Attaching Importance to Post-9/11 Environmental Changes

Security environment is both an objective reality and a subjective consciousness. Here so-called "objective reality" mainly refers to the inherent law of the changes in international security situation. To a great extent, the subjective consciousness of the objective reality depends on the position and strategic choices of a nation in the international

The Post-9/11 Writing of London in McEwan’s Saturday

Hailed as“the greatest living novelist in the British Isles”,McEwan’s novel Saturday,published in 2005,is set in the cosmopolitan city of London.The story takes place on February 15,2003,when Europe is still covered by the haze of September 11.The London described by McEwan is full of fear of terrorist attacks.The city is in chaos and disorder,and emptiness and alienation are filled in the hearts of London citizens.This paper attempts to analyze the post-9/11 London cityscape in this novel,and to analyze the social status quo of London under McEwan’s description,so as to further interpret the social deformity and spiritual wastage in the novel.

后“9·11”时代的文明冲突——评约翰·厄普代克小说《恐怖分子》

约翰·厄普代克因擅长描写白人中产阶级生活而被称为社会历史变迁的准确记录者。然而,他的后"9·11"小说《恐怖分子》却一改其一贯的创作内容、主题和风格,通过描写18岁中学生艾哈迈德由一名单纯美国青年转变成狂热恐怖分子的过程,揭示恐怖主义源于不同的社会环境、不同的宗教信仰及人性善恶的冲突。所有这些冲突皆可归结为后"9·11"时代的文明冲突。