In Bernard Malamud's works,the theme of alienation occurs repeatedly.This article tries to make a review of the "alienation" theme in Malamud's four novels,Dubin's Lives,A New Life,The Tenants,an...In Bernard Malamud's works,the theme of alienation occurs repeatedly.This article tries to make a review of the "alienation" theme in Malamud's four novels,Dubin's Lives,A New Life,The Tenants,and The Fixer.展开更多
From cultural point of view,there are two methods in translation:adaptation which is TL culture-oriented and alienation which is SL culture-oriented.What this article tries to prove is that each of them has its own st...From cultural point of view,there are two methods in translation:adaptation which is TL culture-oriented and alienation which is SL culture-oriented.What this article tries to prove is that each of them has its own strong and weak points,which leads to the conclusion that both methods are justified in their existence.And last,some points for attention are suggested for translation,which include the relationship between SL and TL,the type of texts and the translator's purpose.展开更多
Orpheus Descending is written by American famous playwright Tennessee Williams. According to the portrayal of a series marginalized people, this drama presents the solitude in human beings' heart and the estrangem...Orpheus Descending is written by American famous playwright Tennessee Williams. According to the portrayal of a series marginalized people, this drama presents the solitude in human beings' heart and the estrangement in interpersonal relations. This paper tries to analyze the solitude theme in this drama from philosophic aspect and realistic aspect, combining alienation theory and existentialism theory to analyze the reason and the manifestation of solitude.展开更多
The aim of this paper is to display Thomas Hardy's outlook on alienation in his Jude the obscure. In the deconstruction of the novel, the theme of alienation and self-alienation, together with the aloofness in soc...The aim of this paper is to display Thomas Hardy's outlook on alienation in his Jude the obscure. In the deconstruction of the novel, the theme of alienation and self-alienation, together with the aloofness in society are brought to the fore, by which Thomas Hardy's viewpoints on alienation in his philosophy of life is derived.展开更多
Theodore Dreiser's first novel, Sister Carrie is a work of excellence with epoch-making significance in the history of American literature. It is written in the transition period of United States, and the consumpt...Theodore Dreiser's first novel, Sister Carrie is a work of excellence with epoch-making significance in the history of American literature. It is written in the transition period of United States, and the consumption ideology gradually influences the human nature at that time. Based on the writing background, this paper attempts to explore the alienation of interpersonal relationship under the consumer society in this novel through the perspective of Marxism and text analysis.展开更多
Joseph Heller is the United States after World War II as one of the most famous writers, his novels are usually based on real life creation, Catch-22 not only reflect the lives of American society, also express their ...Joseph Heller is the United States after World War II as one of the most famous writers, his novels are usually based on real life creation, Catch-22 not only reflect the lives of American society, also express their own against the real world of protest,the war as the background, portrayed the characters such as Yosserian, reflects the theme of the contemporary society,. This article mainly studies the characters in the novel, and pointed out that it manifests in several aspects. The novel criticizes bureaucratic capitalism and distorts human nature., people caused great alienation. It can be seen that Heller is concerned about human nature, caring for the plight of humanity.展开更多
Samuel Beckett is a master of the Theatre of Absurd.His plays,such as Waiting for Godot(1954)and Endgame(1958),project the irrationalism,helplessness,and absurdity of life in dramatic forms that reject realistic setti...Samuel Beckett is a master of the Theatre of Absurd.His plays,such as Waiting for Godot(1954)and Endgame(1958),project the irrationalism,helplessness,and absurdity of life in dramatic forms that reject realistic settings,logical reasoning,or a co-herently evolving plot.This thesis intends to interpret Endgame from the perspective of its themes and to help readers gain a betterunderstanding of the major issues confronted by a modern man in life.展开更多
The enormous change of the earlier 20thcentury has not only brought false prosperity to the society but also pushed people into spiritual wasteland. Indifference and alienation have replaced communication and trust am...The enormous change of the earlier 20thcentury has not only brought false prosperity to the society but also pushed people into spiritual wasteland. Indifference and alienation have replaced communication and trust among people or between one and self. By analyzing the alienation among people, the self-split of oneself and the reasons resulting these in William Faulkner's As I lay Dying, the concern of Faulkner about the social phenomenon and his pursuit of transcending the personal to a universal level will be better presented to us.展开更多
As one of the most famous contemporary British women novelists, A.S. Byatt depicts the true situation of women in her"Frederica Quartet". The quartet involves some feminist issues such as marriage and celiba...As one of the most famous contemporary British women novelists, A.S. Byatt depicts the true situation of women in her"Frederica Quartet". The quartet involves some feminist issues such as marriage and celibacy, female power and women's alienation. In the quartet, Byatt associates the mythical virgin images to the women figures in real life, and contemplates possible ways for women to survive and keep female power in a male-dominated society. It makes a detailed analysis on the recurring virgin images and the characterization of female characters in the quartet, aiming to analyze the theme of Byatt's quartet and reveal her feminist concerns.展开更多
Joan Didion is an outstanding female writer who has achieved a distinctive position in contemporary literature.Her second novel,Play It As It Lays,is nominated for a National Book Award.Set in Hollywood and Las Vegas,...Joan Didion is an outstanding female writer who has achieved a distinctive position in contemporary literature.Her second novel,Play It As It Lays,is nominated for a National Book Award.Set in Hollywood and Las Vegas,it presents the alienated world through exquisite description of its protagonist Maria.Based on Erich Fromm’s Alienation Theory,this essay attempts to analyze the alienation in the novel from two aspects:first,the novel’s materialistic environment in the 1960s;second,the alienated relationship between spouses as well as between parents and children.展开更多
Loneliness or spiritual isolation, is normally considered to be the all-important theme of Carson Mc Cullers' novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, as its title suggests. The alienation and return of love, however, ...Loneliness or spiritual isolation, is normally considered to be the all-important theme of Carson Mc Cullers' novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, as its title suggests. The alienation and return of love, however, are apparently pervasive through the whole story and each character feels extremely alienated from love and frustrated in their search for love and spiritual integration with something greater than themselves. Mc Cullers details her novel with many truths about the awkward predicament of love and morality with her lucid, poetic prose. It is noted that hence, when man's heart is a lonely hunter, it will find what it wishes to love in the most unlikely places.展开更多
The Glass Menagerie is one of the greatest plays written by Tennessee Williams who is an extraordinary American playwright in the 20 th century. This paper tries to analyze the characters of the members of the Wingfie...The Glass Menagerie is one of the greatest plays written by Tennessee Williams who is an extraordinary American playwright in the 20 th century. This paper tries to analyze the characters of the members of the Wingfields, a tragic family in the play,and the alienation in the family. All members in the family are afflicted with loneliness, disillusionment and despair, and the alienation in the family is the product of modern industrial society.展开更多
The End of the Road is John Barth's second novel, and it is the first novel that brought abortion to the focus of public attention, which proves to be a huge success. This paper intends to study the alienation in ...The End of the Road is John Barth's second novel, and it is the first novel that brought abortion to the focus of public attention, which proves to be a huge success. This paper intends to study the alienation in The End of the Road based on the alienation as a literary style and the alienation embodied in the literary context. Through the analysis of the alienated plot, the paper aims to emphasize the internal cause for the end of the different character's road.展开更多
Loneliness is one of the central themes in the works of Nathanial Hawthorne,which,to some extent,is a reflection of Hawthorn's keen sensitiveness to the existential anxiety of man in his times.The paper explores t...Loneliness is one of the central themes in the works of Nathanial Hawthorne,which,to some extent,is a reflection of Hawthorn's keen sensitiveness to the existential anxiety of man in his times.The paper explores the theme of alienation that is exposed in the The House of the Seven of Seven Gables by making a careful analysis of morbid mentality of Hepzibah,which is mainly displayed in Hepzibah's alienated feelings to the outside society and abnormal passion for Clifford.展开更多
Thomas Hardy's works are considered to have"contained new wine in an old bottle"by critics and reviewers. The"old bottle"refers to his authorial omniscient narrative and his form inheriting fro...Thomas Hardy's works are considered to have"contained new wine in an old bottle"by critics and reviewers. The"old bottle"refers to his authorial omniscient narrative and his form inheriting from the tradition, which is often criticized, especially by those modernists, while"new wine"designates his other sides apart from his old-fashioned writing style, the modernistic themes in his writing. Tess, is a novel that records the transition from conventional to modern. By reading the text and analyzing Tess of the D'Urbervilles under the social context three main modernistic themes can be probed out:Firstly, the spiritual isolation and loneliness in the novel are apparent, and the lack in mutual understanding and sympathy between each other is universal. Besides, the title heroine, she was impossible to fulfill her dreams with various hostile powers set against her, coercing into predicaments one after another, tougher and tougher. Furthermore, another theme popular with later modernists, the alienation, is also embodied in the novel.展开更多
Katherine Mansfield is regarded as a prominent modernist writer of short stories in New Zealand and English literature.Her works manifest the perfect union of modernistic techniques and modernistic themes in reflectin...Katherine Mansfield is regarded as a prominent modernist writer of short stories in New Zealand and English literature.Her works manifest the perfect union of modernistic techniques and modernistic themes in reflecting the spiritual life of modern people.The modernistic themes,including the theme of alienation,the theme of loneliness and disillusionment,and the theme of the paradox of life and death in her representative short storyAt the Bay,demonstrate her great concern about the spiritual world of modern people and her reflection on the modern society.展开更多
The culture-loaded words are a special vocabulary of all kinds of language.And its translation has been one of the most difficult problems in the academic field.When culture-loaded words are being translated from the ...The culture-loaded words are a special vocabulary of all kinds of language.And its translation has been one of the most difficult problems in the academic field.When culture-loaded words are being translated from the source language into the target language,the translator should have a clear knowledge of the differences in understanding the same culture-loaded word of both the source language reader and the target language reader.This paper deals with strategies for optimizing the translation of culture-loaded words,especially translating Chinese culture-loaded words into English.Alienation translation favors communicating the characteristics and connotation of Chinese and English culture.展开更多
The Song of the Lark tells the story of young girl Thea who doesn’t give up and achieves her wish when faced with all sorts of setbacks. Based on the Marxist feminism, this paper is going to study the differences tha...The Song of the Lark tells the story of young girl Thea who doesn’t give up and achieves her wish when faced with all sorts of setbacks. Based on the Marxist feminism, this paper is going to study the differences that the female and male characters have experienced both in family and society in order to find out the root of females’oppressed status and reveal Cather’s writing in? tention—provide a possible way of improving the dilemma of women caused by capitalist ideology and the patriarchal ideology.展开更多
异己手综合征（alien hand syndrome,AHS）是由不同中枢神经损害引起的复杂的临床综合征,主要特点为患侧上肢或手不受意识支配,双手执行动作时存在明显地不协调或拮抗[1]。近年来国内报道较少,加之该病的临床表现复杂多样,症状辨别非常...异己手综合征（alien hand syndrome,AHS）是由不同中枢神经损害引起的复杂的临床综合征,主要特点为患侧上肢或手不受意识支配,双手执行动作时存在明显地不协调或拮抗[1]。近年来国内报道较少,加之该病的临床表现复杂多样,症状辨别非常困难,故非常容易漏诊、误诊。现将我院收治的一例AHS患者报道如下。1临床资料患者男性,77岁,右利手,展开更多
Herzog is one of the most successful novels written by the Jewish Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow. Herzog, the protagonist of the novel, has experienced a spiritual and emotional collapse, triggered by the breakup of h...Herzog is one of the most successful novels written by the Jewish Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow. Herzog, the protagonist of the novel, has experienced a spiritual and emotional collapse, triggered by the breakup of his second marriage and his contemplation of the wasteland of modern life. In the novel, he has divorced twice respectively because he is bored and boring. The characteristics of the two ex-wives are in sharp contrast. Deep analysis of the two women and their marital relationships with Erich Fromm's theory can facilitate our understanding of the novel, the writer as well as the modern world.展开更多
文摘In Bernard Malamud's works,the theme of alienation occurs repeatedly.This article tries to make a review of the "alienation" theme in Malamud's four novels,Dubin's Lives,A New Life,The Tenants,and The Fixer.
文摘From cultural point of view,there are two methods in translation:adaptation which is TL culture-oriented and alienation which is SL culture-oriented.What this article tries to prove is that each of them has its own strong and weak points,which leads to the conclusion that both methods are justified in their existence.And last,some points for attention are suggested for translation,which include the relationship between SL and TL,the type of texts and the translator's purpose.
文摘Orpheus Descending is written by American famous playwright Tennessee Williams. According to the portrayal of a series marginalized people, this drama presents the solitude in human beings' heart and the estrangement in interpersonal relations. This paper tries to analyze the solitude theme in this drama from philosophic aspect and realistic aspect, combining alienation theory and existentialism theory to analyze the reason and the manifestation of solitude.
文摘The aim of this paper is to display Thomas Hardy's outlook on alienation in his Jude the obscure. In the deconstruction of the novel, the theme of alienation and self-alienation, together with the aloofness in society are brought to the fore, by which Thomas Hardy's viewpoints on alienation in his philosophy of life is derived.
文摘Theodore Dreiser's first novel, Sister Carrie is a work of excellence with epoch-making significance in the history of American literature. It is written in the transition period of United States, and the consumption ideology gradually influences the human nature at that time. Based on the writing background, this paper attempts to explore the alienation of interpersonal relationship under the consumer society in this novel through the perspective of Marxism and text analysis.
文摘Joseph Heller is the United States after World War II as one of the most famous writers, his novels are usually based on real life creation, Catch-22 not only reflect the lives of American society, also express their own against the real world of protest,the war as the background, portrayed the characters such as Yosserian, reflects the theme of the contemporary society,. This article mainly studies the characters in the novel, and pointed out that it manifests in several aspects. The novel criticizes bureaucratic capitalism and distorts human nature., people caused great alienation. It can be seen that Heller is concerned about human nature, caring for the plight of humanity.
文摘Samuel Beckett is a master of the Theatre of Absurd.His plays,such as Waiting for Godot(1954)and Endgame(1958),project the irrationalism,helplessness,and absurdity of life in dramatic forms that reject realistic settings,logical reasoning,or a co-herently evolving plot.This thesis intends to interpret Endgame from the perspective of its themes and to help readers gain a betterunderstanding of the major issues confronted by a modern man in life.
文摘The enormous change of the earlier 20thcentury has not only brought false prosperity to the society but also pushed people into spiritual wasteland. Indifference and alienation have replaced communication and trust among people or between one and self. By analyzing the alienation among people, the self-split of oneself and the reasons resulting these in William Faulkner's As I lay Dying, the concern of Faulkner about the social phenomenon and his pursuit of transcending the personal to a universal level will be better presented to us.
文摘As one of the most famous contemporary British women novelists, A.S. Byatt depicts the true situation of women in her"Frederica Quartet". The quartet involves some feminist issues such as marriage and celibacy, female power and women's alienation. In the quartet, Byatt associates the mythical virgin images to the women figures in real life, and contemplates possible ways for women to survive and keep female power in a male-dominated society. It makes a detailed analysis on the recurring virgin images and the characterization of female characters in the quartet, aiming to analyze the theme of Byatt's quartet and reveal her feminist concerns.
文摘Joan Didion is an outstanding female writer who has achieved a distinctive position in contemporary literature.Her second novel,Play It As It Lays,is nominated for a National Book Award.Set in Hollywood and Las Vegas,it presents the alienated world through exquisite description of its protagonist Maria.Based on Erich Fromm’s Alienation Theory,this essay attempts to analyze the alienation in the novel from two aspects:first,the novel’s materialistic environment in the 1960s;second,the alienated relationship between spouses as well as between parents and children.
文摘Loneliness or spiritual isolation, is normally considered to be the all-important theme of Carson Mc Cullers' novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, as its title suggests. The alienation and return of love, however, are apparently pervasive through the whole story and each character feels extremely alienated from love and frustrated in their search for love and spiritual integration with something greater than themselves. Mc Cullers details her novel with many truths about the awkward predicament of love and morality with her lucid, poetic prose. It is noted that hence, when man's heart is a lonely hunter, it will find what it wishes to love in the most unlikely places.
文摘The Glass Menagerie is one of the greatest plays written by Tennessee Williams who is an extraordinary American playwright in the 20 th century. This paper tries to analyze the characters of the members of the Wingfields, a tragic family in the play,and the alienation in the family. All members in the family are afflicted with loneliness, disillusionment and despair, and the alienation in the family is the product of modern industrial society.
文摘The End of the Road is John Barth's second novel, and it is the first novel that brought abortion to the focus of public attention, which proves to be a huge success. This paper intends to study the alienation in The End of the Road based on the alienation as a literary style and the alienation embodied in the literary context. Through the analysis of the alienated plot, the paper aims to emphasize the internal cause for the end of the different character's road.
文摘Loneliness is one of the central themes in the works of Nathanial Hawthorne,which,to some extent,is a reflection of Hawthorn's keen sensitiveness to the existential anxiety of man in his times.The paper explores the theme of alienation that is exposed in the The House of the Seven of Seven Gables by making a careful analysis of morbid mentality of Hepzibah,which is mainly displayed in Hepzibah's alienated feelings to the outside society and abnormal passion for Clifford.
文摘Thomas Hardy's works are considered to have"contained new wine in an old bottle"by critics and reviewers. The"old bottle"refers to his authorial omniscient narrative and his form inheriting from the tradition, which is often criticized, especially by those modernists, while"new wine"designates his other sides apart from his old-fashioned writing style, the modernistic themes in his writing. Tess, is a novel that records the transition from conventional to modern. By reading the text and analyzing Tess of the D'Urbervilles under the social context three main modernistic themes can be probed out:Firstly, the spiritual isolation and loneliness in the novel are apparent, and the lack in mutual understanding and sympathy between each other is universal. Besides, the title heroine, she was impossible to fulfill her dreams with various hostile powers set against her, coercing into predicaments one after another, tougher and tougher. Furthermore, another theme popular with later modernists, the alienation, is also embodied in the novel.
文摘Katherine Mansfield is regarded as a prominent modernist writer of short stories in New Zealand and English literature.Her works manifest the perfect union of modernistic techniques and modernistic themes in reflecting the spiritual life of modern people.The modernistic themes,including the theme of alienation,the theme of loneliness and disillusionment,and the theme of the paradox of life and death in her representative short storyAt the Bay,demonstrate her great concern about the spiritual world of modern people and her reflection on the modern society.
文摘The culture-loaded words are a special vocabulary of all kinds of language.And its translation has been one of the most difficult problems in the academic field.When culture-loaded words are being translated from the source language into the target language,the translator should have a clear knowledge of the differences in understanding the same culture-loaded word of both the source language reader and the target language reader.This paper deals with strategies for optimizing the translation of culture-loaded words,especially translating Chinese culture-loaded words into English.Alienation translation favors communicating the characteristics and connotation of Chinese and English culture.
文摘The Song of the Lark tells the story of young girl Thea who doesn’t give up and achieves her wish when faced with all sorts of setbacks. Based on the Marxist feminism, this paper is going to study the differences that the female and male characters have experienced both in family and society in order to find out the root of females’oppressed status and reveal Cather’s writing in? tention—provide a possible way of improving the dilemma of women caused by capitalist ideology and the patriarchal ideology.
文摘异己手综合征（alien hand syndrome,AHS）是由不同中枢神经损害引起的复杂的临床综合征,主要特点为患侧上肢或手不受意识支配,双手执行动作时存在明显地不协调或拮抗[1]。近年来国内报道较少,加之该病的临床表现复杂多样,症状辨别非常困难,故非常容易漏诊、误诊。现将我院收治的一例AHS患者报道如下。1临床资料患者男性,77岁,右利手,
文摘Herzog is one of the most successful novels written by the Jewish Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow. Herzog, the protagonist of the novel, has experienced a spiritual and emotional collapse, triggered by the breakup of his second marriage and his contemplation of the wasteland of modern life. In the novel, he has divorced twice respectively because he is bored and boring. The characteristics of the two ex-wives are in sharp contrast. Deep analysis of the two women and their marital relationships with Erich Fromm's theory can facilitate our understanding of the novel, the writer as well as the modern world.
