Selfishness,understood as excessive focus on the self,appears to be a predominant feature of contemporary culture.While the degree of self-focus is adaptive for survival and decision-making,self-rigidity has been asso...Selfishness,understood as excessive focus on the self,appears to be a predominant feature of contemporary culture.While the degree of self-focus is adaptive for survival and decision-making,self-rigidity has been associated with significant psychological,interpersonal,and social costs.Throughout history,philosophers,religious leaders,and social activists have promoted a“hypo-egoic”way of being,characterized by reduced self-fixation and greater openness to others.However,a key question arises:How can one cultivate a more flexible and interdependent perspective on the self?Deconstructive meditations are a group of contemplative practices that aim to dismantle self-rigidity by exploring perception,cognition,and emotion.Their central mechanism is self-inquiry,an experiential process that involves directly observing patterns of the self,questioning the solidity of identity,and developing new ways to relate to experience.From the perspective of contemplative neuroscience,these practices have been shown to reduce selfnarrative identification and promote psychological flexibility.Despite their potential,empirical research on deconstructive meditations remains limited and requires further investigation.This article reviews the essential findings on practices,their connection to psychotherapy,and their potential therapeutic applications.Finally,their clinical implications are discussed along with future research directions to validate their impact on mental health.展开更多
The writing of Thomas Hardy cannot be readily defined as an embodiment of the Realistic tradition. His too-liminal status as the last Victorian novelist, regional writer, and a collector of English rustics, has been v...The writing of Thomas Hardy cannot be readily defined as an embodiment of the Realistic tradition. His too-liminal status as the last Victorian novelist, regional writer, and a collector of English rustics, has been vivaciously debated and contested （Miller, 1970; Widdowson, 1989; Moore, 1990; Morgan, 1992; Armstrong, 2000; Mallet, 2002; Nemesvari, 2011）. This argument contributes to the debate on the relation between the real and the textual in Hardy＇s last novel, Jude the Obscure （1895）, which shows that Hardy＇s language has features of a self-referential novel, close to the antimimetic poetics of postmodernist genres, which insists, however, on the connection with the real, where lies the inspiration for creativity and political intervention. Through the analysis of the allegorical figures of ＂intertexts＂ interwoven in the language of the novel, it will be argued that the representation of the novel registers the connection between Hardy＇s visual imagination and his intention to intervene in a discursive field.展开更多
The long-term biased critical reception of comics did not allow the medium＇s theoretical remodeling, the highlighting of its multidimensionality and complexity, and its establishment as a self-sufficient and serious ...The long-term biased critical reception of comics did not allow the medium＇s theoretical remodeling, the highlighting of its multidimensionality and complexity, and its establishment as a self-sufficient and serious narrative medium. The creators of graphic novels in an attempt to upgrade and restore their ＂ancestors＇＂ cultural status and to eliminate the negative stigma of the medium, by taking advantage of the self-referencing techniques, they try to redefine comics and reframe the field of their social practice. Graphic novels, even more, either allusively or straightforwardly, aquire metatextual quality, by exercising critique on the artistic phenomenon in general and on comics＇ history and theory in particular. Self-referentiality and metatextuality function as ＇internal legitimization apparatuses of the medium and provide graphic novels the right to participate in the theoretical discourse, negotiate or even rearticulate it.展开更多
This thesis focuses on one of Michael Palmer's most well-known poems Sun, published in 1988, to elaborate on how the poet integrates his meditation on the nature of language with his critique of modern poetry in t...This thesis focuses on one of Michael Palmer's most well-known poems Sun, published in 1988, to elaborate on how the poet integrates his meditation on the nature of language with his critique of modern poetry in the recent prevailing ideologies through presenting us an absurd language world in the poem, and have a glimpse on the poet's ambiguous relationship with"Language Poetry"in this poem.展开更多
For centuries,the far-off Orient remained unveiled as a mysterious land of exteriority both culturally and geographically. However,before the industrial revolution Western studies about the Orient has been a putative ...For centuries,the far-off Orient remained unveiled as a mysterious land of exteriority both culturally and geographically. However,before the industrial revolution Western studies about the Orient has been a putative object in response to the Western social as it mainly gauged Eastern culture according to its own indigenous cultural tradition. What are the reasons behind this putative attempt to interpret the ancient codes of Eastern civilization through imagination and forged theories? This essay scrutinizes from four aspects-the definition of Orientalism proposed by Said,the illusionary foundation of Oriental study,the egocentric judgment on Oriental culture and the self-referential circulation of Oriental knowledge system while discussing the angels from which Oriental studies view ancient China. Factors including economic and social needs as well as the cultural conceitedness are all involved as we decipher the mysteries behind this special cultural phenomenon.展开更多
文摘Selfishness,understood as excessive focus on the self,appears to be a predominant feature of contemporary culture.While the degree of self-focus is adaptive for survival and decision-making,self-rigidity has been associated with significant psychological,interpersonal,and social costs.Throughout history,philosophers,religious leaders,and social activists have promoted a“hypo-egoic”way of being,characterized by reduced self-fixation and greater openness to others.However,a key question arises:How can one cultivate a more flexible and interdependent perspective on the self?Deconstructive meditations are a group of contemplative practices that aim to dismantle self-rigidity by exploring perception,cognition,and emotion.Their central mechanism is self-inquiry,an experiential process that involves directly observing patterns of the self,questioning the solidity of identity,and developing new ways to relate to experience.From the perspective of contemplative neuroscience,these practices have been shown to reduce selfnarrative identification and promote psychological flexibility.Despite their potential,empirical research on deconstructive meditations remains limited and requires further investigation.This article reviews the essential findings on practices,their connection to psychotherapy,and their potential therapeutic applications.Finally,their clinical implications are discussed along with future research directions to validate their impact on mental health.
文摘The writing of Thomas Hardy cannot be readily defined as an embodiment of the Realistic tradition. His too-liminal status as the last Victorian novelist, regional writer, and a collector of English rustics, has been vivaciously debated and contested （Miller, 1970; Widdowson, 1989; Moore, 1990; Morgan, 1992; Armstrong, 2000; Mallet, 2002; Nemesvari, 2011）. This argument contributes to the debate on the relation between the real and the textual in Hardy＇s last novel, Jude the Obscure （1895）, which shows that Hardy＇s language has features of a self-referential novel, close to the antimimetic poetics of postmodernist genres, which insists, however, on the connection with the real, where lies the inspiration for creativity and political intervention. Through the analysis of the allegorical figures of ＂intertexts＂ interwoven in the language of the novel, it will be argued that the representation of the novel registers the connection between Hardy＇s visual imagination and his intention to intervene in a discursive field.
文摘The long-term biased critical reception of comics did not allow the medium＇s theoretical remodeling, the highlighting of its multidimensionality and complexity, and its establishment as a self-sufficient and serious narrative medium. The creators of graphic novels in an attempt to upgrade and restore their ＂ancestors＇＂ cultural status and to eliminate the negative stigma of the medium, by taking advantage of the self-referencing techniques, they try to redefine comics and reframe the field of their social practice. Graphic novels, even more, either allusively or straightforwardly, aquire metatextual quality, by exercising critique on the artistic phenomenon in general and on comics＇ history and theory in particular. Self-referentiality and metatextuality function as ＇internal legitimization apparatuses of the medium and provide graphic novels the right to participate in the theoretical discourse, negotiate or even rearticulate it.
文摘This thesis focuses on one of Michael Palmer's most well-known poems Sun, published in 1988, to elaborate on how the poet integrates his meditation on the nature of language with his critique of modern poetry in the recent prevailing ideologies through presenting us an absurd language world in the poem, and have a glimpse on the poet's ambiguous relationship with"Language Poetry"in this poem.
文摘For centuries,the far-off Orient remained unveiled as a mysterious land of exteriority both culturally and geographically. However,before the industrial revolution Western studies about the Orient has been a putative object in response to the Western social as it mainly gauged Eastern culture according to its own indigenous cultural tradition. What are the reasons behind this putative attempt to interpret the ancient codes of Eastern civilization through imagination and forged theories? This essay scrutinizes from four aspects-the definition of Orientalism proposed by Said,the illusionary foundation of Oriental study,the egocentric judgment on Oriental culture and the self-referential circulation of Oriental knowledge system while discussing the angels from which Oriental studies view ancient China. Factors including economic and social needs as well as the cultural conceitedness are all involved as we decipher the mysteries behind this special cultural phenomenon.
