The Characterization in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and James Joyce＇ s Aesthetics

In his novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce minimized the position of minor characters in order to present the central posifon of the hero. This kind of characterization is closely related with Joy＇s aesthetics, that is Joyce＇s principle of ＂wholeness＂. In this paper, the close relationship between the characterization and Joyce＇s ＂wholeness＂ aesthetics will be discussed to prove that Joyce em- ployed his aesthetics in his art creation.     

On aesthetics theory of Edmund Burke

Being one of the most important English aesthetics in the 18th century,Edmund Burke played a significant role in the develop-ment of aesthetics.And his ideas of aesthetic theory are represented by one of his treatises： A philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of OurIdeas of the Sublime and Beautiful.This paper aims at interpreting Burke＇s aesthetics ideas from the perspectives of three important terms：qualities of the objects;psychological and physical nature of the subjects and the standard of the taste.     

How A Later Scene in Hamlet Makes Use of An Earlier One

Hamlet,the first of the great tragedies,is generally regarded as Shakespeare’s most popular play on the stage,for it has the qualities of a "blood-and-thunder" thriller and a philosophical exploration of life and death.The play opens with Hamlet,Prince of Denmark,appearing in a mood of world-weariness occasioned by his father’s recent death and by his mother’s hasty remarriage with Claudius,his father’s brother.Shakespeare is good at describing the characters,controlling the languages,and he is a master to arrange the scene of drama,as well.He knows how to make use of an earlier scene in the later scene.I will explain it from the the death of Polonius and the scenes of Ophelia.     

The True Fortune Through Pip's Eyes in Great Expectations

Charles Dickens （1812-1870） is one of the most outstanding English writers in the 19th century. Great Expectations written in Charles＇ later years is one of his mature works. It is the story of Pip＇ s deterioration from an innocent boy into an arrogant gendeman and his redemption as a good-natured person. The thesis of this paper is to analyze and compare the cruelty, hypocrisy of the Bourgeoisie and the plain, kindness of the working people, with the purpose of indicating the true fortune in one＇s life is not the applied money or fame, but virtues, affection and goodness.     

形成性评价与大学英语教学

Gulliver’s Travels is one of the masterpieces of Irish writer Jonathan Swift, which is well received by children and adults worldwide.Children may read it like a fairy tale, and are fascinated by the little people, the giants, and the strange people in the story; while adults may read itlike a satirical works, and find the real world in miniature in it. The book was adapted into a movie recently, although there were some differences, itis also interesting. What I am going to discuss is mainly about the movie of the same name Gulliver’s Travels.     

Eugene O＇Neill＇s Desire Under, the Elms n the View of Aristotle＇s Tragedy Theory

Aristotle is the greatest scholar of ancient Greece, his Poetics is considered as a classic theoretical work in the history of westernliterature, which mainly refers to the theory of tragedy. The paper aims at analyzing Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms by applyingAristotle’s Tragedy Theory in order to acquire a sharp and deep understanding of literature and art.     

The Combination of Realism and Romanticism --On A Tale of Two Cities

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Charles Dickens（1812-1870） is the greatest representative of English critical realism, a classic of world literature. The greatness of Dickens lies not only in his satirical portrayal of bourgeoisie and in the exposure of the greed and hypocrisy of the upper class, but also in his profound humanitarianism, which is revealed in his sympathy for the labor people.     

从幽默到讽刺——小论马克·吐温文学作品里的幽默与讽刺

Samuel L. Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, remains one of the world＇s widely read authors. Mark Twain is one of the most famous writers in American literature. He is a famous American novelist and satirist, changed his writing style from humor to bitter satire with the development of the society and his understanding of it. The characters in his novels vary from common people to politicians and principal citizens. In order to meet their selfish ends, they invent stories and sling mud at others. These clumsy performances help us see clearly the ugly.     

On Spatial Meaning in The Furnished Room

The Furnished Room is one of the representative works of O.Henry,who was a great American short story writer in the 20thcentury.This article is discussing the spatial meaning depicting in The Furnished Room according to Foucault’s views of relationship be-tween space and power.Space is the outlet for commonplace people’s depression and anger while it is the invisible power which ordinarypeople have to bear but cannot overthrow.     

Introduction about Eileen Chang’s translation of the Old Men and the Sea

People in our country know Eileen Chang mainly as an outstanding writer and literator.In fact she is appreciated more than being a writer internationally.Yet Chang’s outstanding talent as a trans1ator is known very 1ittle in mainland China.This thesis selects Eileen Chang’s translation phenomenon as the object of study. Mainly because at first, the translator is of course the decisive factor that makes the target text equivalent to the source text,and case study of outstanding translators obviously is a very important part of both translation theories and practice. Among the factors influencing translation, the subjectivity of the translator is the key one. For a translator who is also a writer,his/ her writing view influences his/ her translating ractice. Eileen Chang’s writing view is inflected in her translation of The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. In my thesis, I would analysis her skill when translating the Old Man and the Sea. I found that she reflected her own attitude to the life when translating the novel.     

＂The Flea＂ and ＂A Valediction：Forbidding Mourning＂

John Donne is a representative of 17th century English metaphysical poets.Donne’s poetry embraces a wide range of secular and religious subjects.His poetry is full of philosophical metaphor,and quick thinking activities are lively and strong passions-love passion and the passion of religious integration,which created a new harmony.Reading Donne’s poetry is like participating in a mental game,only use our brains in order to catch up with speeding on the poet’s imagination,his exquisite taste of the speculation.The Flea is one of representative works by John Donne.A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning is the most famous works of Donne’s works.Both "The Flea" and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" are famous love poems by John Donne.The two poems have something in common and something different.Although the two poems are similar and also different to each other,they both set their own situation properly and impressively.     

美国总统奥巴马演讲词修辞格分析

Under the great background of globalization today,communications between China and America are more frequent,it becomes significant for us to gain a deeper understanding of American presidents＇ speech.Obama serves as an example for us to study in this aspect.Until now,most people have been studying his speech mainly through either Chinese translations of his speeches or interpretations by the media,conducted through perspectives which are by no means rhetorically informed.Considering the fact that what we are dealing with is political speech,it is high time that the rhetorical perspective be introduced into the process of interpreting Obama＇s political communication in its original context.Such a perspective will help us obtain a better approach of interpreting his speech.This thesis has widely selected the typical political speeches of president Obama in his Election Campaign process,and analyzed three main rhetorical methods in political speech： simile,metaphor and metonymy.Figure of speech is an expression that departs from the accepted literal sense or from the normal order of words,or in which an emphasis is produced by patterns of sound.It is an especially important resource of poetry;it is also constantly present in all other kinds of speech and writing.The figure of speech is commonly used in political speech.In this part of the thesis the author will analyze three main types of figures in Obama＇s speech： Simile,metonymy and Metaphor.     

Copulas Between Wealth and Lifetime

The life insurance industry is very interested in how a person’s lifetime is related to his wealth with financial advisors interested in how even a person’s portfolio choice affects his lifetime. This paper presents a statistical analysis combined with intuitive relationships between lifetime and wealth. Key properties of this relationship are given and then various copulas are analyzed to see whether they have these properties. Other advantages and disadvantages of these copulas for describing the dependen...     

On the Spirit of Rising Bourgeoisie in Robinson Crusoe

Through the introduction of the historical and cultural background which Robinson lived in,this article analyzes Robinson’s characteristics in detail and depicts his adventure experience on the isolated island vividly.The characteristics of the rising bourgeoisie are showed from his deeds such as his risk-taking courage,his strong vitality,diligence,wisdom and "never giving up".Meanwhile,this article also gives a very penetrating analysis of the relationship of Robinson and "Friday",Friday’s father,a Spaniard and those ringleaders in mutiny,etc.,that is "Master" and "subjects",which reveals the rising bourgeoisie spirit and the colonialist image that contains colonial pioneering,conquering,expanding and extremely strong desire to possess everything he could.     

On English Teaching in the View of Pragmatic Failure in Cross-Cultural Communication

This paper is to have a discussion,respectively,on the causes of pragmatic failure and on the resolutions to it in English teaching,in the hope of promoting people’s awareness to this language phenomenon and of finding effective ways to reduce its happening.     

Free to Fall: The Theme of “Free Will” in Paradise Lost and Milton’s Religion

As one of the most brilliant epics, Paradise Lost is John Milton’s declaration of his philosophy on the fall of man as well as the failure of the English Revolution. This article is aimed at discuss the theme of free will in Paradise Lost, Miltion’s Arminian convictions and the relationship between his Arminianism and the English Revolution.     

On Budd Schulberg''''s "My Christmas Carol

Budd Schulberg is a contemporary American realistic writer, My Chri stmas Carol, one of his early short fictions, is the author's recollections of his childhood spent in Hollywood. In this short story, through the contrast between the two Christmas',the author reveals the miserable circumstances when his father is out of work,and exposes,the hideous features of the relati onship between people in capitalist society. This story deeply attracts readers with an unique artistic charm, and not only gives us a glimpse of life in Hollywood, but also bears profound social significance.     

Dual effects of spatial updating in both real and virtual environments

When people move around in their environment, spatial updating, which is an automatic cognitive process, is essential to ensuring people can keep track of their relations between them and the surrounding objects, and to "recalculating" the relative position and orientation of those objects with regard to the current position of the persons. Despite the facilitating effect of spatial updating to people’s mental representation in most circumstances as demonstrated in most of the existing literature, the effect sometimes can be adversarial. For instance, some research suggested that even though people were asked to ignore their locomotion, it is difficult to suppress updating of the spatial representation during movement. The current two studies were conducted to systematically investigate the dual effects of spatial updating in both real and virtual environments. We used a typical spatial updating paradigm to explore the effects of scene familiarity (familiar vs. novel) and person’s locomotion (stationary vs. moving) on change detection accuracy (target object moved or not). The results indicated a facilitating effect of spatial updating in the novel scene condition, but an adversarial effect in the familiar scene condition-the dual effects, in both real and virtual environments.     

On Man’s Potential for Evil——An Analysis of Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies is a thought-provoking novel written byWilliam Golding in 1954.The book describes in detail the hor-rific exploits of a band of English boys who,ranging in agefrom six to twelve,make a striking transition from civilized tobarbaric on a Pacific island.Golding’s experiences in the RoyalNavy during World War II and his meditation on human naturearoused by the two world wars constitute the creative source ofthe story.Although one cannot be sure of Golding’s motives forchoo…     

论爱默生其人其诗

Ralph Waldo Emerson, born in 19th century's America, is most famous for his transcendental ideas and writings. He was deeply influenced by European Romanticism in his thirties and formed an informal Transcendental Club with people of like minds. His thought is often considered the core of Transcendentalism. "Nature" is the fundamental document of his philosophy and an embodiment of his transcendental attitude towards the phenomenal world. He also wrote some other brilliant essays such as "The American Scholar", "Self-Reliance", "The Over-Soul" and "The Poet", etc, all of which established his indisputable position in the history of culture, especially in the American Culture where he is regarded as the one who, in literally terms at least, really put America on map. But considering Emerson's writings without significant emphasis on his verse would be a great loss. Emerson wrote poetry from the time he was a boy to nearly the end of his life. These poems are essential for understanding him and his transcendental theories and are receiving more extensive representation in anthologies while significant critical analyses are emerging though some modern readers and scholars tend to view his poetry as secondary to the "essential" Emerson. In view of the above, this paper supposes to introduce Emerson's views on poets and poems and then analyze some of his famous poems in the order of 'Emerson as a Poet', 'Emerson's Views on Poets and Poems' and 'Emerson's Poems' with the third one as the focus of this paper. The purpose of this paper is to try to make the comprehension on Emerson and his abstract transcendental theories more complete and thorough by emphasizing his contribution in the poetic field.