Research on the Classification of Western Literary Criticism Under M. H. Abrams’Fourfold Model

This study explores the application of Abrams’Fourfold Model in the classification of Western literary criticism.Abrams’framework categorizes literary criticism into four fundamental elements:text,author,world,and audience.The text is viewed as an independent entity with intrinsic artistic value,necessitating a detailed analysis of its structure,style,themes,and symbols.Author study delves into the creator’s life and socio-cultural context,often to uncover the work’s deeper meanings.Contextual study situates the work within its historical and social milieu,examining its reflection of or response to societal norms and events.Audience response analysis considers the diverse interpretations shaped by readers’backgrounds,emphasizing the reader’s role in constructing the work’s meaning.The study concludes that Abrams’Fourfold Model offers a comprehensive and flexible analytical tool,enabling critics to engage with literary works from multiple perspectives,thereby enriching the understanding of literary complexity and diversity.

On Ethical Literary Criticism and Game Theory--An Interview with Professor Nie Zhenzhao

In 2014,Huang Kaihong,a professor at School of Foreign Languages and Cultures,Southwest University of Science and Technology,interviewed the Doctoral advisor Professor Nie Zhenzhao during the period of his academic visiting to Central China Normal University.As early as in 2005,Huang Kaihong conducted an interview with Professor Nie Zhenzhao on the topic of the general introduction of ethical literary criticism.So around 11 years later,the second interview mainly covers not only the ethical literary criticism theory,but the game theory and the relationship between them as well.Professor Nie thinks whether the game theory can be applied to literature research is still under discussion.The theory of ethical literary criticism is a kind of methodology based on science and it can get the attention of literary critics at home and abroad,which is because it fits the practical needs of literary criticism,draws the literary criticism away from only emphasizing criticism genres and the research of criticism terms,and pays attention to the true nature of the literary text in literature research.After consulting Professor Nie Zhenzhao about some related questions from the perspective of game theory.Huang Kaihong gets some significant information concerning literature research and understands the latest core terms and the concrete application method of ethical literary criticism,especially the relationship between the instructing and aesthetic functions of literature.

On the Ethical Dimensions of Literary Criticism in the Realm of We Media

In the realm of We Media,literary criticism is not completely free and unrestricted during its continuous production process;instead,it should adhere to certain ethical norms.The ethical dimensions of literary criticism in We Media focus on fostering a fair relationship between criticism activities and text,society,and the audience in order to facilitate healthy and orderly criticism that yields positive outcomes.The ethics of literary criticism in We Media can be categorized into aesthetic ethics,cultural ethics,political ethics,and media ethics within its internal structure,all of which ultimately converge into the realm of art production ethics.It is important to embrace a consciousness of intersubjectivity and adopt a cognitive approach of situationism in order to avoid blind restrictions and misjudgments in order to foster a positive and healthy ecosystem for literary criticism in We Media.Additionally,it is crucial to adhere to bottom-line thinking and emphasize responsibility,taste,and discipline while regulating the field of criticism,the audience,and critical text.

Reading of The Guiltless from the Perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism

The Guiltless is Hermann Broch’s last novel,and it is also a work that embodies Broch’s literary and artistic view.The novel takes place in a period of social and historical change,and the conflict between the old and the new ethical relations leads to the confusion of the ethical relations,which causes the relationship between the characters to become distorted.This paper tries to analyze the relationship between Baroness W and her family from the perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism in aspects of ethical environment,ethical selection and ethical identity.It reveals that in the period of social and historical change,in the environment of social ethics disorder,the distorted ethical selection of characters and the loss of ethical identity.Hermann Broch attempts to arouse readers’ethical reflection by depicting such an era and such characters.

A New Way to Look into Literature——Comment on Structuralist Literary Criticism

What is structruralism?Is it a school or a movement?Many critics agreethat structruralism is,in a broad sense,a revolution in the human thinkingprocess.Structuralism is,as Barthe,properly defined in,the activity of re-defining all the cultural phenomena,an activity grounded in the belief th-at like language,a myth,wrestling match,system of tribal kinship orrestaurant menu is a system of signs,In this connection,structuralism ismuch concerned with and influenced by the modern schools of linguisticsespecially by the structural linguistics originated by Sausure.

Reading the Iraqi War Narrative Sand Queen from the Perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism

An US woman soldier and an Iraqi medical student were given a voice to their feelings in Helen Benedict’s Iraqi war Narrative Sand Queen.It was the first time war stories had been told by two women from different nations.Character-narrator Kate Brady,a female American soldier,tells the story about how she tried to be an independent woman respected in American society by the way of being a female soldier,but failed in the end.The thesis focuses on Kate’s narration and analyzes her ethical choices from the perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism.By probing into the ethical situation Kate faces,and exploring the ethical conflicts among rational will and natural will on Kate,this thesis attempts to reveal what led to Kate’s ethical choices and caused her ethical confusion,and more importantly,what made her dreams shatter.

How Is Tech Criticism Possible?On the Significance of Digital Technology as a Paradigm of Literary Criticism

Technology is one of the basic dimensions of literary criticism,but it is often ignored for multiple reasons.As digital technology intervenes in literary production,literary criticism is being approached through the technological dimension.Technology-Based literary criticism now transcends linguistic centrism,using digital technology as a means and method of literary criticism,and bringing technology to the center stage of literary criticism.Technology-Based literary criticism,which features an intersection of interpretive and empirical perspectives,triggers multiple transmutations of the subjects of literary criticism,and also enriches the connotations of literary texts.Tech criticism came from,and has evolved with the changes of literary criticism in the productive forces and the relations of production,which are driven by digital technology.What digital technology has opened up for literary criticism is a comprehensive field,where literary criticism is in a transboundary dynamic of "relational production." Therefore,we need to develop a sense of relation and a sense of systems to better interpret present-day literary criticism.

The Latest Development of Ethical Literary Criticism in the World

The series A Study on Ethical Literary Criticism exhibits key achievements in the major program of national social sciences by scholars headed by Professor Nie Zhenzhao,who are devoted to the research of foreign literatures,studies in philosophy and social sciences,and interdisciplinary study of world literature,who dedicated themselves to the construction of the ethical literary critical theory and methodology with the application of ethical literary criticism in practice.This series organically combine the generality of ethical literary criticism with the individuality of specific writers and combine the theoretical guidance with realistic practicality in academic research,which will be conducive to the development of world literary criticism and region and country-specific studies in the new era.

Innovative Teaching Research on Literary Theory and Criticism

As a core compulsory course for English majors majoring in teacher education,Literary Theory and Criticism plays an important role in enhancing text understanding,cultivating critical thinking,and shaping correct values in the future development of students.Influenced by traditional teaching ideas,students have many difficulties when learning this course,such as insufficient theoretical understanding,inadequate ability improvement,and not enough investment in course learning.In response to the above issues,this course focuses closely on the fundamental task of“cultivating virtue and nurturing people”,relying on modern information technology and introducing research methods of digital humanities.This course uses“7C”teaching mode under the“three-level integration”,in which“teaching”and“education”are carried out synchronously,and“teacher”and“student”are developed together,in order to greatly enhance students’learning participation and course satisfaction.

Ji Hongzhen: The New Face of Literary Criticism

JI Hongzhen has been described as a critic with magnificent sweep and muscle in Chinese literary circles. She deserves the description. "We’re like small birds in this world and our lives are short," she said. "We should grasp the twinkling of life that belongs to us, catch something that is hard to catch with all of our wisdom and ability, and do something with all our might. It doesn’t matter even if we end up being

Stylistics and Literary Criticism

This paper argues that the fullest and most convincing analysis of literary texts is informed by bottom up stylistics.Stylistics is a way to begin to tackle the large issues literary texts raise but without jumping to premature or incomplete conclusions.It is also argued after Short(1996)and others that stylistics offers valuable apprenticeship and access to otherwise difficult areas of literary criticism for those new to the field.Stylistics and literary criticism are seen not as exclusive or necessarily contradictory approaches but rather as benefiting each other.Stylistics for example needs to be unafraid of the large and genuinely interesting questions as well as to read with more of a sense of the history of the texts it reads.At the same time literary critics need to avoid repetitive generalisations about gender,power and the rest.Examples of best practice in bringing literary criticism into dialogue with stylistics are offered from the work of Sotirova(2011) and Gavins(2012).

A Feminist Reading of Hemingway’s Works-“Cat in the Rain”as an Example

As a famous American writer,there have been many different opinions on whether Hemingway is a typical masculinist writer.Through a brief analysis of the feminist consciousness in Hemingway’s works and a detailed feminist interpretation of“Cat in the Rain”,this paper holds that it is unfair and biased to stereotype Hemingway as a typical masculinist writer since there is a very strong feminist consciousness in his early works.

Comparative Criticism beyond Eurocentrism:In Search of the Untranslatables of Literary Theory

While the study of world literature is often seen as escaping the boundaries of eurocentrism-albeit with the need for constant revision and self-critique-a truer overcoming would involve another sort of anthologization,namely,of world theory and criticism.World literature should go beyond being a reified collection of translated texts,to become an exploration and comparison of the different ways of thinking about literature and aesthetics in different parts of the world.Barbara Cassin's Vocabulaire Europeen des philosophies:Dictionnaire des intraduisibles provides a possible model in this regard.The untranslatability of critical terms from different traditions is generative of new meanings due to the repeated efforts to translate and to compare non-synonymous terms with each other.This essay examines the untranslatability and comparability of several different terms from Asian aesthetic traditions.

The Geographic Images in A Passage to India

Within the context of colonialism,E.M.Forster’s A Passage to India is usually interpreted by many domestic critics from the perspectives of post-colonialism theory or the identity crises of the characters.However,there is little study about the geographical images in this novel.Three images will be discussed in this paper with the combination of literary geographic criticism to have a deeper understanding of the theme of connection of this novel.

Aspects of Indigenous Participation in Brazilian Literature

The article both presents how,from the end of the 1980s onwards,native peoples have begun to occupy certain spaces of textual production and circulation that they had not previously occupied in the Brazilian cultural scene(for social,linguistic,and cultural reasons,but also political and juridical)and discusses how this process has provoked a vigorous movement of dilation of traditional textual and discursive borders in Western culture.Texts deriving from indigenous peoples in the sphere of academic discourse are,in general,bilingual,and are structured in ways that combine aspects of intellectual production with those of artistic creation.Moreover,they are also structured around a rather complex conception of the notion of authorship(considering that they are written by an author but represent the voice of their people).As examples,the article analyzes the case of Os cantos tradicionais Ye'kwana[Traditional Ye'kwana Chants],by the indigenous teacher and researcher Fernando Ye'kwana Gimenes,winner of the 2020/2021 edition of the Dirce Cortes Riedel Masters Dissertation Award by the Brazilian Association of Comparative Literature,as a typical example of the cultural phenomenon discussed.The traditional Ye'kwana chants present significant transgressions in relation to the traditional notions of narrative logic and the dominant forms of narration in the fields of literature and history.The awarding of this academic prize to an indigenous inhabitant of the forest,on the border between Brazil and Venezuela,by the largest association of comparative literature in Latin America,in addition to being an important act in political terms,demonstrates how urgent it is to rethink processes of global literary dissemination beyond the restricted frameworks configured by the logic of hegemonic cultures,which are based on closed divisions and hierarchies.With this,we intend to contribute to the process of including Amerindian texts in the repertoire of Comparative Literature and World Literature.

The Tribulations of a Chinese in China:Verne and the Celestial Empire

In Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne presents chapters describing nineteenth-century Hong Kong. In the pioneering Tribulations of a Chinese in China he creates a complex Chinese hero and provides a relatively accurate description of contemporary conditions, based on first-hand sources. Verne’s manuscript and correspondence with his publisher show, however, that this novel underwent considerable changes before publication.