SANDRA Rwese, a Kenyan entrepreneur, launched her consulting firm Chinese Business Trainers in Kenya in 2008. The consultancy helps link Kenyan companies in the tourism and hospitality sector to Chinese clients. Rwese...SANDRA Rwese, a Kenyan entrepreneur, launched her consulting firm Chinese Business Trainers in Kenya in 2008. The consultancy helps link Kenyan companies in the tourism and hospitality sector to Chinese clients. Rwese＇s groundbreaking work won her the global Chinese Tourist Welcoming Award in 2012 from one of the world＇s leading think tanks on Chinese outbound tourism. In an interview with ChinAfrica, Sandra Rwese shared her views and advising insight on global strategies, innovation and Chinese cross-cultural skills. Excerpts of this interview follow：展开更多
Gwendolyn Brooks’s sonnet sequence,“Gay Chaps at the Bar”is written in compliance with the esoteric literary ideas of the followers of A.R.Orage.Thus each sonnet contains a verifiable intentional mistake,a series o...Gwendolyn Brooks’s sonnet sequence,“Gay Chaps at the Bar”is written in compliance with the esoteric literary ideas of the followers of A.R.Orage.Thus each sonnet contains a verifiable intentional mistake,a series of literary allusions,and an esoteric idea.These mistakes have been previously undetected.Most of the allusions have been have been overlooked by critics.The sonnets are also written in the phonetic code used by alchemists.The material that Brooks drew on for her allusions consists of works of popular culture,and literary classics,so that there is nothing erudite about her references.On the other hand,the esoteric ideas are extremely obscure.This close reading is a severe departure from readings which have treated the poems as social protest and experiments in a so-called Afro-Modernist aesthetic.The new aesthetic of“objective literature”raises many questions about the nature of art,reading,and consciousness.展开更多
John Donne is particularly famous for his mastery of the metaphysical conceit.And among the diverse metaphorical conceits Donne`s use of the alchemical imagery is significant.This paper is to analyze the alchemical im...John Donne is particularly famous for his mastery of the metaphysical conceit.And among the diverse metaphorical conceits Donne`s use of the alchemical imagery is significant.This paper is to analyze the alchemical imagery in Donne`s poems and how Donne employs it for his poetic purpose through textual analyses.And this paper aims to give a panoramic view of the alchemical motif in Donne`s poems.展开更多
文摘SANDRA Rwese, a Kenyan entrepreneur, launched her consulting firm Chinese Business Trainers in Kenya in 2008. The consultancy helps link Kenyan companies in the tourism and hospitality sector to Chinese clients. Rwese＇s groundbreaking work won her the global Chinese Tourist Welcoming Award in 2012 from one of the world＇s leading think tanks on Chinese outbound tourism. In an interview with ChinAfrica, Sandra Rwese shared her views and advising insight on global strategies, innovation and Chinese cross-cultural skills. Excerpts of this interview follow：
文摘Gwendolyn Brooks’s sonnet sequence,“Gay Chaps at the Bar”is written in compliance with the esoteric literary ideas of the followers of A.R.Orage.Thus each sonnet contains a verifiable intentional mistake,a series of literary allusions,and an esoteric idea.These mistakes have been previously undetected.Most of the allusions have been have been overlooked by critics.The sonnets are also written in the phonetic code used by alchemists.The material that Brooks drew on for her allusions consists of works of popular culture,and literary classics,so that there is nothing erudite about her references.On the other hand,the esoteric ideas are extremely obscure.This close reading is a severe departure from readings which have treated the poems as social protest and experiments in a so-called Afro-Modernist aesthetic.The new aesthetic of“objective literature”raises many questions about the nature of art,reading,and consciousness.
文摘John Donne is particularly famous for his mastery of the metaphysical conceit.And among the diverse metaphorical conceits Donne`s use of the alchemical imagery is significant.This paper is to analyze the alchemical imagery in Donne`s poems and how Donne employs it for his poetic purpose through textual analyses.And this paper aims to give a panoramic view of the alchemical motif in Donne`s poems.
