In his short story collection Lost in the Funhouse, John Barth attempts to deal with the existential plights that fictional writing and human beings are faced with."Title", the most postmodern story in the c...In his short story collection Lost in the Funhouse, John Barth attempts to deal with the existential plights that fictional writing and human beings are faced with."Title", the most postmodern story in the collection, centers on the issue of"filling in the blank,"in which Barth leads readers to solve the problem and create the story with him. To examine Barth's postmodern experiment in"Title", this paper mainly focuses on the following three questions: what is the"blank"? How to fill in it? Why to fill in it in that way? By answering them, we may see how Barth reconciles the conflict between the urgency of"filling in the blank"and the failure of filling them.展开更多
Language and culture are inseparable.Culture contains language while language carries culture(Hu,2011:146).As the essence of a language,idioms are believed to be the most culturally loaded expressions in it.Accordingl...Language and culture are inseparable.Culture contains language while language carries culture(Hu,2011:146).As the essence of a language,idioms are believed to be the most culturally loaded expressions in it.Accordingly,they are often consid ered as the mirror of culture,reflecting the special features of different cultures(Yu,1999:132).Hence,it is of vital importantce for English learners to trace the root of English idioms and understand their connotations culturally.This paper aims to explore the cultural origins of English idiomatic expressions from four perspectives,involving history,mythology,religion and society.展开更多
Heart of Darkness is a recognized classic of Joseph Conrad,which has been overwhelmingly studied and researched over the past centuries.In this novel,Conrad exposes the darkness of human soul by presenting a symbolic ...Heart of Darkness is a recognized classic of Joseph Conrad,which has been overwhelmingly studied and researched over the past centuries.In this novel,Conrad exposes the darkness of human soul by presenting a symbolic phenomenon:spiritual blindness in most characters.Thus,this paper attempts to account for the spiritual blindness of different groups of people from three aspects,including racial superiority,heroic worship and human desire.展开更多
文摘In his short story collection Lost in the Funhouse, John Barth attempts to deal with the existential plights that fictional writing and human beings are faced with."Title", the most postmodern story in the collection, centers on the issue of"filling in the blank,"in which Barth leads readers to solve the problem and create the story with him. To examine Barth's postmodern experiment in"Title", this paper mainly focuses on the following three questions: what is the"blank"? How to fill in it? Why to fill in it in that way? By answering them, we may see how Barth reconciles the conflict between the urgency of"filling in the blank"and the failure of filling them.
文摘Language and culture are inseparable.Culture contains language while language carries culture(Hu,2011:146).As the essence of a language,idioms are believed to be the most culturally loaded expressions in it.Accordingly,they are often consid ered as the mirror of culture,reflecting the special features of different cultures(Yu,1999:132).Hence,it is of vital importantce for English learners to trace the root of English idioms and understand their connotations culturally.This paper aims to explore the cultural origins of English idiomatic expressions from four perspectives,involving history,mythology,religion and society.
文摘Heart of Darkness is a recognized classic of Joseph Conrad,which has been overwhelmingly studied and researched over the past centuries.In this novel,Conrad exposes the darkness of human soul by presenting a symbolic phenomenon:spiritual blindness in most characters.Thus,this paper attempts to account for the spiritual blindness of different groups of people from three aspects,including racial superiority,heroic worship and human desire.
