The human body, such as hair, serves as a prism through which historical and cultural contexts are effectively refracted. Despite its historical and cultural significance, the role of hair, however, remains curiously ...The human body, such as hair, serves as a prism through which historical and cultural contexts are effectively refracted. Despite its historical and cultural significance, the role of hair, however, remains curiously a marginalized subject among the renewed interests on the body in the academic fields. In this paper, the author attempts to politicize the queue from 3 perspectives： maintaining a certain prescribed hairstyle is a top-down gesture to construct national conformity; the boundary between Manchu and Han is invoked and reinvented through the battles surrounding the queue politic in late Qing and early Republic; the widespread debate between keeping the queue and cutting the queue at the turn of the 20th century epitomizes the haunting rhetoric of traditionalism and modernism pursuit of modernity in China.展开更多
As one of the most outstanding representatives of the Pre-Romanticism poet in 18th century English literature,Wil liam Blake lived through and witnessed an era of great political and social upheaval and transitional p...As one of the most outstanding representatives of the Pre-Romanticism poet in 18th century English literature,Wil liam Blake lived through and witnessed an era of great political and social upheaval and transitional period:the American War of Independence,the French Revolution,the Napoleonic Wars and the Industrial Revolution which brought about significant and essential impact on social and historical progress in England.Coming from the social injustices and the full of the dark-side of the industrial England,Blake caught the pulse of his times through his sharp and deep insight,and employed his symbolism,satiric and allegorical device to condemn and criticize the oppression and exploitation derived from the class inequality,privilege and tyr anny.Through his painting and poetry,Blake lashed the dark and indifferent church and authority,and exposed the hypocrisy and falsehood of the religion and humanity,and also called on the oppressed to shatter mental and physical restriction "The mind-forged manacles" come from the ruling class.In this paper,I want to introduce and interpret the social reality as reflected in the poetry of William Blake through concrete analyzing some of Blake's poems in terms of main ideas,historical settings,rhe torical device and language character which underlay and concealed in his poetry deeply.展开更多
文摘The human body, such as hair, serves as a prism through which historical and cultural contexts are effectively refracted. Despite its historical and cultural significance, the role of hair, however, remains curiously a marginalized subject among the renewed interests on the body in the academic fields. In this paper, the author attempts to politicize the queue from 3 perspectives： maintaining a certain prescribed hairstyle is a top-down gesture to construct national conformity; the boundary between Manchu and Han is invoked and reinvented through the battles surrounding the queue politic in late Qing and early Republic; the widespread debate between keeping the queue and cutting the queue at the turn of the 20th century epitomizes the haunting rhetoric of traditionalism and modernism pursuit of modernity in China.
文摘As one of the most outstanding representatives of the Pre-Romanticism poet in 18th century English literature,Wil liam Blake lived through and witnessed an era of great political and social upheaval and transitional period:the American War of Independence,the French Revolution,the Napoleonic Wars and the Industrial Revolution which brought about significant and essential impact on social and historical progress in England.Coming from the social injustices and the full of the dark-side of the industrial England,Blake caught the pulse of his times through his sharp and deep insight,and employed his symbolism,satiric and allegorical device to condemn and criticize the oppression and exploitation derived from the class inequality,privilege and tyr anny.Through his painting and poetry,Blake lashed the dark and indifferent church and authority,and exposed the hypocrisy and falsehood of the religion and humanity,and also called on the oppressed to shatter mental and physical restriction "The mind-forged manacles" come from the ruling class.In this paper,I want to introduce and interpret the social reality as reflected in the poetry of William Blake through concrete analyzing some of Blake's poems in terms of main ideas,historical settings,rhe torical device and language character which underlay and concealed in his poetry deeply.
