研究 : 以劉以鬯研究為例, Yuk Kwan, Amanda Hsu

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

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Ambivalent Laughter : Comic Sketches In Cctv's "Spring Festival Eve Gala" = 曖昧的笑聲 : 中央電視台春節聯歡晚會的小品, Jin Liu

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

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Center And Periphery In Modern Chinese Literature And Culture : An Introduction = 現代中文文學與文化的「中心與邊緣」 : 前言, Christopher Lupke

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

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Review Of Aguecheek’S Beef, Belch’S Hiccup, And Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture, And Food Among The Early Moderns By Robert Appelbaum, Elizabeth Spiller

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Histories of food have traditionally emerged out of the fields of structural anthropology, ethnology, and historical sociology. More recent scholarship has emphasized the idea of foodways, those networks by which foods are produced, prepared, and consumed within different food communities. Rather than seeing rituals of culture in food, such scholarship has instead sought to understand food in terms of a circulation of physical resources and values that involves questions of economics, ecology, biology, and ethnobotany. The first approach has tended, broadly speaking, to produce scholarship that is concerned with the ritual, symbolic, and social qualities to our acts of sustenance. …