The paper reports on a study of young L2 （second language） English learners＇ dual code use as activated through a series of specially designed guided fantasies. The original concept of guided fantasies as a monolin...The paper reports on a study of young L2 （second language） English learners＇ dual code use as activated through a series of specially designed guided fantasies. The original concept of guided fantasies as a monolingually organised relaxation technique was extended to the area of bilingual reception and production. The goal was to examine the relationship between child imaginative faculty and a tendency to transfer understandings across the L1 （first language） and L2. The research consisted in exposing a class of I 0 nine-year-old children to eight guided fantasies expected to playfully attract their conscious attention to language properties and enable them to profit from L1 knowledge in L2 learning. The data were collected through the heuristically oriented qualitative study drawing on participant observation accompanied by field notes and recordings of student behaviours. The findings highlighted guided fantasies in their redefined form as a useful tool for encouraging young learners to rely on L 1 competence in making sense of L2 underlying principles.展开更多
Lacking a comprehensive understanding of sadomasochism makes difficulties in judicial dispositions,clinical interventions,and mental health services.This study explores the correlation between sadomasochists’growth e...Lacking a comprehensive understanding of sadomasochism makes difficulties in judicial dispositions,clinical interventions,and mental health services.This study explores the correlation between sadomasochists’growth experience and their sadomasochistic behaviors and fantasies.We interviewed 51 sadomasochists from a Chinese subcultural website,coded and analyzed the interview records,conducted correlation and cluster analyses on the reference points of the nodes of impressive experience and sadomasochistic behaviors and fantasies,and constructed the model of Experience—Behaviors and Fantasies.We found that sadomasochists’typical impressive experiences are family parenting and sexual experience;sadomasochistic behaviors and fantasies can be classified into five categories:spirit,punishment,sex,canine,and excretion;and sadomasochistic behaviors and fantasies are partially correlated with sadomasochists’impressive experiences,indicating psychoanalytic theory is the leading theory for the driving processes of sadomasochism,while behaviorist and Gestalt theories also contribute.展开更多
Tantalized by Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies and the Harry Potter franchise,China found itself craving more.In a quiet corner of the Chinese internet,one of the men who would become the“Seven Gods”of Chin...Tantalized by Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies and the Harry Potter franchise,China found itself craving more.In a quiet corner of the Chinese internet,one of the men who would become the“Seven Gods”of Chinese fantasy literature(Pan Haitian)wondered aloud if Eastern mythology could be added to a Western-style fantasy world.With that,Novoland was born,complete with mermen,mountain giants,and flying archers.Chinese fantasy has not been around long,but already online publishing and an展开更多
This paper examines how two contemporary Latin American films—Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona and Ernesto Contreras’s Sueño en otro idioma—engage with physical and cultural genocide through distinct deployments...This paper examines how two contemporary Latin American films—Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona and Ernesto Contreras’s Sueño en otro idioma—engage with physical and cultural genocide through distinct deployments of fantasy elements that reflect the evolution of horror and magic-realist genres in Latin American cinema.The films repurpose fantastical elements through horror and mythopoetic narrative in order to confront the legacies of colonial trauma.Building on SlavojŽižek’s concept of the plague of fantasies,the paper examines how La Llorona mobilizes the Mesoamerican folk figure of La Llorona to connect contemporary genocide in Guatemala with its historical necropolitical origins,while Sueño en otro idioma examines cultural genocide through the extinction of an indigenous language in Mexico.Both films demonstrate how fantasy can function in destabilizing ways in postcolonial contexts,offering distorted glimpses of horrors that resist direct representation.Through close analysis of these works,the paper reveals how contemporary Latin American cinema deploys fantasy elements,including magic realist conventions,to provide a fundamental challenge to colonial epistemologies,by exposing the phantasmatic underpinnings of colonial violence and its contemporary reverberations.展开更多
A black sand beach littered with huge chunks of glistening(闪亮的)ice has become one of the most visited attractions in Iceland,and for good reason,it looks like something out of a fantasy movie.Known as Breiðame...A black sand beach littered with huge chunks of glistening(闪亮的)ice has become one of the most visited attractions in Iceland,and for good reason,it looks like something out of a fantasy movie.Known as Breiðamerkursandur in Icelandic,Diamond Beach takes its name from the chunks of pristine ice scattered across the black volcanic sand and glistening like giant,uncut diamonds.展开更多
M.Butterfly,written by David Henry Hwang,is one of the most influential plays in contemporary American dramatic his-tory.Hwang incorporates a stereotypical fantasy into his play,involving conflicts and misunderstandin...M.Butterfly,written by David Henry Hwang,is one of the most influential plays in contemporary American dramatic his-tory.Hwang incorporates a stereotypical fantasy into his play,involving conflicts and misunderstandings between the East and theWest,between men and women.Through the analysis of the construction of the Orientalist"Madame Butterfly Fantasy"in M.Butterfly,this paper analyzes sexual prejudice and racial bias embedded in the"Fantasy".展开更多
Myths and legends never lack readers, but the theme of the myth affects the taste of his followers. As a myth, The Chronicles of Narnia is to abandon the daily work in ordinary life. It is this kind of life that conti...Myths and legends never lack readers, but the theme of the myth affects the taste of his followers. As a myth, The Chronicles of Narnia is to abandon the daily work in ordinary life. It is this kind of life that continuously kills people's interests in daily life, and then the worries are nurtured deep in the heart. Myth has always been able to satisfy all kinds of primitive desires of human beings, whether it is explanation, fantasy or the desire of education. The Chronicles of Narnia gives a new interpretation of Myth.展开更多
Everyone is living with two hearts.One is controlled by the social rules and moral standards while the other is possessed by wild fantasies that go against the conventions.The first may be called reason and the second...Everyone is living with two hearts.One is controlled by the social rules and moral standards while the other is possessed by wild fantasies that go against the conventions.The first may be called reason and the second inner passion.More often than not people try to behave as good and normal as the society expects them to be but keep a tight lid on their feelings that do not fit in the moral requirements.Struggling between the two,a lot of writers have delved into the discussion of the humanity division,attempting to seek for the wholeness of humanity again.Chopin and Melville are without exception.Their characters-Edna and IshmaelAhab are all beings with split minds and fragmentary personalities.Through frustrations and determinations,those characters demonstrate the sorrows of incomplete humanity and lead readers to aware their own incompleteness,think about the issue seriously and make up their mind to pursuit the wholeness of their soul.展开更多
In the 21st century,Chinese online fantasy fiction is gaining popularity overseas.Lai Jingping,a Chinese-American widely known online as RWX,inspired by the popularity of his translation of a Chinese fantasy fiction,C...In the 21st century,Chinese online fantasy fiction is gaining popularity overseas.Lai Jingping,a Chinese-American widely known online as RWX,inspired by the popularity of his translation of a Chinese fantasy fiction,Coiling Dragon,established a website called Wuxiaworld.com to disseminate Chinese fantasy culture.Now it has become the largest website in the world to translate these kinds of works.This paper,in order to explore the advantages of Wuxiaworld.com,examines the translation landscape and its trends as presented on this website,and further analyzes the translation of fiction and interactive platforms using I Shall Seal the Heavens,one of the stories on the website,as an example.Our study,through text analysis and data collection,found that Wuxiaworld.com is good at hyperlink-aided translations,and has translation awareness based on the analysis of covers,synopses and glossaries;foreignization is the main translation strategy when it comes to the fantasy terms in I Shall Seal the Heavens,while annotation in text as well as hyperlinks in the forms of text,pictures and music are adopted for cultural compensation;interactive platforms,such as comments,forums and announcements,are conducive to improving translation quality and stimulating readers’enthusiasm for these translations and Chinese culture.展开更多
This paper tries to explore the epiphany embodied in Lessing’s A Woman on a Roof.As for Tom,reality provides some preconditions for fantasy.Reality,however,shatters fantasy into pieces with zero mercy.Through the ana...This paper tries to explore the epiphany embodied in Lessing’s A Woman on a Roof.As for Tom,reality provides some preconditions for fantasy.Reality,however,shatters fantasy into pieces with zero mercy.Through the analysis of fantasy and reality,one can see Tom’s epiphany in his emotional experience varying from immaturity to maturity.展开更多
The Twilight Saga written by American novelist Stephenie Meyer, tells the love story about an ordinary girl, Bella, and a handsome vampire, Edward. The novel sales hit the one hundred million mark from its release. An...The Twilight Saga written by American novelist Stephenie Meyer, tells the love story about an ordinary girl, Bella, and a handsome vampire, Edward. The novel sales hit the one hundred million mark from its release. And its Chinese version also gains much popularity among Chinese readers. Up to now, fantasy novel and its translation have drawn increasing attention of scholars from home and abroad. This paper focuses on a fantasy novel which has never been analyzed from this perspective. The paper makes a comparison between the English and Chinese versions of the novel Twilight from the perspective of Halliday's three metafunctions, interpersonal function, ideational function and textual function, to give an in-depth study on the similarities and differences of two different languages and then put forward some beneficial suggestions for translators to understand and trans late fantasy novel comprehensively.展开更多
A conflict is a disagreement, struggle, controversy or fight which usually provides the plot for a story. It is the prominent element of a work and the basis for everything else included in the work of literature. In ...A conflict is a disagreement, struggle, controversy or fight which usually provides the plot for a story. It is the prominent element of a work and the basis for everything else included in the work of literature. In the drama A Streetcar Named Desire of Tennessee Williams, several kinds of conflicts are proficiently and artistically revealed. This paper touches on different kinds of conflicts, including those between fantasy and reality, female and male, desire and death, the exterior and inner world, the south and the north. Conflicts are of great literary importance in this play. Firstly, they function to propel the plot and create an overarching tension. Secondly, they are used to represent themes which are applied to greater contexts. Thirdly, conflicts go through the whole play and make it a united whole.展开更多
The"Gold Partner"9th China Super Model Final Contest was successfully closed during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week.The Contest was hosted by the Professional Fashion Model Committee of China Fashion As...The"Gold Partner"9th China Super Model Final Contest was successfully closed during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week.The Contest was hosted by the Professional Fashion Model Committee of China Fashion Association,organized by China Bentley Culture Development Co.,Ltd.and sponsored by Shanghai Gold Partner Bio-tech Co.,Ltd.The展开更多
Ancient Greece having survived uninterruptedly through centuries, consists an incontestably cultural capital of overriding importance for the global community and especially for Greece itself. Mythical elements usuall...Ancient Greece having survived uninterruptedly through centuries, consists an incontestably cultural capital of overriding importance for the global community and especially for Greece itself. Mythical elements usually become frameworks or structures, in which Greek literary tradition encodes Greek national virtues and promotes nationalistic goals. On the other hand, myth＇s adaptations to different chrono-topes generate diversified cultural reception, adjusted to the era and the audience＇s expectations. The mythical figures are constantly invested in different conceptual schemata, which correspond to the altered way of thinking. Myth is also usually embedded in or underlies fantasy genre, which becomes a vehicle for utterances on women＇s rights. In this paper, we are going to examine closely three ＂fantasy＂ novels for children with mythical intertextual elements： The Fortunate lsles （1989）, Torch （1987）, and Sirena （1998）, whose plot takes place in Greece and we will try to explore： （1） how is Greekness being perceived and presented; and （2） how is female identity being introjected or depicted, in order to find out if the subversive potential of the fantasy genre reworks and rationalizes femininity and Greekness, which have for so long been exploited by the patriarchal or nationalistic status quo.展开更多
文摘The paper reports on a study of young L2 （second language） English learners＇ dual code use as activated through a series of specially designed guided fantasies. The original concept of guided fantasies as a monolingually organised relaxation technique was extended to the area of bilingual reception and production. The goal was to examine the relationship between child imaginative faculty and a tendency to transfer understandings across the L1 （first language） and L2. The research consisted in exposing a class of I 0 nine-year-old children to eight guided fantasies expected to playfully attract their conscious attention to language properties and enable them to profit from L1 knowledge in L2 learning. The data were collected through the heuristically oriented qualitative study drawing on participant observation accompanied by field notes and recordings of student behaviours. The findings highlighted guided fantasies in their redefined form as a useful tool for encouraging young learners to rely on L 1 competence in making sense of L2 underlying principles.
基金The National Foundation of Natural Science of China,Grant/Award Number:71073156。
文摘Lacking a comprehensive understanding of sadomasochism makes difficulties in judicial dispositions,clinical interventions,and mental health services.This study explores the correlation between sadomasochists’growth experience and their sadomasochistic behaviors and fantasies.We interviewed 51 sadomasochists from a Chinese subcultural website,coded and analyzed the interview records,conducted correlation and cluster analyses on the reference points of the nodes of impressive experience and sadomasochistic behaviors and fantasies,and constructed the model of Experience—Behaviors and Fantasies.We found that sadomasochists’typical impressive experiences are family parenting and sexual experience;sadomasochistic behaviors and fantasies can be classified into five categories:spirit,punishment,sex,canine,and excretion;and sadomasochistic behaviors and fantasies are partially correlated with sadomasochists’impressive experiences,indicating psychoanalytic theory is the leading theory for the driving processes of sadomasochism,while behaviorist and Gestalt theories also contribute.
文摘Tantalized by Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies and the Harry Potter franchise,China found itself craving more.In a quiet corner of the Chinese internet,one of the men who would become the“Seven Gods”of Chinese fantasy literature(Pan Haitian)wondered aloud if Eastern mythology could be added to a Western-style fantasy world.With that,Novoland was born,complete with mermen,mountain giants,and flying archers.Chinese fantasy has not been around long,but already online publishing and an
文摘This paper examines how two contemporary Latin American films—Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona and Ernesto Contreras’s Sueño en otro idioma—engage with physical and cultural genocide through distinct deployments of fantasy elements that reflect the evolution of horror and magic-realist genres in Latin American cinema.The films repurpose fantastical elements through horror and mythopoetic narrative in order to confront the legacies of colonial trauma.Building on SlavojŽižek’s concept of the plague of fantasies,the paper examines how La Llorona mobilizes the Mesoamerican folk figure of La Llorona to connect contemporary genocide in Guatemala with its historical necropolitical origins,while Sueño en otro idioma examines cultural genocide through the extinction of an indigenous language in Mexico.Both films demonstrate how fantasy can function in destabilizing ways in postcolonial contexts,offering distorted glimpses of horrors that resist direct representation.Through close analysis of these works,the paper reveals how contemporary Latin American cinema deploys fantasy elements,including magic realist conventions,to provide a fundamental challenge to colonial epistemologies,by exposing the phantasmatic underpinnings of colonial violence and its contemporary reverberations.
文摘A black sand beach littered with huge chunks of glistening(闪亮的)ice has become one of the most visited attractions in Iceland,and for good reason,it looks like something out of a fantasy movie.Known as Breiðamerkursandur in Icelandic,Diamond Beach takes its name from the chunks of pristine ice scattered across the black volcanic sand and glistening like giant,uncut diamonds.
文摘M.Butterfly,written by David Henry Hwang,is one of the most influential plays in contemporary American dramatic his-tory.Hwang incorporates a stereotypical fantasy into his play,involving conflicts and misunderstandings between the East and theWest,between men and women.Through the analysis of the construction of the Orientalist"Madame Butterfly Fantasy"in M.Butterfly,this paper analyzes sexual prejudice and racial bias embedded in the"Fantasy".
文摘Myths and legends never lack readers, but the theme of the myth affects the taste of his followers. As a myth, The Chronicles of Narnia is to abandon the daily work in ordinary life. It is this kind of life that continuously kills people's interests in daily life, and then the worries are nurtured deep in the heart. Myth has always been able to satisfy all kinds of primitive desires of human beings, whether it is explanation, fantasy or the desire of education. The Chronicles of Narnia gives a new interpretation of Myth.
文摘Everyone is living with two hearts.One is controlled by the social rules and moral standards while the other is possessed by wild fantasies that go against the conventions.The first may be called reason and the second inner passion.More often than not people try to behave as good and normal as the society expects them to be but keep a tight lid on their feelings that do not fit in the moral requirements.Struggling between the two,a lot of writers have delved into the discussion of the humanity division,attempting to seek for the wholeness of humanity again.Chopin and Melville are without exception.Their characters-Edna and IshmaelAhab are all beings with split minds and fragmentary personalities.Through frustrations and determinations,those characters demonstrate the sorrows of incomplete humanity and lead readers to aware their own incompleteness,think about the issue seriously and make up their mind to pursuit the wholeness of their soul.
基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities。
文摘In the 21st century,Chinese online fantasy fiction is gaining popularity overseas.Lai Jingping,a Chinese-American widely known online as RWX,inspired by the popularity of his translation of a Chinese fantasy fiction,Coiling Dragon,established a website called Wuxiaworld.com to disseminate Chinese fantasy culture.Now it has become the largest website in the world to translate these kinds of works.This paper,in order to explore the advantages of Wuxiaworld.com,examines the translation landscape and its trends as presented on this website,and further analyzes the translation of fiction and interactive platforms using I Shall Seal the Heavens,one of the stories on the website,as an example.Our study,through text analysis and data collection,found that Wuxiaworld.com is good at hyperlink-aided translations,and has translation awareness based on the analysis of covers,synopses and glossaries;foreignization is the main translation strategy when it comes to the fantasy terms in I Shall Seal the Heavens,while annotation in text as well as hyperlinks in the forms of text,pictures and music are adopted for cultural compensation;interactive platforms,such as comments,forums and announcements,are conducive to improving translation quality and stimulating readers’enthusiasm for these translations and Chinese culture.
文摘This paper tries to explore the epiphany embodied in Lessing’s A Woman on a Roof.As for Tom,reality provides some preconditions for fantasy.Reality,however,shatters fantasy into pieces with zero mercy.Through the analysis of fantasy and reality,one can see Tom’s epiphany in his emotional experience varying from immaturity to maturity.
文摘The Twilight Saga written by American novelist Stephenie Meyer, tells the love story about an ordinary girl, Bella, and a handsome vampire, Edward. The novel sales hit the one hundred million mark from its release. And its Chinese version also gains much popularity among Chinese readers. Up to now, fantasy novel and its translation have drawn increasing attention of scholars from home and abroad. This paper focuses on a fantasy novel which has never been analyzed from this perspective. The paper makes a comparison between the English and Chinese versions of the novel Twilight from the perspective of Halliday's three metafunctions, interpersonal function, ideational function and textual function, to give an in-depth study on the similarities and differences of two different languages and then put forward some beneficial suggestions for translators to understand and trans late fantasy novel comprehensively.
文摘A conflict is a disagreement, struggle, controversy or fight which usually provides the plot for a story. It is the prominent element of a work and the basis for everything else included in the work of literature. In the drama A Streetcar Named Desire of Tennessee Williams, several kinds of conflicts are proficiently and artistically revealed. This paper touches on different kinds of conflicts, including those between fantasy and reality, female and male, desire and death, the exterior and inner world, the south and the north. Conflicts are of great literary importance in this play. Firstly, they function to propel the plot and create an overarching tension. Secondly, they are used to represent themes which are applied to greater contexts. Thirdly, conflicts go through the whole play and make it a united whole.
文摘The"Gold Partner"9th China Super Model Final Contest was successfully closed during the Mercedes-Benz China Fashion Week.The Contest was hosted by the Professional Fashion Model Committee of China Fashion Association,organized by China Bentley Culture Development Co.,Ltd.and sponsored by Shanghai Gold Partner Bio-tech Co.,Ltd.The
文摘Ancient Greece having survived uninterruptedly through centuries, consists an incontestably cultural capital of overriding importance for the global community and especially for Greece itself. Mythical elements usually become frameworks or structures, in which Greek literary tradition encodes Greek national virtues and promotes nationalistic goals. On the other hand, myth＇s adaptations to different chrono-topes generate diversified cultural reception, adjusted to the era and the audience＇s expectations. The mythical figures are constantly invested in different conceptual schemata, which correspond to the altered way of thinking. Myth is also usually embedded in or underlies fantasy genre, which becomes a vehicle for utterances on women＇s rights. In this paper, we are going to examine closely three ＂fantasy＂ novels for children with mythical intertextual elements： The Fortunate lsles （1989）, Torch （1987）, and Sirena （1998）, whose plot takes place in Greece and we will try to explore： （1） how is Greekness being perceived and presented; and （2） how is female identity being introjected or depicted, in order to find out if the subversive potential of the fantasy genre reworks and rationalizes femininity and Greekness, which have for so long been exploited by the patriarchal or nationalistic status quo.
