Ballads are a sort of old folk song with simple forms and light tone. They were dominarforms in 14th and 15th century. Ballads are anonymons. We don,t know whether they werewritten by an individual poet or by a group....Ballads are a sort of old folk song with simple forms and light tone. They were dominarforms in 14th and 15th century. Ballads are anonymons. We don,t know whether they werewritten by an individual poet or by a group. We merely know they have been taken up by thefolk and transmitted orally, even among the uneducatedand semi-educated people.展开更多
Preface to Lyrical Ballads is full of poetic thoughts of Wordsworth and Coleridge.It is a manifesto of a poetic revolution,and it opens a new chapter for the English poetry.Such issues on poetry are addressed as its o...Preface to Lyrical Ballads is full of poetic thoughts of Wordsworth and Coleridge.It is a manifesto of a poetic revolution,and it opens a new chapter for the English poetry.Such issues on poetry are addressed as its origin,functions,subject matters,lan-guage,imagination,and roles and qualities of poets.展开更多
The“praise ballad”is a specific type of local folk literature handed down from generation to generation in traditional agricultural and fishing societies by means of chanting in the local vernacular dialect.It was c...The“praise ballad”is a specific type of local folk literature handed down from generation to generation in traditional agricultural and fishing societies by means of chanting in the local vernacular dialect.It was composed and sung to express the villagers’emotions,thoughts and feelings.The content of the praise ballads sung on the Pescadores is largely and tightly connected to the hardship of fishing life because the Pescadores are surrounded by the salt waters and savaged by the Northeast monsoons.When the author of a praise ballad narrates his/her personal feeling or mood towards a particular living condition,he/she appeals to an intense emotion regarding the daunting adversity of fishing on the open seas,which is called“begging the sea”in the local Taiwan Residents dialect.Although praise ballads play a decisive role in the promotion of Penghu cultural tourism,the unique folk chansons are facing a vital predicament,namely,they are being forgotten by the people of our time and have been gradually sinking into absolute oblivion.Based on Hung Min-Tsung’s authoritative work on and collection of local Penghu praise ballads,the research seeks to examine the“loss”and“gain”in the English translations of some representative local praise ballads collected in Hung’s book.Can the original message and flavor of a praise ballad be fully retained in a Taiwan Residents-English translation via the mediation of the Chinese language?Can a Taiwan Residents-Chinese-English translational grand tour manage to faithfully render the original beauty,charm and humor of the Pescadorean songs of the old times?What can be regained and what are lost in the English translation?These are the questions the paper endeavors to investigate.展开更多
In many of his most memorable ballads, Cowboy Junkies lyricist and lead guitarist Michael Timmins combines imagery of seasonal change, of the year, notably of Winter, with religious and mythological references to crea...In many of his most memorable ballads, Cowboy Junkies lyricist and lead guitarist Michael Timmins combines imagery of seasonal change, of the year, notably of Winter, with religious and mythological references to create richly textured metaphors and analogies of love, loss and anguish. Some of the band’s songs which display these symbolic networks and thematic linkages which we Will consider here are “Winter’s Song,” “’Cause Cheap is How I Feel,” “Crescent Moon,” “First Recollection,” “Sad to See the Season Go,” “Good Friday” and “Ring on the Sill.” We will show that Timmins succeeds not only in rendering vivid tableaux of life in a world where Winter dominates the seasonal round, but also in making those exterior visions, in effect, objective correlatives of the inner lives of the characters of his ballads.展开更多
Terminology consistency is important in scientific translation including Zhuangyi translation.However,terminology inconsistency frequently occurs in the translation of Zhuangyi texts.In this article,terminology incons...Terminology consistency is important in scientific translation including Zhuangyi translation.However,terminology inconsistency frequently occurs in the translation of Zhuangyi texts.In this article,terminology inconsistency in translations of Zhuangyi texts and its underlying causes are analyzed,assurance of terminology consistency aided by computer is discussed,and term consistency in Zhuangyi ballads is explored.展开更多
The Ainu are the only ethnic minority officially recognized in Japan.Ainu culture is not only a new entry point for understanding Japanese culture,but also an important medium for exploring ancient Asian civilization....The Ainu are the only ethnic minority officially recognized in Japan.Ainu culture is not only a new entry point for understanding Japanese culture,but also an important medium for exploring ancient Asian civilization.This article analyzes the Ainu folk songs and legends and other oral literature and discovers:The Ainu people respect and thank the gods,and accept the gifts and punishments of the gods.However,the Ainu claim that human beings have autonomy through the belief that humans have the right to punish gods,and those humans and gods can strive for an equal two-way relationship.In addition,the Ainu emphasize the importance of coexistence between humans and other creatures in nature.It is believed that hunting and fishing are not blasphemy,but acceptances of the gifts from the gods.However,it is advocated that human beings and other creatures should give each other living space and maintain the balance of symbiosis and coexistence.The Ainu belief in relative equality with gods and coexistence with nature reflects the concept of“shared destiny”in ancient Asian civilizations.It provides an important reference for the development of modern human society.展开更多
Oscar Wilde's poems are rarely researched in China,especially his last famous poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol which focuses on the story of the execution of a convict for the brutal murder of his wife and shows Wi...Oscar Wilde's poems are rarely researched in China,especially his last famous poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol which focuses on the story of the execution of a convict for the brutal murder of his wife and shows Wilde's meditating on betrayal and the need for prison reform.This paper attempts to discuss the betrayal of form,content and theme in the poem through the brief analysis of the text to give a better appreciation of the thematic and artistic values.展开更多
The actantial model is an appropriate and universal way to analyze the deep structure of any novel.By analyzing Carson McCullers'famous novel The Ballad of the Sad Café with actantial model,the theme and the ...The actantial model is an appropriate and universal way to analyze the deep structure of any novel.By analyzing Carson McCullers'famous novel The Ballad of the Sad Café with actantial model,the theme and the beauty of the novel are easier to acquire.展开更多
The Ballad of the Sad Caféis one of Mc Cullers’masterpieces.By depicting the triangle love story among the main characters—Miss Amelia,hunchbacked Cousin Lymon and Marvin Macy,the novella reveals the incredible...The Ballad of the Sad Caféis one of Mc Cullers’masterpieces.By depicting the triangle love story among the main characters—Miss Amelia,hunchbacked Cousin Lymon and Marvin Macy,the novella reveals the incredible complexity of human nature.By analyzing the absurd town,Miss Amelia’s free choices and the hellish relationship between its main characters from the Existentialist perspective,the main propositions of Existentialism have also been vividly reflected and also help to reveal the philosophical and social realistic significances behind the novella.展开更多
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the few writers in the history of American literature who develops not only good novels and poems but also excellent critic theories.In Poe's criterion,the poem should be short,and produc...Edgar Allan Poe is one of the few writers in the history of American literature who develops not only good novels and poems but also excellent critic theories.In Poe's criterion,the poem should be short,and produce a feeling of beauty in the reader."Annabel Lee" is a perfect illustration of Poe's poetic theories.The essay analyzes the poem in detail from the formalistic point of view.展开更多
Mainly applying gender studies to the analysis of Carson McCullers’s The Ballad of the Sad Cafe,with the body as the focus,this paper explores how the masculine Amelia is feminized for the purpose of resolving mascul...Mainly applying gender studies to the analysis of Carson McCullers’s The Ballad of the Sad Cafe,with the body as the focus,this paper explores how the masculine Amelia is feminized for the purpose of resolving masculinity crisis embodied by Marvin Macy and Cousin Lymon,concluding that the culturally constructed normative sex and gender dichotomy operates by disciplining otherness,causing gender identification trouble and disempowerment.展开更多
Mainly applying Michel Foucault’s idea about spacial discipline plus gender studies,in particular,of the correlation between gender and space as well as the power hierarchy in the distribution of space,this paper ana...Mainly applying Michel Foucault’s idea about spacial discipline plus gender studies,in particular,of the correlation between gender and space as well as the power hierarchy in the distribution of space,this paper analyzes the female protagonist Miss Amelia in Carson McCullers’s The Ballad of the Sad Café.This paper argues that Amelia utilizes space as a means of self-empowerment,challenging the conventional gender dichotomy sanctioned by patriarchal norms.However,her spacial transgression is seen as a deconstruction of gender conventionality and causes masculine crisis as embodied by the male characters Marvin Macy and Cousin Lymon.As spacial discipline is collaboratively exerted by Macy and Lymon on Amelia to“correct”her transgression,Amelia finally concedes defeat and submits to patriarchal gender norms.展开更多
In a time of the global market economy, if one wants to live harmoniously together with nature or living environment, he should not think with a theoretical mode of dualist contradiction but that of harmony and coexis...In a time of the global market economy, if one wants to live harmoniously together with nature or living environment, he should not think with a theoretical mode of dualist contradiction but that of harmony and coexistence such as ＂wholeness of man and nature＂. To illustrate this point, this paper thinks The Woman Warrior and Ballad of Eternal Sorrow are two significant texts： Ballad of Eternal Sorrow tells an ordinary, self-respecting, and life-respecting story of WANG Qi-yao and the girls like her as well as the city Shanghai. They blend into one harmonious whole： The city is like the girls and the girls match the city. Likewise, The Woman Warrior highlights the significance of naturc on the girl narrator＇s epiphany and healthy growth. The narrator comes to understand that paradoxes are the basic existent condition of human beings and so what she needs to do is to be magnanimous and balanceable in accepting these paradoxes.展开更多
ThUbt6R. In 1987,Thubten a Tibetan balladsop训M sings rhe epc用ng Gesa八wen to Londn,Britain to paxticipate n出InternationalCourt Music Fest讨dhddin the E此曲eth Palace as a memberof加 C恤aT山＊ MustedA计 Troupe.Despi...ThUbt6R. In 1987,Thubten a Tibetan balladsop训M sings rhe epc用ng Gesa八wen to Londn,Britain to paxticipate n出InternationalCourt Music Fest讨dhddin the E此曲eth Palace as a memberof加 C恤aT山＊ MustedA计 Troupe.Despite senous airsickness,he insisted on展开更多
One of the most typical Poems in the nineteenth century is The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, written by Samue 1 Taylor Coleridge。This Poem is unique in the history of ballad writing. The eerie incidents of the story t...One of the most typical Poems in the nineteenth century is The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, written by Samue 1 Taylor Coleridge。This Poem is unique in the history of ballad writing. The eerie incidents of the story the spell of th e supernatural, and th e sustained a rchaic style,all con tribu te to make it an unforgettable Poem,PoPular alive with young and old.This article is going to deal with th ree questions:(1)the them of the Poem ( 2 ) the function of the color images and their symbolic representation ?(3) the conceP t of Life一in—Death ?展开更多
Effort made to preserve King Gesar began soon after the end of the chaotic "cultural revolution" (1966-76). In 1980, the Tibet Autonomous Region set up an office to deal with the work; it was placed under th...Effort made to preserve King Gesar began soon after the end of the chaotic "cultural revolution" (1966-76). In 1980, the Tibet Autonomous Region set up an office to deal with the work; it was placed under the Tibet Academy of Social Sciences in 1985.Office members found a total of 40-odd folk balladeers able to sing the epic. They ranged from the elderly to youngsters. Nineteen of them were invited to put their voice on tape, and 122 volumes of the singing editions were recorded on 4,500 tapes.展开更多
文摘Ballads are a sort of old folk song with simple forms and light tone. They were dominarforms in 14th and 15th century. Ballads are anonymons. We don,t know whether they werewritten by an individual poet or by a group. We merely know they have been taken up by thefolk and transmitted orally, even among the uneducatedand semi-educated people.
文摘Preface to Lyrical Ballads is full of poetic thoughts of Wordsworth and Coleridge.It is a manifesto of a poetic revolution,and it opens a new chapter for the English poetry.Such issues on poetry are addressed as its origin,functions,subject matters,lan-guage,imagination,and roles and qualities of poets.
文摘The“praise ballad”is a specific type of local folk literature handed down from generation to generation in traditional agricultural and fishing societies by means of chanting in the local vernacular dialect.It was composed and sung to express the villagers’emotions,thoughts and feelings.The content of the praise ballads sung on the Pescadores is largely and tightly connected to the hardship of fishing life because the Pescadores are surrounded by the salt waters and savaged by the Northeast monsoons.When the author of a praise ballad narrates his/her personal feeling or mood towards a particular living condition,he/she appeals to an intense emotion regarding the daunting adversity of fishing on the open seas,which is called“begging the sea”in the local Taiwan Residents dialect.Although praise ballads play a decisive role in the promotion of Penghu cultural tourism,the unique folk chansons are facing a vital predicament,namely,they are being forgotten by the people of our time and have been gradually sinking into absolute oblivion.Based on Hung Min-Tsung’s authoritative work on and collection of local Penghu praise ballads,the research seeks to examine the“loss”and“gain”in the English translations of some representative local praise ballads collected in Hung’s book.Can the original message and flavor of a praise ballad be fully retained in a Taiwan Residents-English translation via the mediation of the Chinese language?Can a Taiwan Residents-Chinese-English translational grand tour manage to faithfully render the original beauty,charm and humor of the Pescadorean songs of the old times?What can be regained and what are lost in the English translation?These are the questions the paper endeavors to investigate.
文摘In many of his most memorable ballads, Cowboy Junkies lyricist and lead guitarist Michael Timmins combines imagery of seasonal change, of the year, notably of Winter, with religious and mythological references to create richly textured metaphors and analogies of love, loss and anguish. Some of the band’s songs which display these symbolic networks and thematic linkages which we Will consider here are “Winter’s Song,” “’Cause Cheap is How I Feel,” “Crescent Moon,” “First Recollection,” “Sad to See the Season Go,” “Good Friday” and “Ring on the Sill.” We will show that Timmins succeeds not only in rendering vivid tableaux of life in a world where Winter dominates the seasonal round, but also in making those exterior visions, in effect, objective correlatives of the inner lives of the characters of his ballads.
基金This project is sponsored by Guangxi First-rate Discipline Construction Project-Traditional Chinese Medicine(Gui Jiao Ke Yan[2018]12)Development Program of High-level Talent Team under Qihuang Project of Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine-Basic Research and Application Study of Detoxifying Prescriptions in Zhuang Medicine(2018005)Innovation Project of Guangxi Graduate Education-Research on Cultivation of Vocational Development Competencies for Postgraduates in Ethnic Medicine(GY2020105).
文摘Terminology consistency is important in scientific translation including Zhuangyi translation.However,terminology inconsistency frequently occurs in the translation of Zhuangyi texts.In this article,terminology inconsistency in translations of Zhuangyi texts and its underlying causes are analyzed,assurance of terminology consistency aided by computer is discussed,and term consistency in Zhuangyi ballads is explored.
基金2021 National Social Science Fund General Project“Research on the Foreign Discourse System of the Japanese Version of Mainstream Media in China”(Project No.21BYY194).
文摘The Ainu are the only ethnic minority officially recognized in Japan.Ainu culture is not only a new entry point for understanding Japanese culture,but also an important medium for exploring ancient Asian civilization.This article analyzes the Ainu folk songs and legends and other oral literature and discovers:The Ainu people respect and thank the gods,and accept the gifts and punishments of the gods.However,the Ainu claim that human beings have autonomy through the belief that humans have the right to punish gods,and those humans and gods can strive for an equal two-way relationship.In addition,the Ainu emphasize the importance of coexistence between humans and other creatures in nature.It is believed that hunting and fishing are not blasphemy,but acceptances of the gifts from the gods.However,it is advocated that human beings and other creatures should give each other living space and maintain the balance of symbiosis and coexistence.The Ainu belief in relative equality with gods and coexistence with nature reflects the concept of“shared destiny”in ancient Asian civilizations.It provides an important reference for the development of modern human society.
文摘Oscar Wilde's poems are rarely researched in China,especially his last famous poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol which focuses on the story of the execution of a convict for the brutal murder of his wife and shows Wilde's meditating on betrayal and the need for prison reform.This paper attempts to discuss the betrayal of form,content and theme in the poem through the brief analysis of the text to give a better appreciation of the thematic and artistic values.
文摘The actantial model is an appropriate and universal way to analyze the deep structure of any novel.By analyzing Carson McCullers'famous novel The Ballad of the Sad Café with actantial model,the theme and the beauty of the novel are easier to acquire.
文摘The Ballad of the Sad Caféis one of Mc Cullers’masterpieces.By depicting the triangle love story among the main characters—Miss Amelia,hunchbacked Cousin Lymon and Marvin Macy,the novella reveals the incredible complexity of human nature.By analyzing the absurd town,Miss Amelia’s free choices and the hellish relationship between its main characters from the Existentialist perspective,the main propositions of Existentialism have also been vividly reflected and also help to reveal the philosophical and social realistic significances behind the novella.
文摘Edgar Allan Poe is one of the few writers in the history of American literature who develops not only good novels and poems but also excellent critic theories.In Poe's criterion,the poem should be short,and produce a feeling of beauty in the reader."Annabel Lee" is a perfect illustration of Poe's poetic theories.The essay analyzes the poem in detail from the formalistic point of view.
文摘Mainly applying gender studies to the analysis of Carson McCullers’s The Ballad of the Sad Cafe,with the body as the focus,this paper explores how the masculine Amelia is feminized for the purpose of resolving masculinity crisis embodied by Marvin Macy and Cousin Lymon,concluding that the culturally constructed normative sex and gender dichotomy operates by disciplining otherness,causing gender identification trouble and disempowerment.
文摘Mainly applying Michel Foucault’s idea about spacial discipline plus gender studies,in particular,of the correlation between gender and space as well as the power hierarchy in the distribution of space,this paper analyzes the female protagonist Miss Amelia in Carson McCullers’s The Ballad of the Sad Café.This paper argues that Amelia utilizes space as a means of self-empowerment,challenging the conventional gender dichotomy sanctioned by patriarchal norms.However,her spacial transgression is seen as a deconstruction of gender conventionality and causes masculine crisis as embodied by the male characters Marvin Macy and Cousin Lymon.As spacial discipline is collaboratively exerted by Macy and Lymon on Amelia to“correct”her transgression,Amelia finally concedes defeat and submits to patriarchal gender norms.
文摘In a time of the global market economy, if one wants to live harmoniously together with nature or living environment, he should not think with a theoretical mode of dualist contradiction but that of harmony and coexistence such as ＂wholeness of man and nature＂. To illustrate this point, this paper thinks The Woman Warrior and Ballad of Eternal Sorrow are two significant texts： Ballad of Eternal Sorrow tells an ordinary, self-respecting, and life-respecting story of WANG Qi-yao and the girls like her as well as the city Shanghai. They blend into one harmonious whole： The city is like the girls and the girls match the city. Likewise, The Woman Warrior highlights the significance of naturc on the girl narrator＇s epiphany and healthy growth. The narrator comes to understand that paradoxes are the basic existent condition of human beings and so what she needs to do is to be magnanimous and balanceable in accepting these paradoxes.
文摘ThUbt6R. In 1987,Thubten a Tibetan balladsop训M sings rhe epc用ng Gesa八wen to Londn,Britain to paxticipate n出InternationalCourt Music Fest讨dhddin the E此曲eth Palace as a memberof加 C恤aT山＊ MustedA计 Troupe.Despite senous airsickness,he insisted on
文摘One of the most typical Poems in the nineteenth century is The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, written by Samue 1 Taylor Coleridge。This Poem is unique in the history of ballad writing. The eerie incidents of the story the spell of th e supernatural, and th e sustained a rchaic style,all con tribu te to make it an unforgettable Poem,PoPular alive with young and old.This article is going to deal with th ree questions:(1)the them of the Poem ( 2 ) the function of the color images and their symbolic representation ?(3) the conceP t of Life一in—Death ?
文摘Effort made to preserve King Gesar began soon after the end of the chaotic "cultural revolution" (1966-76). In 1980, the Tibet Autonomous Region set up an office to deal with the work; it was placed under the Tibet Academy of Social Sciences in 1985.Office members found a total of 40-odd folk balladeers able to sing the epic. They ranged from the elderly to youngsters. Nineteen of them were invited to put their voice on tape, and 122 volumes of the singing editions were recorded on 4,500 tapes.
