Zora Neal Hurston’ s masterpiece Their Eyes Were Watching God shows the awakening of female consciousness in black women as well as the deep ecological care. Through the in-depth analysis of the three marriages and the growth trajectory of the heroine Jenny in Their Eyes Were Watching God, this paper aims to reveal the ecofeminism thought of liberating women and nature, pursuing gender equality and harmony conveyed by Heston in the novel. It also points out that only by fully recog...

Literature 

As a woman writer with multi-layered vision, Toni Morrison exhibits herself distinctly in American literary canon, becoming the most prominent black female writer. In her novel Sula, she abandons traditional narrative method, inaugurating a new viewpoint to describe living conditions that are often overlooked among black community, aiming at revealing the alienation of black souls caused by racial discrimination for a long period. Combined with the method of close reading, the paper explo...

Literature 

The study of Confucian classics reflects the value system of Chinese culture. In the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was a close relationship between the study of Confucian classics and literature, or there was no absolute boundary between them. In particular, the literature of literary criticism in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties had a close relationship with Poetics in the Confucian classics. It can be seen from some literature comments that they are mostly influ...

History  Literature 

Ludwig Tieck is regarded as a representative of German romantic literature, and his works include novels, novellas and fairy tales. His fairy tale Der Blonde Eckbert is one of the most important artistic fairy tales in the German Romantic period and has an important position in the history of German literature. The theme of this work is the praise of “Waldeinsamkeit”, condemning behaviors against nature and criticizing the inflated desire. Tieck created an ideal world through imaginary character...

Literature 

Longinus and Burke are two important founders of the western aesthetic thought of “Sublimity”. In fact, both of them contain the color of humanism when discussing this aesthetic thought. This paper attempts to analyze the humanistic color contained in Longinus and Burke's lofty thought from their source and definition of sublime.

Philosophy  Literature 

Compared with western children’s literature, the development of Chinese local children’s literature starts late, and there are still several problems such as lack of originality and low degree of internationalization. In order to enrich children’s reading experiences, to promote their early emergent literacy and future academic achievements, introducing the classics of foreign children’s literature is an effective way. In this process, translation serves as a bridge between the original text and...

Linguistics  Literature 

“Lullaby” is a famous short story by native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko. The paper examines a series of traumas Ayah and her family suffer including the loss of land, poverty and spiritual alienation. Ayah’s memory of the tribal past reveals her attachment to Indian tradition which is the only comfort and strength left with her. The postcolonial ecocritical study of the short story exposes domestic colonization the Indian people suffer and emphasizes the need to restore Indian cultural t...

Literature 

The French writer André Malraux has multiple identities. He is not only a writer, but also a politician, art critic, novelist and philosopher involved in politics. His early novels are based on the Far East, including his most famous novel The Destiny of Man. The work takes the Shanghai workers’ movement in 1927 as the theme, describes a series of activities carried out by some characters represented by Jing to resist fate, and creates a number of characters with the brand of André Malraux’s doc...

Linguistics  Literature 

Inam Cachatchi’s novel Si je t’oublie, Bagdad expressed the individual’s existential dilemma between nations and races by replacing the traditional grand narrative with petit narration. Different from the Western discourse dominated Iraq war literature, the novel criticized the true nature of neo-war on violence, which entails the realization through the marginal woman’s perspective, non-liner narration and poetic narrative language. This thesis intends to explore the psychological shock ...

Culture  Literature 

Requital is one of Al-Fuzai’s short stories. It depicts the relationship between a mother and his child during a time of war. This mother makes her decision not to tell attackers anything about her son and his friends. The story presents how war influences the life of an ordinary family. It also highlights that violence and injustice should have an end.

Linguistics  Literature