The environment and cultural interaction influence the thoughts and works of writer in the period of cultural transition.The writers living in the boundary areas gradually develop a sense of self-identification which ...The environment and cultural interaction influence the thoughts and works of writer in the period of cultural transition.The writers living in the boundary areas gradually develop a sense of self-identification which reflects on the literary genre known as"boundary writing"in the circle of the world literature.The language use of the Tibetan writers displays the characteristics of living in the environment of multi-ethnic groups.Some of the Tibetan writers solely use Tibetan or Chinese in their literary works,while others use both Chinese and Tibetan because of multi-lingua,multicultural and ethnic interaction.This article focuses on the emergence and development of the works in Chinese.展开更多
An examination of Soviet nostalgia--nostalgia for the times when the People＇s Republic of China （PRC） had a close relationship with the Soviet Union, as it appears in contemporary discourses that reimagine the Sovi...An examination of Soviet nostalgia--nostalgia for the times when the People＇s Republic of China （PRC） had a close relationship with the Soviet Union, as it appears in contemporary discourses that reimagine the Soviet Union, is essential to understand the quotidian aspect and cultural history of the PRC in the 1950s, as well as cultural attitudes in contemporary China. Wang Meng＇s In Remembrance of the Soviet Union （2007） and Feng Jicai＇s Listening to Russia （2005） are characterized by nostalgia for the lost Soviet Union, which exerted a strong influence on the PRC during the 1950s. In contemporary China, where the market economy is the dominant mode of production, Wang and Feng＇s Soviet nostalgia is a gesture of yearning for a type of historical temporality that has seemingly been lost. Their works express the desire to reclaim the historical past of the 1950s, which they portray as having been completely erased by the developmental logic of late-capitalism--the authentic cultural experiences in the 1950s, especially the everyday life along with the revolutionary ideals are rendered unreal within the post-revolutionary logic. The concept of Soviet ＂ji＂ （祭 ＂remembrance＂） provides a theoretical framework through which to understand the way in which the phenomenon of Chinese nostalgia has the potential to shift contemporary social reality.展开更多
Literature adapts following the changes of its objects,as do all arts.However,while fictional characters and context can be said to have equivalents in people and society,the same cannot be said about the literature f...Literature adapts following the changes of its objects,as do all arts.However,while fictional characters and context can be said to have equivalents in people and society,the same cannot be said about the literature form itself.Especially with the advent of the internet,this transformations in literature seem more visible:it has become spread in the cloud,surpassing its boundaries and mixing with the profusion of voices of the cyberspace.Intermediality,in addition to its theories about the intermedial phenomena,has become a methodology or even a pathway to understand arts.This paper presents part of an extensive analysis of a corpus formed by contemporary Brazilian literature,in order to describe different manifestations on how the"mediatized society"appears through the literature forms,from the Media Culture to today.展开更多
This article focuses on the strategies that literature and cultural criticism adopt to represent trauma in comparison to a current medical definition. The contemporary medical definition, trauma as post-traumatic stre...This article focuses on the strategies that literature and cultural criticism adopt to represent trauma in comparison to a current medical definition. The contemporary medical definition, trauma as post-traumatic stress disorder （PTSD）, is the most narrow and specific definition to discuss trauma. The discourse of medicine does not necessarily match those of literature and cultural criticism, nor need they conform to each other. PTSD includes a collection of symptoms, any one of which might not have anything to do with traumatic experience, but which together point with increasing intensity to a psychological syndrome caused by traumatic shock. Although this is historically a recently defined syndrome （1980）, its features had long before attracted attention and been recorded under other terms and diagnoses. Although Chinese literature is only occasionally given to psychological realism, we do find occasional descriptions that strongly suggest aspects of the syndrome. Also, the aims and the needs of medicine and literature or cultural criticism are not necessarily the same, but it is important to explore in greater detail the aims and the needs of literature and cultural criticism.展开更多
文摘The environment and cultural interaction influence the thoughts and works of writer in the period of cultural transition.The writers living in the boundary areas gradually develop a sense of self-identification which reflects on the literary genre known as"boundary writing"in the circle of the world literature.The language use of the Tibetan writers displays the characteristics of living in the environment of multi-ethnic groups.Some of the Tibetan writers solely use Tibetan or Chinese in their literary works,while others use both Chinese and Tibetan because of multi-lingua,multicultural and ethnic interaction.This article focuses on the emergence and development of the works in Chinese.
文摘An examination of Soviet nostalgia--nostalgia for the times when the People＇s Republic of China （PRC） had a close relationship with the Soviet Union, as it appears in contemporary discourses that reimagine the Soviet Union, is essential to understand the quotidian aspect and cultural history of the PRC in the 1950s, as well as cultural attitudes in contemporary China. Wang Meng＇s In Remembrance of the Soviet Union （2007） and Feng Jicai＇s Listening to Russia （2005） are characterized by nostalgia for the lost Soviet Union, which exerted a strong influence on the PRC during the 1950s. In contemporary China, where the market economy is the dominant mode of production, Wang and Feng＇s Soviet nostalgia is a gesture of yearning for a type of historical temporality that has seemingly been lost. Their works express the desire to reclaim the historical past of the 1950s, which they portray as having been completely erased by the developmental logic of late-capitalism--the authentic cultural experiences in the 1950s, especially the everyday life along with the revolutionary ideals are rendered unreal within the post-revolutionary logic. The concept of Soviet ＂ji＂ （祭 ＂remembrance＂） provides a theoretical framework through which to understand the way in which the phenomenon of Chinese nostalgia has the potential to shift contemporary social reality.
文摘Literature adapts following the changes of its objects,as do all arts.However,while fictional characters and context can be said to have equivalents in people and society,the same cannot be said about the literature form itself.Especially with the advent of the internet,this transformations in literature seem more visible:it has become spread in the cloud,surpassing its boundaries and mixing with the profusion of voices of the cyberspace.Intermediality,in addition to its theories about the intermedial phenomena,has become a methodology or even a pathway to understand arts.This paper presents part of an extensive analysis of a corpus formed by contemporary Brazilian literature,in order to describe different manifestations on how the"mediatized society"appears through the literature forms,from the Media Culture to today.
文摘This article focuses on the strategies that literature and cultural criticism adopt to represent trauma in comparison to a current medical definition. The contemporary medical definition, trauma as post-traumatic stress disorder （PTSD）, is the most narrow and specific definition to discuss trauma. The discourse of medicine does not necessarily match those of literature and cultural criticism, nor need they conform to each other. PTSD includes a collection of symptoms, any one of which might not have anything to do with traumatic experience, but which together point with increasing intensity to a psychological syndrome caused by traumatic shock. Although this is historically a recently defined syndrome （1980）, its features had long before attracted attention and been recorded under other terms and diagnoses. Although Chinese literature is only occasionally given to psychological realism, we do find occasional descriptions that strongly suggest aspects of the syndrome. Also, the aims and the needs of medicine and literature or cultural criticism are not necessarily the same, but it is important to explore in greater detail the aims and the needs of literature and cultural criticism.
