The Betrayal in The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde's poems are rarely researched in China,especially his last famous poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol which focuses on the story of the execution of a convict for the brutal murder of his wife and shows Wilde's meditating on betrayal and the need for prison reform.This paper attempts to discuss the betrayal of form,content and theme in the poem through the brief analysis of the text to give a better appreciation of the thematic and artistic values.

A Wasteland of Love: An Existentialist Approach to The Ballad of the Sad Café

The Ballad of the Sad Caféis one of Mc Cullers’masterpieces.By depicting the triangle love story among the main characters—Miss Amelia,hunchbacked Cousin Lymon and Marvin Macy,the novella reveals the incredible complexity of human nature.By analyzing the absurd town,Miss Amelia’s free choices and the hellish relationship between its main characters from the Existentialist perspective,the main propositions of Existentialism have also been vividly reflected and also help to reveal the philosophical and social realistic significances behind the novella.

Analyzing The Ballad of the Sad Café with Actantial Model

The actantial model is an appropriate and universal way to analyze the deep structure of any novel.By analyzing Carson McCullers'famous novel The Ballad of the Sad Café with actantial model,the theme and the beauty of the novel are easier to acquire.

Feminizing the Masculine Body in Carson McCullers’s The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Mainly applying gender studies to the analysis of Carson McCullers’s The Ballad of the Sad Cafe,with the body as the focus,this paper explores how the masculine Amelia is feminized for the purpose of resolving masculinity crisis embodied by Marvin Macy and Cousin Lymon,concluding that the culturally constructed normative sex and gender dichotomy operates by disciplining otherness,causing gender identification trouble and disempowerment.

Spacial Discipline in Carson McCullers’s The Ballad of the Sad Café

Mainly applying Michel Foucault’s idea about spacial discipline plus gender studies,in particular,of the correlation between gender and space as well as the power hierarchy in the distribution of space,this paper analyzes the female protagonist Miss Amelia in Carson McCullers’s The Ballad of the Sad Café.This paper argues that Amelia utilizes space as a means of self-empowerment,challenging the conventional gender dichotomy sanctioned by patriarchal norms.However,her spacial transgression is seen as a deconstruction of gender conventionality and causes masculine crisis as embodied by the male characters Marvin Macy and Cousin Lymon.As spacial discipline is collaboratively exerted by Macy and Lymon on Amelia to“correct”her transgression,Amelia finally concedes defeat and submits to patriarchal gender norms.

Man, City, and Nature in The Woman Warrior and Ballad of Eternal Sorrow

In a time of the global market economy, if one wants to live harmoniously together with nature or living environment, he should not think with a theoretical mode of dualist contradiction but that of harmony and coexistence such as ＂wholeness of man and nature＂. To illustrate this point, this paper thinks The Woman Warrior and Ballad of Eternal Sorrow are two significant texts： Ballad of Eternal Sorrow tells an ordinary, self-respecting, and life-respecting story of WANG Qi-yao and the girls like her as well as the city Shanghai. They blend into one harmonious whole： The city is like the girls and the girls match the city. Likewise, The Woman Warrior highlights the significance of naturc on the girl narrator＇s epiphany and healthy growth. The narrator comes to understand that paradoxes are the basic existent condition of human beings and so what she needs to do is to be magnanimous and balanceable in accepting these paradoxes.

Ballad Singer Thubten

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Essay on Ballads

Ballads are a sort of old folk song with simple forms and light tone. They were dominarforms in 14th and 15th century. Ballads are anonymons. We don,t know whether they werewritten by an individual poet or by a group. We merely know they have been taken up by thefolk and transmitted orally, even among the uneducatedand semi-educated people.

A Manifesto of a Poetic Revolution——Poetic Thoughts in Preface to Lyrical Ballads

Preface to Lyrical Ballads is full of poetic thoughts of Wordsworth and Coleridge.It is a manifesto of a poetic revolution,and it opens a new chapter for the English poetry.Such issues on poetry are addressed as its origin,functions,subject matters,lan-guage,imagination,and roles and qualities of poets.

Between Loss and Gain: Translating the Taiwan Residents Praise Ballads on the Pescadores into English

The“praise ballad”is a specific type of local folk literature handed down from generation to generation in traditional agricultural and fishing societies by means of chanting in the local vernacular dialect.It was composed and sung to express the villagers’emotions,thoughts and feelings.The content of the praise ballads sung on the Pescadores is largely and tightly connected to the hardship of fishing life because the Pescadores are surrounded by the salt waters and savaged by the Northeast monsoons.When the author of a praise ballad narrates his/her personal feeling or mood towards a particular living condition,he/she appeals to an intense emotion regarding the daunting adversity of fishing on the open seas,which is called“begging the sea”in the local Taiwan Residents dialect.Although praise ballads play a decisive role in the promotion of Penghu cultural tourism,the unique folk chansons are facing a vital predicament,namely,they are being forgotten by the people of our time and have been gradually sinking into absolute oblivion.Based on Hung Min-Tsung’s authoritative work on and collection of local Penghu praise ballads,the research seeks to examine the“loss”and“gain”in the English translations of some representative local praise ballads collected in Hung’s book.Can the original message and flavor of a praise ballad be fully retained in a Taiwan Residents-English translation via the mediation of the Chinese language?Can a Taiwan Residents-Chinese-English translational grand tour manage to faithfully render the original beauty,charm and humor of the Pescadorean songs of the old times?What can be regained and what are lost in the English translation?These are the questions the paper endeavors to investigate.

Protecting Gesar Balladeers

Effort made to preserve King Gesar began soon after the end of the chaotic "cultural revolution" (1966-76). In 1980, the Tibet Autonomous Region set up an office to deal with the work; it was placed under the Tibet Academy of Social Sciences in 1985.Office members found a total of 40-odd folk balladeers able to sing the epic. They ranged from the elderly to youngsters. Nineteen of them were invited to put their voice on tape, and 122 volumes of the singing editions were recorded on 4,500 tapes.

听“歌”识理:红色歌谣的听觉叙事(1927-1937)

通过红色歌谣传播马克思主义,让人民群众听“歌”识理,是中国共产党人土地革命战争时期的伟大创举。红色歌谣以听觉为渠道,以叙事为手段,符合通感特征、场域特征、互文特征及当地固有的民歌传统特征,将马克思主义抽象化理论转化为形象化、故事化、情感化的受众体验话语,使面向苏区人民进行马克思主义传播成为可能。红色歌谣的传唱促进了苏区马克思主义大众化传播,启蒙了广大革命根据地人民,为土地革命的胜利奠定了先进的思想理论基础,开辟了马克思主义大众化永续价值的新境界。

另一种民间表达:英格兰内战时期的保王派政治民谣

英格兰内战时期的保王派政治民谣构成了议会派主流话语之外的另一种民间表达,也是长期被忽略的一种政治论述。与议会派提出的自由、民主、人民主权等主流话语针锋相对,这一时期大量保王派政治民谣通过揶揄、嘲讽等修辞手段,系统性地解构了议会派的上述主张。它们不仅揭示了议会派话语背后的经济利益,而且反对议会以投票方式剥夺民众财产和自由的做法,进而表达了对破坏既有社会秩序者的批评和厌恶态度。此类民谣的叙述框架普遍延续了时人熟悉的“君臣模式”,即议会派及其领袖人物在时局变动中并未开创出对民众有利的新制度,而只是成为新君主。同时,这些民谣对议会主权的消极认知也构成了这一时期英格兰制度文化的重要面向。大量保王派政治民谣的存在表明,议会派在战场之外承受着巨大的民间舆论压力,这些反对议会的民谣是当时出现的暂时性公共领域的重要组成部分。

中华文化建设视角下的海口传统歌谣研究

中华文化建设旨在传承和弘扬中华民族的优秀传统文化,而海口传统歌谣作为一种传统口头文化,记录着海口、海南及中国特殊时期的印记,恰是其重要组成部分,值得被更多地关注。但现阶段,一方面,社会中愈发多元的文化形态借助大众传播媒介充斥着人们的眼球,冲击着传统歌谣的生存空间;另一方面,关于海口传统歌谣的保护与研究还九牛一毛,因此海口传统歌谣研究工作急需跟进。文章提出研究歌谣的“三结构”框架,即以“全国歌谣—地方歌谣—区域歌谣”为视角,觇其在中华文化符号不同体系中的位置。最后结合新海口传统歌谣发展的态势,从自生层面探讨海口传统歌谣在中华文化大背景下承载的更多意义,以使海口传统歌谣这一文化符号薪火相传、继往开来。

《西和乞巧歌》英译本中的西和方言翻译策略研究

西和乞巧歌是一种歌谣,其内容丰富,合辙押韵,语调诙谐风趣,语言口语化特征明显。通过分析《西和乞巧歌》英译本中使用的翻译方法和技巧,探讨了西和特色方言的翻译策略,对方言翻译和歌谣翻译研究有较高参考价值。此书译者在翻译时灵活结合归化和异化的翻译策略,运用了异化翻译策略中的音译法、直译法和逐词翻译法,以及归化翻译策略中的意译法、仿译法和改译法,对不同的方言词汇根据语境使用了不同的翻译策略、方法和技巧,使得译文流畅、地道。然而,由于汉语方言书面化的困难,《西和乞巧歌》中部分方言词汇并未在书面文字中表现出来,且原语文本中所有的西和方言特征和口语化特征在译语中全部被抹杀了。尽管如此,用归化策略来翻译方言是让方言作品走向世界的方式。作为第一部关于西和乞巧歌的英译本,此书对于乞巧文化的传播具有深远的意义,其翻译策略使乞巧文化内涵在译入语中能够流畅表达,使得英语读者能较好地理解中国北方的乞巧文化。

粤东北苏区宣传思想工作中客家革命山歌的运用及成效影响

粤东北革命山歌是苏区宣传思想工作的重要武器,在保障苏区革命斗争顺利进行方面发挥着重要的宣传价值而又独具特色的艺术魅力。文章总结土地革命时期粤东北各革命根据地革命山歌应用的历史经验,研究红色山歌宣传思想工作的运用方略以及成效影响。