Florens’Identity Loss and Reconstruction in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy from Lacanian Concept of Other

Other is an important concept in Lacan’s psychology theory, which plays a critical role in a subject’s identity forma?tion. The formation of a subject’s self-identity is based on other, initially its m...     

Formless Phantom:the Ultimate Existence in Invisible Man

Invisibility is crucial to construct identity in Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man.Being invisible like a formless phantom and having only the voice echoing is a way of pushing the human existence to its ultimate state.Without the distraction of the body,the human identity could stand out like a candle in the darkness.The process of breaking out of the body is significant to the modern man,because modernity causes a sense of identity loss in them.     

Analysis of Second Language Acquisition in Lost in Translation a Life in a New Language from the Perspective of Sociolinguistics

Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation:A life in a New Language is prominent in that it spares no effort elaborating on the author’s personal experience in acquiring her second language(L2)English from the view of sociolinguistics.In this vein,by in vestigating the underlined relationship between language learners’cultural identity and language identity from the perspective of sociolinguistics,the paper aims to explore the possibilities of assisting L2 learners reach a balance in their biological,cultural,so cial,and psychological domains of life.     

The Pursuit of Identity in Invisible Man

Invisible Man is a representative work of black literature in America.In this novel,the writer Ralph Ellison depicts the hero’s growth experience in the white dominated society with his unique narrative techniques.As an individual in a society,the hero in this novel gradually realizes that he is an invisible man in the white dominated society and he doesn’t have the social sta tus which can be recognized by the white at all.To change this situation,the hero in this novel suffers many difficulties and hard ships with an attempt to prove his existence in front of the white and the numerous black fellows and obtain his own identity as a black man which will be recognized by others.This paper tries to explore African American’s pursuit of identity in Invisible Man by interpreting Ellison’s Invisible Man.     

Geiogamah’s 49 and Reconstruction of American Native Cultural Identity

Cultural identity in Geiogamah’s play 49 represented a common concern of contemporary American Indian writers.Geiogamah highlighted the renewal and reconstruction of tribe tradition and cultural identity for native Indians.He stressed the imperative of maintaining ethnic tradition in identity quest by way of cultural rejuvenation,and ritual experience.The play dem onstrated that the way for the Indians in the modernization is to protect national culture,return to the tribe tradition and face the social reality.     

Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Change of Human Being

Ralph Ellison’s great work Invisible Man explores the theme of man’s search for his identity and place in society,as seen from the perspective of an unnamed black man.The narrator is"invisible"because he finds out that"people refuse to see"him,and thus experiences a kind of dissociation and disconnection with the reality.The narrator finally wakes up from the disillusionment and begins to ask himself questions which reflects his inner force of liberating himself from the outer force and become essentially self-freeing.This paper intends to discover the reason of the narrator’s changes and its meaning to the improvement of the human beings and society as well.     

Golding’s Language View in Lord of the Flies and Darkness Visible

Beyond the stories,Golding spends much effort on an issue called"impotence of language"in his works,especially Lord of the Flies and Darkness Visible.Thus Golding’s language view is worthwhile to research.With help of Lacan’s theory of signifier and signified,this paper made a primary glance about Golding’s language view within the two novels.     

Transformation: Establishment of Chinese-American Identity

In Pangs of Love by David Wong Louie, the identity of Chinese immigrants in America is as fluid and unstable as the perfume Musk 838. The Chinese-born mom harbors deep love for China. Though living in America for forty years, she is still persisting in the Chinese tradition while her American-born sons, on the contrary, are trying to integrate into American life, seemingly ignoring the Chinese origin. By looking at the ideological difference under the Chinese and American historical context, this paper aims to reveal that translating the past, old, what’s Chinese into something meaningful to the present, the new and the reality makes it possible that the first-generation integrates into American culture and the second-generation understands Chinese tradition. It illuminates the ways for possible transformation and demonstrates the possibility to establish a Chinese-American identity to transcend the pangs for embracing each other.     

Identity and Community in Toni Morrison’s Sula

Toni Morrison’s Sula was published in 1973.It portrays a black woman who quests for self under the strick doctrines of black community.The novel puts forward a complexed contradiction of identity and black community in the historical context of black community and protagonist Sula’s change,rejection,awareness of self and death.The overall challenges of Sula pays her life as a price.Morrison,through this piece of work,reveals the conflicts between Sula’s self and black community.Sula’s tragic ending voices an unchanged fact that self must be developed within the black community.     

The Gaze Theory

Gaze describes the relationship of the subject with the power and desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.The gaze can be motivated by the subject’ s desire to control the object it sees,and an object that can likewise capture and hold the subject’ s eye.The term ’ gaze’ is often defined as looking long and intently with affection at a subject.A person who determines a sense of themselves as an individual element in the world makes up the idea of the gaze.The concept of the gaze is also a central part of theories looking within modernity.     

Research on Post-classical Narrative Focalization in The Love Wife

The Love Wife is considered to be a breakthrough of Gish Jen either in theme and narrative techniques. While, as the critical distinguished narrative technique from the perspective of Post-classical Narratology, the infinitive internal focalization will be analyzed in this paper so as to investigate the five protagonists’search for their own identity and eagerness to achieve the acknowledge both from their family and the whole society. Furthermore, the author’s own view in breaking up the barrier and discrimination around the world is also well-illustrated.     

Enlightenment of American High Sports Teaching on Education in Our Country

Sports is one that is firmly integrated into the American culture and identity. High school sports not only enhance a person’s academic performance and build a person’s character, but also serve as a key to the preservation of the American culture and identity. Find out suitable clues to think about education in our country and understand the ways of future development of the education in our country base on the American high school sports teaching.     

Analysis on Solitary Identity In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening

American Transcendentalism aroused New Englanders to individualism enlightenment. Kate Chopin’ s The Awakening, un doubtedly voices female quest for identity. The novel was banned by the force of social conventions, for the sociological role it played in form of literature, negotiating female professional identity, social role identity and sexual identity. This treatise analyzes the awakening of women conscious regarding identity and contradiction it brings therefore with social conventions, and argues the inevitable fate of the sex to self-isolation and self-destruction is caused by the prudery conventions. It maintains to review the sociological function of the piece and reconstruct interdisciplinary perspective of literature and sociology, appeal harmony between two sexes.     

The Deterioration of the Compson Family——From Character’s Perspective

The Sound and the Fury is William Faulkner’s greatest work; four narrators tell the story of the deterioration of the Compson family from different perspective, exploring the cause of deterioration indirectly. The novel centers on Caddy’s moral decay from different perspective. The thesis analyzes the processing fall of the Compson family through the analysis of three characters, Caddy, Quentin, and Jason. Caddy’s deterioration is closely related to her loss of virginity, and her impending wedding causes Quentin to commit suicide who loves her deeply and possessively. However, Jason is heartless who he does not care his family. His tragedy lies in the decay of human nature. The thesis gives the general cause of the downfall of the family and readers will have a general concept of the family’s deterioration.     

EVA based model to estimate the Chinese listed company’s intrinsic value

1 Introduction a Evaluation and measurement of the value of an enterprise is still a puzzle in accounting circle. Many efforts have been directed in the past years to theoretical and empirical research on this problem. Economic value added (EVA) is one of the hot issues. Briefly speaking, the EVA is balance between company’s after-tax operation profit and capital cost; it is an economic profit concept after considering opportunity cost, not simply the accounting profit concept; it is the t…     

A Brief Study of Wordsworth’s Romantic Poetry in Light of Ecocriticism

Ecocriticism is a new-born literary criticism that delves into the exposition of the relationship between human beings and other specimen in nature from the literary angle as well as observes and discloses in detail and with sincerity the effect of literature in the human activities and natural environment. The thesis combines the theory of ecocriticism with romanticism to study Wordsworth’s romantic poetry from an ecological perspective as Wordsworth,the great“worshipper of nature”can also be called an ecological critic since many of his poems are focused on ecological themes and he expresses his passion on an ecological basis. Going through the thesis is the most fundamental concept of ecocriticism: ecological holism. Supporting this backbone is analyzes of selected paradigmatic romantic poems by Wordsworth.     

Representation and the Fluidity of Identity——David Henry Hwang’s Play Yellow Face

David Henry Hwang is the first and the only Asian American playwright ever to win Tony Award for Best Play.His latest play Yellow Face combines signs,representation and the issue of identity on the stage with those in the real life,vividly interpreting the fluidity of identity.Therefore,this essay attempts to concentrate on a semiotic study of Yellow Face from the perspective of Stuart Hall’s Cultural Studies,especially the discursive approach.Through the analysis of various signs in the plays to be discussed and how these signs construct meaning to represent culture,this essay explores the relationships between symbolic representations and cultural identity,shedding a new light on Yellow Face.     

Relationship among Teacher,Students and Teaching Material based on Balance Theory

Balance theory holds that when the subject is in the unbalanced state,there is two basic way to eliminate this situation.One is to change his attitude on the cognitive object;the other is to change the subject’s attitude on reference person.To ex plain the relationship among teacher,students and teaching material by applying the Balance theory can help us find and solve problems during the education.It can generate motivation to restore a new balance to promote the development of education.