Pub Date : 2022-01-05DOI: 10.1080/25723618.2021.2010355
Haixia Guo
The paper aims to conduct a comparative analysis of the poetic features of Zhang Ailing’s and Katherine Mansfield’s short stories. Through the use of sharp, fresh images, poetic language and atmosphere, they create a literary world full of poetic charm. Both Mansfield and Zhang employ the symbolist technique of imagery, and have the remarkable capacity to describe the natural images, such as the sea of Mansfield and the moon of Zhang, in ways that are simultaneously lyrical and symbolic. The paper argues that their language had the elegance and conciseness of poetry, and fully shows their capacity for poetic description, though in different ways. They minimize the importance of plot and internalize the conflict, noteworthy for detailed description and atmosphere of the story. If we use different colors to represent the impressions of their works, Mansfield’s is melancholy gaseous blue while Zhang’s is desolate steel gray. By exploring the similarity and difference between the two writers concerning the three aspects of their artistic features, this paper points out that Zhang and Mansfield have different cultural backgrounds but similar traumatic experiences and these life experiences become important content and motivation for their literary creation.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/25723618.2022.2027117
Tanzia Mobarak
ABSTRACT This paper undertakes a comparative study of Imam Al-Ghazālī’s and Sigmund Freud’s conceptions of the self or personality and explores whether, Al-Ghazālī may have influenced Freudian psychoanalysis. An influential 11th-century Persian scholar, Al-Ghazālī remains one of the most widely read Muslim scholars who wrote freely on topics ranging from jurisprudence, logic and ethics to theology and spirituality. A lesser-explored area of his oeuvre is his contribution to psychology, manifested expressively in his monumental Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm Al-Dīn (The Revival of the Religious Sciences). The early 20th-century Austrian scholar Sigmund Freud, on the other hand, is revered as the founder of psychoanalysis – the theory and practice associated with the study of mental processes. The methodology adapted for this study is the Variation theory of comparative literature developed by Shunqing Cao. This is because Variation is especially suitable for conducting such cross-civilization comparative studies. Through this critical endeavor, the paper aims to investigate the possibility of cross-cultural influence and foreground the potential of a rarely applied non-Western theoretical framework.
本文对伊玛目Al-Ghazālī和西格蒙德·弗洛伊德的自我或人格概念进行了比较研究，并探讨Al-Ghazālī是否影响了弗洛伊德的精神分析。Al-Ghazālī是一位11世纪颇具影响力的波斯学者，至今仍是最受广泛阅读的穆斯林学者之一，他的著作题材广泛，从法理学、逻辑学、伦理学到神学和灵性。他的作品中较少被探索的领域是他对心理学的贡献，表现在他不朽的Iḥyā - al - d - n(宗教科学的复兴)中。另一方面，20世纪初的奥地利学者西格蒙德·弗洛伊德被尊为精神分析学的创始人——精神分析学是一种与心理过程研究相关的理论和实践。本文采用的研究方法是曹顺庆教授的比较文学变异理论。这是因为《变异》特别适合进行这种跨文明比较研究。通过这种批判性的努力，本文旨在探讨跨文化影响的可能性，并展望一个很少应用的非西方理论框架的潜力。
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/25723618.2022.2082046
A. Parker
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/25723618.2022.2083538
Jiang Zhuyu
ABSTRACT Notes are not secondary or supplementary. They provide text with sensible guidance, supported by serious scholarship. More importantly, they embrace controversial ideas and polemical attitudes. Such notes with both sense and sensibility facilitate the expression of personal ideas more efficiently than the text; they may even sustain the development of a literary work, a theoretical topic, or even a field of study by inheriting and provoking lively and consistent scholarly discussion. Such a practice, interestingly, has long appeared in both Chinese and English literary writings. By reviewing discussions about these paradoxical notes in both Chinese and English literary criticism and by examining the notes in The Waste Land and the Book of Poetry respectively, the article proposes that it is a shared practice in both English and Chinese writings to provide notes with both sense and sensibility, and such a practice not only has helped sustain lively and consistent studies of the two specific literary works in their respective writing traditions but also proves that notes, instead of being secondary and supplementary, reveal a new discourse that awaits in uncovering further profound findings.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/25723618.2022.2082048
Dwaipayan Roy, Shuchi Kaparwan
ABSTRACT In the 1960s, a young poet (Jim Morrison) shattered America’s literary tradition with his acidic blend of music, theater, lyric, and daring. He formed The Doors, a darkly creative, informed, and bizarre music group, with some Los Angeles youths. Jim Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors, has built a literary treasure chest through his lyrics, which combine wild lyricism with a mesmerizing rock rhythm. Morrison always believed that he was a poet, but most pundits and critics never recognized or considered him as one. The current little research available on Morrison never attempts to find out who he really was or what he tried to accomplish with his poetry. The researchers intend to solidify Morrison’s position as a serious literary poetic genius in the American tradition which never took him seriously as a poet. A serious investigation has been undertaken on his poetry and lyrics from an analytical and critical point of view. Critics have continually distorted his work with drug culture, blasphemy, and pessimism. Both fans and critics of Morrison would be able to discover the poetic tradition and his legacy that he left behind after going through this critical piece. Descriptive research methods such as case studies, naturalistic observation, and surveys on Morrison’s literary expedition has been employed as effective tools in solving the research problem. In short, a serious effort has been made in this analytical essay to unveil the deconstructive shadow of criticism and showcase Morrison as a poet that changed America’s literary landscape in the 1960s creating a new poetic renaissance/genre.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/25723618.2022.2082047
R. I. Santos
ABSTRACT Beyond the archetypal themes and motifs such as chauvinism, family dysfunctions and conflicts, Nietzschean and Freudian elements, Desire Under the Elms was a critique of America’s brands of individualist and secularist ideologies. Spreading in the US at the time was a faulty form of individualism which continues to affect and permeate other parts of the world through cultural imperialism. Concomitant with perverted self-reliance was a growing secularist worldview that was challenging established religion, as if demanding freedom from hundreds of years of clout from Calvinist Christianity. In this article, I will emphasize that the drama captured an increased preference for an extreme form of individualism that was going wayward, juxtaposed with the movement toward secularization before and during the early 1900s. Further, I will highlight that these twin ideologies underpin the three major themes in the award-winning drama: the peripheralization, objectification, and often negative portrayal of women, the obsession over possessions and of persons, and the rejection of religion.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/25723618.2022.2081421
Goutam Karmakar, Tanushree Ghosh
ABSTRACT Satyajit Ray’s Professor Shonku stories depict the futuristic inventions and wondrous journeys of Professor Trilokeshwar Shonku, a renowned Bengali scientist of international acclaim. Shonku makes multiple transatlantic journeys, as seen in those stories, for representing Indian research in the international scientific community. His groundbreaking innovations, such as the miracurall pill, the annihilin pistol, and the omniscope, evoke admiration and envy among European scientists, and his scientific undertakings juxtapose Western laboratory-based sciences with a variety of indigenous and local epistemologies. By investigating some of the stories of Professor Shonku, this paper strives to depict how these stories subvert the western genre of science fiction by legitimizing “native knowledge,” possessed by Professor Shonku as well as other characters as scientific and rational. Within the context of postcolonial literature, this paper also aims to locate Ray’s Professor Shonku stories in the tradition of Bangla “kalyavigyan.” Furthermore, this paper attempts to study selected stories of Professor Shonku to delineate how the stories embody anti-colonial nationalism in the representation of India, project the postcolonial notion of “alternative modernities” and indigenize the genre of SF through the juxtaposition of indigenous epistemologies as well as myth and folkloric traditions.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/25723618.2022.2081427
Zhijiao Feng, Yue Feng
ABSTRACT Lin Yutang is a pioneer in the spreading of Chinese culture overseas. Since the 1930s, he has been introducing Chinese literature and culture to the world. Lin Yutang’s English translation of A Nun of Taishan derives from his balance of subjective and objective factors in source text selection, reflecting the spiritual fit between the storyline and Lin’s spiritual philosophy, his views on women, and the consistency toward the realistic needs at home and abroad. Based on the above translation motivations, Lin gives full play to the translator’s subjective initiatives, skillfully blending the strategies of domestication and alienation, and adopting flexible and diverse translation techniques, such as the translator’s “preconceived preface” and “integration of translation and writing,” which present the readers in the English-speaking world with a new, wise and independent image of Chinese women and a broad and inclusive image of Chinese philosophy.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/25723618.2022.2081426
Biswarup Das
ABSTRACT In the light of Lacanian dichotomy of “Being” and “Meaning,” the present article intends to illuminate how the protagonist’s journey of life in Jibanananda Das’s masterwork “Banalata Sen” (1942) proves to be a retreat to the Jungian “mother-imago.” This “imago” is the idealized image of the mother constituted by one’s infantile memory of her fulfilling self that remains preserved in the unconscious. It imbibes all the facets of womanhood. In essence, it is both instinctual and archetypal. The protagonist’s enterprising career in the human world invites into his life a sense of fatigue. He feels disintegrated into sundry worldly roles. The unconscious nostalgia for the unified “Being” eventually transmutes his aimless wanderings in the way of the world to a quest for love and fulfillment. Ultimately he succeeds in recapturing his defragmented entity, his “particular me,” as well as experiencing a sense of blissful serenity through his association with his “mother-imago,” Banalata Sen.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/25723618.2021.2008124
Ping Du, Yuming Zhou
ABSTRACT Nobel laureate Mo Yan’s novel The Republic of Wine is notable for its distinctive Chinese rural language. The richness of cultural images renders this novel splendid, but also poses a huge challenge in its translation. From the perspective of the Variation Theory of Comparative Literature, this research analyzes the variation phenomena like transformation, deformation, loss and intentional mistranslations of typical Chinese rural cultural images in Goldblatt’s English version. It aims to describe the deconstruction of meaning and reconstruct Chinese rural cultural images during the cross-cultural journey and therefore aims to provide references and inspiration for Chinese translated literature transmitted abroad.
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