The Alienation of Impotent Art in Cather's Youth and the Bright Medusa

Willa Cather's Youth and the Bright Medusa first published in 1920 is a collection of eight stories of similar themes depicting the modern artists' futile attempts to construct their art kingdom. This essay focuses on Cather's antipathy toward monetary wealth and aesthet ic persistence and reflects on theartists' dilemma in a philistine industrial society.

The Alienation of Nature in Emily Dickinson’s Poems through the Prism of Taoism

In the poems created by the renowned American poet Emily Dickinson,those related to nature constitute a considerable proportion.However,Dickinson’s attitude toward nature is,in fact,contradictory.On the one hand,Dickinson perceives nature as gentle and kind,akin to a mother.Nature is regarded as“heaven”and embodies harmony.On the other hand,nature possesses its own operational principles and harbors inherent cruelty.According to Dickinson,humans should refrain from excessive interference in the natural order.This article attempts to analyze the similarities in attitude towards nature between Dickinson’s poetry and Taoist philosophy.

Attaining Human Aspects to Avoid Alienation in Architecture

Architectural practice during the last century was influenced by Western architectural theories.These theories were reflections of the contradictions of human beings’lives:the result was contradictions in architecture.The research aims to launch a view of the fundamentals of what we might call Muslim architectural theory,fundamentals that can control the future of architecture.Thus,it offers a set of principles coming from Muslim thought;these principles highlight humanitarian needs to be fulfilled by architecture.This paper makes the following assumptions:(1)Re-forming architecture requires re-forming the human.(2)The interaction between the social environment on one side and the built environment on the other side achieves human comfort.(3)Principles derived from Muslim thought set up general rules that can order architectural practice.Based on these theories,this paper has a goal of crystallizing a new theory that governs present-day architecture.Thus,the paper studies human needs in architecture.Besides,it has an implementation part to explain how architecture fulfills human needs.It further shows the extent to which the built environment can satisfy those needs.The research includes thirty needs traced from Muslim thought.Consequently,the research examined the presence of these needs in one traditional Arabian house.

The Alienation of Interpersonal Relationship——An Analysis of Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser's first novel, Sister Carrie is a work of excellence with epoch-making significance in the history of American literature. It is written in the transition period of United States, and the consumption ideology gradually influences the human nature at that time. Based on the writing background, this paper attempts to explore the alienation of interpersonal relationship under the consumer society in this novel through the perspective of Marxism and text analysis.

Woman's Celibacy:Power or Alienation? Feminist Concerns in A.S.Byatt's Quartet

As one of the most famous contemporary British women novelists, A.S. Byatt depicts the true situation of women in her"Frederica Quartet". The quartet involves some feminist issues such as marriage and celibacy, female power and women's alienation. In the quartet, Byatt associates the mythical virgin images to the women figures in real life, and contemplates possible ways for women to survive and keep female power in a male-dominated society. It makes a detailed analysis on the recurring virgin images and the characterization of female characters in the quartet, aiming to analyze the theme of Byatt's quartet and reveal her feminist concerns.

小麦-中间偃麦草双体异附加系的选育和鉴定

在小麦-中间偃麦草59个杂交后代种质系中,筛选出6个小麦-中间偃麦草双体异附加系(line0605,line0607,line0609,line0610,line0611,line0625),并对其进行了形态学、白粉病抗性、细胞学和RAPD鉴定。形态学结果表明:6个双体异附加系农艺性状较好地结合了双亲的优良特点;细胞学结果表明:6个双体异附加系具有高度的细胞学稳定性,花粉母细胞减数分裂中期Ⅰ(PMCMI)的染色体构型为2n=22Ⅱ;RAPD分析表明:在供试的209个随机引物中有5个引物分别能在6个异附加系中稳定地扩增出不同的特异带型,可以作为各个异附加系所附加染色体的特异分子标记;白粉病抗性鉴定结果表明:line0605表现免疫,line0610和line0625表现高抗,line0607表现中抗,line0609和line0611表现中感。

Influence of Cultural Alienation on Happiness of Overseas Students: Mediating Role of Stress Relief and Regulating Role of Cultural Intelligence

When the global outbreak of new coronary pneumonia broke out in 2020,online public opinion events triggered by cultural differences among overseas students had come into the public view.To further explore the relationship between the cultural alienation of overseas students and their own happiness,this study takes visualization and analysis of positive,negative sentiment analysis of Weibo netizens’comment data in the“Xu Kexin Incident”as the starting point,on the basis of introducing cultural alienation,stress relief methods,and cultural intelligence,combining gender and social ability,social relations and other individual attributes,designed a questionnaire to investigate 502 overseas students,through the construction and analysis of the adjusted Cox risk ratio intermedi-ary model,comprehensive single factor interference and multi-factor cross-over comprehensive analysis.The results show that the cultural alienation of overseas students has a significant effect on their own well-being.The study concluded as follows:(1)Netizens hold polarized views on the three dimensions of overseas students’mask,safety,and culture;(2)Stress relief methods play an intermediary role between cultural alienation and the happiness of overseas students,among which Negative stress relief methods play a greater role;(3)The level of cultural intelligence regulates the intermediary process of stress relief methods.The higher the level of cultural intelligence,the stronger the regulatory effect.

A Comparative Approach to Madame Bovary and Kiralik Konak in Terms of Alienation

One＇s alienation from herself/himself and the Though alienation begins with the disharmony, society in which she/he lives is a common theme in literature. or anomaly, between the society and individual, it usually ends up with the individual＇s distanciation from the society and retreat into her/his private and inner space. Yet s/he cannot get rid of the problems surrounding her/him and experiences a disastrous end. In this sense, the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, a nineteenth-century French novelist, and Kirahk Konak （The Mansion for Sale） by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, a twentieth-century Turkish writer, are two ideal examples for this theme in that the protagonists of these two novels are alienated from themselves and their society. This study is intended to make a comparative analysis of these two novels on the basis of the term ＂alienation＂ in the light of Emile Durkheim＇s views of the issue.

On Adaptation and Alienation in Translation

From cultural point of view,there are two methods in translation:adaptation which is TL culture-oriented and alienation which is SL culture-oriented.What this article tries to prove is that each of them has its own strong and weak points,which leads to the conclusion that both methods are justified in their existence.And last,some points for attention are suggested for translation,which include the relationship between SL and TL,the type of texts and the translator's purpose.

Construction of Eco-landscape Attraction's Spatial Alienation Model: A Case Study of Water Recreation Space

Study on eco-landscape attraction focuses on the congregate effect of production factors, but the spatial alienation of the congregate factors is an academic blind zone. This paper takes urban eco-water recreation space as the experiment object, explores the spatial alienation process of eco-landscape attraction, i.e., the homogeneous landscapes' attraction prefers alienation after factor magnetic field's differentiation, and then the attraction spaces of similar landscape areas are apt to alienation, finally leading to another new eco-landscape attraction's spatial structure of "homogeneous landscapes repel each other, heterogeneous landscapes attract" and the construction of eco-recreation alternating buffer model. In addition, this research proposes the testing procedures and evaluation method of that model, ensuring the structural innovation and application universality of the new urban recreation space planning.

All It Ever Does Is Rain： Bruce Springsteen and the Alienation of Labor

The popular singer and songwriter Bruce Springsteen is a product of the working-class family, and his songs often creatively capture not only working-class life but also workers＇ alienation from their labor. In an unsystematic way, Springsteen＇s lyrics portray how modem workers are alienated from the products of their labor, the process of working, other workers, and ultimately, from themselves. Although Springsteen primarily has blue-collar, industrial workers in mind, his thoughts on the alienation of labor continue to have relevance for workers in the American consumer society and in the contemporary global economy as well.

Migration and Alienation in an Indian Community in Mexico

The intensification of mobility of individuals from an Indian community to United States in the quest for jobs that neoliberal government has been unable to create, is the result of the lack of policies regarding native Mexicans. Recently, the installation of maquila factories surrounding a little Indian community in the north of Mexico City captured some labor force, but since the salaries are too low, people has to migrate, provoking, among others, problems such as family breakdown, new drug habits as well as abandonment of agriculture. This paper will focus on some migrant experiences in the context of their relationship and interaction with host societies and other immigrant groups and the accompanying forms of alienation, resistance and the recovery of a sense of self.

教育的异化与高等教育的危机

教育活动内含着两个目的:一方面教育要培养人具有全面的知识和才能,另一方面教育要培养人具有真正合乎人性的健全的人格和体魄。教育的职能依据其作用的层次和性质分为实质性职能和工具性职能,分别体现着教育的本质目的和表象功能。教育的本质和社会职能并不是一回事,背弃教育的本质片面强调教育的社会职能,结果会使教育发生扭曲。在一定的社会物质条件下,教育也会产生一种异己的违背自身本质要求的统治力量,使教育与其本质、与人的本性相对立,这就是教育的异化。市场经济体制的建立为转轨时期的高等教育带来了挑战和机遇,如果高等教育不顺势推进改革,没有必要的制度约束和社会机制的调节,大学就会背弃教育的本质目的和实质性职能而出现异化,教育者和被教育者也会在这个过程中被异化,这就是高等教育真正的危机。

Alienation and Existential Predicaments of Clones:Interpreting Never Let Me Go in the Context of Posthumanism

The literary background of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go sets in a highly developed scientific and technological world where clones are created by human and“educated”in the Hailsham School for the sake of“donating”their vital organs to human three or four times before death.By depicting miserable fate of clones,the novel conveys deep concerns on the consequences of abusing technology in modern society.Ever since the burgeoning development of life science and artificial intelligence in the 1990s,the trend of posthumanism/transhumanism has emerged.Posthumanism promotes approaches to enhancing human body condition and organism,and extending human lifespan to augment human capacity and well-being by the advancement of technology.In literary field,contemplation on the relationship between human beings and technology has become a major concern of posthumanism.Putting Never Let Me Go in the context of posthumanism,this essay probes into the significant themes of the novel from three aspects:(1)clones’torments in the existential predicaments imposed by human;(2)human’s violation to the principles of bioethics causing the existential predicaments of alienated clones;(3)appealing to human to ruminate on the relationship between scientific technology and ethics.

An Analysis of Play It As It Lays from the Perspective of Fromm’s Alienation Theory

Joan Didion is an outstanding female writer who has achieved a distinctive position in contemporary literature.Her second novel,Play It As It Lays,is nominated for a National Book Award.Set in Hollywood and Las Vegas,it presents the alienated world through exquisite description of its protagonist Maria.Based on Erich Fromm’s Alienation Theory,this essay attempts to analyze the alienation in the novel from two aspects:first,the novel’s materialistic environment in the 1960s;second,the alienated relationship between spouses as well as between parents and children.

An interpretation of alienation theme in J. D. Salinger＇s The catcher in the rye and Nine stories

J. D. Salinger is an alienated writer, who alienates himself from the dominant society. He is unsocial in character and unconventional in behavior. His reclusion can be regarded as the behavioral presentation of his alienation. Salinger also portrays many alienated characters in his The catcher in the rye and Nine stories. These alienated characters include children, adolescents and adults. They alienate themselves from dominant social culture, groups and even themselves. According to the analysis of these alienated protagonists from autobiographical and historical perspectives, the root of their alienation lies in the conflict between their searching for the ideal love and the absence of such love in the dominant society. So comparing with enjoying substantial life, Salinger＇s works can arouse people＇s interest and give more concern to their spiritual life.

An Analysis of The Characters' Alienation in Catch-22

Joseph Heller is the United States after World War II as one of the most famous writers, his novels are usually based on real life creation, Catch-22 not only reflect the lives of American society, also express their own against the real world of protest,the war as the background, portrayed the characters such as Yosserian, reflects the theme of the contemporary society,. This article mainly studies the characters in the novel, and pointed out that it manifests in several aspects. The novel criticizes bureaucratic capitalism and distorts human nature., people caused great alienation. It can be seen that Heller is concerned about human nature, caring for the plight of humanity.

The Alienation and Loneliness in Orpheus Descending

Orpheus Descending is written by American famous playwright Tennessee Williams. According to the portrayal of a series marginalized people, this drama presents the solitude in human beings' heart and the estrangement in interpersonal relations. This paper tries to analyze the solitude theme in this drama from philosophic aspect and realistic aspect, combining alienation theory and existentialism theory to analyze the reason and the manifestation of solitude.

Gulliver's Alienation from A Total Rationalist

Taken the historical background of this novel into consideration, the present essay presents a text-based analysis of Gulliver's alienation. It analyzes the process of Gulliver's alienation from a total rationalist to an anti-rationalist. Gulliver 's alienation shows Swift's his deep reflection on the 18 th Century total rationalism.