Sylvia Plath is a major representative of the American confessional poetry. Her idiosyncratic poetry and her suicide in1963 aroused an intensive interest and study on her and her poems that hasn't subsided until n...Sylvia Plath is a major representative of the American confessional poetry. Her idiosyncratic poetry and her suicide in1963 aroused an intensive interest and study on her and her poems that hasn't subsided until now. This paper tries to explore the so-called Sylvia Plath myth and analyzes the various factors that molded her extreme psychology, theme and style by Lacanian psychoanalytic approach.展开更多
The interpretation of Sylvia Plath' s representative work Daddy is always being controversial.The poem involves many social and historical issues and various images,among which the image " Daddy" is the ...The interpretation of Sylvia Plath' s representative work Daddy is always being controversial.The poem involves many social and historical issues and various images,among which the image " Daddy" is the key to the interpretation of the poem as well as the poet ess' feminist consciousness of anti-patriarchy.展开更多
The introduction and translation of Sylvia Plath＇s （1932-63） poetry into Chinese in the 198os had a significant impact on women＇s poetry in contemporary China, particularly the work of Zhai Yongming （b. 1955） an...The introduction and translation of Sylvia Plath＇s （1932-63） poetry into Chinese in the 198os had a significant impact on women＇s poetry in contemporary China, particularly the work of Zhai Yongming （b. 1955） and Lu Yimin （b. 1962）. Expanding on Lawrence Venuti＇s theory of translation and intertextuality, this article explores the relationship between Chinese translations of Plath and the poetry of Zhai and Lu. It examines four sets of Plath translations and the accompanying paratextual commentaries, demonstrating how Plath＇s Chinese translators inscribe their individual interpretations onto their translations. It shows how these texts are integral in shaping the early poetic output of Zhai and Lu, who further recontextualize Plath through their own poetry, revealing how Plath has been understood, evaluated, and transformed in contemporary China. Ultimately, this process results in a bold new gendered poetics that marks a turning point in Chinese women＇s writing.展开更多
The poetry is not merely a bundle of "poetic" objects or a box with tinsel ribbon decoration.Poetry is an expression of the emotion,an experience of the objective,bustling world.To have a penetrating and com...The poetry is not merely a bundle of "poetic" objects or a box with tinsel ribbon decoration.Poetry is an expression of the emotion,an experience of the objective,bustling world.To have a penetrating and comprehensive understanding of the poems by Sylvia Plath and Ge Mai,firstly,comparing in the description:images,moods and attitudes;then,analyzing the inner meaning related to the metaphor and symbol;finally,emphasizing that it is courage makes the beauty spring from the poetry.展开更多
Becoming famous in 1960s,American confessional poetry,in response to High Modernism as impersonality and totalobjectivity,shifted focus on personal experience.When such confessional flow rushed into China in 1980s,it ...Becoming famous in 1960s,American confessional poetry,in response to High Modernism as impersonality and totalobjectivity,shifted focus on personal experience.When such confessional flow rushed into China in 1980s,it provided Chinese poets a confessional voice to write and investigate significant issues of world,life and society.Thus,writing in different languages and periods does not stop them to implement the same mission:to adopt a confessional voice,represent trauma as blackness and darkness in women experience and bring light,meanwhile,achieve one’s own truth and liberation.展开更多
By adopting Freudian psychoanalysis,this paper attempts to verify that in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar Esther is traumatized by her father’s premature death and her mother’s lack of empathy,which leave her feeling a...By adopting Freudian psychoanalysis,this paper attempts to verify that in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar Esther is traumatized by her father’s premature death and her mother’s lack of empathy,which leave her feeling abandoned,and therefore result in the core issues of fear of abandonment and fear of intimacy.Esther’s whole pattern of psychological behavior,mainly manifested in her relationship with others,is grounded in her unconscious conviction that emotional ties to another human being will lead to one’s being emotionally abandoned.展开更多
The purpose of the present article is to explore two main poetry collections of Sylvia Plath.Poems for“The Colossus”and“Ariel”were written in different times and life stages of the poet.“The Colossus”is the begi...The purpose of the present article is to explore two main poetry collections of Sylvia Plath.Poems for“The Colossus”and“Ariel”were written in different times and life stages of the poet.“The Colossus”is the beginning of her full life as a woman and a poet and“Ariel”is telling us about her final years and predicts the tragical ending that she had chosen.Both books are rich with different characters,poetical symbols and themes.展开更多
Our current understanding of how species have evolved is mainly based on comparative phylogenetic methods,which use phylogenies to infer the evolution of traits.The development of ancestral state reconstruction(ASR)me...Our current understanding of how species have evolved is mainly based on comparative phylogenetic methods,which use phylogenies to infer the evolution of traits.The development of ancestral state reconstruction(ASR)methods has provided the tools to reconstruct trait evolution,which are widely used in fields like evolutionary biology,macroecology and paleontology.As there are different elements involved in those analyses,with different levels of uncertainty(i.e.relating to branch length estimation,trait coding,statistical framework,taxon sampling or software),the various combinations of these elements likely have a strong impact on the reconstruction of the evolution of traits,potentially leading to opposite conclusions.To assess the impact of these different elements in ASR,we performed a set of analyses,including all possible combinations of such elements and using the evolution of migratory behavior in Sylvia warblers as a case study,which was coded as a continuous or as a discrete character.Our results show that taxon sampling,character coding,tree shape,statistical framework and software all significantly affect ASR,both individually and in combination.Not all reconstructed tree nodes show discrepancies,but in the critical ones most pairwise comparisons between analyses lead to conflicting and unexpectedly antagonistic results(zero migration vs fully migratory),thus challenging interpretations of trait evolution.We propose some possible solutions to partly inform decisions,involving the method selection and the incorporation of biological or fossil evidence regarding how traits evolve,but our results demand serious rethinking about how the research community currently uses ASR.展开更多
When 66-year-old Londoner Sylvia Haller was laid off in February,it wasn’t just her income that took a hit.It was her self-esteem.“I had this feeling like,‘I’m too old,’”she says.“‘Nobody wants to employ me an...When 66-year-old Londoner Sylvia Haller was laid off in February,it wasn’t just her income that took a hit.It was her self-esteem.“I had this feeling like,‘I’m too old,’”she says.“‘Nobody wants to employ me anymore.’”She’d taken pride in her work installing home improvements for elderly and disabled residents in Hackney.Losing that job was“pretty traumatic”.But Haller’s pension was small and she wasn’t ready to retire.So she pulled herself together and began wading through online classifieds.But,she says,“I didn’t feel confident enough to go and apply for anything.”展开更多
文摘Sylvia Plath is a major representative of the American confessional poetry. Her idiosyncratic poetry and her suicide in1963 aroused an intensive interest and study on her and her poems that hasn't subsided until now. This paper tries to explore the so-called Sylvia Plath myth and analyzes the various factors that molded her extreme psychology, theme and style by Lacanian psychoanalytic approach.
文摘The interpretation of Sylvia Plath' s representative work Daddy is always being controversial.The poem involves many social and historical issues and various images,among which the image " Daddy" is the key to the interpretation of the poem as well as the poet ess' feminist consciousness of anti-patriarchy.
文摘The introduction and translation of Sylvia Plath＇s （1932-63） poetry into Chinese in the 198os had a significant impact on women＇s poetry in contemporary China, particularly the work of Zhai Yongming （b. 1955） and Lu Yimin （b. 1962）. Expanding on Lawrence Venuti＇s theory of translation and intertextuality, this article explores the relationship between Chinese translations of Plath and the poetry of Zhai and Lu. It examines four sets of Plath translations and the accompanying paratextual commentaries, demonstrating how Plath＇s Chinese translators inscribe their individual interpretations onto their translations. It shows how these texts are integral in shaping the early poetic output of Zhai and Lu, who further recontextualize Plath through their own poetry, revealing how Plath has been understood, evaluated, and transformed in contemporary China. Ultimately, this process results in a bold new gendered poetics that marks a turning point in Chinese women＇s writing.
文摘The poetry is not merely a bundle of "poetic" objects or a box with tinsel ribbon decoration.Poetry is an expression of the emotion,an experience of the objective,bustling world.To have a penetrating and comprehensive understanding of the poems by Sylvia Plath and Ge Mai,firstly,comparing in the description:images,moods and attitudes;then,analyzing the inner meaning related to the metaphor and symbol;finally,emphasizing that it is courage makes the beauty spring from the poetry.
文摘Becoming famous in 1960s,American confessional poetry,in response to High Modernism as impersonality and totalobjectivity,shifted focus on personal experience.When such confessional flow rushed into China in 1980s,it provided Chinese poets a confessional voice to write and investigate significant issues of world,life and society.Thus,writing in different languages and periods does not stop them to implement the same mission:to adopt a confessional voice,represent trauma as blackness and darkness in women experience and bring light,meanwhile,achieve one’s own truth and liberation.
文摘By adopting Freudian psychoanalysis,this paper attempts to verify that in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar Esther is traumatized by her father’s premature death and her mother’s lack of empathy,which leave her feeling abandoned,and therefore result in the core issues of fear of abandonment and fear of intimacy.Esther’s whole pattern of psychological behavior,mainly manifested in her relationship with others,is grounded in her unconscious conviction that emotional ties to another human being will lead to one’s being emotionally abandoned.
文摘The purpose of the present article is to explore two main poetry collections of Sylvia Plath.Poems for“The Colossus”and“Ariel”were written in different times and life stages of the poet.“The Colossus”is the beginning of her full life as a woman and a poet and“Ariel”is telling us about her final years and predicts the tragical ending that she had chosen.Both books are rich with different characters,poetical symbols and themes.
基金This work was supported by a grant of the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad and FEDER CGL2013-40924-P,CGL2017-89898-R(AEI/FEDER,UE)a BiodivERsA:EC21C ERANet grant to DRV.RP was supported by an FPU predoctoral fellowship from the Spanish Ministerio de Educación.
文摘Our current understanding of how species have evolved is mainly based on comparative phylogenetic methods,which use phylogenies to infer the evolution of traits.The development of ancestral state reconstruction(ASR)methods has provided the tools to reconstruct trait evolution,which are widely used in fields like evolutionary biology,macroecology and paleontology.As there are different elements involved in those analyses,with different levels of uncertainty(i.e.relating to branch length estimation,trait coding,statistical framework,taxon sampling or software),the various combinations of these elements likely have a strong impact on the reconstruction of the evolution of traits,potentially leading to opposite conclusions.To assess the impact of these different elements in ASR,we performed a set of analyses,including all possible combinations of such elements and using the evolution of migratory behavior in Sylvia warblers as a case study,which was coded as a continuous or as a discrete character.Our results show that taxon sampling,character coding,tree shape,statistical framework and software all significantly affect ASR,both individually and in combination.Not all reconstructed tree nodes show discrepancies,but in the critical ones most pairwise comparisons between analyses lead to conflicting and unexpectedly antagonistic results(zero migration vs fully migratory),thus challenging interpretations of trait evolution.We propose some possible solutions to partly inform decisions,involving the method selection and the incorporation of biological or fossil evidence regarding how traits evolve,but our results demand serious rethinking about how the research community currently uses ASR.
文摘When 66-year-old Londoner Sylvia Haller was laid off in February,it wasn’t just her income that took a hit.It was her self-esteem.“I had this feeling like,‘I’m too old,’”she says.“‘Nobody wants to employ me anymore.’”She’d taken pride in her work installing home improvements for elderly and disabled residents in Hackney.Losing that job was“pretty traumatic”.But Haller’s pension was small and she wasn’t ready to retire.So she pulled herself together and began wading through online classifieds.But,she says,“I didn’t feel confident enough to go and apply for anything.”
