On Woolf’s Androgynous Thought and Artistic Creation:An Analysis of Lily Briscoe in To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse is one of Virginia Woolf’s masterpieces. It is also one of the most influential stream-of-consciousness novels in modernism. This thesis makes a more complete study on the novel theory of androgynous thought of Virginia Woolf and the female artist Lily Briscoe who is the outstanding representative of the androgyny.     

On the Theme of Coexistence of Opposites in The Left Hand of Darkness

As one of the best-known literary works of the American novelist Ursula K.Le Guin,The Left Hand of Darkness is not only successful in its splendid plots and beautiful language but also in the important function of its readers in reading.In the thesis,one of its themes,coexistence of opposites,is analyzed in the reader response perspective in order to reveal Le Guin’s reader-consciousness.The theme exists on a higher level in the novel and expresses Le Guin’s attitude towards life and universe.Le Guin unified her own philosophy in the novel and tried to call for the reader’s resonance.     

An Analysis of Tess’ s Tragedy in Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy is an outstanding novelist in the nineteenth century.He has produced numerous works including novels and poetry.His tragic novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles has a great impact on the world literature.The paper is focused on the exploration of Tess’s tragedy through her life experiences.Tess’s tragedy can be illustrated by three factors—her family aspects,love experiences and her social images,which also contribute collectively to poor Tess’s destiny.The social background of the period provides a basis for the novel,and the deformed social values and morality is the root of her tragedy,together with her personal temperament and the Christian religious influences.Christian mores of self-sacrifice,wide love and purity have a great effect on characters in the novel.In the fourth part,there is some enlightenment from Tess’s tragedy.It is believed that women play a crucial role in society.Tess is a woman with good qualities and her experiences give a warning to women today:the proper treatment of one’s behaviors and the social rules is critical.     

The Effect of Culture on Translation

Culture,which is one of characteristics of a nation,plays an important role in translation.There is a relationship be tween culture and translation and the ways for cultural transmitting from one language to another language.So,the translator has to capture and project the special cultural quality properly in the target language.Cultural transfer is all about a multi-pronged ap proach,focusing on the author’s relationship with his subject and that with the reader,which should be expressed in a good work.     

阅读训练(英文)

What Time Is It? Tom’s grandfather lives in the countryside(乡下).There is a big farm near his house.When Tom hastime,he often goes to the farm to help his grandfather. Tom is free today.He is going to see his grandfather.He gets to the bus station early for the early bus.The early bus is going to leave at 6:30.He looks around.There are a lot of people in the station.Some arestanding in line。Others are walking around.There is no place for him to sit in. Tom walks into the tea house next to the station.There is a big clock on the wall.It is only five twentynow.He finds a seat and sits down before a big mirror(镜子)on the wall.He asks for a cup of tea and some cakes.Just then,one of his friends.Jim,comes in and sits with him.     

A Good Example of Hemingway’s Iceberg Principle:The Killers

Hemingway established a well-known literary theory - iceberg principle.He said he always attempted to create his literary works according to this principle.In his opinion,if a prose writer has a pretty clear idea of what he writes about,then he can omit the things he knows,and the readers will strongly feel that what the writer has omitted seems to have been written as long as what he writes is authentic.Hemingway himself once said,"The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one eighth of it being above water."Here,one eighth refers to the information given by the author,and the rest refers to the unwrit ten information that can be acquired in readers’imagination on the basis of the one eighth.The Killers is a good example of Hemingway’s iceberg principle.This essay will analyse the characters in it to show how the principle was used in this short story.With no doubt the iceberg principle leaves a large space for the readers to imagine and better understand Hemingway’s works.     

The Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the well-known romantic novelists of the 19th century in American literature.Most of his works emphasized on the morality.Symbolism is one of the most important writing skills of literature,which endows the concrete images with abstract meanings to enlighten the reader’s imagination and to express a deeper meaning.He was once claimed as the pioneer of symbolism in American literature.He usually used symbolism in his works to analyze the "sin" of the humankind that is an eternal topic for us humankind.This paper mainly focuses on the analysis of the symbolism used in The Scarlet Letter,Hawthorne’s masterpiece.The Scarlet Letter is a novel with numerous symbolisms,which leaves deep imaginable and mysterious impression on people.The scene in the novel,the "A" is full of symbolism meanings.This paper mainly uses comprising and contrast,analogy to support the writer’s ideas.     

Analysis of the Females in The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams is a famous American postwar playwright.Many of his works leave deep impression to audiences.The Glass Menagerie is one of his most famous works.This paper mainly explores two female characters in this play—Amanda and Laura about their tragic characteristics,which had a negative influence on the whole family and lead to Tom’s leaving home,the only male of this family after his dad left.The last part of this paper analyses why Amanda’s and Laura’s characteristics bring this play a tragic ending,because they art the victims of the patriarchal society.They had no choice and no power to change the situation.     

Thoreau’s philosophy of “simplify”

The essay expounds the philosophy of Thoreau’s "simplify" in aspect of meaning and reason.Closely connected with the relationship between human and nature,it enables us to see the point of a brooding,simple and sensible life of Thoreau.The end clarifies on a question:according to Thoreau,what is to have a simplify life? That’s to care for little,listen to one’s heart and do what one likes.The conclusion comes with an advocation that people keep a simple life with little greed,and take it as an ulti mate cure for the bothering life of today.     

自由赞歌--读《奴隶之歌》有感

This is a review on Longfellow‘s poem “The Slave‘s Dream“, in which the poet described vividly the miserable life of a slave who finally died in the field while dreaming about his happy and free life in his previous tribe. This poem is a song of freedom which, on one hand, discloses the evils of the slavery, on the other hand, makes us cherish our own freedom more than before. Freedom is the most valuable thing in one‘s life. The history of the development of the human being‘s society is one that people strived for liberty.     

Herzog:A Bridge between Modernism and Postmodernism

Herzog is one of Saul Bellow’s most successful novels,which laid a solid foundation for his winning the Oscar Award of Literature.This paper is intended to prove Herzog is a bridge between Modernism and Postmodernism by comparative study on the thematic and formal transformation of the whole novel based on textual analysis and Gerald Genette’s narratology theories.     

Conversational Principles under Cultural Factors

There are soma conversational principles necessary for a successful conversation. One is the Cooperative Principle of four maxims. Violating any one of the four maxims will give rise to conversational implicatures; the other is the Politeness Principle, proposed to rescue the Cooperative Principle. To draw pragmatic implications from the violation of the Cooperative Principle is of no difference between the west and the east. What are different lies in people＇s choice of the maxims of the Cooperative Principle and this is due to different cultural background. Chinese-styled politeness is characterized by four aspects： respectfulness, modesty, attitudinal warmth and refinement. Language, as a special form of communication, may be viewed as a system, as a vehicle for cultural transmission. It does not exist apart from culture. Thus, language and cultural ore Interactive and understanding of one requires understanding of the other. To better achieve the communicative goal, it is necessary to choose the appreciate way of expression under certain circumstances and cultural factors plays an important role in using language effectively.     

An Analysis on Accessibility of UG to Interlanguage

Universal Grammar,based on the mentalism,is the central part in Chomsky’s Generative Grammar.It considers language ac quisition in terms of the inner language faculty.It is of great help in first language acquisition(FLA) and explains reasonably many practical problems.As for the relationship between Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition(SLA),there is no definite conclusion un til now.The main hypotheses are no-access,direct-access and indirect-access.Interlanguage,as a unique language system,is an interim language between native language and target language.Therefore,it involves the characteristics of the native language and of the target one.This paper attempts to investigate the relationship between UG and SLA based on the interpretation of the usage of UG in FLA,and then to discuss the accessibility of UG to the Interlanguage development.     

The Spiritual Prototype of Santiago in Greek Mythology

As the hero in Ernest Hemingway’s greatest masterpiece,The Old Man and the Sea,Santiago has always been considered as a perfect example of Hemingway’s stoical protagonists.Being one of the classic characters in the American literature,Santiago is noticed for his strength,wisdom,bravery,and above all,his unsurpassed endurance.Even though the prototype of Santia go in reality,as Hemingway once revealed in an interview,is an old Cuban fisherman who told him about his experience of catching a large marlin and losing it to the sharks in 1935[海],the spiritual prototype of the old man has been best interpreted in the Greek Mythology.To be more precise,Santiago’s spiritual prototype is the combination of Atlas,Prometheus and Sisyphus.     

Postcolonialism in Morrison’ s Works——exemplified with The Bluest Eye

As the first African American woman winner of the Nobel Prize for literature,Toni Morrison is the most outstanding African-American woman author of the 20th century and the brightest star in contemporary African-American literary arena.Toni Morrison is a voluminous writer and she has published nine novels up to the present.Since 1980,her works have been getting more and more widespread attention from literary critics of the world since 1980s.The topic of postcolonialism has been the one of the focuses of Morrison’ s novels.This paper is a literature review of Toni Morrison and postcolonialism in her works including the following points:a brief introduction to Morrison and her works,the research on Morrison,the post colonial theory and postcolonialism in Morrison’ s works.     

Student Choice in English Study

There are three student-centered approaches introduced in this essay. The first one focuses on the design of syllabuses that relate specifically to an analysis of students’needs. The second one is about the provision of classroom activities that encourage more student participation. Last one is concerned with allowing students a greater role in the management of their learning, by providing opportunities for student choice in the method and scope of study . These can contribute a lot to Chinese English class in the situation where many so-called students-centered approaches which mislead many teacher.     

The Triumph of Poetry over Time in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Since the study of Shakespeare’s sonnets came to China,people come to an agreement that there is more than one theme running through these sonnets.The most popular and well-accepted ones are singing for fairness,kindness and truth,singing for friendship,and singing for love.Among all these themes,time,running through these sonnets from the beginning to the end,is absolutely one of the most important.In the eyes of the poet,time is cruel and destructive;however,he figures out poetry as a key way to triumph over it.This article attempts to argue for the triumph of poetry over time in Shakespeare’s sonnets based on an analysis to the poetry.     

Preliminary Study on a Teaching Model of the College English Course Based on WebQuest

This paper is a report on an introduction to the teaching model of college English course based on WebQuest, in which learners learn English in a process of using the World Wide Web to solve a problem. It’s one of the latest uses of technology gaining popular status in education. It is characterized as a computer-based, student-centered inquiry learning activity. The WebQuest has become prominent in many educational areas and has received considerable attention from teachers and educators. That web-based self-access learning should be integrated into college English courses is strongly advocated by the Ministry of Education in China and a new teaching model of college English course based on WebQuest will become a good complement for the traditional English teaching models.     

Surface motion of alluvial valley in layered half-space for incident plane P-waves

The indirect boundary element method (IBEM) is used to study the surface motion of an alluvial valley in layered half-space for incident plane P-waves based on Wolf’s theory. Firstly, the free field response can be solved by the direct stiffness method, and the scattering wave response is calculated by Green’s functions of distributed loads acting on inclined lines in a layered half-space. The method is verified by comparing its results with literature and numerical analyses are performed by taking the amplification of incident plane P-waves by an alluvial valley in one soil layer resting on bedrock as an example. The results show that there exist distinct differences between the wave amplification by an alluvial valley embedded in layered half-space and that in homogeneous half-space and there is interaction between the valley and the soil layer. The amplitudes are relatively large when incident frequencies are close to the soil layer’s resonant frequencies.     

Amory’s Growth——A Case Study of Oedipus Complex

According to Freud,the formation and the dissolution of Oedipus complex are the natural processes of one’s psychosexual development.The growth of Amory Blaine chronicled in Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise can be a case in point.His formation of the complex is promoted by his mother’s exclusive love and the indifference of his father in his growth,while his dissolution of it is accompanied by his identification with the father figure Monsignor Darcy and his efforts to search for a suitable object of love with several women.All those are very important experiences for Amory’s psychological maturity.