The Prince of Wales Versus Clark Gable

ABSTRACT

In the 1920s and 1930s Americans avidly consumed news of Edward, Prince of Wales, through a variety of media: mass circulation newspapers and magazines, radio, the gramophone and film. This article argues that the Prince of Wales' popularity in the United States between the wars sheds light on key changes in the meaning of citizenship following mass enfranchisement in the Anglo-American world. It argues also that media representations of the Prince of Wales contributed to the creation of an Anglophone culture of celebrity, which would become a primary means by which Britons and Americans came to know each other in the inter-war years.     

Rule learning and complexity in simulated reading

Three approaches (Rule, Higher-order Unit, Whole Word) to decoding in a simulated reading task were studied. Rule complexity was varied in three experiments employing symbols ($, @, etc.) as stimuli and numbers as responses. CAI was the experimental vehicle. The 110 fifth and sixth grade boys and girls from an inner-city school were randomly assigned to one of the 11 groups in the three experiments. When the rule was simple (one-to-one correspondence) the rule approach was superior, but when the rule was complex (simulation of the final e rule in reading) the higher-order unit approach was superior. Higher-order unit subjects studied examples composed of the fewest stimuli possible to illustrate the rule.     

论萨义德对文本主义文论的批评

上世纪60年代后期,以德里达为先锋的后结构主义理论开始在法国和美国兴起,并带动了文本主义文论的蔚然成风。然而,萨义德虽为后结构主义理论进入美国本土理论界的引介者之一,但他并未成为后结构主义理论神话的忠实信徒。相反,他以陷入文本的德里达、耽溺文本性的功能主义范式和沉迷文本修辞性的美国解构批评派为支点,开启了对文本主义文论的批评与反思,而文本观念恰恰关系着萨义德在其批评实践如《东方学》等中的逻辑基点。     

浅议《Pocahontas》中的东方主义元素

本文以赛义德的东方主义理论为基础,初步探讨《Pocahontas》中的东方主义元素。这部影片改编自真实历史,但迪斯尼站在西方的立场上,用东方主义的偏见来看待这段历史以及故事中双方代表的印第安文化和白人文化。     

荒诞中的现实 绝望中的积极——浅析爱德华·阿尔比《动物园的故事》

爱德华·阿尔比剧作《动物园的故事》通过两个陌生人之间交谈、冲突的简单情节,揭示了现代社会人与人的隔阂以及沟通的失败。该剧体现了阿尔比在创作中运用荒诞的形式探讨社会现实问题,其人物饱含对沟通、理解与爱的渴望和不断追求。作品荒诞、绝望背后是作家更深层的对人生积极的哲学思考和态度,这是阿尔比有别于欧洲荒诞派的独特风格。     

试析比较教育研究者作为知识分子的角色——从萨义德的知识分子观来看

萨义德在《知识分子论》中阐述了“流亡的知识分子”的角色：放逐者与边缘人。文章以此从“流亡者”的视野、立场、行动、品质四个方面来观照比较教育研究,认为比较教育研究者应该履行自己作为一个知识分子的职责,那就是以双重视角和批判的眼光看待和质疑教育决策和措施,“对权势说真话”,代表弱者、没有话语权、被遗忘的人群,追求知识创造和学术自由。