Foucault carries out investigation on the discipline structure from three aspects, namely, body control, power intervention and manufacturing knowledge, he believes that discipline has alienated to a kind of self-interested micro power, imposed all-around constraint and control on humans, deprived humans...

The purpose of this thesis is to reveal the characteristics of participants’ vocabulary size and their translating competence as well as the correlation between their vocabulary size and their comprehensive English ability, the correlation between their translating competence and comprehensive English...

Through review and comparison of the properties of gold and jade, as well as the tradition of their usage, the culture difference between the West and China is discussed from the aspect of illuminating their impact on civilization as gem-stones and the related. Further, the developing of Chinese culture...

The story Amundsen adopts the perspective of the first-person narrator all through, telling the narrator’s own experience in Amundsen and her own feelings and thoughts. Two separate worlds were unfolded: one was what was happening in the outside world; the other was what was crossing the narrator’s mind...

The failure to consider the complex mother-daughter relationships in The Sound and the Fury has effectively nullified motherhood and daughterhood as values. Only when we recognize the methods by which mothering in all its dimensions has been “charged” and “turned against” women, can we hope to resist...

The Sound and the Fury have stood faithful vigil, invoking Faulkner's variations on the creed. In most essays on the work there is the near-obligatory Caddy who is brave, the Quentin who loved some concept of Compson honor, the Mr. Compson who reminds us that no Compson ever disappointed a lady, and...

In the light of Heidegger’s analytics of Dasein, our thinking about the hidden structure behind the explicit understanding — interpretation which functions as a clue in bringing us close to that which has been covered up by it, will ultimately get us accessible to the most fundamental constitutive structure...

As Heidegger tells us, “when tradition becomes master, it does so in such a way that what it ‘transmits’ is made so inaccessible, proximally and for the most part, that it rather becomes concealed. Tradition takes what has come down to us and delivers it over to self-evidence; it blocks our access to...

Understanding and state-of-mind must inevitably have their basis of the lifeworld, the world of “being-in-the-world”. As a state-of-mind, understanding is not a transcendental apprehension or comprehension as a gift given by God; it is constructed in the being-in-the-world, formed in a fabric of relationships...

Any kind of intelligible actions performed by us is made of some use of our understanding of being which has already been there beforehand; otherwise there will be no such intelligible actions. If there are no intelligible actions in us, the meaning of us as human beings is completely lost, because we...

According to Heidegger, our essential character is our existence which is fundamentally characterized by our being-in-the-world, and the term “the world” in the compound expression only belongs to our human beings because it is co-originally set up with an understanding of being of entities within the...

The term of worldhood or worldliness means that “the Being of that ontical condition which makes it possible for entities within-the-world to be discovered at all — the worldhood of the world” (BT, 121). That is, the worldhood is like a framework or conceptual scheme which overarches or underlies our...

We human beings are not fact machines—beings who scan the environment for information and then process it in their extremely large brains to produce pasteurized lumps of truth. Thomas Gradgrind’s vision in Charles Dickens’s Hard Times—a board of fact, composed of commissioners of fact, who will force...

As we go back further into our ancestral past, we find that narrative served an even deeper purpose than pleasure. The ability to construct factually accurate narratives allows human beings to process a staggering amount of information during the course of a single lifetime and to transmit their acquired...

Fortress Besieged is a famous novel written by Zhongshu Qian. The most prominent feature in this work is its witty expressions with figure of speech used for the characterization, which is bound to do research. The paper uses comparison and induction in the research. It is concluded that the language...

Michael Schmidt’s The Novel: A Biography(2014) is an ambitious,erudite study exploring the 700-year history of the novel in English.Tracing the intensification of interest in the story of the novel in English as a privileged unit of world literature, Schmidt rethinks its complexity that unfolds like...

In the United States such critics as John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks agreed with Eliot that literary criticism should be a largely autonomous endeavor, distinct from biography, psychology, philosophy, and other disciplines. Brooks described this critical approach...

There are many researches about the old man and the sea in China and abroad, such as “The tough guy” “Heroism” “Iceberg theory”. However, there are little comments about the little boy. It seems that his role is irrelevant and unimportant to the novella. In fact, it is worthwhile for us to learn his...

This essay discusses the Confucian humanistic values of the combination of “human being” and “benevolence”, pointing out that Confucian humanistic values of the combination of “human being” and “benevolence” have introduced high, extensive, benevolent, modest, tolerant spiritual nature, which enabled...

This paper takes the well-known model work, the ballet The Red Detachment of Women (1971) as a case study to analyze this ballet in relation to the following issues: harmonic music language “Revolutionary Realism and Romanticism”, Three Prominences (San tuchu), the relationship between music and image...

Author explored and analyzed the tragic theme of novel of Journey to the West from the different religious aspects, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism and “Combination of three religions”. Wu Cheng’en wrote in a humorous tone to disclose the ugly realities and he wanted to save the decadent feudal society...

On the basis of STIRPAT model, this paper measures the influence that construction land expansion has on carbon emission from 2002 to 2012 in Hubei province by adopting the calculation method of carbon emission and the dynamic model of construction land. The research result: During the process of research,...

Since the reform and opening up, especially in recent years, Christianity has been developing rapidly in the countryside, which has a huge impact on rural social governance. Combined with fieldwork and combing literature, a thorough investigation into Z village had been taken to acquire the condition...

The development and protection of the Old Summer Palace (Yuan Ming Yuan) in Beijing China have received extensive attention in China and even in the whole world. According to social surveys, tourists have been found that it is never to form whole memory of the Old Summer Palace. The urbanization and...

With the rapid development of the global economy, the production of commodities has become extremely prosperous, and the competition has become exceedingly fierce. Therefore, in order to promote sales, manufacturers of each country try their best to set up their images and trademarks of the products...

Yan-zhao culture formation mechanism, the development course, the regional differentiation and the refracted by the inherent regularity, in the development of the traditional Chinese culture will help explore conforms to the regional characteristics of the protection of traditional culture and development...

Renaissance art was devoted to the recreation of ancient culture, and there was a kind of realism literature. Medieval artists added the poetry of expressing human spiritual world to the music. During the two periods, the key point of art was shifted to the humanism. This paper presents that the influence...

As the arrival of economic globalization age, some new and higher requirements on cultivation of intercultural communication ability are urgently needed. How to cultivate intercultural communication awareness and competence has become the main task in university English teaching, especially for postgraduates....

Becker might have been thinking of formalistic critics like Northrop Frye, for whom realism was in some fundamental sense anti-literary: “One of the most familiar and important features of literature,” Frye had declared in his famous Anatomy of Criticism in 1957, “is the absence of a controlling aim...

This paper focuses on the new trends of postmodern studies and practices. In her opinion, postmodernism has not been dead as some theorists declared, only that it has entered into a new phase which can be temporarily called “the late postmodern moment,” that is, postmodernism has evolved into an institutionalized...

China skipped the transgressive, constestatory part of postmodernism and moved directly to the compromised, commercialized offspring. A question always haunts me: how can a common reader, with his mind being shaped by the conventional realistic thinking about history and without receiving enough teachings...

Out of date and second-rate. Squashed in between the freshness of romanticism and the newness of modernism, it is truly the tasteless spam in the sandwich of literary and cultural history. Compared with other long-established members of the cast of critical players, it has recently been having a really...

Studies on English translation of Shijing have undergone three phases in China. It begins with introductions of English versions and their translators as well as comparisons between them; the second phase features in the theoretical attempt of translational strategies. The first two phases stress more...

This paper, based upon text interpretation and historical analysis methods, elaborated the Soviet philosophy in “Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism” translated by Zhiyuan Shen in the 1930s, and summed up the historical contribution that Zhiyuan Shen has made to the initial dissemination...

Recently, the research on the co-cultural groups gradually becomes a new focus. In the midst, the study on the disabled co-culture is a typical example. Going from this perspective, this paper mainly summarizes the influence of physical appearance, interpersonal space and distance, and paralanguage etc....

As the important vein and foundation for development and survival of university, culture is a necessary mark and feature that distinguishes a university from one another. The function of university can not be fully played without culture’s nourishing and nurture, which is also the nature and soul of...

As a poet born in a Catholic family in Northern Ireland but deeply influenced by the British literary tradition, Paul Muldoon’s identity is obviously multiple and complex especially from 1970s to 1980s when Northern Ireland was going through the most serious political, religious and cultural conflicts,...

How to solve the relationship between the Chinese traditional art forms with today's characteristics of the image of the times, and reasonable develop their own problems. This is the main problem to be discussed in this paper. The first, clear understanding of Chinese traditional art forms and contemporary...

This research mainly aims at the close relationship between clothing and human activities in people’s daily life, trying to design different costumes to address the demand problem for clothing functionality that people usually have in different environment or different activities. It demonstrates that...

This paper introduces current prevalent situation of the negative list in the field of international investment. It discusses that the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and the China-U.S. bilateral investment treaty negotiation directly promote the reform of China’s foreign investment regulation. The...

This paper mainly focuses on the epiphany by Elizabeth of the story “Odour of Chrysanthemums”, which is written by D. H. Lawrence. Through the analysis of the important instant of the story, we could learn a lot from the epiphany especially in the aspect of marriage and life and understand deeper of...

This paper aims to interpret Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved and examine the subjectivity of the controversial character Beloved in the framework of Lacanian subject theory, revealing her subjectivity is not shaped by Morrison in Cartesian paradigm and she is actually mirroring the unconscious of Sethe,...

Conceptual integration (blending) provides a way of the mental processes of mappings between languages and thoughts. If a source text is treated as the blends of the source language structures and schemata of the communicative events, in translating, when translators digest the source text, translators...