The purpose of this text is to research dominant/typical images which have been constructed in the process of the perception and representation of the stranger in Balkan literatures, and reciprocally, the images that ...The purpose of this text is to research dominant/typical images which have been constructed in the process of the perception and representation of the stranger in Balkan literatures, and reciprocally, the images that strangers constructs for the Balkan in the same literary context. Under conditions where Balkan literatures have been treated as an alternative history of the Balkan, the author intends to see the role and power of literary work in creation, in changing or rejecting the image for/of the Other/stranger. The analysis covers several areas： the dominant position of image constructions; acts of invention an in（ter）vention; forming and transforming the images of the stranger; the role of stereotypes and prejudice in constructing images; the role of the discursive communities in creating images; and the role of the projective ideology in creating images.展开更多
William Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular British writers of his era.Many of his works are closely related to China,among which is the famous novel The Painted Veil.This novel narrates the love story betwee...William Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular British writers of his era.Many of his works are closely related to China,among which is the famous novel The Painted Veil.This novel narrates the love story between the heroine Kitty,an attractive but vainglorious middle-class lady,and the intelligent bacteriologist Walter Fane.This thesis aims at exploring the hetero image of China in The Painted Veil from the perspective of imagology.It comprises four chapters.Chapter one introduces the definition of the terms“Image”and“hetero image”.Chapter two analyzes Maugham’s diversified concepts of China:one is the positive and good image,and the other is the negative image.Chapter three illustrates the specific images of China revealed in the novel The Painted Veil,on both positive and negative aspects.After the exploration of the image of China from the perspective of imagology,we can sum up that actually,the image of China in Maugham’s eyes indicated in The Painted Veil is not the real China.It is a combination of the real world observed by Maugham and the imaginative world conceived by him influenced by his own specific culture and society.展开更多
Yan Geling’s novel The Lost Daughter of Happiness rebelled to the tendency of Orientalism in the current Western con⁃text.Analyzing this fiction from the perspective of the new subject cross-cultural imagology confor...Yan Geling’s novel The Lost Daughter of Happiness rebelled to the tendency of Orientalism in the current Western con⁃text.Analyzing this fiction from the perspective of the new subject cross-cultural imagology conforms to the context of cross-cul⁃ture,the need of Chinese cultural consciousness and the interpretation to complex characters.Starting from the image of The Lost Daughter of Happiness,Chinese workers and Chris,taking the method of textual analysis and literature reading,this thesis aims to interpret“the other”-orientalization tendency about male and female from Western culture and the self-orientalization tendency in narrative ways and writing skills in the fiction.However,as a matter of fact,this way can be seemed as a method of Yan Geling’s endeavor to deconstruct the Orientalism from the narrative means and writing skills in a mask of orientalization,which points out a way for the new immigrant literature,that is,diasporic literature writers can make full use of regional barriers,cultural connections and life experiences to open up an enclave of literature.That is,“the third space”came up with by Homi K.Bhabha,so writers can regard it as an experimental plot to break the Western discourse authentically and establish cultural self-confidence gradually.展开更多
Comparative literature,as a discipline,has been in selfdoubt and crisis since its birth.Various scholars give different answers to its tendency and future.With the growth of East-West comparative literature research i...Comparative literature,as a discipline,has been in selfdoubt and crisis since its birth.Various scholars give different answers to its tendency and future.With the growth of East-West comparative literature research in East Asia,Chinese School of Comparative Literature proposed its own answer to it.In response to James St.André’s review essay'Whither East-West Comparative Literature?Two Recent Answers from the U.S.',this paper focuses on a new answer from Cao Shunqing’s work The Variation Theory of Comparative Literature,aiming to explore the two focuses of this new platform:one is the heterogeneity,and the other is the variation,which are different from French comparatism based on influences and American part based on analogies.On this basis this article tries to have a dialogue with imagology study of variation theory and sinicization of Western literary theory in Cao’s works.By highlighting the heterogeneity and variation,Chinese scholars seek to promote crosscivilization communication based on maintaining and developing the uniqueness of different literatures and civilizations,thus building a harmonious world without uniformity.展开更多
文摘The purpose of this text is to research dominant/typical images which have been constructed in the process of the perception and representation of the stranger in Balkan literatures, and reciprocally, the images that strangers constructs for the Balkan in the same literary context. Under conditions where Balkan literatures have been treated as an alternative history of the Balkan, the author intends to see the role and power of literary work in creation, in changing or rejecting the image for/of the Other/stranger. The analysis covers several areas： the dominant position of image constructions; acts of invention an in（ter）vention; forming and transforming the images of the stranger; the role of stereotypes and prejudice in constructing images; the role of the discursive communities in creating images; and the role of the projective ideology in creating images.
文摘William Somerset Maugham was one of the most popular British writers of his era.Many of his works are closely related to China,among which is the famous novel The Painted Veil.This novel narrates the love story between the heroine Kitty,an attractive but vainglorious middle-class lady,and the intelligent bacteriologist Walter Fane.This thesis aims at exploring the hetero image of China in The Painted Veil from the perspective of imagology.It comprises four chapters.Chapter one introduces the definition of the terms“Image”and“hetero image”.Chapter two analyzes Maugham’s diversified concepts of China:one is the positive and good image,and the other is the negative image.Chapter three illustrates the specific images of China revealed in the novel The Painted Veil,on both positive and negative aspects.After the exploration of the image of China from the perspective of imagology,we can sum up that actually,the image of China in Maugham’s eyes indicated in The Painted Veil is not the real China.It is a combination of the real world observed by Maugham and the imaginative world conceived by him influenced by his own specific culture and society.
文摘Yan Geling’s novel The Lost Daughter of Happiness rebelled to the tendency of Orientalism in the current Western con⁃text.Analyzing this fiction from the perspective of the new subject cross-cultural imagology conforms to the context of cross-cul⁃ture,the need of Chinese cultural consciousness and the interpretation to complex characters.Starting from the image of The Lost Daughter of Happiness,Chinese workers and Chris,taking the method of textual analysis and literature reading,this thesis aims to interpret“the other”-orientalization tendency about male and female from Western culture and the self-orientalization tendency in narrative ways and writing skills in the fiction.However,as a matter of fact,this way can be seemed as a method of Yan Geling’s endeavor to deconstruct the Orientalism from the narrative means and writing skills in a mask of orientalization,which points out a way for the new immigrant literature,that is,diasporic literature writers can make full use of regional barriers,cultural connections and life experiences to open up an enclave of literature.That is,“the third space”came up with by Homi K.Bhabha,so writers can regard it as an experimental plot to break the Western discourse authentically and establish cultural self-confidence gradually.
基金supported in part by a grant from the Program of Chinese Ministry of Education of Humanities and Social Science Project“Chinese Literature Study in English World”(12JZD016)program of Sichuan University of Science and Engineering(2015RC65)
文摘Comparative literature,as a discipline,has been in selfdoubt and crisis since its birth.Various scholars give different answers to its tendency and future.With the growth of East-West comparative literature research in East Asia,Chinese School of Comparative Literature proposed its own answer to it.In response to James St.André’s review essay'Whither East-West Comparative Literature?Two Recent Answers from the U.S.',this paper focuses on a new answer from Cao Shunqing’s work The Variation Theory of Comparative Literature,aiming to explore the two focuses of this new platform:one is the heterogeneity,and the other is the variation,which are different from French comparatism based on influences and American part based on analogies.On this basis this article tries to have a dialogue with imagology study of variation theory and sinicization of Western literary theory in Cao’s works.By highlighting the heterogeneity and variation,Chinese scholars seek to promote crosscivilization communication based on maintaining and developing the uniqueness of different literatures and civilizations,thus building a harmonious world without uniformity.
