The Age of Innocence, the most-favored masterpiece by James Walden, sketches the real conflicting life in the upper class in New York in the nineteenth century. This essay is to explore the feminist thoughts of major ...The Age of Innocence, the most-favored masterpiece by James Walden, sketches the real conflicting life in the upper class in New York in the nineteenth century. This essay is to explore the feminist thoughts of major female characters in the novel, holding that this is indeed an everlasting ode to feminism in light of the vivid female figures like May and Ellen.展开更多
Lefebvre’s triadic process consists of the relationship between“spatial practice”,“representations of space”,and“representational spaces”.This spatial triad as a unity describes how space is produced within soc...Lefebvre’s triadic process consists of the relationship between“spatial practice”,“representations of space”,and“representational spaces”.This spatial triad as a unity describes how space is produced within society.Interestingly,Lefebvre’s space is closely related to the process of Jewish youth’s growing up when we put Lefebvre’s triad into American-Jewish Bildungsroman,in which spatial practice is related to the repetitive routines of everyday places and private life,and it is,in a large sense,an abstract process linking to the complicated relationships of ethnicity,gender,class,etc.,while representations of space are the“real”lived space and representational spaces are a metaphorical and symbolic one,which is similar to Foucault’s space of power,under the function of which the Jewish protagonist goes gradually and paradoxically into the subject.展开更多
British novelist Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall can be interpreted as a female Bildungsroman. This essay attempts to explore how the protagonist's identity problem is finally resolved through the analysis of...British novelist Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall can be interpreted as a female Bildungsroman. This essay attempts to explore how the protagonist's identity problem is finally resolved through the analysis of the characteristics and elements of female Bildungsroman as reflected in TheWaterfall.展开更多
Telling Chinese stories and Chinese experience is an important theme of realist literature in the new era.Chinese writers in the new era face the significant challenge of how to understand the"totality of China&q...Telling Chinese stories and Chinese experience is an important theme of realist literature in the new era.Chinese writers in the new era face the significant challenge of how to understand the"totality of China"and how to construct the totality spirit and aesthetic character of the"Chinese"narrative.Above Baiyangdian Lake by Guan Renshan takes the historical changes that occurred in the typical environment of Baiyangdian New Area as the content of narration,revealing the growth of people and history and its"Chinese"connotation through the story of the growth of"new character"in the new era.The novel depicts the"rediscovery"and rebirth of history and traditions of China in the new era by"telling stories,"and puts them under a profound context of the past and present and in a broad vision of China and foreign countries,thus constructing the overall aesthetics of realism in contemporary China with an epic grand narrative.The novel artistically shows the building and growth process of China in the new era,and demonstrates its leveraging of resourcesand unique connotation.It is a typical text for understanding the relationshipbetween theimage shaping of China in the new era and Chinese realism literature,as well as the connotation,function and form of Chinese realism.展开更多
Based on detailed textual analysis, the article argues that Wang Anyi brings the abstract idealism of the second-generation of PRC into a productive collision with its concrete Other--from its parents＇ generation to ...Based on detailed textual analysis, the article argues that Wang Anyi brings the abstract idealism of the second-generation of PRC into a productive collision with its concrete Other--from its parents＇ generation to the resilient national bourgeoisie to quotidian sensuousness embodied by the world of its female counterpart. In so doing, as the author seeks to show, the novel presents a compelling narrative of the self-education, growth, and formation of the generation of the Cultural Revolution without reducing it to ideological stereotypes rampant in China after 1976. While delving into the structure and style of fiction, the article takes as its focus the confrontation between abstraction and concreteness; Self and Other; superstructure and infrastructure, or social consciousness and social existence, at a philosophical level in order to construct a phenomenology of the experience of post-revolutionary Subjectivity.展开更多
Russian writer Nicholas Tempered （1934） provided generations Ostrovski＇s novel How the Steel Was of Chinese youth with a widely admired role model： a young devoted communist soldier, Pawel Korchagin, whose image o...Russian writer Nicholas Tempered （1934） provided generations Ostrovski＇s novel How the Steel Was of Chinese youth with a widely admired role model： a young devoted communist soldier, Pawel Korchagin, whose image occupied a prominent place in the orthodoxy revolutionary education and literary imagination during Mao＇s era. Over the past decade, Pawel Korchagin has regained his popularity in Chinese media, his name and image have been appropriated by numerous artists and filmmakers to help in portrayals of the new generation＇s self-fashioning. The various （unorthodox） interpretations recently attached to Pawel＇s heroic story reveal a huge gap between Maoist ideology and the post-Mao ideas. This paper looks into the intricate relationships between Pawel Korchagin＇s revolutionary past and his varied contemporary representations. By doing so, I hope to gain a better understanding of the cultural politics of appropriating Mao＇s legacy to create new meanings for a changing Chinese society One example on which this paper focuses is the sixth-generation director Lu Xuechang＇s film Becoming a Man （1997）, which rewrites the revolutionary Bildungsroman of Pawel in a startling different context.展开更多
文摘The Age of Innocence, the most-favored masterpiece by James Walden, sketches the real conflicting life in the upper class in New York in the nineteenth century. This essay is to explore the feminist thoughts of major female characters in the novel, holding that this is indeed an everlasting ode to feminism in light of the vivid female figures like May and Ellen.
基金funded by Project:“Research on E.L.Doctorow’s Political Novels”(18YBA340)sponsored by Hunan Social Science Fund of China.
文摘Lefebvre’s triadic process consists of the relationship between“spatial practice”,“representations of space”,and“representational spaces”.This spatial triad as a unity describes how space is produced within society.Interestingly,Lefebvre’s space is closely related to the process of Jewish youth’s growing up when we put Lefebvre’s triad into American-Jewish Bildungsroman,in which spatial practice is related to the repetitive routines of everyday places and private life,and it is,in a large sense,an abstract process linking to the complicated relationships of ethnicity,gender,class,etc.,while representations of space are the“real”lived space and representational spaces are a metaphorical and symbolic one,which is similar to Foucault’s space of power,under the function of which the Jewish protagonist goes gradually and paradoxically into the subject.
文摘British novelist Margaret Drabble's The Waterfall can be interpreted as a female Bildungsroman. This essay attempts to explore how the protagonist's identity problem is finally resolved through the analysis of the characteristics and elements of female Bildungsroman as reflected in TheWaterfall.
基金the project"Mo Yan's Subjective Reconstruction of China and Research on New Literary Tradition"in Major Bidding Projects of the National Social Science Fund of China(17BZW159).
文摘Telling Chinese stories and Chinese experience is an important theme of realist literature in the new era.Chinese writers in the new era face the significant challenge of how to understand the"totality of China"and how to construct the totality spirit and aesthetic character of the"Chinese"narrative.Above Baiyangdian Lake by Guan Renshan takes the historical changes that occurred in the typical environment of Baiyangdian New Area as the content of narration,revealing the growth of people and history and its"Chinese"connotation through the story of the growth of"new character"in the new era.The novel depicts the"rediscovery"and rebirth of history and traditions of China in the new era by"telling stories,"and puts them under a profound context of the past and present and in a broad vision of China and foreign countries,thus constructing the overall aesthetics of realism in contemporary China with an epic grand narrative.The novel artistically shows the building and growth process of China in the new era,and demonstrates its leveraging of resourcesand unique connotation.It is a typical text for understanding the relationshipbetween theimage shaping of China in the new era and Chinese realism literature,as well as the connotation,function and form of Chinese realism.
文摘Based on detailed textual analysis, the article argues that Wang Anyi brings the abstract idealism of the second-generation of PRC into a productive collision with its concrete Other--from its parents＇ generation to the resilient national bourgeoisie to quotidian sensuousness embodied by the world of its female counterpart. In so doing, as the author seeks to show, the novel presents a compelling narrative of the self-education, growth, and formation of the generation of the Cultural Revolution without reducing it to ideological stereotypes rampant in China after 1976. While delving into the structure and style of fiction, the article takes as its focus the confrontation between abstraction and concreteness; Self and Other; superstructure and infrastructure, or social consciousness and social existence, at a philosophical level in order to construct a phenomenology of the experience of post-revolutionary Subjectivity.
文摘Russian writer Nicholas Tempered （1934） provided generations Ostrovski＇s novel How the Steel Was of Chinese youth with a widely admired role model： a young devoted communist soldier, Pawel Korchagin, whose image occupied a prominent place in the orthodoxy revolutionary education and literary imagination during Mao＇s era. Over the past decade, Pawel Korchagin has regained his popularity in Chinese media, his name and image have been appropriated by numerous artists and filmmakers to help in portrayals of the new generation＇s self-fashioning. The various （unorthodox） interpretations recently attached to Pawel＇s heroic story reveal a huge gap between Maoist ideology and the post-Mao ideas. This paper looks into the intricate relationships between Pawel Korchagin＇s revolutionary past and his varied contemporary representations. By doing so, I hope to gain a better understanding of the cultural politics of appropriating Mao＇s legacy to create new meanings for a changing Chinese society One example on which this paper focuses is the sixth-generation director Lu Xuechang＇s film Becoming a Man （1997）, which rewrites the revolutionary Bildungsroman of Pawel in a startling different context.
