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LiterarySemiotics,RussianLiteraryCriticismTheory,theRelationshipbetweenOrthodoxChurchandRussianLiterature/XIAOJingyuZHANGJie

Abstract： This interview with Professor Zhang Jie has three main aspects. First, he provided an in-depth guide to the theoretical and practical value of literary semiotics as both a critical methodology and an invaluable frame of reference for literary criticism, through a lucid exposition of how this methodology can be used for analyzing literary works. Second, through an examination of theories of Bakhtin, Lotman and other Soviet Russian semioticians, Professor Zhang identified some key features in the trajectory of the 20thcentury Russian literary criticism and, in mentioning major differences between Russian philosophy and Western philosophy, afforded unique insights as to how to holistically understand Russian literary theories. Third, Professor Zhang explained the interactive relationship between the Russian Orthodox Church and Russian literature, regarding the spirituality in the former as an important feature of the latter and thus forging a useful path for interdisciplinary studies of literature. At the end of the interview, Professor Zhang emphasized that his team has been striving in global semiotics to construct and promote a cultural semiotics ofJingshen, representing a distinctive voice of Chinese semioticians that is grounded in the philosophies of Laozi and Zhuangzi.

Keywords： Literary Semiotics; Russian Literary Theory; Russian Orthodox Church; Russian Literature

TheCommonReaderandForeignLiteratureStudies:AnInterviewwithProfessorYinQiping/ZHANGYanYINQiqing

Abstract： In recent years, there has been an increasing number of scholars who attach great importance to the wholesome interaction between professional critics and common readers. In this interview, Professor Yin Qiping specifies the main contents and their significance of the research on “the common reader” in the area of foreign literature studies. The major issues concerned include the alienation of literary criticism, the notion of the common reader as a literary construct and its basis in social reality, the way in which the idea of the common reader coordinates the public sphere and private perfection, and the way in which it, as a key term of Western literary theories, serves to enrich and expand theories of community building. In addition, Professor Yin shares some of his thoughts and experience with regards to the ways in which the public awareness of the importance of reading can be raised, and the ambience for reading classical literary works can be recreated.

Keywords: the common reader; community; culture; the alienation of literary criticism; the public sphere

Venturinginto“theBlackHolesintheInternetGalaxy”:J.HillisMiller’sReflectionsonLiteratureintheAgeofTelecommunicationsandGlobalization/FENGTaoGUMingdong

Abstract： In the last two decades of his academic career, Hillis Miller was primarily concerned with the impact of telecommunications on literature and the direction of and way out for literary studies in an age based on and characterized by the Internet. In illuminating the features of globalization in the age of telecommunications and its effect on the mode of literary studies, Miller has discovered the constant decline of literary creation and study. He has expressed the opinion that in order to rediscover the values of literature and re-establish the authority of literature, one must delve into literary texts, consolidate the principal status of literature as a kind of virtual construct and uncover the practical significance of literary reading. he has proposed a series of principles and methods of text analysis, such as “rhetorical reading”, “anachronistic reading” and “innocent reading”, and advocated a new type of global, non-Eurocentric comparative literature and world literature. Miller’s active exploration into globalization and the age of telecommunications offers enlightening insights into present-day literary studies. His solutions and critical methods for confronting the challenges of the Internet and multimedia to traditional literature, however, are still an unfinished task which is to be accomplished by later generations.

Keywords: Hillis Miller; the Age of Telecommunications; globalization; literary studies; rhetorical reading

TheMoralThemeofSamuelRichardson’sLettersWrittentoandforParticularFriendsandEnglishProtestantCasuistry/FANGFangSUYuxiao

Abstract： This paper studies the influence of English Protestant casuistry on Samuel Richardson’s early workLettersWrittentoandforParticularFriends, a work rarely discussed by Chinese scholars. This paper finds that casuistry plays an indispensable role in the realization of the moral purpose mainly in three aspects, i.e., the subjects of moral import discussed in the letters, the forms with moral functions the letters take as their expression, and the rule of applying moral principles to moral practice. Cases of conscience, such as whether a man may defend himself by law and to what extent parents’ authority is in their children’s marriage choice, become the subject matters of this work; the casuistical way of thinking is manifested formally in the narrative style, character type, and organizing principle of the letters, thus facilitating its function as a moral handbook; the casuistical way of applying moral principles to particular cases bridges the gap between the moral ideal established and the moral experience described in the letters.

Keywords: Samuel Richardson;LettersWrittentoandforParticularFriends; casuistry; cases of conscience; moral theme

ListeningtotheWilderness:TheIntra-actionbetweenHumansandNonhumansinTheSky,theStars,theWilderness/QIUXiaoqing

Abstract：TheSky,theStars,theWilderness, a novela written by Rick Bass, is replete with natural sounds and reflects the mutual impacts of humans and nonhumans upon each other, instead of the latter’s impact on the former only. Besides, remembering the names and features of the flora and fauna in the wilderness also serves as an important means of communication between humans and nonhumans. Therefore, by applying David Abram’s view on language and Karen Barad’s theory of intra-action, together with reference to Bass’s nonfiction works, this paper looks into the intra-action between humans and nonhumans in the novela and discusses its significance. This paper finds that Anne and her family’s constant use of the senses of hearing and sight to perceive the wilderness highlights the magic of nature and the presence of Anne’s young mother who has been “planted” in the wilderness after her death, which in turn reveals Bass’s emphasis of sentience in knowing about nature. Furthermore, the fact that by imitating birds’ sounds Anne’s grandfather has learned to speak again testifies to Abram’s view of the same language physically felt by humans and nonhumans. The ongoing intra-action between the characters and the nonhumans keeps both of them changing, and the wilderness has been severely damaged by humans, although it remains resilient. The premature death of Anne’s mother and the increasing shrinking of the wilderness accentuates the longlasting impact of loss and reflects Bass’s deep concern about the wilderness.

Keywords：TheSky,theStars,theWilderness; sentience; intra-action; wilderness; loss

Researchon“MingDynastyPrincess”HangLiPo’sStoryandImage:TakingHangLiPoasanExampleintheWorksofChineseandMalayWriters/HOUYanniLIUZhiqiang

Abstract： The story of the “Ming Dynasty princess” Hang Li Po marrying Malacca was first recorded in theMalayAnnalsorSejarahMelayu. Although no relevant historical records have been found in China, the story has been widely circulated in Malaysia and has many versions. This article takes the Chinese operaHangLiPoby the Malaysian Chinese writer Liu Ge and the musical Princess Li Po by the Malay writer Rahma Bujang as examples to summarize the images ofHangLiPoby writers of different ethnic groups, and analyze the reasons behind the different images of Hang Li Po.

Keywords： Hang Li Po; image; Malacca;MalayAnnals

TheHeroicNarrativeofChineseRevolutionbyGermanLeft-wingWriters/CHENLizhuZHANGFan

Abstract： “Revolution” is one of key elements that profoundly shape China’s development in modern times. It also overhauls the political landscape in China in the early 1900s and thus composes one essential chapter in the history of proletarianism. Representatives of German left-wing writers, like Anna Seghers and Friedrich Wolf, have all based their works on Chinese revolution with Chinese communists, such as Liao Hanxin, Tai Yang and Lin Jiaming as its archetypal characters. In this way, they successfully integrated their passions about revolution and literary creation into ideological discourses featuring the political structure. Their narratives, in portraying how heroes grow political awareness from innocence, employ the discourse of political myth to unveil the central theme. In those Bildungsroman, proletariats’ love stories were recounted within the discourse of political revolution, which reconstructs the aesthetic and political values of the “death of hero”. Accordingly, those works not only reveal the significance of Chinese proletarian revolution to the world, but also promote its presence in the world literature.

Keywords： Chinese revolution; heroic narrative; German left-wing writers; political myth

ChineseHeroesandChinesePrincesses:ChineseStoriesDescribedbyItalianWriters/GEGuiluYUQing

Abstract： Since the Renaissance, the exotic Chinese stories written by Italian writers have radiated alluring imagination and endless charm. The lyrical operaL’EroeCinesiby Pietro Metastasio, a representative of the Arcadian school of poetry, is an intense application of Chinese colors, triggering people’s reveries about the beauty of the other world. In the long poemOrlandoinnamoratoby the court poet Matteo Maria Boiardo, the mysterious magic of love exuded by the beautiful Chinese princess Angelica became the main driving force for the heroic behavior of the knights. The beautiful and cold Chinese princess portrayed by Carlo Gozz’s fairy-tale tragicomedyTurandothas inadvertently set off a long-lasting “Turandot” fever in the West. The opera writer Giacomo Puccini has made “Turandot” shine with his extraordinary artistic imagination and unique exposition of love. Whether it is a Chinese hero or a Chinese princess, they are only a part of European imaginary geography which has become the mouthpiece of their own desires and demonstrated the West’s yearning and fear of foreign land.

Keywords： Italian writers；Chinese stories;L’EroeCinesi;Turandot

OverseasDisseminationandEnlightenmentofMingDynastyStoryLuDalangReturningGoldandFindingHisSon/TANYuanLIUQiong

Abstract： In 1735, three short stories inTheWondersofTodayandAncientTimeswere introduced to the Europe through theGeneralDescriptionoftheChineseEmpire. Among them,LuDalangReturningGoldandFindingHisSontakes “abstaining from evil and persuading people to be good” as its purpose, which has obvious moral admonition color, and together with the story of Chinese farmers’ money-returning in theCollectionofLettersbyJesuits, it shapes the image of China as a “home of morality and ethics”. In 1844, the French editor addedLuYu’sStoryto the adaptation of the Persian folk talesOneThousandandOneDaysin order to renderTheStoryofPrinceCalafandChinesePrincesswith Chinese color. In the Arabic version ofOneThousandandOneDayspublished in 1979,LuDalangReturningGoldandFindingHisSonwas adapted intoTheStoryoftheMerchantMalmyr. Although all the characters in this version have been replaced with Arabic names, the plot has not changed. From the stable “Chinese gene” in the process of spreading the story ofLuDalang, it can be seen that the ideas of returning money without greed, rewarding good and evil and respecting heaven in Chinese traditional culture play a decisive role in the successful dissemination of the story. Behind these elements of success is the soft power of Chinese culture and the profound influence of Confucianism on Chinese society.

Keywords： Chinese story; Western transmission of Chinese Learning; morality and ethics; Confucianism

SufferingThemesinSvetlanaAlexievich’sNovelsandtheEmbodimentofNationalSelf-consciousness/BlishchN.L.LedenevA.V.(authors)YANGKe(translator)

Abstract： The Belarusian female writer Svetlana Alexievich is famous for her works created in the form of fictional narrative. The secret of her achievement lies in the inheritance of Russian literary tradition and the reflection of the self-consciousness of the Belarusian nation. The writer’s interest in non-fiction genres was influenced by the Belarusian Soviet writer Ales Adamovich, and her choice of artistic solutions was derived from her love for Ф. М. Dostoevsky. The “Dostoyevsky effect” that combines the originality of journalism and literary strategy is particularly noticeable not only in the works of Alexievich, but also in other works by other Ukrainian and Belarusian writers.

Keywords： suffering theme; national self-awareness; fictional documentary genre; Dostoevsky effect

War’sUnwomanlyFace:SvetlanaAlexievich’sNewWarNarrative/CHENWeiqing

Abstract： Belorussian writer Svetlana Alexievich created a new war narrative in the newly revised editionWar’sUnwomanlyFace. She created a series of new female characters, “new Amazonian”, “new Medea” and “female thinker”, reinvented the form of the “novel of voices” originated from Adamovich’sI’mfromtheBurnedVillage, and explored the non-heroic elements of two major themes in war literature: “l(fā)ove” and “death”. Svetlana developed the tradition of Soviet anti-fascist war literature by seeking breakthroughs from the aspects of the character development, genre and themes.

Keywords： Svetlana Alexievich;War’sUnwomanlyFace; Anti-fascist war literature

HybridizedNarrativeTechniqueandaTextofResistance：OnHybridizedNarrativeinBabyNo-Eyes/ZHANGYuhongXUQinghong

Abstract： InBabyNo-Eyes, Patricia Grace employs a hybridized narrative technique by combining Maori oral tradition with the multiple perspectives of Western Modern literature, mixing Maori oral English with Pakeha English, weaving a western linear temporality and a Maori spiral one in simultaneous fashion, and employing multiple narrators and key images to give her text open interpretations. She succeeds in creating a text of resistance to and subversion of the Pakeha in reclaiming the land, revitalizing the language, and protecting the Maori genes from being pirated. Instead of a simple mixture of different perspectives and languages, Grace’s hybridized narrative technique, rooted in Maori oral tradition, aims to resist and deterritorialize the dominant Pakeha culture through presenting the conflicts between Maori and Pakeha English.

Keywords：BabyNo-Eyes; oral tradition; multiple perspectives; hybridized narrative

TheVoiceofAmericainWriting:AStudyofAmericanOralTraditioninMoby-Dick/HUANGYongliang

Abstract： The oral tradition, an important part of American culture, features prominently in American literature. In the 19thcentury, a period calling for American literary independence, Melville integrated oration, sermon and folk literature into his writing ofMoby-Dick, which is the significant oral cultures to the formation of American national culture. In addition to adding local color toMoby-Dick, the oral tradition serves to enhance its theme, shape the characters and reflect the American people’s social life and the national spirit.

Keywords：Moby-Dick; American oral tradition; oration; sermon; folk literature

LanguageandIdentity:Chinese’sEthicalSelectioninJapaninChildrenintheMiddle/JIANGAoyuYANGXiaohui

Abstract： The cross-border writing of Chinese writers in Japan is an important part of global immigration literature. Chinese writers in Japan Wen Yuju’s novelChildrenintheMiddletells the ethical identity dilemma of the Chinese and Japanese mixed-race Kotoko.ChildrenintheMiddleshows the identity dilemma of Chinese in Japan and their self-salvation. Using ethical literary criticism to analyze the process of the “cross-border” Kotoko establishing the identity of the “child in the middle” in the novel, we can find that the protagonist Kotoko’s process of exploring ethical identity weaves the ethical line of the novel, in which the “dislocation of language and identity” is the most prominent ethical knot. The study of the works of the cross-border writers represented by Wen Yuju is helpful to sort out the pedigree of immigrant literature and promote the in-depth development of the study of immigrant literature. It is expected that Chinese writer in Japan can face up to history, examine reality, engage in creation from a more diversified perspective, and play their role as a bridge in cultural exchanges between China and Japan.

Keywords：TheChildrenintheMiddle; Wen Yuju; ethical literary criticism; identity; immigration literature

AnEthicalAnalysisoftheTragedyof“KillingSons”:AComparativeStudyofXihouandMedea/LIUPing

Abstract： Xihou and Medea are controversial female images in literature history for “Killing sons”. Facing the unfair treatment, they don’t resign themselves but take the extreme measure - “Kill sons” - to avenge, while they can’t punish their husbands reasonably or legally. The tragedy of Xihou and Medea reflects the anomie of family and gender ethics. It’s quite enough to warn modern women to expand the space of self-development under the premise of corresponding social system guarantee and then to create their own happiness.

Keywords： Xihou and Medea; parent-child relationship; husband-wife relationship; gender relationship; ethics