Nowadays,there is a growing concern that the term tragedy has been abused to such an extent that it has lost its original significance.This interview with the Canadian literary critic Ato Quayson explores the meaning ...Nowadays,there is a growing concern that the term tragedy has been abused to such an extent that it has lost its original significance.This interview with the Canadian literary critic Ato Quayson explores the meaning of tragedy with a postcolonial sensibility,in the tragic tradition,and under contemporary context.In the interview,Quayson elaborates his recent research on postcolonial literature and theorizations of tragedy,underscoring that the parameters of what constitutes postcolonial tragedy can only be established through a link to the Western tragic tradition.For Quayson,what allows us to transcend the limitations of humanity is our alertness to what makes us human and our preparedness to defend at the cost of our own lives the universal human desires.This is also postcolonial tragedy's significance to contemporary existence,hence the urgency of tragedy today.展开更多
Macbeth is a brutal regicide and a schemer who usurps power,and he is at the same time the representative of the typical Renaissance humanism. In Shakespeare's work,Macbeth is a tragic character combining with hum...Macbeth is a brutal regicide and a schemer who usurps power,and he is at the same time the representative of the typical Renaissance humanism. In Shakespeare's work,Macbeth is a tragic character combining with humanism progressiveness and limitation. What he had done represented part of the humanistic thoughts in the Renaissance. But with the development of the plot,his thinking and action ran counter to the idea of humanism step by step and further and further.展开更多
The deep structure and manifestation of the western traditional culture have always been constructed on its various binary oppositions,among which the dichotomy between Apollo and Dionysius of the ancient Greek mythol...The deep structure and manifestation of the western traditional culture have always been constructed on its various binary oppositions,among which the dichotomy between Apollo and Dionysius of the ancient Greek mythology is typical.The conflicts of the two are not only the origin of the early tragedies,but also the enduring factors affecting the formation of the western social and psychic structures.The mental struggle and the tragedy of the heroine Nina in Black Swan reflect the dichotomy between Apollo and Dionysius.A retrospect to the prototype of such a binary opposition is the best way to understand Nina’s split personality and further reveal the irreconcilable conflict between human being’s pursuit for beauty and virtue on the one hand,and lost of self-control on the other hand,which generates the power of both creativity and devastation.展开更多
In ambiguity application,it is discovered that the English tragedies' cognitive modes have experienced such an evolution that in Shakespeare's tragedies,the addressor and his addressee are separated and ambigu...In ambiguity application,it is discovered that the English tragedies' cognitive modes have experienced such an evolution that in Shakespeare's tragedies,the addressor and his addressee are separated and ambiguity application is wholly practiced with definite right standard context,though too late in disambiguation,in Shaw's,the addressor and his addressee are adhesive and the application wholly but with wrong standard context in disambiguation,and in O'Neill's,the addressor and his addressee are identical and disambiguation could not be done without standard context.Their different modes have revealed the cognitive causal process of the tragedies and the evolution the modes bring about indicates the tragedy is deepening in the English tragedies,from which the cognitive connotation of the evolution is further illuminated.展开更多
基金funded by the National Key Research Program of China(Grant No.11&ZD137)
文摘Nowadays,there is a growing concern that the term tragedy has been abused to such an extent that it has lost its original significance.This interview with the Canadian literary critic Ato Quayson explores the meaning of tragedy with a postcolonial sensibility,in the tragic tradition,and under contemporary context.In the interview,Quayson elaborates his recent research on postcolonial literature and theorizations of tragedy,underscoring that the parameters of what constitutes postcolonial tragedy can only be established through a link to the Western tragic tradition.For Quayson,what allows us to transcend the limitations of humanity is our alertness to what makes us human and our preparedness to defend at the cost of our own lives the universal human desires.This is also postcolonial tragedy's significance to contemporary existence,hence the urgency of tragedy today.
文摘Macbeth is a brutal regicide and a schemer who usurps power,and he is at the same time the representative of the typical Renaissance humanism. In Shakespeare's work,Macbeth is a tragic character combining with humanism progressiveness and limitation. What he had done represented part of the humanistic thoughts in the Renaissance. But with the development of the plot,his thinking and action ran counter to the idea of humanism step by step and further and further.
基金the phased achievement of the national fund program for basic business projects of young teachers in colleges of Southwest University for Nationalities-Differences and Convergence-Comparative Study of the cultural industry policies of the EU and its Member States.(No:11ZYQN26)received the government funding for the Construction Project of Graduate Student Enrollments of Southwest University for Nationalities-Foreign Languages and Literatures.(No:2011XWD-S0502)
文摘The deep structure and manifestation of the western traditional culture have always been constructed on its various binary oppositions,among which the dichotomy between Apollo and Dionysius of the ancient Greek mythology is typical.The conflicts of the two are not only the origin of the early tragedies,but also the enduring factors affecting the formation of the western social and psychic structures.The mental struggle and the tragedy of the heroine Nina in Black Swan reflect the dichotomy between Apollo and Dionysius.A retrospect to the prototype of such a binary opposition is the best way to understand Nina’s split personality and further reveal the irreconcilable conflict between human being’s pursuit for beauty and virtue on the one hand,and lost of self-control on the other hand,which generates the power of both creativity and devastation.
基金Humanities and Social Sciences Research Planning Fund Project of the Ministry of Education,PRC,under Grant No.:09YJAZH014,namely"Studies of Narrative Ambiguity:Cognitive Basis and Narrative Strategy"
文摘In ambiguity application,it is discovered that the English tragedies' cognitive modes have experienced such an evolution that in Shakespeare's tragedies,the addressor and his addressee are separated and ambiguity application is wholly practiced with definite right standard context,though too late in disambiguation,in Shaw's,the addressor and his addressee are adhesive and the application wholly but with wrong standard context in disambiguation,and in O'Neill's,the addressor and his addressee are identical and disambiguation could not be done without standard context.Their different modes have revealed the cognitive causal process of the tragedies and the evolution the modes bring about indicates the tragedy is deepening in the English tragedies,from which the cognitive connotation of the evolution is further illuminated.
