abstract:Richard Wilbur’s “All That Is” foregrounds the poet’s thematic interest in ontology: the poem is a meditation on what is and human access to it. Borrowing a phrase from Hans-Georg Gadamer, I characterize the poem’s ontology as a “hermeneutic ontology.” For Gadamer and Wilbur both, human finitude and temporality make it inevitable that our grasp of being can only be hermeneutic—can only be, therefore, both linguistic and dynamic. Wilbur figures all this in the poem’s representation of crossword puzzles.
摘要：理查德·威尔伯（Richard Wilbur）的《一切皆是》（All That Is）突出了诗人对本体论的主题兴趣：这首诗是对什么是存在以及人类对它的访问的思考。借用汉斯·格奥尔格·伽达默尔（Hans-Georg Gadamer）的一句话，我将这首诗的本体论描述为“解释学本体论”。对于伽达默尔和威尔伯来说，人类的有限性和时间性使得我们对存在的把握不可避免地只能是解释学的——因此，只能是语言的和动态的。威尔伯在这首诗中对填字游戏的描绘中描绘了这一切。
{"title":"A Rite of Finitude: Richard Wilbur’s Hermeneutic Ontology","authors":"William Tate","doi":"10.7560/tsll64105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64105","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Richard Wilbur’s “All That Is” foregrounds the poet’s thematic interest in ontology: the poem is a meditation on what is and human access to it. Borrowing a phrase from Hans-Georg Gadamer, I characterize the poem’s ontology as a “hermeneutic ontology.” For Gadamer and Wilbur both, human finitude and temporality make it inevitable that our grasp of being can only be hermeneutic—can only be, therefore, both linguistic and dynamic. Wilbur figures all this in the poem’s representation of crossword puzzles.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"64 1","pages":"113 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44791751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:Ralph Ellison's depiction of the Communist Party in Invisible Man has often been criticized as unfair or formulaic. This article, however, argues that Ellison's depiction of the Communist Party can be read productively when considered in light of the novel's use of caricature, violence, and the scapegoat motif. By observing the Invisible Man's role as both victim and perpetrator of violence, the reader becomes aware of the dangerous cycle of scapegoating in the novel.
{"title":"The Politics of the Poison Pen: Communism, Caricature, and Scapegoats in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man","authors":"Luke Sayers","doi":"10.7560/tsll63401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll63401","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Ralph Ellison's depiction of the Communist Party in Invisible Man has often been criticized as unfair or formulaic. This article, however, argues that Ellison's depiction of the Communist Party can be read productively when considered in light of the novel's use of caricature, violence, and the scapegoat motif. By observing the Invisible Man's role as both victim and perpetrator of violence, the reader becomes aware of the dangerous cycle of scapegoating in the novel.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"63 1","pages":"341 - 358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43068743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:This article proposes "literal reading," a theoretical concept from Zhang Longxi, with the intent of resisting the reductionist reading of political implications of contemporary Chinese literature in Anglophone discourse. It uses Chinese writer Yan Lianke's novel The Four Books as a case study, investigating how Yan's portrayal of the main character, the Child, has been misread or overinterpreted in English-language scholarship as a representation of the nation's repressive past while his idiosyncratic writing style and use of literary form as content have been glossed over.
{"title":"Negotiating the Politics of Chinese Fiction: The Case of Yan Lianke's \"Child\"","authors":"Haiyan Xie","doi":"10.7560/tsll63405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll63405","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article proposes \"literal reading,\" a theoretical concept from Zhang Longxi, with the intent of resisting the reductionist reading of political implications of contemporary Chinese literature in Anglophone discourse. It uses Chinese writer Yan Lianke's novel The Four Books as a case study, investigating how Yan's portrayal of the main character, the Child, has been misread or overinterpreted in English-language scholarship as a representation of the nation's repressive past while his idiosyncratic writing style and use of literary form as content have been glossed over.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"63 1","pages":"434 - 458"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41763139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:This essay examines Claude McKay's Banjo in terms of its dialectical critique of civilization. With its radical questioning of the meaning of modernity, McKay's novel of Black life in Marseille aligns with the transnational cultural phenomenon of modernism. Reading Banjo alongside Walter Benjamin's seminal concepts such as the dialectical image reveals how the novel's oft-criticized "crude realism" and plotless structure are its integral elements.
{"title":"The Dialectics of Barbarous Civilization: Black Transnational Modernism in Claude McKay's Banjo","authors":"Tomohiro Hori","doi":"10.7560/tsll63404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll63404","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay examines Claude McKay's Banjo in terms of its dialectical critique of civilization. With its radical questioning of the meaning of modernity, McKay's novel of Black life in Marseille aligns with the transnational cultural phenomenon of modernism. Reading Banjo alongside Walter Benjamin's seminal concepts such as the dialectical image reveals how the novel's oft-criticized \"crude realism\" and plotless structure are its integral elements.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"63 1","pages":"410 - 433"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42961434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:James M. Cain's depiction of changing gender roles in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), Double Indemnity (1936), and Mildred Pierce (1941), classics of literary noir, explores the fatality of sentimentalized romance in relation to the Great Depression's erosion of the American Dream. Serenade (1937) is a puzzling deviation from this theme. Despite criticism of the "iron-hard pattern of necessity" that underlies his work, Cain's early fiction illuminates the nation's cultural legacy.
{"title":"Compromised Men and Aspiring Women: The Fatality of Romance in James M. Cain's Depression-Era Novels","authors":"R. Snyder","doi":"10.7560/tsll63402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll63402","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:James M. Cain's depiction of changing gender roles in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), Double Indemnity (1936), and Mildred Pierce (1941), classics of literary noir, explores the fatality of sentimentalized romance in relation to the Great Depression's erosion of the American Dream. Serenade (1937) is a puzzling deviation from this theme. Despite criticism of the \"iron-hard pattern of necessity\" that underlies his work, Cain's early fiction illuminates the nation's cultural legacy.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"63 1","pages":"359 - 380"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42740966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ABSTRACT:In Heart of Darkness and "An Outpost of Progress," Joseph Conrad's characters initially associate African space with silence and absence and European space with sound and fullness. As these tales progress, however, the barriers between empty African space and full European space break down, as Conrad reveals the activity and sound of the West to be merely a surface that obscures its underlying emptiness, an emptiness that reflects a universe absent of order or meaning.
{"title":"Silence, Space, and Absence in Joseph Conrad's African Fiction","authors":"John G. Peters","doi":"10.7560/tsll63403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll63403","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In Heart of Darkness and \"An Outpost of Progress,\" Joseph Conrad's characters initially associate African space with silence and absence and European space with sound and fullness. As these tales progress, however, the barriers between empty African space and full European space break down, as Conrad reveals the activity and sound of the West to be merely a surface that obscures its underlying emptiness, an emptiness that reflects a universe absent of order or meaning.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"63 1","pages":"381 - 409"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47187083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper carefully sorts out the current situation of intercultural communication teaching resources, analyzes the existing problems, and aims to put forward the corresponding measures for the construction of resource database in combination with the training objectives of intercultural communication curriculum in Minzu universities.
{"title":"Construction of Teaching Resource Database of Intercultural Communication in Minzu Universities","authors":"Li Xu","doi":"10.3968/12322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3968/12322","url":null,"abstract":"This paper carefully sorts out the current situation of intercultural communication teaching resources, analyzes the existing problems, and aims to put forward the corresponding measures for the construction of resource database in combination with the training objectives of intercultural communication curriculum in Minzu universities.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"28 1","pages":"39-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74500349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nonverbal behavior plays an important role in literary work but receives little attention in literary translation. Different use of linguistic devices by translators in representing nonverbal behavior of the source text would portray different images of characters. This paper, taking Chinese writer Shen Congwen’s short story Pai-tzu as an example, compares the translation of nonverbal behavior in its two English versions (by Ching Ti and Hsu Kai-yu). It firstly reviews definition and category of nonverbal behavior by scholars in diverse fields, as well as related theories in literature and translation. It then compares the two versions in dealing with the paralanguage and kinesics of the two characters, and explores how the differences between them lead to different features of the characters. This paper comes to the following conclusion: Ching’s version, by the choice of material or behavioral process and illocutionary verbs indicating voice quality, shapes a louder and more dynamic image of the woman, in contrast with a static image in Hsu’s version; the image Pai-tzu is vividly portrayed by Hsu due to the use of marked vocabulary and addition of chronemics and proxemics elements, in contrast with core vocabulary and word omission in Ching’s version; in dealing with body parts as agent metonyms, Ching’s version is closer to the style of the original due to the choice of agent metonyms and material process, while Hsu opts for mental process with human agent.
{"title":"Translating Nonverbal Behaviour in Literature: With Pai-tzu as An Example","authors":"Jing Liu","doi":"10.3968/12295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3968/12295","url":null,"abstract":"Nonverbal behavior plays an important role in literary work but receives little attention in literary translation. Different use of linguistic devices by translators in representing nonverbal behavior of the source text would portray different images of characters. This paper, taking Chinese writer Shen Congwen’s short story Pai-tzu as an example, compares the translation of nonverbal behavior in its two English versions (by Ching Ti and Hsu Kai-yu). It firstly reviews definition and category of nonverbal behavior by scholars in diverse fields, as well as related theories in literature and translation. It then compares the two versions in dealing with the paralanguage and kinesics of the two characters, and explores how the differences between them lead to different features of the characters. This paper comes to the following conclusion: Ching’s version, by the choice of material or behavioral process and illocutionary verbs indicating voice quality, shapes a louder and more dynamic image of the woman, in contrast with a static image in Hsu’s version; the image Pai-tzu is vividly portrayed by Hsu due to the use of marked vocabulary and addition of chronemics and proxemics elements, in contrast with core vocabulary and word omission in Ching’s version; in dealing with body parts as agent metonyms, Ching’s version is closer to the style of the original due to the choice of agent metonyms and material process, while Hsu opts for mental process with human agent.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"81 1","pages":"33-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85238075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
There is a growing tendency among Chinese students to apply concrete theories by scholars with different backgrounds and predilections in Critical Discourse Analysis (hereinafter referred to as CDA) to conduct academic research. Seen from a general picture, CDA regards “language as social practice” (Fairclough & Wodak, 1997) and takes consideration of the context of language use to be crucial (Wodak, 2000). More importantly, CDA takes a particular interest in the relation between language and power. This paper intends to offer a basic overview of the constituent content in the landmark masterpiece Language and Power in CDA’s programme as well as a critical view on this influential book.
{"title":"A Critical Interpretation on Language and Power","authors":"Jing Xia","doi":"10.3968/12269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3968/12269","url":null,"abstract":"There is a growing tendency among Chinese students to apply concrete theories by scholars with different backgrounds and predilections in Critical Discourse Analysis (hereinafter referred to as CDA) to conduct academic research. Seen from a general picture, CDA regards “language as social practice” (Fairclough & Wodak, 1997) and takes consideration of the context of language use to be crucial (Wodak, 2000). More importantly, CDA takes a particular interest in the relation between language and power. This paper intends to offer a basic overview of the constituent content in the landmark masterpiece Language and Power in CDA’s programme as well as a critical view on this influential book.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"24 1","pages":"23-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81375785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Multimodal metaphor, pushing the study of metaphor in the language level into other fields and pouring more cultural implications for it, has become one of the hot spots in current linguistic research. This study reviews the origin, current situation, the approach of multimodal metaphor and talks about its research prospects, which is conducive to providing thinking inspiration and paradigm reference for following researches.
{"title":"Review and Prospect of Multimodal Metaphor Research","authors":"Youwen Yang","doi":"10.3968/12202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3968/12202","url":null,"abstract":"Multimodal metaphor, pushing the study of metaphor in the language level into other fields and pouring more cultural implications for it, has become one of the hot spots in current linguistic research. This study reviews the origin, current situation, the approach of multimodal metaphor and talks about its research prospects, which is conducive to providing thinking inspiration and paradigm reference for following researches.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"69 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73694223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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