英文摘要

TheTopologicalPoeticsofTimeinShakespeare’sSonnets/LUOYimin

Abstract： The artistic and intellectual value of Shakespeare’s Sonnets lies not only in the fact that the volume of 154 poems is about love per se. It is also themed on a wide spectrum of topics,including cosmology, time, eternity, body, music, friendship, art and poetics, which are touched upon far more than superficially, but to a considerable height or depth. Time, of all thematic matters, is the one big topic of paramount significance, the motif of which is, therefore, magnificently and profoundly explored in the poetic sequence. A variety of metaphors in relation to many trades or walks of life are employed in both the linear time and the circular time. But what is the mechanism for these metaphors? And what is the rationale behind a graphic and logicalexplication of such metaphorical spaces? The topological poetics is an effective approach, astopology is capable of explicating not only the why and how behind the making of Shakespeare’stime metaphors, but also the cultural import generated by such spaces, say, Man is beautiful, isGod’s work and therefore capable of achieving etemity, and Man, in imitating the Creator, hascreated the poetic microcosm, made art its presence as eternal beauty; these being the poetical representation of humanism in Shakespeare’s times by way of the topologically equivalent spacesas its media and approaches.

Keywords： Topological Poetics; time; Shakespeare’s Sonnets

TheTransitionfromReligionCrisistoMoralCrisis:OntheThemeof“Void”inTheTimeoftheAngels/YUEJianfengHEWeiwen

Abstract： “Void” is a state of absence that not only lingers in modern literature and philosophy, but also functions as an essential component of modernity. InTheTimeoftheAngels, Iris Murdoch observes western moral anxiety through religious crisis, and based on which she constructs her notion of “void” within the fiction. On the one hand, Murdoch warns of the danger of liberal moral with an analysis of waning Christianity; on the other hand, Murdoch also reveals her wish of resolving western spiritual dilemma with Eastern wisdom. The theme “void” is a revelation ofzeitgeist. Against the complicated background of the 1960s, a period of religious absence, ethnical turn and social transition, the exposure to “void” is self-evident, especially confronting the dual crisis of religious failure and moral degradation. Through construction and deconstruction of “void” in the novel, Murdoch demonstrates the complexity of humanity and the necessity of moral life.

Keywords： Iris Murdoch;TheTimeoftheAngels; void; religious crisis; moral anxiety

TheDistinctionofMoralTasteoftheMiddleClassinTheMysteriesofUdolpho/WANGJianxiang

Abstract： Both philosophy and literature in the eighteenth-century Britain stress the connection between art and life, individual and society, taste and morality. By separating the bourgeoisie’s taste for nature and art from the aristocrats’ for luxury and conspicuous consumption, and the lower class’ rough and practical life taste, and equating good taste with high morality, Ann Radcliffe in her novelTheMysteriesofUdolphoshows the bourgeoisie’s strong pursuit for larger cultural capital and social capital after they have acquired abundant economical capital, and thus to establish their cultural dominance in late eighteenth-century.

Keywords：TheMysteriesofUdolpho; Ann Radcliffe; the Middle Class; moral taste; distinction

OnIllnessastheNarrativeDriveoftheText:TakingKafka’sMetamorphosis/JIANGLan

Abstract： In Kafka’s novelMetamorphosis, illness is the origin of the story. In the beginning, the protagonist Gregor Samsa is in an abnormal state of transforming from human beings to beetles, or rather, in a state of illness. As a great destabilizing factor, the protagonist’s illness itself brings about environmental instability, that is to say, it causes the psychological distortion of others around him，which in turn leads to the hero’s two traumas and the final death. It can be seen that illness has become an element of text construction, a narrative drive of text promotion, and promotes the unfolding of story plots or the narrative process.

Keywords： Kafka; metamorphose; illness; narrative drive; narrative process

TheAestheticsofUnnaturalNarrativesinAHistoryoftheWorldin10Chapters/ZHAOShengjie

Abstract： InAHistoryoftheWorldin10Chapters, Julian Barnes transcends traditional unnatural narrative conventions, and bravely implements such aesthetic experimentation of unnatural narratives as carnivalized narrative voices, disordered narrative time order, montage of narrative space and untypical characterization. On the one hand, via these anti-mimetic unnatural narratives, Barnes enriches the diversity of narrative forms of traditional novels, promotes the unnatural narrative process of British novels, and overthrows the prediction of “The Death of Novel” with his peculiar anti-traditional literary creation; on the other hand, via innovating the closed single narrative structure of traditional realist novels, the author challenges readers’ established cognitive framework and hermeneutic paradigm, guides readers to reexamine the truth of a linear world history represented by traditional historical novels, and thus provides readers with such a footnote that falls short of their expectation of a linear world history.

Keywords： Julian Barnes;AHistoryoftheWorldin10Chapters; unnatural narratives; truth of history

FleefromBondsofLanguage:ResearchonLanguageandGenderinHerland/CHENYi

Abstract： Language is by no means neutral, but filled with sexual inequality. American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, in her masterpiece, a typical feminist utopian novel,Herland, not only fabricates a feminist utopian society, but also creates unique feminist discourse without binary opposition. Firstly, Gilman discloses power mechanism hidden behind language and points out how it helps men to repress women. Gilman provides a new pattern which disturbs the relationship between language and gender politics in patriarchy, transforming men from co-conspirator to cooperator. After rebuilding the relationship with the “Other”, language is not a tool for men to employ coercive control any more, but one helping to build subjectivity for the two genders.

Keywords： language; gender; patriarchy; power; utopia

ThaiEssenceandWesternUtility:TheGenerationoftheThaiNovels/WUShengyangZHAOZejun

Abstract： The generation of the Thai novels has not happened instantly under western influence. Stories, as the central idea of novels, developed at its own pace. In ancient Thai folk literature, varies stories spread in the form of narration, singing and performance. Economic development and trade increase the exchanges among all levels of society; therefore, the Royal Thai literature, originally not paying attention to stories, reduced ritual and sacredness, integrated with the folklore, and gradually turned secularization. The readable literature works dramatically increased in the early 19thcentury. Under the influence of the western culture around the middle and late 19thcentury, change of condition of literary creation led to the translation and adaption of western novels, and eventually to independent creation of literary works by Siam scholars. In this process, traditional Thai ethics and morals were inherited, which characterizesThaiEssenceandWesternUtilityof the Thai novels.

Keywords： Thailand; Thai essence and Western utility; generation of novels; story

TheGodofSmallThings:TimeInversion,SpaceReconstruction,andFocusConversion/LIXiaozhen

Abstract： InTheGodofSmallThings, Arundhati Roy, an Indian writer, breaks the narrative logic of traditional novels and presents the lowliness, rebellion, helplessness and compassion in the story with exquisite expressions through the inversion of time and the construction of spatial narration, endowing the novel with unique artistic charm. The author employs this narrative strategy of reversing time and space to connect the fractured stories and fill the narrative gap of 23 years through the description of spatial details. At the same time, the narrative art of the novel closely fits the theme of trauma in the story, focusing on the transition between childhood and adult Rahel, enhancing the plot tension of the novel. Based on the narrative theory, we can see the textual narrative characteristics of the god of small things from the perspectives of the inversion of narrative time, the construction of spatial narrative and focus transformation.

Keywords： time inversion; spatial narrative; focus transformation

MarriageandPowerinIsemonogatari:ACaseofChapterSixandChapterNinety-Six/ZHAOXiaoyan

Abstract：Isemonogatariis the first work of utamonogatari in Japan. In Chapter Six and Chapter Ninety-Six, it depicts a story of the leading character, “some guy”, Ariwaranonarihira, who fell in love with the lady, Fujiwaranotakashi, but failed elopement in the ending. The direct reason for this failure is the prevention from Fujiwaranotakashi’s brothers: Fujiwaranomototsune and Fujiwaranokunitsune. The reason for Mototsune and Kunitsune’s intervention is their elopement violated the marriage system at that time from one perspective. Another perspective is that their elopement broke Fujiwarashi’s political planning. The man’s elopement with the woman was the behavior with purpose to destroy Fujiwarashi’s political plot. His reaction after the failure of eloping was the emotional catharsis after the failure of destruction. It could be observed the contained political complexion from the two chapters.

Keywords：Isemonogatari; chapter six; chapter ninety-six; marriage; power

OnPoeticIconicityasReferenceforLiteratureTranslation/HUHaifeng

Abstract： As for literary translation, it is ideal to achieve preservation in the target language of both content and form from the source language into the target language. Iconicity, as a theoretical framework, lays a foundation for translators to achieve such preservation, which is consistent with the cognitive linguistic view on translation. However, to be more exact, iconicity in literature works is actually the poetic iconicity, and different from the iconicity in daily language. The integration of form, meaning, feelings and aesthetics is a major feature that distinguishes poetic iconicity from the daily and ordinary iconicity. Therefore, it is preferable to refer to poetic iconicity when it comes to literature translation. Finally, failure to take into account of such extra-textual factors as readers and context is the limitation of the use of poetic iconicity as the reference for execution and evaluation of literary translation.

Keywords： literary translation; content and form transference; iconicity; poetic iconicity

AComparativeStudyofthe“DeformationTendencies”inTwoChineseVersionsofTheWomanWarrior/SHENYuxi

Abstract：TheWomanWarrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston, is a representative work of diasporic literature, which has been of great academic concern since it’s unveiling. The study of its translation has been paid equal attention to. The two Chinese versions, published in 1998 and 2018 respectively, both demonstrate what Antoine Berman calls “deformation tendencies” in the translation process, and these deformations have made a difference in the shaping of the author’s cultural identity featuring the mixture of Chinese and American culture with an obvious regional characteristic of Southern China.

Keywords： two Chinese versions ofTheWomanWarrior; Maxine Hong Kingston; deformation tendencies; cultural identity

OnTranslationofChineseChildren’sLiteratureinChineseCulture“GoingGlobal”/ZHAOJirong

Abstract： Chinese children’s literature works should be regarded to be one of the most important translation materials on the path of Chinese culture going global. The paper examines Chinese children’s literature translation and international communication in terms of four major factors, namely, what to translate, who translates, how to promote translation and the readership. It then points out four major problems in this field: lack of excellent literature works that are of universal aesthetics, relatively few translators and researchers involved, limited international communication channels and unclear positioning of international market readers.

Keywords： Chinese children’s literature; English translation; Chinese culture “Going Global”

TwoDetectivesfromtheEastandtheWest:AComparisonbetweentheImageofHolmesandHawthorne/ZONGJinghua

Abstract： Holmes, created by Conan Doyle, is popular with readers all over the world for his unique personality and scientific intelligence. On the basis of the image of Holmes, Cheng Xiaoqing shaped the Chinese version of Holmes — the “mixed blood” detective Hawthorne, who was different from Holmes. Both of them had scientific spirit and literary temperament, but their characters were different. Holmes was rebellious, whereas Hawthorne was gentle and humane. This difference showed Cheng Xiaoqing’s unique artistic pursuit and aesthetic style on the background of the collision and fusion of Chinese and western cultures at the end of the 19thcentury.

Keywords： Holmes; Hawthorne; image comparison

TheDaVinciCode:TheCulturalTruthbehindSymbolArt/TANGYi

Abstract：TheDaVinciCodeis one of the masterpieces of American writer Dan Brown. This novel with symbols and passwords is a new perspective and reconstruction on western religion, history, art and culture. Dan Brown unveils the expansion and exclusivity of western traditional culture, the opposition and integration of multiculturalism in western society, the multi-value and multi-path of contemporary western culture, and the openness and inclusiveness of art transmission via the symbolic meaning of symbolic art. Through the multi-dimensional interpretation of the text, the western cultural characteristics behind the symbol art can be vividly presented, which helps us fully understand the connotation and value pursuit of contemporary western literature, art and culture.

Keywords： Dan Brown; symbol art; cultural characteristics; pluralism