Araby and the use of religious images

Araby is one of the short stories in James Joyce’s collection,Dubliners.In the novel Araby,James Joyce used several religious images,such as the priest’s books,the chalice,the wild garden and the name of bazaar,Araby.This paper is an attempt to analyze these religious images within the context,finding the idea that the Catholic belief’s decline and people’s confusion of the traditional faith which the writer intended to convey.     

Symbolism in Araby

Araby is one of the short stories in James Joyce’s collection,Dubliners.In this novel,the writer used lots of symbolic images to create a special and symbolic setting.This paper attempts to analyze the symbols in Araby which helps readers have a deeper and better understanding about the social background of that time and the main theme the writer wanted to express.     

Dreams and Reality—About Impressionism and Epiphany in Araby

In Araby, Joyce’s well written style is exemplified, as well as his deep thoughts. From the perspective of literary devices, Joyce employs"impressionism"and"epiphany"which are special artistic devices he has applied in this story. The author discusses the plot, setting in Araby, and analyzes the characters in it. Through a thorough study of Araby, the thesis is in order to push forward the understanding of Joyce’s purpose in writing the story. The discussion of impressionism and epiphany in this thesis is an attempt to focus the discussion on the story alone, combing the inner unity and integrity of this device, providing better understanding of the functions and management of such new innovations, thus a better understanding of the work itself.     

Analysis of James Joyce’s Araby

Araby by James Joyce is much more than a story of first love;it is a portrait of a world that defies the ideal and the dream.The writer concentrates on character rather than on plot to reveal the ironies by using the Setting and atmosphere,and furthermore reinforces the theme and characters in Araby.     

Cooperative Principle Violation in Moment in Peking

In people’s daily communication,people use many techniques to polish their utterances. So the conversation becomes more complicated. But utterances in people’s communication play a very important role in people’s life. And this thesis is going to analyze the strategies of successful conversations through the analysis of Yao Mulan’s utterances in Moment in Peking under Grice’s Cooperative Principle.Lin Yutang likes Yao Mulan mostly in all the characters in Moment in Peking. With the skillful strategies in Yao Mulan’s utterances,we can see her good characteristics. That’s the excellent communication strategies that make Yao Mulan the most charming character in the novel. Many scholars do the research of the novel and the heroine Yao Mulan. But most of the scholars study these topics from the perspective of translation,philosophy and so forth. They are rarely from the perspective of pragmatics. This thesis analyzes Yao Mulan’s charming characteristics from the perspective of Quantity maxim of Cooperative Principle.From the analysis of Yao Mulan’s talent in conversation,readers can see her charming characteristics.What’s more,people can learn some successful communication strategies. Grasping one skillful conversation strategy is important to people in their life,work and study.     

Temporality in“A Good Man is Hard to Find”

As a carefully designed work, Flannert O’Connor’s short story“A Good Man is Hard to Find”is a brilliant example for skillfully using narrative techniques to convey her Catholic faith. Mieke Bal’s theories of time in narratology provide a fresh perspective to explores the characterizations in Flannert O’Connor’s“A Good Man is Hard to Find”. Time functions greatly to the characterizations of the characters through the narrative text in terms of the story and the fabula. It helps to present the characters’ personalities by playing with the sequential ordering, rhythm and frequency. By using these narrative techniques, grandmother’s selfishness, her moral inanition and her considerations that she is morally superior to others is fully expressed to the reader as well as Misfit’s struggling and renascence to his disbeliefs of God and so on.     

An Interpretation of Ben’s Function in Intensifying Willy’s Tragedy from Aristotle’s Poetics

The play Death of a Salesman is undoubtedly the most influential play of Arthur Miller which depicts a tragic life of Willy Loman, a travelling salesman, induced by his false American Dream of making a fortune out of business. Unlike many other essays focusing on the hero Willy, this one tries to explore Willy’s dead brother Ben’s function in this play so as to demonstrate that Ben plays an important role in Willy’s life by making Willy’s life more tragic in terms of Aristotle’s tragic theory. The first part of the essay illustrates Ben’s importance to Willy and the second part centers on the way Ben pushes Willy to a more tragic situation.     

The Voice of Gender in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry

The paper deals with the reading and interpreting of the voice of gender in Emily Dickinson’s poems.The gender,the 1yric poem and the reading constitute the performance.Dickinson succeeded in constructing alternatives to a traditional,fixed binary gender system(woman/man) and opens opportunities for the reader to perform alternative gendering.Analysis of voices of gender in and of Dickinson’s poems shows that her variant performances of gender are crucial to the general construction of her poetry.Through the analysis of the voice of gender in Dickinson’s poetry,the paper discloses the crucial function of poets construct in women’s rebellion and self-salvation and subverting patriarchy,which also demonstrates her uniqueness in her life and literary creativity.     

Study on the Translation of Puns in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland from the Perspective of the Functional Equivalence Theory

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a world-famous masterpiece in children’s literature.The adventure stories in the novel deeply attract the child readers in different countries in the world.The use of puns in the work adds to its aesthetic value.In China,many scholars have translated it.The research topic is the application of Nida’s theory of functional equivalence in the pun translation in children’s literature work Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the degree of equivalence in Wu Juntao’s translation.The person who does the research has read the original work and the translator Wu Juntao’s translation of this book,analyzed the translation of puns in the book,read the relevant journal articles on the theory of functional equivalence and thought about the academic views in them.On the basis of text reading,translation analysis and reference analysis,the following conclusion has been made:According to the basic points in the theory,in the work,Wu Juntao’s translation of the puns has basically achieved the equivalence between the original text and the target text in readers’responses,language style and language meaning.     

English Metaphysical Ideas Reflected in Anne Bradstreet’s poetry

The paper is to explore the English Metaphysical ideas reflected in Anne bradstreet’s first poetry The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America. The whole paper is devided into three parts , the first part is to introduce English Metaphysical ideas and Anne’s first and only published poetry before death,The second one is to analyze the reflection of the English Metaphysical ideas in Anne’s first poetry in terms of the themes, the images and the rhetorical devices of the poetry. the last one is the conclusion of the essay .     

Faithlessness in John Donne’s Love Poetry

It was a tradition in Elizabethan time that love poems were written to praise lovers’fidelity,but Donne boldly broke the tradition and chose faithlessness as the theme in some of his poems.The paper analyzes a series of images in Donne’s love po ems to present the theme of faithlessness and then it discusses the reasons why Donne deals with the theme.Faithlessness in Don ne’s love poems can not be interpreted only as Donne’s doubt about love.The discussion of love’s fidelity in his poems also comes from Donne’s sensibility about instability of the world and his perturbation of religious belief.     

A Case Study of Improving a Reading Class via Peer Observation

The significance of peer observations has been emphasized in English language teaching as a powerful tool to support understanding and development of one’s teaching beliefs and actual practice.This thesis first presents the position and necessity of employing peer observation in teacher’s professional development with reference to the literature,and then it outlines the process of the author’s implementation of peer observation in classroom in terms of pre-,during-and post-observation.Data interpretation provides more insights into the strengths and problems of the author’s classroom teaching and arrangement,and the possible solutions accordingly.     

On the Symbolic Meaning of Imaginary Son in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

According to the relationship between symbol and meaning in semiotics,this paper analyzes the symbolic meaning of the imaginary son and the meaning of killing him in Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,and concludes that killing the imaginary son is the only way to escape the bondage of rigid social morality and come back to the reality.     

An Analysis of the Influences of the Social Background and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Personality on the Creation of"Ode to the West Wind"

This article chiefly analyzes Shelley’s social background, personality and the relationship between the creation of Shelly’s"Ode to the West Wind"and the social background of Shelley’s age and his personality."Ode to the West Wind"was the representative of all his works and a masterpiece of the romantic poetry. It praised the spirit of the west wind in order to encourage the British people to fight against the old system, which expressed his optimism in eliminating tyranny and eventually achieving a bright future.     

Morbid mentality of Hepzibah in The House of the Seven Gables

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.     

An Ecocritical Reading of Tess of the d’ Urbervilles

Tess of the d’Urbervilles,Tomas Hardy’s masterpiece,was published in 1891,marking a turning point in Hardy’s literary life.This essay attempts to analyze Tess of the d’Urbervilles in the light of Ecocriticism and seeks to throw a new light on this novel.Through a close study of the relationship between Tess and nature,the essay interprets the process of Tess’s tragedy as the inharmonious relationship between nature and the modern civilization which is represented by Alec and Angel.In this way,this thesis tries to provide a fresh perspective that may enable us to realize the importance of environmental protection and have a better understanding of this novel.     

Angel in Tess: A Feminism Interpretation

There thought to be a great weakness in the construction of Angel in Tess for Angel’s illogically changeable character.The author holds,however,that Angel’s character is reasonable as he is a man in the Victorian Age.This article tries to interpret the male subject deconstruction with post-modern theory to demonstrate the concern to the female in Hardy’s work.     

A Psychoanalysis of Heathcliff

Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights ranks high on the list of major works of English literature.In the novel,the hero-Heathcliff’s passion to Catherine’s love is very impressive to the readers and the love is discussed in all aspects.The paper wants to analyze Heathcliff’s emotion from the Oedipus complex that exist in Heathcliff;How men choose women that they love;And id,ego and superego exist and are represented by Heathcliff,Catherine and Edgar in Wuthering Heights from Freud’s view on psychology.     

Emily Dickinson:An Interrogator of Death and Immortality

Emily Dickinson is widely regarded as one of American’s premier poets of the nineteenth century.In both style and content,her verse was,"revolutionary" in her day.Owing to the deep exploration of death and immortality,Emily Dickinson has become a puzzle in literary.As show in her poems,Dickinson’s spiritual journey led her from na?ve nature-mysticism through disappointment,to a sacramental approach to immortality afterlife and further discouragement,culminating in a mature attitude of faithful unknowing and even more interrogating the immortality.This paper will base on the theory of the death and immortality through common people’s fear to death,the essence of death,the significance of death to show the poetess’s whole life-childhood,love,life condition,spiritual contradiction,and mainly her skeptical concept of death and immortality.     

Influence of Co-membership on Teacher’s Coauthoring on Student’s Narratives

This paper examines the specific research question of how co-membership in discourse style and life experience influences teacher’s coauthoring on student’s narratives in the ESL teaching and learning context in the United States. As a case study,a specific student’s classroom narratives are transcribed and analyzed. The research findings indicate that a shared discourse style and an overlap in life experience between the teacher and the student will exert positive influence on the teacher’s coauthoring on the student’s narratives. Above all,sharing the same discourse style makes it possible for the teacher to recognize the rhythm of the student’s narratives,to detect the moments when the student needs interactional support and offer help,and to quickly notice a potential ending of the student’s narrative and expand it with open-ended questions and comments. In addition,an overlap in life experience makes it possible for the teacher to go deep into the student’s narratives by contributing specific and concrete thoughts rather than responding with superficial ideas.