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Mirror, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Spring 1998), Trinity Christian College

Mirror

Editorial: Kelly Verstrate - 5

Art: Jonathan Aguilar - Mother - 19 / Mark Decker - City Woman - 21 / Mark Decker - Hollow - 10 / Jana Deur - At 14 - 23 /  Jana Deur - Skyscraper - back cover / Amy Graeser - Flood - 24 / Timothy Horjus - Entry - 11 / Timothy Horjus - Untitled - 14 / Timothy Horjus - Untitled - 20 / Kendra Iburg - Untitled - 22 / Sven Johnson - Part I: 60 Forms of Torture: Starvation - 12 / Timothy Jones - Migration - 6 / Joanne …

The Cabaret Of Dead Souls: Harvesting Russian History, Agnieszka Taborska, Jake Mahaffy, Szymon Bojko, Gella Alhassid, So-Hee Cheong, Matthew Cottam, Dawn Danby, Lorreine Fedor, Andrew Gardner, Carl Henschel, Michael Hoard, Kevin Lang, Eric Leichner, Michael Libby, April Lin, Pia Restina, Markus Reyes, James Sanders, Nicholas Scappaticci, Brett Shagen, Michael Shih, Aika Tong, Araby Williams

Programs

Program for the eleventh annual RISD Cabaret held in the Cellar at the top of the Waterman Building. Graphic design: Mia Moran, Matt Murphy, James Wynn and Katia Popova.View the Performance Recording.

Unwelcome Heroines : Mao Dun And Yu Dafu's Creations Of A New Chinese Woman, Li Chun, Sylvia Lin

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

In this essay, I examine fictional works by two of the most influential and progressive male writers of the period—Mao Dun and Yu Dafu - to explore issues concerning the emergence of the new Chinese woman. My study will focus on Mao Dun’s story, “Chuangzao” [Creation], published in 1928, and Yu Dafu’s short novel, Ta shi yi ge ruo nuzi [She is a weak woman], written in 1932. I look at these writers’ depictions of two different types of woman and contemporary Chinese men’s reactions to a new gender relation. Male intellectuals, while heralding the advance of a new Chinese …

Metafiction, Cannibalism, And Political Allegory : Wineland By Mo Yan, K. K., Kenny Ng

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

No abstract provided.

五、六十年代的香港新詩, Shu Sam, William Tay

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

No abstract provided.

Xiaomei Chen. Occidentalism : A Theory Of Counter-Discourse In Post-Mao China, Thomas Moran

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

This article reviews the book Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China", written by Xiaomei Chen.

A Toast To Conscience: Freedom Of Conscience In John Henry Newman, Kevin T. Fagan

World Languages and Cultures

A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of Dallas in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy in the Institute of Philosophic Studies.

Less Or More Black And White? Reassessing Genet's Les Nègres In Light Of Both Published Versions, Brian G. Kennelly

World Languages and Cultures

Each of the five plays by Jean Genet performed before his death in 1986 exists in more than one published version.² Critics have discussed the differences between the various published versions of each play³ with the exception of Les nègres: the drama commissioned by Raymond Rouleau, first published by Marc Barbezat in 1958, first performed in a production by Roger Blin at the Thèâtre de Lutèce in Paris in 1959, and published in a revised edition the following year.

Why have the changes Genet made to Les nègres remained undiscussed? Perhaps the attention of critics, like that …

Recent Polish-American Fiction, John A. Merchant

Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This article examines the development of a Polish American voice in American literature through an analysis of works by Stuart Dybek, Anthony Bukoski, Susan Strempek Shea, and Denise Dee.

Michel Hockx. A Snowy Morning : Eight Chinese Poets On The Road To Modernity, John Crespi

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

This article reviews the book "A Snowy Morning: Eight Chinese Poets on the Road to Modernity", written by Michel Hockx.

Mao Chen. Between Tradition And Change : The Hermeneutics Of May Fourth Literature, Sarah E. Stevens

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

This article reviews the book "Between Tradition and Change: The Hermeneutics of May Fourth Literature", written by Mao Chen.

頹廢文化的遺留 : 關於穆時英小說中頹廢女人的形象和意象, Jin Li

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

No abstract provided.

革命陣營的內部論爭? : 分析1928年革命文學論爭魯迅成為攻擊目標的原因, Wang Chi Wong

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

1928年爆發的“革命文學”論爭，在中國現代文學史和政治史上都有巨大的意義和深遠的影響。它標誌了左翼作家直接參與、干預以至控制現代中國文壇的開始。毛澤東便曾經高度評價過這時期在文化戰線上取得的勝利，這說明了為甚麼“革命文學論爭”在大陸出版的文學史著作及研究中佔了這樣重要的地位。

正由於這個緣故，有關“革命文學論爭”的論述為數不少，但因為政治及意識形態的原因，很多研究文章不但不能解決問題，而且往往引起新的爭論，所以“革命文學論爭”還是有值得深入探究的地方。本文會集中討論一個問題：為甚麼魯迅會成為革命文學派的攻擊目標？

Lydia H. Liu. Translingual Practice : Literature, National Culture, And Translated Modernity : China, 1900-1937, Yi Tsi Mei Feuerwerker

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

This article reviews the book "Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity—China, 1900-1937", written by Lydia H. Liu.

Siu Wang-Ngai, With Peter Lovrick. Chinese Opera : Images And Stories, Paola Voci

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

This article reviews the book "Chinese Opera: Images and Stories", written by Siu Wang-ngai, with Peter Lovrick.

Agency Beyond Subjectivity : The Unredeemed Project Of May Fourth Fiction, Deirdre Sabina Knight

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

This paper is part of a larger project in which I make a case for the central importance of the problem of free will to considerations of Chinese modernity. I begin by distinguishing between two key aspects of modernity and the Enlightenment: (1) subjectivity, or the realm of consciousness including the capacity for critical reason, and (2) agency, or acting on the world outside consciousness in a way that makes a difference. I then suggest that neglecting the development of rational agency cripples the force of the commitment to human freedom that drives the project of modernity. In calling attention …

"The World Adrift In Emptiness": Crossing The Abyss Of Transition In Four Tragedies By Wole Soyinka, Michael H. Lake

Masters Theses

1986 Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, Nigerian dramatist, poet, essayist and novelist, names the Yoruba god, Ogun, as his tragic muse for ritual theatre in "The Fourth Stage," his early artistic manifesto. In this essay Soyinka maintains that in contrast to Dionysus, Nietzsche's hero in The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music, Ogun balances within himself elements that could be described as Dionysian, Apollonian, and Promethean. Archetypally, Ogun thus constitutes a destructive-creative unity which overcomes the dyad of good-versus-evil of Europe's Christian civilization.

For this reason, Soyinka upholds Ogun not only as a natural patron of tragedy …

Mirror, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Fall 1997), Trinity Christian College

Mirror

Editorial: Jane Timmer - 5

Art: Rachael Ball - Untitled - 7 / Rachael Ball - Backwards - 24 / Peter Clevering - Splitting; Headache - cover / Peter Clevering - Unspliced Life - 13 / Deb Cremer - Untitled - back cover / Jana Deur - Modern Misery - 8 / Timothy Horjus - Disruption - 11 / Timothy Horjus - The True Emotion of Love and the Pain It Inspires Justice - 12 / Timothy Jones - It Has Been Seen - 23 / Eric Lubbers - Untitled - 17 / Kari Niewenhuis - Untitled - 9 / …

School At The Center: Mending Breaks In The Broken Heartland, Paul A. Olson

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Some years ago I was teaching a course called "The Literature of Agriculture," accounts of how farmers and rural people made a living over time. Hesiod, Virgil, Chaucer's rural tales, George Eliot, Great Plains modem farm novels, and Wendell Berry's writings about the unsettling of America were the fare. One of my students remarked in passing, "Don't know if I can read this stuff. I only went to a small high schooL" He knew nothing of the literature about smallness and quality in education and had no pride of community. Later I asked the rural class if they planned to …

Nick Brwone Et Al., Ed. New Chinese Cinemas : Forms Identities, Politics, Zhiwei Xiao

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

This article reviews the book "New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics", edited by Nick Browne, Paul Pickowicz, Vivian Sobchack, and Esther Yau.

Henry Y. H. Zhao. The Uneasy Narrator : Chinese Fiction From The Traditional To The Modern, Liangyan Ge

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

This article reviews the book "The Uneasy Narrator: Chinese Fiction from the Traditional to the Modern", written by Henry Y.H. Zhao.

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

No abstract provided.

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

No abstract provided.

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

No abstract provided.

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

No abstract provided.