Aristotle's Poetics represents the first major work of literature criticism. In this masterpiece,Aristotle expresses his literary and aesthetical theories. By introducing the merits in Aristotle's Poetics,this...Aristotle's Poetics represents the first major work of literature criticism. In this masterpiece,Aristotle expresses his literary and aesthetical theories. By introducing the merits in Aristotle's Poetics,this thesis tends to reveal Aristotle's large and enduring influence on modern literary criticism.展开更多
Traditional approaches to interpret poetry have been poet-oriented, appearing alien to reader's understanding and appreciation, which are generally insensitive to the aesthetic and emotional reflection during the ...Traditional approaches to interpret poetry have been poet-oriented, appearing alien to reader's understanding and appreciation, which are generally insensitive to the aesthetic and emotional reflection during the process of analyzing poetry. This essay aims to combine cognitive poetics with multimodal discourse analysis(MDA) to analyze concrete poems from readers' angle. In this research, figure and ground, conceptual metaphor, and image schema of cognitive poetics are adopted to interpret A War Symphony and l(a from the perspective of visual modality and auditory modality. Meanwhile, the differences between Chinese and English concrete poetry in modality choosing and meaning conveying as well as the reasons are explored. This research reveals that readers are able to comprehend poetic meaning according to their life experiences. The multi-dimensional perspective of visual and auditory modalities is conductive to exploring how readers challenge traditional reading mode to interpret poetic ideas. Meanwhile, three theories of cognitive poetics facilitate readers to perceive poetics effect with a cognitive mechanism.Therefore, all of these efforts are bound to arouse readers' interest in such a kind of anti-traditional poetry and broaden its popularity.展开更多
Poetics by Aristotle sets the dogmas for literature,while Waiting for Godot,the representative of the Theater of the Ab⁃surd,violates the former’s principles to achieve certain effects.The thesis will analyze the vio...Poetics by Aristotle sets the dogmas for literature,while Waiting for Godot,the representative of the Theater of the Ab⁃surd,violates the former’s principles to achieve certain effects.The thesis will analyze the violation from the angle of Solidity or Authenticity of art and poetry,which are the likelinessandnecessity,and credibility.By digressing from the traditional rules,Wait⁃ing for Godot helps to create absurdity reflecting the inner loss of people after the war and to form a sense of alienation from reality.展开更多
To interpret and appreciate a poem from the perspective of Structuralist Poetics, its value will be revealed from two dimensions: its static structure and dynamic meaning. On one hand, Structuralist Poetics following ...To interpret and appreciate a poem from the perspective of Structuralist Poetics, its value will be revealed from two dimensions: its static structure and dynamic meaning. On one hand, Structuralist Poetics following the critic mode of New Criticism by analyzing its structure and language; on the other hand Structuralist Poetics goes beyond that static way of criticism and combines a poem with other literary works, readers'capabilities of reading and other factors together, thus constructs more meanings.展开更多
As a cross-lingual, cross-cultural, cross-time-and-space communication, religious translation has inevitably been stamped, from the very beginning, with the brand of ideology and has, more or less, been restrained by ...As a cross-lingual, cross-cultural, cross-time-and-space communication, religious translation has inevitably been stamped, from the very beginning, with the brand of ideology and has, more or less, been restrained by political factors there and then. The translated version, very often, cannot truly mirror the essence of the source text mainly because translation is manipulated by the power discourse in the target culture.展开更多
Louis Adrian Montrose has addressed literary,historical,and theoretical topics and issues concerned with New Historicism.He elegantly demonstrated how language and literary imagination shape cultural value;belief,and ...Louis Adrian Montrose has addressed literary,historical,and theoretical topics and issues concerned with New Historicism.He elegantly demonstrated how language and literary imagination shape cultural value;belief,and understanding;social distinction and interaction;and political control and contestation,thus significantly shaped contemporary studies of poetics and politics of culture.He refuted the oversimplified polarization of language and society of J.Hillis Miller and Edward Pechter's misunderstandings about "New Historicism" and stated his own understanding and expectations of New Historicism.From a detailed analysis of his ideas,the author points out the weakness in his arguments and advises researchers in this field to dialectically view the school of New Historicism.展开更多
Gary Snyder applies Zen philosophy and Tang nature poetics to his Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout.His diction and use of sounds create a calm context for a journey to the spiritual condition of no self:from t...Gary Snyder applies Zen philosophy and Tang nature poetics to his Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout.His diction and use of sounds create a calm context for a journey to the spiritual condition of no self:from the speaker’s self within the landscape to renunciation of his social identity,then to the unity between his self and nature.Thus Snyder shows how the speaker expands his self through sympathy with nature and searches for the ultimate truth.展开更多
Ezra Pound, not only a prominent poet but also a translator, published Cathay, which is translation of 19 classic Chinese poems on the basis of Fenollosa's notes. Since its publication, it receives warm welcome fr...Ezra Pound, not only a prominent poet but also a translator, published Cathay, which is translation of 19 classic Chinese poems on the basis of Fenollosa's notes. Since its publication, it receives warm welcome from western readers but dispute also exists due to some mistranslations. This paper aims to use rewriting theory to evaluate this work from a fresh perspective.Rewriting theory, which was proposed by Andre Lefevere, asserts that ideology, poetics and patronage would exert influence on translation. With analysis of the original work, notes of Fenollosa, it can be concluded that Cathay is under the manipulation of ideology and poetics of Pound's era. With regard to ideology, The World WarⅠinfluences the subject Pound chose and the methods he used. On the part of poetics, Pound launched Imagism Movement against the dominant Victorian poetics. Direct images,concise language and free verse are embedded in Cathay.展开更多
Generally, linguists categorize sound symbolism into two major types: direct sound symbolism and synesthetic sound symbolism. In English literature, Alfred Tennyson is a great Victorian poet adept in sensitive uses of...Generally, linguists categorize sound symbolism into two major types: direct sound symbolism and synesthetic sound symbolism. In English literature, Alfred Tennyson is a great Victorian poet adept in sensitive uses of the musical qualities of words to emphasize his poetic meanings and sensations. By analyzing his two famous short poems("The Eagle" and "Break, Break, Break") from a phonological perspective, this thesis intends to probe into how sound symbolism, especially the synesthetic sound symbolism, is applied to express his poetic emotions.展开更多
Poetic language is distinguished from other roles of language by its creativity in linguistic uses,among which register deviation and register mixing are the most conspicuous.A register study of poetic works is theref...Poetic language is distinguished from other roles of language by its creativity in linguistic uses,among which register deviation and register mixing are the most conspicuous.A register study of poetic works is therefore beneficial to our understanding of the works in case.The present thesis adopts a Hallidayian Functional approach to analyze two short poems,illustrating this feature of poetic language and demonstrating a register study in a poetic context.展开更多
In Poetics, Aristotle always quotes Oedipus Rex as a paragon to define what might be a perfect Tragedy. It is a model play to illustrate Aristotle's rules for an ideal Tragedy. Compared with it, the Spanish Traged...In Poetics, Aristotle always quotes Oedipus Rex as a paragon to define what might be a perfect Tragedy. It is a model play to illustrate Aristotle's rules for an ideal Tragedy. Compared with it, the Spanish Tragedy indeed conceals some differences that can be traced in the process of complication in accordance with Aristotle's criteria. The paper tries to analyze some dissimilarities be?tween the two tragedies and find out some reasons accounting for the discrepancy.展开更多
As globalization and the film market develop rapidly, subtitle translation is getting more attention. Since the rewriting theory was put forward, it has been widely studied and effectively applied in translation pract...As globalization and the film market develop rapidly, subtitle translation is getting more attention. Since the rewriting theory was put forward, it has been widely studied and effectively applied in translation practice. Taking Lefevere’s rewriting theory asits theoretical basis and the Chinese subtitle translation of the Disney film Mulan as its corpus, this thesis adopts a qualitative research method to analyze the rewriting phenomenon in subtitle translation. The thesis attempts to sum up the strategies adopted bythe translator in the rewriting, as well as the factors affecting and manipulating the rewriting. The study demonstrates that the translator’s rewriting behavior has been manipulated by both ideology and poetics. The translator has adopted Chinese idioms and folkadages, highlighted the traditional Chinese culture and used alternative words to rewrite, all of which helps to transcend the ideological differences and cater to the needs of the Chinese audience.展开更多
Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh was well accepted in Britain and America when published in 1856 during the Victorian era. An epic-like autobiographical novel-verse in its form, Aurora Leigh concentr...Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh was well accepted in Britain and America when published in 1856 during the Victorian era. An epic-like autobiographical novel-verse in its form, Aurora Leigh concentrates on a thirty-year-process of a talented poetess, Aurora, who is destined to write with dedication and commitment, for art, and for truth. With the approaches of New Criticism and Cultural Poetics study, this thesis will focus on the identity of Aurora Leigh as a poetess, who is neither a revolutionary feminist writer, nor an suffocating"angel in the house". As a pious daughter of God and a sympathetic descendant of Virgin Mary, Aurora performs an intelligent role in reconciling masculine power with feminine tenderness. Meanwhile, as a prophet preacher, Aurora embraces an epiphany through years of seeking and wandering and eventually constructs her own city of poetry in which an interwoven pattern of time and space conveys her ambition of being a female Homer.展开更多
The presence of poetic noun is very common in classical Chinese poetry. And the absence of preposition and conjunction leading to noun juxtaposition is one of the poetic aesthetic features. At present, most researches...The presence of poetic noun is very common in classical Chinese poetry. And the absence of preposition and conjunction leading to noun juxtaposition is one of the poetic aesthetic features. At present, most researches of poetic translatio on n base individual impression and perception, fail to comprehend the nouns of source text in categorization, and critical analysis on the translated nouns is not interpretable and verifiable. This paper, taking a perspective of poetic theme relevance, categorizes the poetic noun from the indicative, descriptive and symbolic dimensions, proposes a poetic translation strategy called"aesthetic reproduction of poetic theme", and proves its necessity and rationality.展开更多
This thesis is aimed at conducting a comparative study of the ecoethic thoughts in Silent Spring and Wolf Totem. It points out that Carson and Jiang's eco-ethics are relatively complete, ideal and objective. Moreo...This thesis is aimed at conducting a comparative study of the ecoethic thoughts in Silent Spring and Wolf Totem. It points out that Carson and Jiang's eco-ethics are relatively complete, ideal and objective. Moreover, the most shining features are that they not only unfold the grim fact of ecological crisis before the public, but also instil confidence and hope in each and every reader.展开更多
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the few writers in the history of American literature who develops not only good novels and poems but also excellent critic theories.In Poe's criterion,the poem should be short,and produc...Edgar Allan Poe is one of the few writers in the history of American literature who develops not only good novels and poems but also excellent critic theories.In Poe's criterion,the poem should be short,and produce a feeling of beauty in the reader."Annabel Lee" is a perfect illustration of Poe's poetic theories.The essay analyzes the poem in detail from the formalistic point of view.展开更多
The prominent features of Li Bai's "The Jewel Stairs'Grievance" are precise diction;implicit meaning;an absent narrator;and a seamless unity of images and feelings.Pound's translation of it in Ca...The prominent features of Li Bai's "The Jewel Stairs'Grievance" are precise diction;implicit meaning;an absent narrator;and a seamless unity of images and feelings.Pound's translation of it in Cathay reveals some kind of connections between some Chinese poetic principals and Pound's individual poetics.展开更多
Written by J.K.Rowling,Harry Potterdepicts the protagonist,Harry Potter’s seven years’adventures during his life and studies at Hogwarts School.In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,Harry’s second year at Hogw...Written by J.K.Rowling,Harry Potterdepicts the protagonist,Harry Potter’s seven years’adventures during his life and studies at Hogwarts School.In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,Harry’s second year at Hogwarts School is described.By analyzing the figurative language and poetic devices in the book,this paper argues that similes,alliteration,rhyme and the symbolism are well used to make contribution to emphasize the theme of courage.Faced up with difficulties and hardships,Harry and his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger have shown their great courage and finally figured out the clues.It illuminates that the properly used figurative language and poetic devices are essential to the emphasis of the theme.Key words:figurative language;poetic devices;展开更多
Preface to Lyrical Ballads is full of poetic thoughts of Wordsworth and Coleridge.It is a manifesto of a poetic revolution,and it opens a new chapter for the English poetry.Such issues on poetry are addressed as its o...Preface to Lyrical Ballads is full of poetic thoughts of Wordsworth and Coleridge.It is a manifesto of a poetic revolution,and it opens a new chapter for the English poetry.Such issues on poetry are addressed as its origin,functions,subject matters,lan-guage,imagination,and roles and qualities of poets.展开更多
文摘Aristotle's Poetics represents the first major work of literature criticism. In this masterpiece,Aristotle expresses his literary and aesthetical theories. By introducing the merits in Aristotle's Poetics,this thesis tends to reveal Aristotle's large and enduring influence on modern literary criticism.
文摘Traditional approaches to interpret poetry have been poet-oriented, appearing alien to reader's understanding and appreciation, which are generally insensitive to the aesthetic and emotional reflection during the process of analyzing poetry. This essay aims to combine cognitive poetics with multimodal discourse analysis(MDA) to analyze concrete poems from readers' angle. In this research, figure and ground, conceptual metaphor, and image schema of cognitive poetics are adopted to interpret A War Symphony and l(a from the perspective of visual modality and auditory modality. Meanwhile, the differences between Chinese and English concrete poetry in modality choosing and meaning conveying as well as the reasons are explored. This research reveals that readers are able to comprehend poetic meaning according to their life experiences. The multi-dimensional perspective of visual and auditory modalities is conductive to exploring how readers challenge traditional reading mode to interpret poetic ideas. Meanwhile, three theories of cognitive poetics facilitate readers to perceive poetics effect with a cognitive mechanism.Therefore, all of these efforts are bound to arouse readers' interest in such a kind of anti-traditional poetry and broaden its popularity.
文摘Poetics by Aristotle sets the dogmas for literature,while Waiting for Godot,the representative of the Theater of the Ab⁃surd,violates the former’s principles to achieve certain effects.The thesis will analyze the violation from the angle of Solidity or Authenticity of art and poetry,which are the likelinessandnecessity,and credibility.By digressing from the traditional rules,Wait⁃ing for Godot helps to create absurdity reflecting the inner loss of people after the war and to form a sense of alienation from reality.
文摘To interpret and appreciate a poem from the perspective of Structuralist Poetics, its value will be revealed from two dimensions: its static structure and dynamic meaning. On one hand, Structuralist Poetics following the critic mode of New Criticism by analyzing its structure and language; on the other hand Structuralist Poetics goes beyond that static way of criticism and combines a poem with other literary works, readers'capabilities of reading and other factors together, thus constructs more meanings.
文摘As a cross-lingual, cross-cultural, cross-time-and-space communication, religious translation has inevitably been stamped, from the very beginning, with the brand of ideology and has, more or less, been restrained by political factors there and then. The translated version, very often, cannot truly mirror the essence of the source text mainly because translation is manipulated by the power discourse in the target culture.
文摘Louis Adrian Montrose has addressed literary,historical,and theoretical topics and issues concerned with New Historicism.He elegantly demonstrated how language and literary imagination shape cultural value;belief,and understanding;social distinction and interaction;and political control and contestation,thus significantly shaped contemporary studies of poetics and politics of culture.He refuted the oversimplified polarization of language and society of J.Hillis Miller and Edward Pechter's misunderstandings about "New Historicism" and stated his own understanding and expectations of New Historicism.From a detailed analysis of his ideas,the author points out the weakness in his arguments and advises researchers in this field to dialectically view the school of New Historicism.
文摘Gary Snyder applies Zen philosophy and Tang nature poetics to his Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout.His diction and use of sounds create a calm context for a journey to the spiritual condition of no self:from the speaker’s self within the landscape to renunciation of his social identity,then to the unity between his self and nature.Thus Snyder shows how the speaker expands his self through sympathy with nature and searches for the ultimate truth.
文摘Ezra Pound, not only a prominent poet but also a translator, published Cathay, which is translation of 19 classic Chinese poems on the basis of Fenollosa's notes. Since its publication, it receives warm welcome from western readers but dispute also exists due to some mistranslations. This paper aims to use rewriting theory to evaluate this work from a fresh perspective.Rewriting theory, which was proposed by Andre Lefevere, asserts that ideology, poetics and patronage would exert influence on translation. With analysis of the original work, notes of Fenollosa, it can be concluded that Cathay is under the manipulation of ideology and poetics of Pound's era. With regard to ideology, The World WarⅠinfluences the subject Pound chose and the methods he used. On the part of poetics, Pound launched Imagism Movement against the dominant Victorian poetics. Direct images,concise language and free verse are embedded in Cathay.
文摘Generally, linguists categorize sound symbolism into two major types: direct sound symbolism and synesthetic sound symbolism. In English literature, Alfred Tennyson is a great Victorian poet adept in sensitive uses of the musical qualities of words to emphasize his poetic meanings and sensations. By analyzing his two famous short poems("The Eagle" and "Break, Break, Break") from a phonological perspective, this thesis intends to probe into how sound symbolism, especially the synesthetic sound symbolism, is applied to express his poetic emotions.
文摘Poetic language is distinguished from other roles of language by its creativity in linguistic uses,among which register deviation and register mixing are the most conspicuous.A register study of poetic works is therefore beneficial to our understanding of the works in case.The present thesis adopts a Hallidayian Functional approach to analyze two short poems,illustrating this feature of poetic language and demonstrating a register study in a poetic context.
文摘In Poetics, Aristotle always quotes Oedipus Rex as a paragon to define what might be a perfect Tragedy. It is a model play to illustrate Aristotle's rules for an ideal Tragedy. Compared with it, the Spanish Tragedy indeed conceals some differences that can be traced in the process of complication in accordance with Aristotle's criteria. The paper tries to analyze some dissimilarities be?tween the two tragedies and find out some reasons accounting for the discrepancy.
文摘As globalization and the film market develop rapidly, subtitle translation is getting more attention. Since the rewriting theory was put forward, it has been widely studied and effectively applied in translation practice. Taking Lefevere’s rewriting theory asits theoretical basis and the Chinese subtitle translation of the Disney film Mulan as its corpus, this thesis adopts a qualitative research method to analyze the rewriting phenomenon in subtitle translation. The thesis attempts to sum up the strategies adopted bythe translator in the rewriting, as well as the factors affecting and manipulating the rewriting. The study demonstrates that the translator’s rewriting behavior has been manipulated by both ideology and poetics. The translator has adopted Chinese idioms and folkadages, highlighted the traditional Chinese culture and used alternative words to rewrite, all of which helps to transcend the ideological differences and cater to the needs of the Chinese audience.
文摘Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh was well accepted in Britain and America when published in 1856 during the Victorian era. An epic-like autobiographical novel-verse in its form, Aurora Leigh concentrates on a thirty-year-process of a talented poetess, Aurora, who is destined to write with dedication and commitment, for art, and for truth. With the approaches of New Criticism and Cultural Poetics study, this thesis will focus on the identity of Aurora Leigh as a poetess, who is neither a revolutionary feminist writer, nor an suffocating"angel in the house". As a pious daughter of God and a sympathetic descendant of Virgin Mary, Aurora performs an intelligent role in reconciling masculine power with feminine tenderness. Meanwhile, as a prophet preacher, Aurora embraces an epiphany through years of seeking and wandering and eventually constructs her own city of poetry in which an interwoven pattern of time and space conveys her ambition of being a female Homer.
文摘The presence of poetic noun is very common in classical Chinese poetry. And the absence of preposition and conjunction leading to noun juxtaposition is one of the poetic aesthetic features. At present, most researches of poetic translatio on n base individual impression and perception, fail to comprehend the nouns of source text in categorization, and critical analysis on the translated nouns is not interpretable and verifiable. This paper, taking a perspective of poetic theme relevance, categorizes the poetic noun from the indicative, descriptive and symbolic dimensions, proposes a poetic translation strategy called"aesthetic reproduction of poetic theme", and proves its necessity and rationality.
文摘This thesis is aimed at conducting a comparative study of the ecoethic thoughts in Silent Spring and Wolf Totem. It points out that Carson and Jiang's eco-ethics are relatively complete, ideal and objective. Moreover, the most shining features are that they not only unfold the grim fact of ecological crisis before the public, but also instil confidence and hope in each and every reader.
文摘Edgar Allan Poe is one of the few writers in the history of American literature who develops not only good novels and poems but also excellent critic theories.In Poe's criterion,the poem should be short,and produce a feeling of beauty in the reader."Annabel Lee" is a perfect illustration of Poe's poetic theories.The essay analyzes the poem in detail from the formalistic point of view.
文摘The prominent features of Li Bai's "The Jewel Stairs'Grievance" are precise diction;implicit meaning;an absent narrator;and a seamless unity of images and feelings.Pound's translation of it in Cathay reveals some kind of connections between some Chinese poetic principals and Pound's individual poetics.
文摘Written by J.K.Rowling,Harry Potterdepicts the protagonist,Harry Potter’s seven years’adventures during his life and studies at Hogwarts School.In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,Harry’s second year at Hogwarts School is described.By analyzing the figurative language and poetic devices in the book,this paper argues that similes,alliteration,rhyme and the symbolism are well used to make contribution to emphasize the theme of courage.Faced up with difficulties and hardships,Harry and his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger have shown their great courage and finally figured out the clues.It illuminates that the properly used figurative language and poetic devices are essential to the emphasis of the theme.Key words:figurative language;poetic devices;
文摘Preface to Lyrical Ballads is full of poetic thoughts of Wordsworth and Coleridge.It is a manifesto of a poetic revolution,and it opens a new chapter for the English poetry.Such issues on poetry are addressed as its origin,functions,subject matters,lan-guage,imagination,and roles and qualities of poets.
