Resonance From the Past to the Future:Mythological Metaphors in Chinese Science Fiction Films

This paper is centered on the extent to which contemporary Chinese science fiction is related to ancient Chinese mythologies according to the previous scholarly discussion and how these ancient mythologies are utilized specifically in the futuristic narratives of modern Chinese science fiction.By referring to academic dialogues,this paper argues that ancient mythologies can be recreated in modern science fiction and create modern mythologies in futuristic narratives to present or deal with modern human fears.Based on this argument,this paper then continues to explore what kinds of modern mythologies science fiction might deliver.The Chinese film The Wandering Earth(2019)will be discussed in terms of its mythological symbols and metaphors.This paper proposes a new approach through which to reconnect past stories with futuristic narratives and builds a frame in which to contextualize ancient mythologies in contemporary Chinese culture.

Tragic Beauty of Faulkner’s Villain Characters

This paper applies the theory of“Sphinx Factor”to examine the characters such as Sutpen,Emily and Jason in Faulkner’s fiction who are filled with brutal elements.It is found that although these characters are generally considered evil,cruel and violent,they also possess tragic beauty.

Doctors’Dilemma in Auspicious Pulse Diagnosis Represented in Ming-Qing Fiction

Auspicious pulse diagnosis/pregnancy diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine involves such issues as medical skills,narrative skills,family decency,and ethics.It is an excellent case for the exploration of ethical dilemmas in traditional Chinese medical practice.The early classical medical texts such as Su Wen(Basic Questions)and Ling Shu Jing(Spiritual Pivot Canon)provide a principle-based ethical guide for doctor-patient communication,while popular fiction such as Hong Lou Meng(A Dream of Red Mansions),Yu Mu Xing Xin Bian(Stories:Entertain to Enlighten),and Feng Yue Meng(Courtesans and Opium)in the Ming and Qing dynasties present literary examples for solving ethical dilemmas.This article will analyze these texts from three perspectives.First,the doctors in the text were subject to gender order and other delicate etiquette and customs,therefore were unable to make the diagnosis without embarrassing the patients and jeopardizing family decency.Second,the narrator tends to attribute pregnancy misdiagnosis to three reasons:incomplete patient information,doctors’poor narrative competence,and doctors’corrupted medical ethics.Finally,the Ming-Qing fiction proposes three methods to solve this moral dilemma:clear pulse reading,tactful speech,and taboo challenging.This discussion of moral dilemmas in pregnancy diagnosis in traditional Chinese medical practice can be used as a reference for the localization of narrative medicine.

Edgar Lawrence Doctorow’s Ragtime:Ragtime Music and the Musicalization of Fiction

The purpose of the present paper is to explore Edgar Lawrence Doctorow’s novel Ragtime(1975)as a masterful adaptation of musical form in fiction.It demonstrates the ways in which the use of musical devices of Ragtime shapes the rhythmic/narrative structure of the novel.The article offers the reading of the novel as a musicalized fiction,or,in other words,as a form of musico-literary intermediality.It focuses on the chief characteristics of Doctorow’s novel such as a plurality of independent consciousnesses and a diversity of simultaneous points of view/voices.The novel by its very design is polyphonic.Manipulating polyrhythmic effects,mixed rhythms,repetitive phrases and leitmotifs,Doctorow is experimenting with the rhythm both on micro and macro textual levels.

Research on the Space Construction of the Novel Ready Player One

The novel Ready Player One shows Ernest Cline’s ability of space construction,and demonstrates charm and artistic value of the virtual fantasy space it depicts.It is a science fiction with perfect combination of ideological content and artistic form.This thesis aims to discuss the Ernest Cline’s construction of the virtual pace and the real space in Ready Player One and the function of their construction.In real space,the environment is awful and dilapidated,and people’s lives are depressed.While in the virtual space,the world is colorful and people have varied ways of entertainment to fulfill their mind.This Thesis summarizes the effects brought by both the real space and virtual space for Ready Player One.With such a strong contrast,the conflict between the two spaces promotes the narrative process and also highlights the theme of the novel.

Gender Emergency:Fear of the Forsaken

Considered a great example of investigative fiction,Mia per sempre[Mine Forever]which denounces violence against women,encourages them to speak out,seek assistance,and refuse to flee in terror,has been hailed as outstanding work to denounce violence against women.The book is a study of women’s unusual relationships,which are marked by intense love,envious friendships,and unbreakable ties that result in mental instability,irrational behavior,or uncontrollable behavior.Tani’s work has also received recognition for including the knowledgeable perspectives of various specialists who offer a deeper and priceless understanding of these catastrophes occurring individuals’home.This study examines those instances of fear-sharing in relation to women’s independence and ability to move on or start new lives.The main question is how and why Tani’s employs fear.Who are the women or circumstances that cause fear?This paper considers the theoretical discourse on fear developed by scholars of the emotions such as,among others,Jaimal Yogis and Olsson and Phelps in order to examine the circumstances and outcomes of fear fashioned by Tani in her representation of Italian men’s criminal reaction to women’s autonomy.

In Her Mother’s House:Mother-Daughter Dissonance in Post-1990s Chinese American Fiction

This paper attempts to examine the trope of“home”and the depiction of mother-daughter dissonance“in her mother’s house”in post-1990s Chinese American fiction.The research selects four novels in the case study and focuses on how mother-daughter dissonance“in her mother’s house”is presented,what cultural connotations the trope of“home”carries and how they are affected by such extra-contextual factors as racism,sexism and classism.In comparison with two representative mother-daughter narrative works in pre-1990s period,the new characteristics and connotations of“home”in mother-daughter dissonance in post-1990s Chinese American fiction are revealed.

Research on the Foreign Communication of Chinese Science Fiction Literature in the Perspective of Public Diplomacy

In recent years,China’s public diplomacy has flourished,with literary exchanges and external communication undoubtedly becoming an essential part.Particularly with the progress of Chinese technology,science fiction literature has become a focal point both domestically and internationally.This paper investigates the background of the Chinese science fiction literature’s national characteristics,the manifestation of these characteristics in works,and the advantages of communication from three aspects.It also explores new ideas for the external communication of Chinese science fiction literature from the perspective of public diplomacy,inspiring new pathways for the integration of Chinese culture with the world,and telling Chinese stories to the world.

The Poison of Polygamy:Genre of the English Translation

When the Chinese-language The Poison of Polygamy was translated into English,some critics identified the work as picaresque.Skeptical of this conclusion,the author of this paper broadens the field of inquiry to suggest classification in an emigrant sensational genre.Briefly,the first two plots of the multi-strand work unfold the adventures of Chinese emigrants travelling by sea and land to Melbourne’s Gold Mountain.Interestingly,we are also afforded a glimpse of emigrant miners’cooperation regardless of race and colour when a mine disaster occurs.The work provides sharp recognition of migrants’dilemmas,such as marriage,before tackling the bigamy issue,the gender war,the fallen lifestyle of the female protagonist and so on.As the work unfolds,further shocking tales of murders and indulgence are revealed.Unlike the picareque’s episodic style,the translated Poison of Polygamy is coherent,realistic,serious and critical,and completely lacking in both sarcasm and playfulness.To investigate the appropriateness of assigning the work to the picaresque genre,the paper compares briefly with representative Spanish picaresque works such as Lazarillo and Gusman and English canonical Moll Flanders,watching carefully for commonalities.However,The Poison of Polygamy would seem to resonate more with Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret,a sensational fiction which shocked the English world in the 1860s.The contexts of both novels are close,mid-Victorian and Edwardian,where the latter is a continuation of the Victorians.The author is further enlightened by research results of literary translators who advocate that a text,once translated into a target language,becomes a canon of that culture and is cherished as such by its readers-as in the case of Shakespeare being revered as a German poet when read in translation.From this experiment the paper deems that cross-lingual comparative literature is not only possible but significant and resourceful.

免疫表型结合间期原位杂交法检测多发性骨髓瘤细胞遗传学异常

本研究旨在建立骨髓涂片荧光免疫表型结合间期原位杂交技术(FICTION),为检测多发性骨髓瘤(MM)患者的分子细胞遗传学提供新方法。以骨髓涂片为载体,通过标记FITC的抗CD138抗体筛选浆细胞(PC),比较筛选的PC比例与形态学检测的PC比例之间的差异。同时采用8号染色体着丝粒探针行间期荧光原位杂交技术,检测PC的8号染色体异常情况。结果表明:骨髓涂片上荧光抗体筛选的PC比例与骨髓形态学检测的PC比例相比无统计学差异(p>0.05),9例患者中4例(44%)有8号染色体异常,其中8号染色体单体(-8)3例(33%),8号染色体三倍体(+8)1例(11%)。结论:骨髓涂片FICTION技术具有简便、特异、准确的特点,可用于MM分子遗传学异常的研究。

文学作为一种文化阐释机制:从非虚构到虚构

自《人民文学》2010年推出＂非虚构＂专栏以来,＂非虚构＂文学现象日益成了当前文学研究一个热点话题。非虚构理论和文学的盛行引发了一个需要关注的问题：如果把非虚构视为一种新的文学体裁和创作手法,也就意味着制造出了一种不同于传统文学体裁、手法的新的文学观念。一方面,任何一种新观念的产生都会给既有的观念造成强烈地冲击,甚至否定、替换原有的观念;另一方面,有些新观念尽管令人耳目一新.

On William Gibson and Cyberpunk Science Fiction

Cyberpunk science fiction movement was triggered by William Gibson, and this SF genre refocuses on the impacts of technology on human and society. This tradition was abandoned by the New Wave SF with its interest on formal experiment. Cyberpunk SF is tinted with punk attitude for its rebellion against technological control and information control. With its criticism on postmodern society, cyberpunk science fiction has attracted postmodern critical attention.

类型、人物与观众的新变:当代好莱坞泛奇幻类IP改编的策略——以《饥饿游戏》系列电影为例

一、泛奇幻作为一种类型 在类型电影的发展历程中,奇幻（fantasy）、科幻（science fiction）、魔幻（magic）类电影都是数字技术与电影紧密结合下的革新产物,也是体现数字特效技术魅力最为适宜的电影类型。但这三者的概念在本质上有所差别,科幻作品的创作范式主要是描写科学技术所创造出的新世界、新事物,表达科技发展对社会和人类的影响。魔幻类作品起源于魔幻现实主义,其显著特点是必须以现实为基础,

George Orwell＇s Non-linear Narrative in The Road To Wigan Pier

Orwell＇s text The Road to Wigan Pier, henceforth referred to as RWP, is problematic due to the ambiguity of its status as a literary genre. The text is subversive on many levels, namely on the level of form. In order to show some aspects of the author＇s challenge of the conventional norms and methods of literary writing, a comparison between the writer＇s original diary of the journey to the industrial North of England, the main site of the coal mines, and the present book could be of great import. This reveals the author＇s genuine intellectual ability to manipulate and rearrange the events and scenes of the story on the discourse level. The author＇s manipulation and rearrangement of the story （the journey）, events and scenes, clearly reveals his potential literary creativity and imagination. Orwell has deployed many strategies to fulfil this purpose. Each strategy is actually a contribution to the author＇s overall argument and at the same time it constitutes a further aspect of subversion. The first aspect of subversion lies on the level of form itself. The form of the book is effectively very challenging. Contrary to the conventional view of the fictional novel, the study of Orwell＇s text based on Grrard Genette＇s model reveals his challenge of the basic novelistic parameters. The novelistic ingredients such as setting, characterisation, and plot development have been treated in a subverting way. Though not totally discarded, they have been manipulated for the purpose of the author＇s general argument, which is Socialism. For instance, characters in the novel are treated as types, that is, representatives of their class. Besides, the order of scenes and events has been rearranged for the purpose of foregrounding representative scenes like the description of the Brookers＇ lodging-house. The author＇s treatment of the material of the text is primarily based on his personal experience as an outside observer during his journey to the North. Therefore, the exploration of the novel from a structuralist perspective based on Genette＇s model does not merely aim at the pure application of some literary and critical approaches to Orwell＇s text. This may be misleading since the investigation may fall in superficiality and simplicity. But the strategy deployed is actually a further contribution to the author＇s general argument and a manifestation of the novel＇s status as a creative and subversive text.

A Woman Who Refused to Be Tamed——An Analysis on Female Consciousness of Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre,rebellious woman in the Victorian Age,holds her remarkable status in the English literature as the one who dare to fight against the patriarchal society.Unlike her contemporaries,Jane Eyre believes that men and women are born to be equal and women should never be tamed by the male-centered world or feminist ego.Under the tremendous pressure,she still guards her own dignity and determines to achieve self-actualization instead of being an accessory of men.It’s her female consciousness that lead her to be an unusual figure that enjoys both the financial self-reliance and social equality.Self-respect,selfreliance and self-actualization comprise Jane’s female consciousness that is instructive to women and worths a further exploration.

《英美文学选读》辅导(10) 第四章 维多利亚时期(3)——(George Eliot,Thomas Hardy)

Ⅰ、文学常识1.conflict—It is the tension in a situation between characters,or the actual opposition ofcharacters(usually in drama and fiction but also in narrative poetry).There are mainly three kinfs ofconflict,namely,man against man,man against himself,and man against nature.

A Comparison of the Characterization Between “The Story of an Hour” and “The Unicorn in the Garden”

Flash fiction is a kind of mini-sized story that contains no more than 1,000 words.This kind of fiction emerged alongwith the development of the times.Due to its short length,simple plot and limited words,it focuses on shaping the personality ofcharacters.Both the two flash fictions,"The Story of an Hour"and"The Unicorn in the Garden",express a similar theme of mar-riage,but they employ different ways to create characters.With a detailed comparison of the characters and the characterization be-tween the two works,this paper intends to explore the methods of shaping characters from point of view,psychological descriptionand language description.

Criticism on the Critical Approaches in J. Hillis Miller's Fiction and Repetition:Seven English Novels

Fiction and Repetition is and will remain a distinguished deconstructionist guide of literary criticism. However, after detailed and systematic research, I also find some shortcomings in this important academic work: Firstly, written in the metaphysical language, Fiction and Repetition can never succeed in escaping the logocentrism and binary opposition inherent in this language.Secondly, based on Saussure's argument on langue, the monograph's view of indeterminacy of literary work's meaning is theoretically correct but practically inadequate. Last but not the least, Miller's proposal on repetition also has some limitations. By taking into account both the work's merits and demerits, we can gain a more comprehensive outlook on Miller's idea of repetition as well as the deconstruction theory of literary criticism in general.

破折号的理解与使用

破折号一般是两个字母的长度,前后不留空,如果用打字机,可用两个连字符表示破折号。破折号在近代英语中有多方面的用途,日益推广。英语的破折号与汉语破折号用法基本相同。破折号在英语中使用越来越多,用法复杂多样,本文讨论的是最常见的几种用法。