{"title":"An Analysis of Gender Binarism in McCullers’ The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter","authors":"Yu-zhi Xiong","doi":"10.17265/2159-5836/2023.10.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2159-5836/2023.10.001","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides an analysis of gender binarism in Carson McCullers’ novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter , situated within the socio-cultural milieu of Southern America. It examines the depiction of persisting challenges posed by binary gender paradigms and the portrayal of potential emancipation within the narrative. The analysis focuses on two central characters, interpreting them as contrasting cases. One character represents the paradox inherent in the rebellious endeavors, highlighting how these actions, influenced by Phallocentrism and a broader framework of hierarchical structures, might inadvertently reinforce gender binarism. The other character exemplifies a triumphant departure from the binary gender paradigm through striving to attain a state of equilibrium marked by the harmonious coexistence of gender differences. Through this analysis, the paper reveals the author’s dual perspectives in her exploration of gender binarism using these two distinct protagonists. At last, it employs the traditional Chinese philosophical concept of “harmony in diversity” in conjunction with feminist and gender theories to elucidate the encouraged path toward emancipation from gender binarism within McCullers’ narrative.","PeriodicalId":133236,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature and Art Studies","volume":"126 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139312137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Feminism in The Merchant of Venice","authors":"Zi-Ying Wang","doi":"10.17265/2159-5836/2023.10.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2159-5836/2023.10.004","url":null,"abstract":"William Shakespeare is the most well-known playwright in the world. The Merchant of Venice is one of the four great comedies by William Shakespeare. It is set during the Elizabethan period with rapid economic development and wide spread Renaissance humanism. Kindness and love are the main themes of the play. Against the backdrop of the spirit of humanism, the female characters in the play have preliminary feminist spirit and subject consciousness though there are some limitations. This article analyzes the feminist spirit in the play and women’s progress on their road of liberation. It suggests that while reflecting the initial emancipation of women in the West in the 16th century, the play also reveals the reality of the enormous social barriers on the road of women’s emancipation. The emancipation of women is an enduring topic in the development of society and a goal that people all over the world are still striving for.","PeriodicalId":133236,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature and Art Studies","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139312230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Misinterpreted Figure in Hemingway’s “Indian Camp” —Doctor Adams","authors":"Li-hua Huang","doi":"10.17265/2159-5836/2023.10.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2159-5836/2023.10.009","url":null,"abstract":"Since the publication of Hemingway’s “Indian Camp” in 1924, many scholars has considered Doctor Adams to be insensitive, cold-hearted, ethically immoral. Some others labeled him as a racist and a sexist. After a scrupulous and strenuous close reading together with extensive reviewing and analyzing of relevant references, the author of this paper finds that Uncle George has always been misinterpreted over the time. This paper aims to point out the misunderstanding, misinterpretation or even distortion in the previous researches, in an attempt to defend for Doctor Adams and put the record straight.","PeriodicalId":133236,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature and Art Studies","volume":"375 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139312323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Narrative in Poetic Sound, Form and Meaning: Melancholy in Poe’s Poem of “Ulalume”","authors":"Ya-qi Tang","doi":"10.17265/2159-5836/2023.10.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2159-5836/2023.10.006","url":null,"abstract":" “Melancholy” has been one of the most typical themes in Allan Poe’s literary works, and is also vividly represented in the Poe’s poem of “Ulalume”. This article is going to analyze the “melancholy” in Poe’s “Ulalume” with the three-dimensional narrative approach from poetic sound, form and meaning, and demonstrate how Poe represents the theme of “melancholy” aurally, visually and mentally.","PeriodicalId":133236,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature and Art Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139311837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Company Presents Itself to the World","authors":"Richard J. Alexander","doi":"10.17265/2159-5836/2023.10.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2159-5836/2023.10.013","url":null,"abstract":" As we all know, environmental breakdown is rooted in capitalism’s quest for perpetual growth. According to O’Connor (quoted in Büscher et al 2010/2013, p. 3) the “environmental crisis has given liberal capitalist society a new lease on life.” He continues: “Now, through purporting to take in hand the saving of the environment, capitalism invents a new legitimation for itself: the sustainable and rational use of nature”. “Those who hold the power and they are not all heads of state, see themselves as saviours of the world, and offer the population the opportunity of becoming their clients” is how John Berger has referred to such cognitive dissonance. Critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics are employed to scrutinize a powerful corporation’s website. This company produces and distributes food globally. The story it presents to the world maintains that it protects animal welfare, the environment and people, among other things, in all its operations. The language it employs on its corporate websites will be subjected to close analysis.","PeriodicalId":133236,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature and Art Studies","volume":"80 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139311890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study on the Online Representation of Chinese Rural Wanghong Based on Space Theory-Taking Kuaishou as an Example","authors":"Tong-xi Zhang, Yu-xuan Hai","doi":"10.17265/2159-5836/2023.10.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2159-5836/2023.10.012","url":null,"abstract":"As the development of 5G technology and new media platform, UGC and the participation culture appears. Short video platform such as Kuaishou has the characterist of low production threshold, easy to use, attracting a great number of users. A great number of internet celebries appears including rural wanghong. In the traditional media era, the communication mode is one way, farmers, especially rural women, are always on the margins of mainstream media discourse. However, the appearance of short video platform gives them right of spearking, in the space conducted by short video platform contains complex Ideology and social structure which also restrict the online space practice of users. Thus, rural female users’ online practice is a kind of dynamic balance following the spatial discipline. This study will analyze the support and constraints of rural female wanghong’s online representation, figure out the relationship of online representation and their traditional rural culture. It provides theoretical suggestions for harmonious coexistence among rural women, social media platforms, the state and society.","PeriodicalId":133236,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature and Art Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139312000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Writing of Body in The House of Mirth","authors":"Xiao-li Ma, Zhen-yi Ying","doi":"10.17265/2159-5836/2023.10.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2159-5836/2023.10.003","url":null,"abstract":"Historical studies on the character of Lily Bart in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth have predominantly revolved around psychology, sociology, and aesthetics, yet neglecting the significance and role of the body within the narrative. Using Brooks’s concept of body writing, this paper focuses on exploring Lily’s body in three dimensions: the body of vision (self-objectification); the body of privacy (moral dilemma); and the body of modernity (overdose symbolizing the clash of science and humanity). Scrutinizing and analyzing the body writing in The House of Mirth reveal the feminist undercurrents of Lily’s character and highlight the broader and significant role of body writing in literary works.","PeriodicalId":133236,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature and Art Studies","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139312018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on Culture Goods and the Image of Mixed-blood in The Bluest Eye","authors":"Ya-qing Xiong","doi":"10.17265/2159-5836/2023.10.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2159-5836/2023.10.010","url":null,"abstract":"The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison’s maiden work, through which Morrison carried out independent thinking on the question of “What is beauty?” In The Bluest Eye , the image of mixed-blood is characterized as a self-satisfied beautiful girl or lady due to light skin color. However, Morrison shatters their proud aesthetic edifice through satirical techniques. Firstly, this paper starts with the analysis of Shirley Temple on the blue-and-white cup and Mary Jane on candy wrapper as culture goods, in order to reveal the aesthetic standards of the mainstream. Next, through close reading, this paper, taking the example of a high-yellow child Maureen Peal, and the graceful sugar-brown lady Geraldine, makes deep analysis on their sense of superiority and artistic characteristics, and aims to better understand Morrison’s satirical techniques and interpretation of beauty.","PeriodicalId":133236,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature and Art Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139312076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Poison of Polygamy: Genre of the English Translation","authors":"Mei-kao Kow","doi":"10.17265/2159-5836/2023.10.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2159-5836/2023.10.002","url":null,"abstract":"When the Chinese-language The Poison of Polygamy was translated into English, some critics identified the work as picaresque . Skeptical of this conclusion, the author of this paper broadens the field of inquiry to suggest classification in an emigrant sensational genre. Briefly, the first two plots of the multi-strand work unfold the adventures of Chinese emigrants travelling by sea and land to Melbourne’s Gold Mountain. Interestingly, we are also afforded a glimpse of emigrant miners’ cooperation regardless of race and colour when a mine disaster occurs. The work provides sharp recognition of migrants’ dilemmas, such as marriage, before tackling the bigamy issue, the gender war, the fallen lifestyle of the female protagonist and so on. As the work unfolds, further shocking tales of murders and indulgence are revealed. Unlike the picareque’s episodic style, the translated Poison of Polygamy is coherent, realistic, serious and critical, and completely lacking in both sarcasm and playfulness. To investigate the appropriateness of assigning the work to the picaresque genre, the paper compares briefly with representative Spanish picaresque works such as Lazarillo and Gusman and English canonical Moll Flanders , watching carefully for commonalities. However, The Poison of Polygamy would seem to resonate more with Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret, a sensational fiction which shocked the English world in the 1860s. The contexts of both novels are close, mid-Victorian and Edwardian, where the latter is a continuation of the Victorians. The author is further enlightened by research results of literary translators who advocate that a text, once translated into a target language, becomes a canon of that culture and is cherished as such by its readers—as in the case of Shakespeare being revered as a German poet when read in translation. From this experiment the paper deems that cross-lingual comparative literature is not only possible but significant and resourceful.","PeriodicalId":133236,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature and Art Studies","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139311963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Edgar Lawrence Doctorow’s Ragtime: Ragtime Music and the Musicalization of Fiction","authors":"Edgar Lawrence Doctorow’s, Nino Birkaia","doi":"10.17265/2159-5836/2023.10.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17265/2159-5836/2023.10.008","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the present paper is to explore Edgar Lawrence Doctorow’s novel Ragtime (1975) as a masterful adaptation of musical form in fiction. It demonstrates the ways in which the use of musical devices of Ragtime shapes the rhythmic/narrative structure of the novel. The article offers the reading of the novel as a musicalized fiction, or, in other words, as a form of musico-literary intermediality. It focuses on the chief characteristics of Doctorow’s novel such as a plurality of independent consciousnesses and a diversity of simultaneous points of view/voices . T he novel by its very design is polyphonic. Manipulating polyrhythmic effects, mixed rhythms, repetitive phrases and leitmotifs, Doctorow is experimenting with the rhythm both on micro and macro textual levels.","PeriodicalId":133236,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literature and Art Studies","volume":"110 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139311819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}