This paper examines in a comparative manner how remembering and forgetting contribute to self-constitution in Walker Percy＇s The Last Gentleman and William Alexander Percy＇s Lanterns on the Levee. In The Last Gentle...This paper examines in a comparative manner how remembering and forgetting contribute to self-constitution in Walker Percy＇s The Last Gentleman and William Alexander Percy＇s Lanterns on the Levee. In The Last Gentleman, Will Barrett embarks upon a journey from the North to the South in quest of identity. Lanterns on the Levee features a similar identity quest pursued, this time, by an autobiographer who records the very process of this quest rather than representing it by a fictional character. Percy the stoic restores realness to people in a lost world, from whom he derives his self and in whom his self is deeply rooted, by remem- bering the personally significant and good past and forgetting the personally insignificant and evil present. In so doing, he not only asserts his personal identity but continues to construct it in an imaginative way. Will, by contrast, seeks to constitute and ascertain his stoic identity both by attempting to forget the every- dayness of ordinary life and thereby establish a genuine relationship with people and by undertaking the pursuit of a fatherly figure who echoes his tenacious memory of his father. Both Will and Percy, however, may be called what Kierkegaard calls a knight of infinite resignation.展开更多
In the winter of 2017,southern France was hit by the most severe freeze in a decade,and yet the southern city of Gaiaque,with a population of just 10,000,had 250,000 visitors in town.What attracted them to brave the c...In the winter of 2017,southern France was hit by the most severe freeze in a decade,and yet the southern city of Gaiaque,with a population of just 10,000,had 250,000 visitors in town.What attracted them to brave the cold and rain to visit the small city?A Chinese lantern festival,the first kind of it in France.The lantern festival,jointly展开更多
Going to the temple fair, watching festive lanterns and tasting food ——in order to welcome and celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year, London of the UK, Lille of France, Buenos Aires of Argentina and many cities in Southe...Going to the temple fair, watching festive lanterns and tasting food ——in order to welcome and celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year, London of the UK, Lille of France, Buenos Aires of Argentina and many cities in Southeast Asia held various activities of great festive atmosphere and these activities were warmly welcomed by local people.展开更多
On Nov 30,2017,the Chinese Lantern Festival celebration began at Foucaud Park in Gaillac,a small town in southwestern France.The event,jointly sponsored by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign...On Nov 30,2017,the Chinese Lantern Festival celebration began at Foucaud Park in Gaillac,a small town in southwestern France.The event,jointly sponsored by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the Zigong Municipal People’s Government and Gaillac City Hall—and operated by Zigong展开更多
文摘This paper examines in a comparative manner how remembering and forgetting contribute to self-constitution in Walker Percy＇s The Last Gentleman and William Alexander Percy＇s Lanterns on the Levee. In The Last Gentleman, Will Barrett embarks upon a journey from the North to the South in quest of identity. Lanterns on the Levee features a similar identity quest pursued, this time, by an autobiographer who records the very process of this quest rather than representing it by a fictional character. Percy the stoic restores realness to people in a lost world, from whom he derives his self and in whom his self is deeply rooted, by remem- bering the personally significant and good past and forgetting the personally insignificant and evil present. In so doing, he not only asserts his personal identity but continues to construct it in an imaginative way. Will, by contrast, seeks to constitute and ascertain his stoic identity both by attempting to forget the every- dayness of ordinary life and thereby establish a genuine relationship with people and by undertaking the pursuit of a fatherly figure who echoes his tenacious memory of his father. Both Will and Percy, however, may be called what Kierkegaard calls a knight of infinite resignation.
文摘In the winter of 2017,southern France was hit by the most severe freeze in a decade,and yet the southern city of Gaiaque,with a population of just 10,000,had 250,000 visitors in town.What attracted them to brave the cold and rain to visit the small city?A Chinese lantern festival,the first kind of it in France.The lantern festival,jointly
文摘Going to the temple fair, watching festive lanterns and tasting food ——in order to welcome and celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year, London of the UK, Lille of France, Buenos Aires of Argentina and many cities in Southeast Asia held various activities of great festive atmosphere and these activities were warmly welcomed by local people.
文摘On Nov 30,2017,the Chinese Lantern Festival celebration began at Foucaud Park in Gaillac,a small town in southwestern France.The event,jointly sponsored by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the Zigong Municipal People’s Government and Gaillac City Hall—and operated by Zigong
