I met Derek Pearsall for the first time in the winter of 1982 in York and saw him for the last time,again in York,in November 2010.For me,his figure is therefore inevitably tied to York,its ramparts,its Minster,the Ce...I met Derek Pearsall for the first time in the winter of 1982 in York and saw him for the last time,again in York,in November 2010.For me,his figure is therefore inevitably tied to York,its ramparts,its Minster,the Centre for Medieval Studies he did so much to foster.To York,and to Harvard,where I saw him quite often in the late 1980s,in the 1990s and after 2000.展开更多
The origin and development of human language has always been the issue attracting scholars with various academic background. Currently, amid related versions, there are two recognized as the most valuable ones althoug...The origin and development of human language has always been the issue attracting scholars with various academic background. Currently, amid related versions, there are two recognized as the most valuable ones although they are opposite against each other—gradual evolution and sudden naissance. With the aid of explanation on examples including history facts and scientific research, this thesis argues that the sudden naissance proposed by Dereck Bickerton is more reasonable. This paper is expected to provide more persuasive evidence, bringing the discussion upon the origin of languages to new stage.展开更多
Critics tend to cast a suspicious eye on Derek Mahon’s seemingly obsessive revisions of his works.Though it needs to be acknowledged that Mahon’s habitual practice of revision does not always lead to a definite impr...Critics tend to cast a suspicious eye on Derek Mahon’s seemingly obsessive revisions of his works.Though it needs to be acknowledged that Mahon’s habitual practice of revision does not always lead to a definite improvement of the poems’quality,this article argues that the poet revises to destabilize a formation of what Richard Rorty calls "final vocabulary"as a never quitting ironist.Mahon’s constant undercutting of his stable textual ground stems from a deeper Mahonian poetics which has at its core the urge to work against fixed perspective and settled interpretation in unsettling political and cultural circumstances that produce intolerance and claustrophobia.Mahon also presents a Beckettian resistance of the limitedness of poetic language by pluralizing poetic ambivalence and indeterminacy.展开更多
文摘I met Derek Pearsall for the first time in the winter of 1982 in York and saw him for the last time,again in York,in November 2010.For me,his figure is therefore inevitably tied to York,its ramparts,its Minster,the Centre for Medieval Studies he did so much to foster.To York,and to Harvard,where I saw him quite often in the late 1980s,in the 1990s and after 2000.
文摘The origin and development of human language has always been the issue attracting scholars with various academic background. Currently, amid related versions, there are two recognized as the most valuable ones although they are opposite against each other—gradual evolution and sudden naissance. With the aid of explanation on examples including history facts and scientific research, this thesis argues that the sudden naissance proposed by Dereck Bickerton is more reasonable. This paper is expected to provide more persuasive evidence, bringing the discussion upon the origin of languages to new stage.
文摘Critics tend to cast a suspicious eye on Derek Mahon’s seemingly obsessive revisions of his works.Though it needs to be acknowledged that Mahon’s habitual practice of revision does not always lead to a definite improvement of the poems’quality,this article argues that the poet revises to destabilize a formation of what Richard Rorty calls "final vocabulary"as a never quitting ironist.Mahon’s constant undercutting of his stable textual ground stems from a deeper Mahonian poetics which has at its core the urge to work against fixed perspective and settled interpretation in unsettling political and cultural circumstances that produce intolerance and claustrophobia.Mahon also presents a Beckettian resistance of the limitedness of poetic language by pluralizing poetic ambivalence and indeterminacy.
