Pub Date : 2024-05-17DOI: 10.11648/j.ijla.20241203.11
Yang Chen
This research paper delves into the translation strategies for curse words from Chinese to English within the context of literary works, specifically focusing on "A Dream of Red Mansions," a classic Chinese novel. The study acknowledges the cultural aversion to curse words due to their offensive nature and association with negative emotions. However, it emphasizes the importance of these words in literature, where they contribute to the authenticity and expressiveness of the text. The paper is structured into three main sections. The first section provides a comparative analysis of curse words in English and Chinese, highlighting their common offensive traits and the cultural nuances that differentiate their usage. The second section presents a detailed examination of various translation strategies applied to curse words in the novel, including literal translation and free translation. The third section discusses the challenges translators face when bridging cultural barriers and offers recommendations for achieving faithful and expressive translations. The study underscores that curse words extend beyond their everyday negative connotations and are integral to the literary expression. It concludes that translators must possess a deep understanding of both the source and target languages' cultural contexts to effectively translate curse words. The recommended approach involves understanding the literal and extended meanings of curse words, considering the context, and employing a combination of literal and free translation strategies to maintain the essence and emotional impact of the original text.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-11DOI: 10.11648/j.ijla.20241202.11
G. Ngide
This paper posits that in his prose and poetry, Percy Bysshe Shelley (an English poet of the Romantic period) articulates both the philosophy and methodology of nonviolence as a response to oppression, repression and marginalisation. It also contends that although his theory significantly impacted the formation of the philosophies and socio-political campaigns of later nonviolence activists, especially the Indian Civil Rights Activist Mahatma Gandhi, Shelley has not been sufficiently credited for the ground-breaking political philosophy of nonviolence. This article thus explores Shelley’s philosophy of nonviolence in his poetry, prose, dramas and pamphlets. It compares the nonviolence philosophies of Gandhi and Shelley and brings out Shelley’s unquestionable influence on Mahatma Gandhi. The article raises questions about why Shelley was not credited with the philosophy of nonviolence and suggests possible reasons for this apparent near lack of global consideration for the English Romantic poet despite his pioneering the philosophy. Having proceeded thus and upon thorough academic investigation, the article irresistibly concludes that contrary to popular socio-political opinion, Percy Bysshe Shelley is the unrivalled father of nonviolence as an ethical and pragmatic philosophy for socio-political mutation. By this study, Shelley is given his rightful position in matters of nonviolence and thus exhumed as a poet-philosopher whose philosophy has outlived his existence and practised to date by activists to press for reform.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-20DOI: 10.11648/j.ijla.20241201.12
Xiaofang Sun
Linda Hogan is a Chickasaw writer grown up in the Native American Renaissance, who feels much obliged to figure out an effective way of guiding the colonized native people out of ecocide and ethnocide wrought by the Euro-American colonization. As an author wholly drenched in the indigenous cosmology, Hogan bestows great concern on the issue of place in the literary creation, which is a pivotal cosmological element in the native epistemological system and thus can be taken as a means for her to decolonize her people. This paper is to investigate the issue of colonization and decolonization through the lens of place in the register of human geography by exploring the spiritual disorientation attributed to land loss represented in her novel Solar Storms (1995). Based on detailed textual analysis, it is unfolded that the spiritual disorientation in the Indian community has been overtly embodied in two aspects: native men’s alcoholism and their conceding to white masculinity, and child abuse conducted by women for their suffering from intergenerational trauma, which truly represents the mental or psychological crisis of indigenous peoples triggered by and attendant to the land loss. In conclusion, the decolonizing process in Hogan’s fiction necessitates reviewing the horrible outcome of the native people’s land loss history so as to enhance their recognition of the communal place, stimulate their sense of community and develop new sites and strategies of resistance.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-08DOI: 10.11648/j.ijla.20241201.11
Qian Han
{"title":"A Keyword in Western Literary Theory: Text","authors":"Qian Han","doi":"10.11648/j.ijla.20241201.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijla.20241201.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14110,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Literature and Arts","volume":"219 S711","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139628765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-18DOI: 10.11648/j.ijla.20231106.12
Weena Mae Granada-Ampo, Joshua Golosino Rojo
{"title":"The Objectification of Women in Adonis Durado’s “Balaki Ko ‘Day Samtang Gasakay Ta’g Habalhabal”","authors":"Weena Mae Granada-Ampo, Joshua Golosino Rojo","doi":"10.11648/j.ijla.20231106.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijla.20231106.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14110,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Literature and Arts","volume":"43 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138965298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.11648/j.ijla.20231106.11
Adama Suleiman, Murana Muniru Oladayo, Yusuf Ibrahim
{"title":"A Study of Mind Style in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s <i>Purple Hibiscus</i>","authors":"Adama Suleiman, Murana Muniru Oladayo, Yusuf Ibrahim","doi":"10.11648/j.ijla.20231106.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijla.20231106.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14110,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Literature and Arts","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139282125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.11648/j.ijla.20231105.12
Zhang Yunhe
{"title":"A Study of the Truth, Goodness and Beauty in Alai’s Novel<i> Fairy Ring</i>","authors":"Zhang Yunhe","doi":"10.11648/j.ijla.20231105.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijla.20231105.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14110,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Literature and Arts","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139307865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-13DOI: 10.11648/j.ijla.20231105.11
Jiaxin Liu
{"title":"The Process of Spiritual Evolution and Purification -- A Thematic Analysis of &lt;i&gt;Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women&lt;/i&gt;","authors":"Jiaxin Liu","doi":"10.11648/j.ijla.20231105.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijla.20231105.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14110,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Literature and Arts","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135785833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-28DOI: 10.11648/j.ijla.20231104.17
Jiabin Guo
{"title":"From the Gunfighter Myth to Rock Performance: Transposition and Intermedial References in Sam Shepard’s<i> The Tooth of Crime</i>","authors":"Jiabin Guo","doi":"10.11648/j.ijla.20231104.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijla.20231104.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14110,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Literature and Arts","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87063895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-22DOI: 10.11648/j.ijla.20231104.16
Benalloua Kheira
: This papers are about the discourse in the theory of literature and its criticism, which is still difficult to deal with due to what is authored each time in various creative fields, whether about the famous literary genders: poetry and prose
{"title":"Literary Genders in the Narrative Text: Between Fashion and Chaos a Critical View of Some Creative Models","authors":"Benalloua Kheira","doi":"10.11648/j.ijla.20231104.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijla.20231104.16","url":null,"abstract":": This papers are about the discourse in the theory of literature and its criticism, which is still difficult to deal with due to what is authored each time in various creative fields, whether about the famous literary genders: poetry and prose","PeriodicalId":14110,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Literature and Arts","volume":"117 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86089684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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