从中美讣告文体的对比看两国生死观的差异

讣告是一种应用文体,承担了将死亡这一社会禁忌现象公诸于众的任务。本文通过对中美两国讣告的文体对比分析,揭示了造成两国讣告差异的根源——即生死观的差异。中国文化及美国文化对于死亡的态度分别源于中国传统儒家思想和美国基督教思想的影响。中国注重集体,美国突出个人。     

艰辛的身份求证之旅--解读托妮·莫里森的《宠儿》

托妮·莫里森是第一位获得诺贝尔文学奖的黑人女作家 ,其巨作《宠儿》奠定了其作为一位杰出的美国小说家的地位。在黑白文化冲突中 ,黑人 ,尤其是黑人女性遇到了身份危机。《宠儿》的发展史就是黑人族群 ,尤其是黑人女性的艰辛的身份求证之旅 ,最终 ,《宠儿》通过塞丝的自我求证和冤魂“宠儿”的讣证使黑人女性得以逃脱身份危机     

Remembering Carole Adamsbaum (1939–2019)

Abstract

Carole Adamsbaum died on October 4, 2019. She worked for decades as a sexuality educator at the high school and college levels, along with providing training for other educators. Carole also worked as a psychiatric nurse and for many years opened her home to teens as a foster mother. This article includes tributes to her from family and friends and a reprint of her autobiographical essay from How I Got into Sex…Ed.     

Two Losses in the American Slavic Book World,Irena Szwede and Charles Gribble

ABSTRACT

The piece is a brief obituary for two American Slavic book people, Irena Szwede and Charles Gribble. Irena Szwede co-founded and managed Szwede Slavic Books, a bookstore that was also a library vendor. Charles Gribble founded and directed Slavica Publishers, a major publisher of scholarly monographs and journals in Slavic studies.     

徐寅名号及生卒年考辨

参阅学者尚未使用过的《延寿徐氏族谱》,结合多种文献资料及徐寅诗作,考证唐五代著名文学家徐寅的名号及生卒年等相关问题,明确徐寅之名的正确用字及其生卒的具体年份,有助于徐寅研究的进一步开展。     

REVELATION,INTRUSION, AND QUESTIONS OF TASTE

Obituary columns pick over the expired human condition and deliver their posthumous review with a formidable exercise of authority. They inform, they enlighten, they entertain; they also have the capacity to offend and wound. The obituarist's appraisal will be scrutinised by relatives, lovers, antagonists, and acquaintances who remember the characters on the page with a familiarity not necessarily available to the readership at large. At the same time, though, there is a duty to present a complete account so that the cause of historical record is satisfied. In composing these posthumous studies, therefore, writers and editors frequently encounter an ethical dilemma in deciding what measure of intimate information should be revealed. The cause of death (particularly if self-inflicted) and the subject's sexual persuasion appear in this regard as questions of notable complexity. Then there is the matter of qualification for the page itself. Formerly concerned largely with society's more prominent citizens, whose life histories could safely be compiled from biographies and the files, obituary practice has been extended in recent times to offer an egalitarian coverage—notably in the aftermath of terrorism. Obituary desks have had to intrude on grief and seek information from the newly (and violently) bereaved. This article considers prevailing demands in obituary practice which require the exercise of delicate editorial judgment.     

江淮民间葬文化

本文以详细的细节,描述了江淮之间的乡村在葬礼上的文化行为,考证了民间习俗对人们生产和生活的影响,是民间文化的一块活化石。     

Artur Pavlovich Tolstiakov (1938–2014): Mentor and Friend

The author mourns the death of his mentor and friend Artur Pavlovich Tolstiakov, eminent Russian book studies and literature scholar, and reminisces about his encounters with him.     

近代词人生卒年岁再考 --兼订《中国词学大辞典》

学界迄今对近代词人的研究还不够深入，许多词人的生卒年岁尚待澄清。认真查考词人别集，充分应用新出史料，可对未为《中国词学大辞典》所悉之知名词人之生卒年岁，如沈传桂、潘遵礅、张茂炯、周曾锦、万钊、汪承庆、成肇麐、刘恩黻等，作出新的正确推断。