Close Reading on Mansfield’s “A Dill Pickle”

"A Dill Pickle"is more than a simple short story, but a painting of impressionism, which records the instant moment in life and makes it into an eternal fragment. Two former lovers encounters after six years’departure, all details referring to their reunion which turns out to be the opposite. The close reading can provides a thorough understanding of the story.     

Katherine Mansfield: A Special Feminist-By a Close Reading of A Dill Pickle

Although Katherine Mansfield never claimed that she was a radical feminist, she showed her concerns and pondered on females through her life of pursuing freedom and independence, her creative writing skills and her short stories. She had her own feminism consciousness and viewpoints. She believed that man and woman were different and living in a different world, and it’s very hard to understand and communicate with the other sex. Man dominated the society in the economical and political areas in tradition that they had the speech right and ranked above woman. However, Mansfield saw the hope of the awakening of the feminism awareness.     

A Reading of John Edgar Wideman’s “Fever”

John Edgar wideman’s "Fever" is a multiple-voiced text, narrating experiences of the blacks during the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793. The "fever" is essentially a metaphor of racism and endangered human existence. This paper attempts to uncover what lies beneath the "fever" via disentangling the text’s narrative strategies and to foreground Wideman’s concern on his people.     

英语专业精读教学中学生思辨能力的培养——以“A Dill Pickle”为例

思辨能力是衡量高校人才培养质量的重要指标之一。本文以英语专业核心主干课程"精读"为研究对象,以《现代大学英语精读3》第三单元"A Dill Pickle"为例,基于Anderson提出的教育认知能力模型理论,从词汇、句子、语篇三个维度分别探究启发式、讨论式、参与式等教学模式,旨在培养学生的思辨能力。     

以A Dill Pickle为例对比分析中西方象征意义的异同

本文以短篇小说A Dill Pickle为例,分析其象征手法的使用,通过对比象征中意象的中西差异,以加深读者对中西方特色文化的理解,为英语学习者在英美文学学习及跨文化意识的培养方面提供借鉴。     

A Psychological Analysis of Laura’s Personality in Katherine Mansfield’s The Garden Party

This paper explores Laura’s inner world, applying Freud’s theory of the unconscious and the structure of the mind,Jung’s idea of archetypes, and Lacan’s concepts of the three orders. The story in The Garden Party depicts, in the movement toward adulthood, how Laura feels, thinks and acts under the drive of the id, and the adjustment of the ego and the superego. Laura’s psychological development indicates Laura has a healthy personality. She can confront her imperfection in her growth.     

Briefly on Faulkner’s“A Rose for Emily”

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On the Points of View Used in Mansfield’ s “Miss Brill”

Point of view has been a big playground for study in fiction for about a century.Mansfield’ s "Miss Brill" is featured by its successful use of points of view.This paper will discuss how Mansfield’ s choice of a particular point of view helps to communicate the central theme of the story.     

How Does Parental Reading Influence Children’s Reading? A Study of Cognitive Mediation

Cognitive processes underlying a behavioural outcome (like reading ability) and the impact of familial risk (e.g., for dyslexia) have been studied in isolation. We present a novel design, linking the two avenues. How do familial influences impact on children’s cognitive skills, which subsequently underlie reading development? Participants from the Familial Influences on Literacy Abilities (FIOLA) Project included 373 children and their parents. We considered three causal routes from parental reading and children’s putative cognitive endophenotypes to children’s reading. Path analyses showed that half of parental effects on children’s reading bypassed and half operated through children’s cognitive underpinnings. Spousal correlation was small but significant. Findings do not support a strong hypothesis of cognitive endophenotypes with full mediation. Furthermore, we discuss the use of parental skills as a proxy for offspring’s liability. Finally, familial reading difficulties are not fully accounted for by known cognitive skills, which has implications for dyslexia diagnosis.     

A Study on How to Enhance Students’ English Reading Proficiency

The major problems affecting students in reading are lacking time, vocabulary, background knowledge and reading skills. Among them, lacking vocabulary is the utmost problem, therefore, special attention still need to be paid on vocabulary teaching. To solve the above mentioned problems, countermeasures such as enlarging vocabulary, building background information and reading skills as well as reading extensively are put forward.     

Women’s Tragedy:A Feminist Reading of Sons and Lovers

The novel Sons and Lovers, which is Lawrence’s best acclaimed work, is of autobiographic air. It is called the best representation of Sigmund Freud’s "Oedipus Complex"theory by critics, though Lawrence denied having read Freud before writing the novel. However, it can shed new light on the novel when read in a different point of view. Paul’s road to become a real man can not be separated from his mother, Miriam and Clara, who is Paul’s first and second loves respectively. This article will analyze the novel in feminist perspective and concentrate on the three women’s sacrifice to Paul’s growth in a man-centered society, in hope of better understanding the intension of the novel.     

A Research on Middle School Students’English Reading Obstacles and Strategies

English reading,a key procedure of English learning and teaching in middle school,is an essential way of getting information from the globe and communicating with others.Therefore,efficient comprehension on reading materials will directly serve for accepting the information.And it is extremely important for middle school students to acquire certain reading ability.At present,great attention has been paid to the course of reading in the instruction of English by the Chinese Education Department.But middle school students’read ing ability is still much lower than the target they should reach because of a set of existing obstacles that prevent them from being effective English readers.What are these obstacles? How to break them down? This paper will first point out and then analyze the obstacles that af fect middle school students’reading ability from two aspects:linguistic obstacles(obstacles of lexicon,grammar and background knowl edge) and non-linguistic obstacles(obstacles of psychology,interest,skill,and habit).After demonstrating different obstacles,the paper also come up with some corresponding strategies in the hope of helping middle school students to be effective English readers.     

Beyond Borders: Reading “Other” Places in Children’s Literature

The author analyzes two texts, Gloria Whelan’s Homeless Bird and Deborah Ellis’s Parvana’s Journey, in an attempt to explain some of the problems and difficulties associated with those texts. The author examines Whelan’s representations of India and finds troubling binaries associated with that text. In comparison, the author finds Ellis’s depictions of Afghanistan more nuanced and complex. The author also discusses student reception of both texts and offers ways to problematize some of their reactions.

Two Pitiless Men,One Dark World——A Reading of Chekhov’s“Enemies”

Chekhov’s"Enemies"describes two pitiful characters filled with enmities towards each other,and no one can prevail over another because of their absurdness and pettiness.The reading of this story reveals a dark world permeated with miseries,where no one can control himself and every is pitiable.And this kind of impression is mainly engendered by the writer’s con cerned narrating voice which are produced by constant usages of irony and inserted comments.     

Reading and Reinterpreting Picture Books on Children’s Television: Implications for Young Children’s Narrative Literacy

Bookaboo is a television programme aiming to promote literacy and reading among young children. In each episode, a celebrity reads a book to Bookaboo, a dog who plays the drums in a rock band, in order to help him overcome stage fright. Using the episode featuring the picture book (Cowell and Layton in That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown, 2006) as a case study, this article explores how this type of adaptation of picture books transforms the original narrative, with implications for children’s developing narrative literacy. Taking a multimodal social semiotic perspective, this study investigates the changes in meaning which result from the employment of semiotic resources such as animation, sound, and camera movement in the representation of the book on the television show. We argue that the deployment of such resources can subtly reshape the meanings expressed through the modes of language and images in the original picture book, potentially affecting the child viewer’s engagement with the narrative. Examining the use of these resources in the picture book’s televisual representation is thus an important first step towards developing frameworks for evaluating the ability of television programmes that incorporate picture book reading to support children’s literacy.     

Children’s Interest in Reading the Comics

The three traditional methods of backward, forward, and stepwise selection of variables to be included in a “best” regression equation were compared to a method designed to maximize weight validity. With student achievement as the criterion, and aptitudinal variables manifesting considerable multicolinearity as predictors, the subset of variables selected by the traditional methods performed poorer than the one selected by the weight validity maximization method. Implications for constructing regression equations for prediction are discussed, with consideration of the weight validity maximization method recommended in crucial situations.     

A Study on Preschool Children＇s Reading and Listening of Literary Works

国内外一些研究者进行过学前儿童阅读理解和听读理解文学作品的研究。然而国内迄今为止还没有人对这方面的研究成果做过梳理。笔者通过查阅相关大量文献资料,对相关研究成果进行了较详尽的介绍,并从中进行了相应的分析与评述。