Similarities in Mark Twain and Lu Xun’s Writing Styles——The Employment of Sharp Contrast

Both Mark Twain and Lu Xun were the most well-known writers in the world literature. They were famous for biting style of writing and the way of using humor and irony,which won high praise of public. Although they lived in different countries and even different times,they shared certain similarities. This thesis will compare the likeness in their writing styles,especially their employment of sharp contrast. As for language,they were all the leaders in literature. It seemed that their works were just for fun. Actually there was light of thoughts in them that were used to satirize,to disclose,to laugh and eventually to cure people’s soul. Therefore,after reading their works,people would laugh with tears and come to examine themselves. Naturally the glorification and organization of translating Mark Twain’s works may result in the similarities of writing styles between the two men of letters.     

Appreciation of Humor in Mark Twain’s Sketches

As a distinguished humorist and litterateur, Mark Twain has been studied by many scholars and experts. Most of the researches are based on his famous children novels and typical short stories. This paper aims to appreciate Twain’s humor in his sketches from the angle of catalog of humor—verbal humor and situational humor.     

A Tentative Study of Local Colorism Writing Style through Mark Twain’s Work

Local colorism as a trend first came to prominence in the late 19th century in America. The local colorists were devoted to capturing the unique customs, manners, speech, folklore and other qualities of a particular regional community, usually in humorous short stories. The most famous local colorist was Mark Twain. His fiction The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, published in 1884, was regarded as"the first great novel in America", as well as the most classical work of local colorism.     

Children’s Charm in Mark Twain’s Two Adventures

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn gave their merits by the children protagonists.In Encyclopedia America,it says that Mark Twain is best known     

Mark Twain’s Humorous Satire in Running for Governor

Mark Twain, a mastermind of humor and realism, is seen as a giant in world literature. His humorous satire had great impact on the following men of letters; critics also attached significant importance to it and put forward various interpretations. Noticeably, his humor ous satire finds full expression in his famous short story, Running for Governor. In it, with humor and satire, he exposed the true features and hypocrisy of American democracy. The paper tries to analyze the basic elements which affected Mark Twain’s humorous satire, aiming at offering rational analysis of this humorous satire in Running for Governor as well as making Twain’s works readily understood.     

Understanding Mark Twain’s Opinion of Anti-slavery-Analysis on Jim in Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the most famous works of Mark Twain. Huck has become the antihero in American literature. In addition, this kind of rebellion of spirit even has a realistic...     

The Similarities and Differences between Joyce’s epiphany and Woolf’s Moment of Being in Woolf’s Novel The Mark on the Wall

Theory of Epiphany James Joyce used in his literature is to explain an aesthetic process of the stages of artistic creation. Virginia Woolf’s conception of moments of being, later develop into the stream of consciousness, is considered as the major techniques in her short stories. In this paper, the major features of the two techniques are compared and contrasted with reference to Joyce’s early fictions and Woolf’s The Mark on the Wall.     

A Comparative Study on the Two English Versions of Lu Xun’s Stories

The two English versions of Lu Xun’s stories, translated by Julia Lovell and the Rangs, are to be studied from the ecotranslatological perspective. A comparative study of the two English versions is made to figure out how the two translators linguistically and culturally make adaptive selections in the process of translation of Lu Xun’s stories—In other words, how the eco-environment has greatly influenced the two translators’ decisions to make adaptations and choices in linguistic and cultural aspects.The thesis discovers that the eco-environment has greatly influenced the process of translating Lu Xun’s stories into English and eco-translatology is feasible to analyze the two translations, that both the Yangs and Lovell have offered successful translations by making adaptive selections and selective transformations. Therefore, neither of the two translations is superior or inferior to one another in different translational eco- environments. Hopefully, the thesis may enrich current researches on the Yang’s and Lovell’s translations and may be useful for the further study of applying eco-translatology to studies on other translators and their works.     

A Comparative Study on the Two English Versions of Lu Xun’s Stories

The two English versions of Lu Xun’s stories, translated by Julia Lovell and the Rangs, are to be studied from the eco-translatological perspective. A comparative study of the two English versions is m...     

ZHANG Xian＇ s Novels and Lu Xun＇s Traditional Cultural Criticism：Inheritance and Development

张弦是我国新时期文坛上一位重要的现实主义作家,他的小说通过对建国后诸多女性命运的描写,揭示了封建残余思想对爱情、婚姻及家庭的影响,其作品对中国几千年来根深蒂固的封建传统意识进行了反思。对民族自身的劣根性和中华传统文化中的痼疾进行了批判,这是对鲁迅批判传统文化的很好继承和发扬。具有强烈的现实意义。     

Writing difficulties in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment

The present study addresses the scope of the writing difficulties observed in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Patients with AD, patients with MCI and healthy controls performed a written picture-naming task and a direct copy transcoding task in which phonology-to-orthography (P–O) consistency was manipulated. Written latencies, inter-letter durations, mean word pen pressure and number of errors were measured. Results revealed that there was a significant difference between the control group and both groups of patients in written latencies and number of errors. However, in inter-letter interval or mean pen pressure there were significant differences only between the group with AD and the other groups. P–O consistency and the type of task produced similar effects in the three groups of participants, suggesting a general deficit affecting the ability to access/generate orthographic representations. The relevance of these results for understanding the spelling impairment in AD and MCI are discussed.

     

The Comparison and Contrast of Skopostheorie and Baker’s Equivalence Translation Approach

Equivalence can be said to be the central issue in translation although its different approaches have caused heated controversy.However,as early as the 1970s,the Skopostheorie emerged in Germany,and it seemed to challenge the equivalence theories.Although Nida and some linguistics raised some negative problems of this theory,it still rapidly became famous around the world,This article will mainly compare and analyse Skopostheorie and Baker’s translation equivalence approach.First,it will give a simple overview of these two approaches.Second,it will discuss the relevant strengths and weaknesses of these two approaches in relation to their usage.Finally,it will discuss combining these two approaches in the same translation.     

Mark’s Gift

【文章概括】本文选自English Weekly(27th 2008),文章难度为中等。全文393字,建议阅读时间为8分钟。【主旨大意】迈克是一个心地纯洁的孩子,在缺少父母关爱的家庭中,仍充满爱心。他给教师的礼物与众不同,他的爱令老师动容。     

Fourteen Errors Corrections on Lu Xun＇s Ancient Novels Collecting

《古小说钩沉》是鲁迅先生从《艺文类聚》、《太平御览》、《太平广记》等类书及古书注文中辑录整理而成。尽管其收罗宏富,考订精审,但由于尚未最后整理,仍然遗存不少校勘、断句、标点等问题。《鲁迅辑录古籍丛编》收录的《钩沉》虽然后出转精,但对存误并未全面订正,此外,尚有鲁迅手稿本身不误而误校或排印不慎而致误等问题。今拈出其中十四则予以考订补正,以便于其修订再版时参考。     

Xun Zi＇s Thoughts of Fen and It＇s Foundation --On the Current Meaning of Xun Zi＇s Thoughts of Fen

“分”思想是荀子思想体系中被忽视的重要内容。天人观和人性观是荀子证成其“分”思想的重要根据。荀子从“治的达致”和“群的维系”两个角度分别论述了“分”的政治意义和社会意义。这些思想对于我国当下阶段的思想文化建设仍然有着重要的启示。     

Writing Like a Scientist: Exploring Elementary Teachers’ Understandings and Practices of Writing in Science

This qualitative study examined the connections between elementary teachers’ conceptions of how scientists use writing and how the teachers used writing during science lessons. Data collected included lesson observations, interviews, handouts to students, and curriculum resources. The findings revealed that teachers in this study thought scientists write for several purposes: the presentation of data, observations, experiences, procedures, and facts. The teachers used writing tasks that mirrored this with their students. The teachers also had a limited definition of creativity in writing, and when they had students write creatively in science it was to add in fictional elements. Implications of this study include providing teachers with better models for how and why scientists write, including these models in more inquiry-based science lessons, and directly relating concepts of nature of science to elementary science writing.