A Stylistic Analysis of’“A Good Man is Hard to Find”

Stylistics is a branch of linguistics which studies the feature of situationally distinctive uses (varieties) of language, and tries to establish principles capable of accounting for the particular cho...     

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.     

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 theor...     

On Rhetorical Devices of Martin Luther King’s I HAVE A DREAM

Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream is a world famous and influential lecture on August 28,1963 at the Lincoln Memorial.To make lecture powerful,Dr.King use large number of rhetorical devices to conveyed a message for justice and equality.The analysis of these rhetorical devices aims at a better understanding of the theme of the speech.     

On Application of Nida’s Translation Priorities

This paper analyzes Nida’s theory of translation,also his system of priorities.The paper uses examples to illustrate the application of Nida’s four priorities in the practice of English-Chinese and Chinese-English translation and concludes that we can apply the system to help the receptors of second language and source language to have the closest response.     

The Application of Peter Newmark’s Communicative Translation Theory to the Translation of Chinese Historical Allusions

Chinese historical allusion is the essence of traditional culture,and its structure is simple and far-reaching,but literal translation can not let foreign readers understand and accept.Newmark’s Communicative Translation Theory is based on the point of the target language to deliver information,make smooth and clear translations to the target language readers.The applica tion of Newmark’s Communicative Translation Theory to the translation of Chinese historical allusions can reduce the commu nication barriers of foreign readers.     

On the Application of the Cohesion Theory in Text Translation——A Case Study of Death of a Pig

Based on the translation of E. B. White's essay ‘Death of a Pig', the essay attempts to analyze the strategies employed to achieve cohesion and conjunction in the target text and emphasizes that in order to reflect the language style of the source text, the translator should use corresponding strategies to ensure the translation is cohesive.     

On the Pilgrim to “A Room of One’s Own” in The Hours

In A Room of One’s Own,Virginia Woolf argued her famous proposition that a woman needed to have a room of her own to achieve literary autonomy,and laid the foundation for present-day feminist criticism.Yet the author believes that economic independent does not foster women’s identity with certainty.In this thesis,the author explores the crucial place of spiritual and economic independence in building up women’s autonomy through analyzing Michael Cunningham Pulitzerwinning work The Hours,which he draws inventively on the life of Virginia Woolf and her work Mrs.Dalloway.     

“Man Shall Find Grace”: A Biblical Reading of the “Eternal Providence” in Milton’s Paradise Los

John Milton introduces the Biblical world into literature. Some modern critics think that in Paradise Lost, Milton makes Satan a hero while God a tyrant, yet, adopting the original Biblical perception, the reader will see the Eternal Providence of God and will agree that Milton has succeeded in justifying God as a Father Who says Man Shall Find Grace. A Biblical reading of this epic will be done by focusing on its detail contents.     

On the Application of Drama Teaching Method in Preschool Children’s English Enlightenment Activities

with the rapid development of English education, children’s teaching is becoming more and more important in the edu-cation system. Children’s English has the characteristics of enlightenment. The application of drama teaching method can makethe abstract knowledge vivid, which is helpful to arouse students’ enthusiasm and better understand knowledge. Therefore, teach-ers should follow the principles of English drama teaching, make clear the teaching purpose, and design targeted drama links to pro-mote the rational application of drama teaching method in English classroom.     

Application of the Second Language Acquisition Theory into China’s English Classes

Krashen’s second language acquisition theory makes great contribution to second and foreign language teaching field and has caused world-wide attention. This paper will give a systematic analysis to it. Besides, China’s English teaching develops slowly. This paper makes a reference to Krashen’s theory and maintains that acquisition and learning should be combined and negative affective factors should be removed. Then some effective English teaching methods are explored on the basis of the reality.     

The Application of“Broken Window Theory”to College’s Daily Management

The daily management of college on the one hand is to constrain the action of students to achieve the maintenance of school’s order and on the other hand is to help students develop good habits and remold certain concepts of laws, morality and discipline to finally achieve the goal of education. This paper employed a famous theory of management, that is, the"broken window theory"in the research and finally concluded that the application of"broken window theory"in the daily management of colleges can immediately and effectively prevent some of students’bad behaviors and habits from being spread.     

On the Translation of Hybridity in the Chinese Version of Saving Fish from Drowning in the Light of Bakhtin’s Theory of Dialogue

In translation, hybridity often poses a big challenge to the translator, especially when the hybrid text is a novel. The au?thor of this paper hopes to contribute to the study of the translation of hyb...     

On Alice’s Death in the House of the Seven Gables

Among the chain of mysterious destructions of Pyncheons,Alice’s death arouses divergent critical views in that the death befalls upon a female member of Pyncheon who is depicted as an innocent seventeen-year-old maiden with great beauty,elegance and tenderness.This paper intends to draw a tentative conclusion that Alice is the blameless victim of class conflict by making a close textual analysis of the novel The House.     

On Alice’s Death in the House of the Seven Gables

Among the chain of mysterious destructions of Pyncheons, Alice’s death arouses divergent critical views in that the death befalls upon a female member of Pyncheon who is depicted as an innocent sevente...     

On The Subtitle of Twilight Saga from the Perspective of Nida’s Functional Equivalence Theory

More and more foreign movies and TV series has been translated into Chinese,but there is still no mature theory to guide the subtitle translation.The subtitle of Twilight Saga has been selected as examples to discuss how to apply Eugene A.Ni da’s"Functional Equivalence Theory"into the movie translation to achieve expected effect.     

Application of Eugene Nida’s Equivalence in the Translation of Economic News

In this essay,I will explore Nida’s formal and dynamic equivalence with respect to the translation of economic news.The exploration will start with interpreting of Nida’s equivalence theory and the translation material.Then an analysis of the translation will come and lead to criticism of Nida’s equivalence theory.     

A Study of the translation of idioms in Yu Hua’s Novel Brothers from the Perspective of Eugene·Nida’s Funtional Equivalence Theory

Eugene A.Nida’s functional equivalence theory is regarded as one of the most useful criteria.In this thesis,the author will make a research on the translation of idioms in Yu Hua’s novel Brothers from the perspective of Functional Equivalence Theory,which examines whether the English version achieves the equivalence of response between the source language readers and the target language readers.