Dreaming the Unstable Wings of Desire: Unseen,Educational Bruisings and The Elusive Self of Literature

When it comes to education, the dream cannot be controlled by the strictures of language or the conscious mind, and in its insistently disobedient character, is unwilling to submit to the demands of a deliberate and conscious curriculum. Indeed, we might say that what dreams represent is the absence of education itself, and a mobile energy antithetical to a fantasy of smoothly functioning teaching. In this article, we approach the question of dreaming’s place in education through two intertwined lenses: the conceptual and the literary. First, we intersperse throughout our paper excerpts from an untitled fictional narrative about a group of students who become progressively more beaten up, and whose teacher is unable to see their bruises, as they embark on the precarious task of expressing their dreaming, creative selves. We also turn to psychoanalytic theory (and, in particular, Thomas Ogden’s theory of dream thinking) to discuss the significance of the impenetrable nature of the dream, and ask how such qualities of unrepresentability might challenge our desires for answerable questions and legible answers. We end this piece with a recognition of the ways in which shared experiences of reading and writing may also support a place for dreams.     

哈代小说中的生态伦理叙事

托马斯·哈代的小说中有着独特的生态伦理叙事。他对自然的描写,体现了生态整体观,强调人与自然的和谐一体,也控诉了工业文明和人类欲望对生态环境的破坏;他对女性的塑造,表现了女性与自然的天然联系,揭示了女性与自然都是男性、理性和工业文明的压迫对象;他通过对动物活动的叙述,赋予动物以主体性,提倡尊重动物的权利,认同动物的情感。哈代小说中的生态伦理思想虽然复杂,却有着内在的统一性,既在一定程度上超越了人类中心主义,又体现了道德关注的"同心圆"倾向。     

还乡之路——《还乡》的生态女性主义解读

哈代的＂威塞克斯小说＂的乡间景象与鲜明的女性形象是他创作的典型特点。从生态女性主义的视角解读他的第一部经典悲剧《还乡》,能够更清晰地看到作家视野中自然与人特别是与女性的微妙关系以及女性命运与自然命运的关联,并深刻感受到哈代深切的生态和女性关怀。     

Thomas Tryon,Sheep and the Politics of Eden

The English writer Thomas Tryon (1634–1703) believed that sheep were survivors from the original earthly paradise, and that as morally perfect beings they could serve as role models for humans. Tryon advocated vegetarianism, pacifism and an end to slavery as it was practiced in the Caribbean. He was an ambitious and influential reformer on several fronts, but the restoration of Eden was his ultimate goal. Tryon celebrated sheep-like meekness, a stance that complicated his reform efforts. His agenda and sheep-inspired persuasive strategy reflect the momentous intellectual and moral ferment surrounding human relations with animals in the seventeenth century.     

The History of Modern Organized Badminton and the Men’s Team Thomas Cup Tournaments, 1948–1979

Modern organized international badminton began with the founding of the International Badminton Federation (IBF) in 1934, consisting of nine founding member associations. The inaugural men’s Thomas Cup tournament began in 1948 when 10 countries took part. Malaya won the Cup four times in 1949, 1952, 1955, and 1967. When Indonesia took part in the tournament for the first time in 1957, there were 19 competing teams. Indonesia won the triannual tournament seven times from 1957 to 1979. Throughout the 11 Thomas Cup tournaments, only two Asian countries have won the Cup. The only European country, Denmark, qualified to play in the finals five times without a single win. Malaya (later known as Malaysia), Indonesia, and Denmark became leading Thomas Cup teams because they produced singles and doubles players that won many All-England Badminton Championship titles. The winners of these titles were generally considered the world champions. The key sources of information for this research consisted of the IBF annual statutes for listing of participating nations, tournament programmes, and rare specialized books on badminton and the Thomas Cup competition. English language newspapers such as the Singapore Free Press and the Straits Times published historical match results for checking the secondary data collected.     

Ethnic and regional influences on teachers' evaluations of oral answers

Tape recordings were made of six white and six black ninth-grade northern boys speaking identically worded answers to typical school questions. Black students were given significantly higher grades than white students by 56 white and 50 black southern teachers. Black teachers gave significantly higher grades than white teachers, but no significant interaction was found between students' and teachers' ethnic group. The study is a partial replication of a previous study in which it was found that black students were given significantly lower grades than white students by northern white teachers.     

Making It Fit: Reshaping Library Services and Spaces for Today's Students

University course assignments increasingly focus on group work and group projects to help students collaboratively discover more about their fields of study. The Thomas G. Carpenter Library realized the need to investigate means for reimagining itself to better accommodate today's researchers. The complex process of planning for the redesign of both services and space undertaken by the library is described and explained in this first of a planned series of articles.     

托马斯·哈代：一位悲戚而刚毅的诗人——哈代诗歌的生态批评解读

托马斯·哈代是英国文坛最伟大的小说家之一。细读哈代的诗歌,不难发现其大量诗作中表达出超前、深刻的自然意识和生态思想：人与自然合二为一;对自然生态的忧虑和对人类摧残自然的谴责;对社会生态的忧患与对人类社会异化的叹息。生态批评理论为研究哈代诗歌提供了新的视角。     

伽达默尔的内在话语探析

内在话语是伽达默尔解释学普遍性的基础。奥古斯丁对伽达默尔的重要启示在于将语言问题导向了内在话语,并且他所揭示出人类话语的不完满性、过程性等特点为伽达默尔开显外在话语的积极意义奠定了基础。伽达默尔在托马斯?阿奎那关于内在话语的探讨,特别是人与神的区别中,发掘出了丰富的资源,强调了语言与事物的直接联系,以及其事件性质。在伽达默尔那里,内在逻各斯与外在逻各斯的统一是一个辩证法的过程。