"Three Unities",derived from Aristotle’s unity of action,were developed to be the golden rule of drama or play creation by the classicism in the seventeenth century."Three Unities",to some extent,..."Three Unities",derived from Aristotle’s unity of action,were developed to be the golden rule of drama or play creation by the classicism in the seventeenth century."Three Unities",to some extent,provides the dramatic writing with certain law and criterion.However,the absolute standardization fetters the progress of artistic creation.Samuel Johnson,publishes the Preface to Shakespeare to propose the breakthrough of the shackles of"Three Unities"by the study of Shakespeare’s plays.This creative proposal accelerates the progress of the development of dramatic writing,thus,more excellent works writing in a more free way with a large scale appears in succession.展开更多
This paper attempts to look into some of Samuel Johnson＇s Lives of the English Poets （1925） and find out the common feature these biographical texts share. The close reading and detailed analysis demonstrate that S...This paper attempts to look into some of Samuel Johnson＇s Lives of the English Poets （1925） and find out the common feature these biographical texts share. The close reading and detailed analysis demonstrate that Samuel Johnson manages to redeem and restore the biographical subjects＇ （the poets＇） life, honor, and status in their different but similar biographies; that is, each biography is a redemptive text in its own way. In specific, the credible life story is re-presented with selected biographical materials, the poets＇ lives together with their achievements are reevaluated under Johnson＇s corrective observation, and Johnson＇s empathy with the poets reestablishes the reader＇s understanding of the poets＇ literary careers.展开更多
Though many scholars and critics have made efforts explaining its connotation and influence from philosophical,religious and historical perspective about Samuel Johnson’s statement that Shakespeare is“A Poet of Nat...Though many scholars and critics have made efforts explaining its connotation and influence from philosophical,religious and historical perspective about Samuel Johnson’s statement that Shakespeare is“A Poet of Nature”,it is still worthy of discussion.As a Neoclassical critic,Johnson revealed Shakespeare’s genuine faculties through comparison with Homer following John Dryden and Alexzander Popeto illustrate the dramatic writing process.Then Shakespeare’s genius in natural acquisition of human nature and literature tradition,adaptation and concatenation to make something novelty,and selection of original language and characters is exemplified to analyze mixed genre,irregular structure,natural dialogue and characters under the principle of general nature.展开更多
The metaphysical poetry,as a rather influential literary school,plays a momentous andpredominant part in eariy seventeenth century English literature.The marked quality ofmetaphysical poetry,as practiced by Donne and ...The metaphysical poetry,as a rather influential literary school,plays a momentous andpredominant part in eariy seventeenth century English literature.The marked quality ofmetaphysical poetry,as practiced by Donne and his successors,is their philosophical subtlety orintellectual rigor,while the quintessence of which consists in its peculiar blend of thought andpassion of realistic violence and meditative refinements.Doctor Johnson accused the展开更多
Purpose To report clinical variations and the natural course of melanocytoma o f the optic disc. Patients and methods A retrospective study was conducted on a consecutive series of patients with melanocytoma of the op...Purpose To report clinical variations and the natural course of melanocytoma o f the optic disc. Patients and methods A retrospective study was conducted on a consecutive series of patients with melanocytoma of the optic disc who were evaluated at the Ocular Oncology Service at Wills Eye Hospital. Demographic information and variations i n appearance and size of the tumor and local ocular complications were noted. Fr equency of tumor growth and malignant transformation was recorded. Clinical fact ors, including patient data and tumor features, were analyzed for their impact o n visual acuity loss of 2 or more Snellen lines and the tumor growth, using Cox proportional hazards regression models. Kaplan-Meier survival estimates of prob ability of visual acuity loss of 2 or more Snellen lines and probability of tumo r growth were performed as a function of time from the initial examination. Main outcome measures Visual acuity loss of 2 or more Snellen lines, tumor growth, a nd malignant transformation of the tumor. Results There were 115 patients (116 e yes) with melanocytoma of the optic disc. The mean age at diagnosis was 50 years ; 38%of patients were male and 62%of patients were female; 65%of patients wer e white, 29%of patients were African American, and 6%of patients were Asian, H ispanic, Indian, or Arabic. The lesion was unilateral in 99%of patients. Visual symptoms that seemed to be related to the melanocytoma were present in 24%of p atients, and an afferent pupillary defect was noted in 9%of patients. Associate d ocular abnormalities included ocular melanocytosis (8%), racial melanosis (7 %), optic nerve hypoplasia (2%), and retinitis pigmentosa (1%). The melanocyt oma was dark brown to black in 100%of patients. The mean tumor diameter was 2 m m and the mean thickness was 1 mm. Associated findings included a choroidal comp onent (54%), retinal component (30%), optic disc edema (25%), retinal edema ( 16%), localized subretinal fluid (14%), retinal exudation (12%), retinal hemo rrhage (5%), vitreous seeds (4%), and retinal vein obstruction (3%). Fluoresc ein and indocyanine green angiography typically showed persistent hypofluorescen ce of the lesion. Using Kaplan-Meier survival curves, related visual loss occur red in 18%of patients by 10 years, and minor tumor enlargement occurred in 11% of patients by 5 years and in 32%of patients by 10 years. Malignant transformat ion was documented in 2 patients (2%). Conclusions Although melanocytoma of the optic disc generally is considered to be a benign, stationary lesion, it can pr oduce several local complications, can cause visual loss, can grow slowly, and, rarely, can undergo malignant transformation into melanoma. Patients with optic disc melanocytoma should undergo periodic ocular examination.展开更多
Absurdity originated from French existentialism,and Martin Esslin,in categorizing Waiting for Godot as a theater of the absurd,ignores the positive aspects of Camus’s absurdism and regards that as an existential trag...Absurdity originated from French existentialism,and Martin Esslin,in categorizing Waiting for Godot as a theater of the absurd,ignores the positive aspects of Camus’s absurdism and regards that as an existential tragedy of mankind.However,the author Samuel Beckett himself did not approve of such a definition,believing that Esslin’s definition of theater of the absurd was too judgmental and pessimistic.Through the imagery of boots,ropes,hats and baggage in Waiting for Godot,Beckett reveals the rootlessness,constraint and agony of the minds of people born into absurdity in the early 20th century.The luck of Lucky is Beckett’s use of irony:people who have lost the ability to think for themselves escape the absurdity and dystopia of life and descend to slaves.Gogo and Didi,who are waiting and expecting,and thinking in the midst of absurdity,represent“Godot”,the symbol of hope.Their endurance in waiting,akin to Camus’s Sisyphus,underscores a form of existential defiance that challenges the notion of absolute pessimism in absurdist literature.展开更多
Motivated by a paper of Fang (2009), we study the Samuel multiplicity and the structure of essentially semi-regular operators on an infinite-dimensional complex Banach space. First, we generalize Fang's results co...Motivated by a paper of Fang (2009), we study the Samuel multiplicity and the structure of essentially semi-regular operators on an infinite-dimensional complex Banach space. First, we generalize Fang's results concerning Samuel multiplicity from semi-Fredholm operators to essentially semi-regular operators by elementary methods in operator theory. Second, we study the structure of essentially semi-regular operators. More precisely, we present a revised version of Fang's 4 × 4 upper triangular model with a little modification, and prove it in detail after providing numerous preliminary results, some of which are inspired by Fang's paper. At last, as some applications, we get the structure of semi-Fredholm operators which revised Fang's 4 × 4 upper triangular model, from a different viewpoint, and characterize a semi-regular point λ∈ C in an essentially semi-regular domain.展开更多
文摘"Three Unities",derived from Aristotle’s unity of action,were developed to be the golden rule of drama or play creation by the classicism in the seventeenth century."Three Unities",to some extent,provides the dramatic writing with certain law and criterion.However,the absolute standardization fetters the progress of artistic creation.Samuel Johnson,publishes the Preface to Shakespeare to propose the breakthrough of the shackles of"Three Unities"by the study of Shakespeare’s plays.This creative proposal accelerates the progress of the development of dramatic writing,thus,more excellent works writing in a more free way with a large scale appears in succession.
文摘This paper attempts to look into some of Samuel Johnson＇s Lives of the English Poets （1925） and find out the common feature these biographical texts share. The close reading and detailed analysis demonstrate that Samuel Johnson manages to redeem and restore the biographical subjects＇ （the poets＇） life, honor, and status in their different but similar biographies; that is, each biography is a redemptive text in its own way. In specific, the credible life story is re-presented with selected biographical materials, the poets＇ lives together with their achievements are reevaluated under Johnson＇s corrective observation, and Johnson＇s empathy with the poets reestablishes the reader＇s understanding of the poets＇ literary careers.
文摘Though many scholars and critics have made efforts explaining its connotation and influence from philosophical,religious and historical perspective about Samuel Johnson’s statement that Shakespeare is“A Poet of Nature”,it is still worthy of discussion.As a Neoclassical critic,Johnson revealed Shakespeare’s genuine faculties through comparison with Homer following John Dryden and Alexzander Popeto illustrate the dramatic writing process.Then Shakespeare’s genius in natural acquisition of human nature and literature tradition,adaptation and concatenation to make something novelty,and selection of original language and characters is exemplified to analyze mixed genre,irregular structure,natural dialogue and characters under the principle of general nature.
文摘The metaphysical poetry,as a rather influential literary school,plays a momentous andpredominant part in eariy seventeenth century English literature.The marked quality ofmetaphysical poetry,as practiced by Donne and his successors,is their philosophical subtlety orintellectual rigor,while the quintessence of which consists in its peculiar blend of thought andpassion of realistic violence and meditative refinements.Doctor Johnson accused the
文摘Purpose To report clinical variations and the natural course of melanocytoma o f the optic disc. Patients and methods A retrospective study was conducted on a consecutive series of patients with melanocytoma of the optic disc who were evaluated at the Ocular Oncology Service at Wills Eye Hospital. Demographic information and variations i n appearance and size of the tumor and local ocular complications were noted. Fr equency of tumor growth and malignant transformation was recorded. Clinical fact ors, including patient data and tumor features, were analyzed for their impact o n visual acuity loss of 2 or more Snellen lines and the tumor growth, using Cox proportional hazards regression models. Kaplan-Meier survival estimates of prob ability of visual acuity loss of 2 or more Snellen lines and probability of tumo r growth were performed as a function of time from the initial examination. Main outcome measures Visual acuity loss of 2 or more Snellen lines, tumor growth, a nd malignant transformation of the tumor. Results There were 115 patients (116 e yes) with melanocytoma of the optic disc. The mean age at diagnosis was 50 years ; 38%of patients were male and 62%of patients were female; 65%of patients wer e white, 29%of patients were African American, and 6%of patients were Asian, H ispanic, Indian, or Arabic. The lesion was unilateral in 99%of patients. Visual symptoms that seemed to be related to the melanocytoma were present in 24%of p atients, and an afferent pupillary defect was noted in 9%of patients. Associate d ocular abnormalities included ocular melanocytosis (8%), racial melanosis (7 %), optic nerve hypoplasia (2%), and retinitis pigmentosa (1%). The melanocyt oma was dark brown to black in 100%of patients. The mean tumor diameter was 2 m m and the mean thickness was 1 mm. Associated findings included a choroidal comp onent (54%), retinal component (30%), optic disc edema (25%), retinal edema ( 16%), localized subretinal fluid (14%), retinal exudation (12%), retinal hemo rrhage (5%), vitreous seeds (4%), and retinal vein obstruction (3%). Fluoresc ein and indocyanine green angiography typically showed persistent hypofluorescen ce of the lesion. Using Kaplan-Meier survival curves, related visual loss occur red in 18%of patients by 10 years, and minor tumor enlargement occurred in 11% of patients by 5 years and in 32%of patients by 10 years. Malignant transformat ion was documented in 2 patients (2%). Conclusions Although melanocytoma of the optic disc generally is considered to be a benign, stationary lesion, it can pr oduce several local complications, can cause visual loss, can grow slowly, and, rarely, can undergo malignant transformation into melanoma. Patients with optic disc melanocytoma should undergo periodic ocular examination.
文摘Absurdity originated from French existentialism,and Martin Esslin,in categorizing Waiting for Godot as a theater of the absurd,ignores the positive aspects of Camus’s absurdism and regards that as an existential tragedy of mankind.However,the author Samuel Beckett himself did not approve of such a definition,believing that Esslin’s definition of theater of the absurd was too judgmental and pessimistic.Through the imagery of boots,ropes,hats and baggage in Waiting for Godot,Beckett reveals the rootlessness,constraint and agony of the minds of people born into absurdity in the early 20th century.The luck of Lucky is Beckett’s use of irony:people who have lost the ability to think for themselves escape the absurdity and dystopia of life and descend to slaves.Gogo and Didi,who are waiting and expecting,and thinking in the midst of absurdity,represent“Godot”,the symbol of hope.Their endurance in waiting,akin to Camus’s Sisyphus,underscores a form of existential defiance that challenges the notion of absolute pessimism in absurdist literature.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.11171066)Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (Grant Nos. 2010350311001 and 20113503120003)+1 种基金Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (Grant Nos. 2011J05002 and 2012J05003)Foundation of the Education Department of Fujian Province (Grant No. JB10042)
文摘Motivated by a paper of Fang (2009), we study the Samuel multiplicity and the structure of essentially semi-regular operators on an infinite-dimensional complex Banach space. First, we generalize Fang's results concerning Samuel multiplicity from semi-Fredholm operators to essentially semi-regular operators by elementary methods in operator theory. Second, we study the structure of essentially semi-regular operators. More precisely, we present a revised version of Fang's 4 × 4 upper triangular model with a little modification, and prove it in detail after providing numerous preliminary results, some of which are inspired by Fang's paper. At last, as some applications, we get the structure of semi-Fredholm operators which revised Fang's 4 × 4 upper triangular model, from a different viewpoint, and characterize a semi-regular point λ∈ C in an essentially semi-regular domain.
