Preface to Lyrical Ballads is full of poetic thoughts of Wordsworth and Coleridge.It is a manifesto of a poetic revolution,and it opens a new chapter for the English poetry.Such issues on poetry are addressed as its o...Preface to Lyrical Ballads is full of poetic thoughts of Wordsworth and Coleridge.It is a manifesto of a poetic revolution,and it opens a new chapter for the English poetry.Such issues on poetry are addressed as its origin,functions,subject matters,lan-guage,imagination,and roles and qualities of poets.展开更多
Ballads are a sort of old folk song with simple forms and light tone. They were dominarforms in 14th and 15th century. Ballads are anonymons. We don,t know whether they werewritten by an individual poet or by a group....Ballads are a sort of old folk song with simple forms and light tone. They were dominarforms in 14th and 15th century. Ballads are anonymons. We don,t know whether they werewritten by an individual poet or by a group. We merely know they have been taken up by thefolk and transmitted orally, even among the uneducatedand semi-educated people.展开更多
The“praise ballad”is a specific type of local folk literature handed down from generation to generation in traditional agricultural and fishing societies by means of chanting in the local vernacular dialect.It was c...The“praise ballad”is a specific type of local folk literature handed down from generation to generation in traditional agricultural and fishing societies by means of chanting in the local vernacular dialect.It was composed and sung to express the villagers’emotions,thoughts and feelings.The content of the praise ballads sung on the Pescadores is largely and tightly connected to the hardship of fishing life because the Pescadores are surrounded by the salt waters and savaged by the Northeast monsoons.When the author of a praise ballad narrates his/her personal feeling or mood towards a particular living condition,he/she appeals to an intense emotion regarding the daunting adversity of fishing on the open seas,which is called“begging the sea”in the local Taiwan Residents dialect.Although praise ballads play a decisive role in the promotion of Penghu cultural tourism,the unique folk chansons are facing a vital predicament,namely,they are being forgotten by the people of our time and have been gradually sinking into absolute oblivion.Based on Hung Min-Tsung’s authoritative work on and collection of local Penghu praise ballads,the research seeks to examine the“loss”and“gain”in the English translations of some representative local praise ballads collected in Hung’s book.Can the original message and flavor of a praise ballad be fully retained in a Taiwan Residents-English translation via the mediation of the Chinese language?Can a Taiwan Residents-Chinese-English translational grand tour manage to faithfully render the original beauty,charm and humor of the Pescadorean songs of the old times?What can be regained and what are lost in the English translation?These are the questions the paper endeavors to investigate.展开更多
Oscar Wilde's poems are rarely researched in China,especially his last famous poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol which focuses on the story of the execution of a convict for the brutal murder of his wife and shows Wi...Oscar Wilde's poems are rarely researched in China,especially his last famous poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol which focuses on the story of the execution of a convict for the brutal murder of his wife and shows Wilde's meditating on betrayal and the need for prison reform.This paper attempts to discuss the betrayal of form,content and theme in the poem through the brief analysis of the text to give a better appreciation of the thematic and artistic values.展开更多
The actantial model is an appropriate and universal way to analyze the deep structure of any novel.By analyzing Carson McCullers'famous novel The Ballad of the Sad Café with actantial model,the theme and the ...The actantial model is an appropriate and universal way to analyze the deep structure of any novel.By analyzing Carson McCullers'famous novel The Ballad of the Sad Café with actantial model,the theme and the beauty of the novel are easier to acquire.展开更多
The Ballad of the Sad Caféis one of Mc Cullers’masterpieces.By depicting the triangle love story among the main characters—Miss Amelia,hunchbacked Cousin Lymon and Marvin Macy,the novella reveals the incredible...The Ballad of the Sad Caféis one of Mc Cullers’masterpieces.By depicting the triangle love story among the main characters—Miss Amelia,hunchbacked Cousin Lymon and Marvin Macy,the novella reveals the incredible complexity of human nature.By analyzing the absurd town,Miss Amelia’s free choices and the hellish relationship between its main characters from the Existentialist perspective,the main propositions of Existentialism have also been vividly reflected and also help to reveal the philosophical and social realistic significances behind the novella.展开更多
Mainly applying gender studies to the analysis of Carson McCullers’s The Ballad of the Sad Cafe,with the body as the focus,this paper explores how the masculine Amelia is feminized for the purpose of resolving mascul...Mainly applying gender studies to the analysis of Carson McCullers’s The Ballad of the Sad Cafe,with the body as the focus,this paper explores how the masculine Amelia is feminized for the purpose of resolving masculinity crisis embodied by Marvin Macy and Cousin Lymon,concluding that the culturally constructed normative sex and gender dichotomy operates by disciplining otherness,causing gender identification trouble and disempowerment.展开更多
文摘Preface to Lyrical Ballads is full of poetic thoughts of Wordsworth and Coleridge.It is a manifesto of a poetic revolution,and it opens a new chapter for the English poetry.Such issues on poetry are addressed as its origin,functions,subject matters,lan-guage,imagination,and roles and qualities of poets.
文摘Ballads are a sort of old folk song with simple forms and light tone. They were dominarforms in 14th and 15th century. Ballads are anonymons. We don,t know whether they werewritten by an individual poet or by a group. We merely know they have been taken up by thefolk and transmitted orally, even among the uneducatedand semi-educated people.
文摘The“praise ballad”is a specific type of local folk literature handed down from generation to generation in traditional agricultural and fishing societies by means of chanting in the local vernacular dialect.It was composed and sung to express the villagers’emotions,thoughts and feelings.The content of the praise ballads sung on the Pescadores is largely and tightly connected to the hardship of fishing life because the Pescadores are surrounded by the salt waters and savaged by the Northeast monsoons.When the author of a praise ballad narrates his/her personal feeling or mood towards a particular living condition,he/she appeals to an intense emotion regarding the daunting adversity of fishing on the open seas,which is called“begging the sea”in the local Taiwan Residents dialect.Although praise ballads play a decisive role in the promotion of Penghu cultural tourism,the unique folk chansons are facing a vital predicament,namely,they are being forgotten by the people of our time and have been gradually sinking into absolute oblivion.Based on Hung Min-Tsung’s authoritative work on and collection of local Penghu praise ballads,the research seeks to examine the“loss”and“gain”in the English translations of some representative local praise ballads collected in Hung’s book.Can the original message and flavor of a praise ballad be fully retained in a Taiwan Residents-English translation via the mediation of the Chinese language?Can a Taiwan Residents-Chinese-English translational grand tour manage to faithfully render the original beauty,charm and humor of the Pescadorean songs of the old times?What can be regained and what are lost in the English translation?These are the questions the paper endeavors to investigate.
文摘Oscar Wilde's poems are rarely researched in China,especially his last famous poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol which focuses on the story of the execution of a convict for the brutal murder of his wife and shows Wilde's meditating on betrayal and the need for prison reform.This paper attempts to discuss the betrayal of form,content and theme in the poem through the brief analysis of the text to give a better appreciation of the thematic and artistic values.
文摘The actantial model is an appropriate and universal way to analyze the deep structure of any novel.By analyzing Carson McCullers'famous novel The Ballad of the Sad Café with actantial model,the theme and the beauty of the novel are easier to acquire.
文摘The Ballad of the Sad Caféis one of Mc Cullers’masterpieces.By depicting the triangle love story among the main characters—Miss Amelia,hunchbacked Cousin Lymon and Marvin Macy,the novella reveals the incredible complexity of human nature.By analyzing the absurd town,Miss Amelia’s free choices and the hellish relationship between its main characters from the Existentialist perspective,the main propositions of Existentialism have also been vividly reflected and also help to reveal the philosophical and social realistic significances behind the novella.
文摘Mainly applying gender studies to the analysis of Carson McCullers’s The Ballad of the Sad Cafe,with the body as the focus,this paper explores how the masculine Amelia is feminized for the purpose of resolving masculinity crisis embodied by Marvin Macy and Cousin Lymon,concluding that the culturally constructed normative sex and gender dichotomy operates by disciplining otherness,causing gender identification trouble and disempowerment.
