Mimesis and subversion of fairy tale model are the often used narrative models in literature.In Twilight,Meyer successfully employs the two models and creates a everlasting fairy tale.In this article,the author analyz...Mimesis and subversion of fairy tale model are the often used narrative models in literature.In Twilight,Meyer successfully employs the two models and creates a everlasting fairy tale.In this article,the author analyzes the mimesis and subversion in Twilight from how it employs and subvert the traditional fairy model.展开更多
Purpose:This study explores a novel approach to compiling life-oriented moral textbooks for elementary schools in China,specificallyfocusing onMorality and Law.Design/Approach/Methods:Adopting Aristotle's Poetics ...Purpose:This study explores a novel approach to compiling life-oriented moral textbooks for elementary schools in China,specificallyfocusing onMorality and Law.Design/Approach/Methods:Adopting Aristotle's Poetics as its theoretical perspective,this study illustrates and analyzes the mimetic approach used in compiling the life-oriented moral education textbook,Morality and Law.Findings:The mimetic approach involves imitating children's real activities,thoughts,and feelings in textbooks.The mimetic approach to compiling life-oriented moral textbooks comprises three strategies:constructing children's life events as building blocks for textbook compilation,designing an intricate textual device exposing the wholeness of children's life actions,and designing inward learning activities leading to children's innerworlds.Originality/Value:From the perspective of Aristotle's Poetics,the approach to compilation in Morality and Law can be defined as mimetic.And the compilation activity in the life-oriented moral education textbook also can be described as a process ofmimesis.So this article presents a new approach to compile moral education textbooks and an innovative way to understand the nature of one compiling activity.展开更多
Iconicity and mimicry represent two distinct but related fields in semiotic studies. Academic history shows both fields have crossed the border between Nature and Culture and have thus blurred the distinction of the t...Iconicity and mimicry represent two distinct but related fields in semiotic studies. Academic history shows both fields have crossed the border between Nature and Culture and have thus blurred the distinction of the two domains in certain aspects. In terms of etymology and history of ideas, both terms are traceable to classical antiquity: one to Plato, the other to Aristotle. In modern research history, iconicity and mimicry have curiously converged in Peirce. For all their supposedly close relationship, the two areas have rarely crisscrossed and to date there has not been sufficient attention paid to "iconicity in mimicry" or "mimicry as icon"—except in biosemiotic studies, probably because of the empirical visibility, transparency and hence selfevidence of their identification. As to the fledgling applied science of biomimetics, for all its enviable achievements in engineering and industry, researchers in the field have shown little interest in the conceptual history of mimicry, let alone that of iconicity. The pages that follow will offer a philological excursus, which hopes to bring Peirce into rapport with Plato, and link current "biomimicry" to its classical prototype in Aristotle's writings on animals.展开更多
文摘Mimesis and subversion of fairy tale model are the often used narrative models in literature.In Twilight,Meyer successfully employs the two models and creates a everlasting fairy tale.In this article,the author analyzes the mimesis and subversion in Twilight from how it employs and subvert the traditional fairy model.
文摘Purpose:This study explores a novel approach to compiling life-oriented moral textbooks for elementary schools in China,specificallyfocusing onMorality and Law.Design/Approach/Methods:Adopting Aristotle's Poetics as its theoretical perspective,this study illustrates and analyzes the mimetic approach used in compiling the life-oriented moral education textbook,Morality and Law.Findings:The mimetic approach involves imitating children's real activities,thoughts,and feelings in textbooks.The mimetic approach to compiling life-oriented moral textbooks comprises three strategies:constructing children's life events as building blocks for textbook compilation,designing an intricate textual device exposing the wholeness of children's life actions,and designing inward learning activities leading to children's innerworlds.Originality/Value:From the perspective of Aristotle's Poetics,the approach to compilation in Morality and Law can be defined as mimetic.And the compilation activity in the life-oriented moral education textbook also can be described as a process ofmimesis.So this article presents a new approach to compile moral education textbooks and an innovative way to understand the nature of one compiling activity.
文摘Iconicity and mimicry represent two distinct but related fields in semiotic studies. Academic history shows both fields have crossed the border between Nature and Culture and have thus blurred the distinction of the two domains in certain aspects. In terms of etymology and history of ideas, both terms are traceable to classical antiquity: one to Plato, the other to Aristotle. In modern research history, iconicity and mimicry have curiously converged in Peirce. For all their supposedly close relationship, the two areas have rarely crisscrossed and to date there has not been sufficient attention paid to "iconicity in mimicry" or "mimicry as icon"—except in biosemiotic studies, probably because of the empirical visibility, transparency and hence selfevidence of their identification. As to the fledgling applied science of biomimetics, for all its enviable achievements in engineering and industry, researchers in the field have shown little interest in the conceptual history of mimicry, let alone that of iconicity. The pages that follow will offer a philological excursus, which hopes to bring Peirce into rapport with Plato, and link current "biomimicry" to its classical prototype in Aristotle's writings on animals.
