试论《黑暗的心》中环境的象征意义

揭示约瑟夫.康拉德著名短篇小说《黑暗的心》中环境的象征意义,分析小说中运用的象征主义的创作手法在深化和丰富小说主题、思想内涵及意蕴方面的重要作用,肯定了该作品在文学史上的地位。     

Ethical Concern in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22

In Catch-22, Joseph Heller shows his ethical concern behind absurdity, which is manifested from his attitude toward individualism and utilitarianism, religious belief, sexual promiscuity, interpersonal...     

Exposure to the eyes of God: monitorial schools and Evangelicals in early nineteenth‐century England

Through a close analysis of the links between nineteenth‐century Protestant missionary thought and the British and Foreign School Society (BFSS) this article suggests that to distinguish Enlightenment educational and social reform from evangelism is mistaken. Emblematic of the social reform projects which emerged in England as responses to the challenges of the French Revolution and rapid urbanisation, the BFSS was the outgrowth of Joseph Lancaster’s efforts at spreading the method of education he pioneered, the monitorial system, throughout the British Isles and, ultimately, the world. Despite the strong association between the BFSS and various utilitarian thinkers, evangelicals of late‐eighteenth and early‐nineteenth‐century England came to view the Society and the monitorial system as means by which to integrate all the peoples of the world into the Lord’s dominion. Becoming part of that dominion entailed subjecting oneself to constant moral scrutiny, and monitorial schools were regarded as a means by which to ensure such self‐examination. In short, missionaries seized upon monitorial schools because their aims were parallel to those of educational reformers in the metropole. Where home reformers aimed at the normalisation of the body of English political subjects, the development of the English social body, missionary reformers aimed at the normalisation of the body of God’s children.     

Cataloging a Contested Classic: Joseph Baldwin's The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi (1853)

This article discusses the publication history of a significant pre-Civil War work of legal literature and considers controversies caused by the book's contents and cataloging errors caused by its various editions. It appends a bibliography of all print editions.     

The History We Need: Strategies of Citizen Formation in the Danish History Curriculum

Teaching history in schools can be a significant policy instrument for shaping the identities of future citizens. The Danish curriculum for teaching history of 2009 aims at strengthening a sense of “Danishness” which calls for theoretical analysis. Focusing on this particular case, the paper develops a political theoretical frame for evaluating such strategies. While David Miller sees promoting a national identity to be a legitimate strategy of citizen formation in a liberal democracy, this view has been challenged by, among others, Arash Abizadeh. Miller could answer Abizadeh's challenges if the debate is viewed in a pedagogical context where children are in the process of citizen formation. Their debate offers central elements to the evaluative frame; the final developed frame includes cooperative practices.     

荒诞之中的理性

该文力求分析《第二十二条军规》的选材和常规表现手法。文章从对该小说的选材、写作视角和常规表现手法的分析中找到了其非常规手段表现内容的对立面,正是这些对立面的存在使整部小说在荒诞可笑中交织着正常与理性,从而使文章主题更突出、更具现实意义。这些都是该小说能够作为严肃文学,经久不衰,深受欢迎的原因。     

马洛的尴尬:殖民话语内外——对小说《黑暗的心脏》的另一种解读

约瑟夫·康拉德的小说《黑暗的心脏》以水手马洛从欧洲进入非洲腹地之行的所见及所参与之事,讲述了“文明的”欧洲对“野蛮、落后的”非洲的入侵和浩劫暴行。小说中马洛是个悖论式的人物,马洛的本质是康拉德本人的一个悖论。文章拟对马洛的叙述、殖民与反殖民意识及其本质进行剖析,以探究殖民话语内外的尴尬,从而对约瑟夫·康拉德的创作进行一番新的审视。     

现实主义文学创作新探--评康拉德的《吉姆老爷》

《吉姆老爷》是一部现实主义的经典文学作品。作品中多种叙事手段的运用不仅仅意味着写作手法的创新,也帮助文章挖掘和丰富了其道德内涵、哲学内涵,使对作品的解读更为宽泛,作品的主旨更为丰富。作品中使用了一些新的叙事技巧,如时间跳跃、多视角叙事、印象主义、象征主义等手法。康拉德对后来的许多现代主义作家都有深远的影响。     

解读黑色幽默与《第二十二条军规》

"黑色幽默"是20世纪60年代风行于美国的一种文学流派,约塞夫.海勒的《第二十二条军规》是黑色幽默的经典代表作,以夸张、超现实的手法,成功地运用黑色幽默深刻地批判了美国社会的腐朽和黑暗,堪称世界文学史上的一部经典之作。     

试析英国伦敦会传教士艾约瑟的经济理论及其对中国社会的影响

鸦片战争后,西方国家在对中国进行军事、政治侵略的同时,也在积极传播西方的思想文化,近代西方经济学由此开始在中国广为传播。来华英国传教士艾约瑟对西方经济理论进行了完整的介绍,在此基础上,他时中国的经济现状进行了系统地分析和研究,对中国社会产生了重要影响。