In this article,the authors aim to read several literary texts through the lens of Nature,Culture and Humanity.These literary texts are including a short story by Anthony Doerr’s The Shell Collector,two plays by Will...In this article,the authors aim to read several literary texts through the lens of Nature,Culture and Humanity.These literary texts are including a short story by Anthony Doerr’s The Shell Collector,two plays by William Shakespeare-King Lear and The Winter’s Tale,and four novels-namely,Orhan Pamuk’s The Red-haired Woman,Emily Brontë’s Weathering Height,Louis Aragon’s Paris Peasant and,the last but not the least,Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.Through reading these texts,the authors try to observe the relation between Nature and human,in a way which human beings can find freedom through the inspiration of Nature,as humanity can be expressed by artistic forms.展开更多
Through reading Walter Benjamin＇s critical essay, Surrealism： The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia, the authors of this research would like to trace the key point of Surrealist aesthetics, particularly t...Through reading Walter Benjamin＇s critical essay, Surrealism： The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia, the authors of this research would like to trace the key point of Surrealist aesthetics, particularly the juxtapositions of visual objects in the city of London. Richard Aldington＇s two poems, London （May 1915） and Eros andPsyche, come to depict Surrealist image spheres, as their visual representations in words would show. The dialectical optic of the poet comes to reveal an allegorical synthesis, giving birth to new meanings. The city of London shows the irrational fusion of the opposites, in a way which a Surrealist reading of these two poems is able to construct a critical virtue.展开更多
文摘In this article,the authors aim to read several literary texts through the lens of Nature,Culture and Humanity.These literary texts are including a short story by Anthony Doerr’s The Shell Collector,two plays by William Shakespeare-King Lear and The Winter’s Tale,and four novels-namely,Orhan Pamuk’s The Red-haired Woman,Emily Brontë’s Weathering Height,Louis Aragon’s Paris Peasant and,the last but not the least,Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.Through reading these texts,the authors try to observe the relation between Nature and human,in a way which human beings can find freedom through the inspiration of Nature,as humanity can be expressed by artistic forms.
文摘Through reading Walter Benjamin＇s critical essay, Surrealism： The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia, the authors of this research would like to trace the key point of Surrealist aesthetics, particularly the juxtapositions of visual objects in the city of London. Richard Aldington＇s two poems, London （May 1915） and Eros andPsyche, come to depict Surrealist image spheres, as their visual representations in words would show. The dialectical optic of the poet comes to reveal an allegorical synthesis, giving birth to new meanings. The city of London shows the irrational fusion of the opposites, in a way which a Surrealist reading of these two poems is able to construct a critical virtue.
