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W. Somerset Maugham, an English author active from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, has long been the subject of comparative and cross-cultural literary studies, especially in relation to his literary connections with the East. Moving beyond Edward Said's "Orientalist" model, this paper adopts J. J. Clarke's concept of "strategy of self-questioning" to explore Maugham's "creative" engagement with Zhuangzi's philosophies. Through analyzing The Painted Veil and The Narrow Corner, the paper argues that Maugham employs Zhuangzi's concept of Yi Dao Guan Wu as a lens to redefine the concepts of subjectivity and ethics within the context of cross-cultural dialogue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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James Kelman, the first Scottish author in history to win this award twice, is renowned for his distinct language style and his focus on Scotland's underclass. In Hardie and Baird: The Last Days, Kelman skillfully intertwines narratives to illuminate the challenges faced by ordinary Scottish workers amidst the backdrop of the Battle of Bonnymuir in 1820. This paper aims to analyze Kelman's portrayal of the Battle of Bonnymuir and to explore the ethical identity and choices of Hardy, a character navigating a socially disadvantaged milieu. Additionally, it delves into the motivations behind Hardy's ethical decisions, aiming to unravel the identity crisis experienced by the Scottish people. It argues that Kelman's approach of narrating "history from below" not only infuses his work with a distinct Scottish national character but also establishes the unique essence of his artistic expression. Furthermore, it embeds meaningful ethical reflections into the historical narrative, showcasing Kelman's ethical contemplations that transcend local confines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Chinese academia's old friend, the world's leading scholar of avant-garde poetry, Marjorie Perloff died on March 24. Perloff was celebrated for her ability to explain difficult experimental poetry. This ability is seen in her early work on Yeats, middle works on 20th-century modernist movements as well as in her last books, 21st-Century Modernism: (2002), Unoriginal Genius (2010) and Infrathin (2021), comparing the new century's experimental poetry with early modernism. This paper, focused on the books of her later years, demonstrates her responses to the 21st-Century modernism and foregrounding the ideas and legacy in poetics of her later years, and reveals one of her major ideas that modernism is back in the forms of Eliot's verbivocalvisual complex and Duchamp's ready-mades, delays in glass, and the infrathin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As one of the earliest and most renowned scholars engaging in the study of foreign literature in China since the reform and opening-up, Wang Shouren has achieved fruitful results in the translation and research of foreign literature, with particularly notable accomplishments in the field of American literature translation and research. Starting with a comprehensive understanding of literary traditions, he has examined Eastern and Western cultures on the foundation of inheriting the achievements of his predecessors, explored the path of American literature research, and carved out an innovative academic route. Wang Shouren stands at the forefront of reinterpreting the works of classic writers, like Henry David Thoreau and Willa Cather, while also dedicating attention to modern American writers such as Toni Morrison. His work is centered on uncovering fresh interpretations and insights into literary themes. Moreover, he broadens the scope of his research to encompass American ethnic literature, exploring both its scholarly importance and practical relevance. Wang Shouren's investigations into the history of American literature and its criticism are characterized by a unique approach that blends critique with historical context, aiming to rejuvenate academic traditions. His efforts in developing a framework for an independent body of knowledge of American literature studies with distinct Chinese-Characteristic are visionary. This approach not only integrates Chinese and Western perspectives but also amplifies the Chinese voice, elucidates Chinese features, and effectively represents China's image on the global stage. This paper begins with the context of a hundred years of translation and research of American literature in China, attempting to comprehensively discuss Wang Shouren's academic contributions to the construction of a Chinese-characteristic body of knowledge of American literature, in the hope of providing useful inspiration for the current construction of an independent body of knowledge regarding American literature research in China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the moral principles in regulating the relationship between different ethnic groups, ethnic ethics are crucial for the construction of "a community of shared future." Despite the fact that ethnic ethics have always occupied a central position in numerous literary works dealing with the entanglements between different ethnic groups, there is an obvious lack of systematic, comprehensive, and in-depth research in this area. Thus, ethnic ethics embedded in the imagined communities in these literary works can be another important testing ground for ethical literary criticism. This paper first looks into the unequal and unjust relationship between different ethnic groups when racism is employed as the governing ethical principle during the colonial period. This can be seen from the consequent conflicts among different ethnic groups. Secondly, with the independence of various nation-states and the thriving of anti-racial movements, those ethnic groups in subordinate or less advantageous positions keep exploring, revitalizing, and reimagining their own cultural traditions, with the aim to reconstruct ethnic ethics and their own ethical identities. Lastly, this paper argues that cosmopolitanism can be appropriated as the ethical guiding principle for the future construction of a cross-ethnic community with the harmonious co-existence and alliance of different ethnic groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Education is a principal theme in Jane Eyre. Born into the family of a curate in a rural parish, Charlotte Brontë started her study at home and then was educated in several schools. Taking the issue of education as a central perspective, this paper investigates the situation of the circulation of literary discourses in the processes of writing, publishing, reading, criticism and reproduction of this novel. It tries to analyze the situation of rural governance in nineteenth-century England and its impact on Jane Eyre and the following literary discourses, aiming to shed new light on the universal mode of literary production in this age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The brain text, which is mainly relative to material texts such as literary texts and visual texts, is an immaterial text and a crucial step in the formation of literary classics. This paper takes Book of the Dead, the earliest written literary work, as an example to explore the presentation of brain text in the generation of classics. The first part of the paper argues that the concept of "animism" is based on the perception of the brain text, which reflects the earliest religious consciousness of human beings and adapts to the needs of ethical choices. The second part of the paper argues that the brain text of Book of the Dead, while relying on oral transmission, also strives for textual transformation, of which papyrus and hieroglyphics are two elements. The third part of the paper, on the other hand, focuses on the ethical needs and didactic functions in the process of the generation of classics. As a literary classic, the ethical teaching function of Book of the Dead fully illustrates that there is no classic without ethics, and the role of ethical choices, including the meaning of the brain text, in the process of the formation of classics is extremely important. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jiang Chengyong is one of the most distinguished Chinese scholars of 19th-century western literature, whose works have guided our research in many directions and opened up new avenues for explorations. This paper attempts to survey Jiang's scholarship of 19th-century western literature and to highlight his achievements in this field from three aspects. First, it interrogates Jiang's efforts invested in 19th-century Western literary trends, with reference to his ambitious pursuit of constructing a critical discourse for foreign literature studies. Second, it attempts to reveal Jiang's methodological innovations in his works on 19thcentury western literature, especially in regards to his significant proposal for an interdisciplinary approach to foreign literature in "Internet-globalization" era. Third, it traces Jiang's exploration of the dialectical relationship between literature and science which is typically embodied in 19th-century western writers' "resistance" to and "acceptance" of science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The acceptance of ethical literary criticism in Japan has gone through three stages: initial period, high period and falling period. The main reason for its decline lies in the prevalent misunderstanding in Japanese academia, simply equating ethical literary criticism with Chinese traditional ethical criticism or moral criticism. To dispel misunderstandings and deepen Japanese scholars' understanding of ethical literary criticism, it is necessary to emphasize the interdisciplinary characteristic of ethical literary criticism within the academic community in Japan. Taking into account the characteristics of Japanese literature and the research tradition of Japanese academia, this paper suggests three interdisciplinary approaches: 1) the interdisciplinary path of literature and psychology, which enjoys a broad research base in Japan; 2) the interdisciplinary path of literature and brain science, an area that has not gained substantial research in Japan; 3) the interdisciplinary path of literature and science and technology with significant development prospects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews Mr. Chen Jianhua's academic activities from two aspects. One is Mr. Chen Jianhua's academic pursuits, mainly introducing Mr. Chen Jianhua's achievements in the study of Russian literature, the study of Sino-Russian literary relations and the academic history of Chinese foreign literature. The other is Mr. Chen Jianhua and the construction of Russian literature discipline at East China Normal University, mainly introducing: (1) Mr. Chen Jianhua's teaching activities and discipline team building; (2) Mr. Chen Jianhua's research on the history of discipline of Russian literature at East China Normal University; (3) How Mr. Chen Jianhua inherits the disciplinary tradition of Russian literature research at ECNU in foreign exchanges. Mr. Chen Jianhua's academic activities and rigorous academic style have made outstanding contributions to the academic history of foreign literature and the construction of foreign literature disciplines in contemporary China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ten Lectures on Chinese-Russian Literary Relations is a new important book by famous Chinese scholar of Russian literature Professor Chen Jianhua. The monograph is valuable not only for deep analysis, thorough fact-checking and massive data, but also for navigation instructions to all scholars, who are involved in the study of Russian-Chinese literary communication. This paper tries to mirror the analysis by Chen Jianhua of the perception of Russian literature in China in order to discuss the translations and study of Chinese literature in Russia. It has been discovered that though two countries strive to achieve certain balance in literary exchange, each of them not only demonstrates common tendencies, but also retains important differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the perspective of ethical literary criticism, Leo Tolstoy's life experience and literary creation are of great value. This paper examines Leo Tolstoy's literary ethics from the perspectives of writer, character and narrator. Leo Tolstoy left his hometown to join the army in the Caucasus in the spring of 1851, by means of documentary mutual verification, this paper expounds the ethical choice of this move which marks the turning point of Tolstoy's life from evil to good. The entanglement and enlightenment of the protagonist of War and Peace, Pierre Bezukhov, in such ethical lines as his personal life, personal spirit and individual and society, in his ethical complex, lastly in his ethical choice, has important ethical value. In the ethical choice, Leo Tolstoy and his autobiographical character Pierre Bezukhov are similar. In Leo Tolstoy's novels, the narrator has the characteristics of expressing positive moral purity, and there are situations where the narrator's moral sense is ambiguous or even wrong. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses the spread of Journey to the West and its derivative stories in Vietnam from three dimensions of literature, history and ethical literary criticism. It is believed that although Journey to the West and its stories were introduced to Vietnam in the 18th century at latest, neither of them received official ideological recognition because the last two feudal dynasties of Vietnam favored Confucianism while rejected Buddhism. However, as one of the world literary classics, Journey to the West and its stories were still adapted and constantly translated by Vietnamese people. From the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century was a peak of spread in Vietnam. The ethical choice in different historical periods plays an important role in the spread of Journey to the West and its stories in Vietnam. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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As one of the most important key words in ethical literary criticism, scientific selection as theory is not equivalent to scientific choice as terminology in critical practice. The former refers to the third stage of choices after the natural selection and ethical selection, mainly tackling the problem of the combination of science and humans; while the latter focuses on the action of choice based on scientific norms. No matter in reality or in science fiction, the results of scientific selection exist everywhere. With the narration in science fiction of robots, androids, human cloning and immortality, the paper attempts to sort out the denotation and connotation of this keyword, helping to understand humans' cognition and transformation to nature. However, the scientific choice narrated in the novels is still the result of humans' ethical consciousness and ethical choice, which refers to the initial stage of scientific selection. The real scientific selection means a stage where science replaces ethics, that is, by virtue of technological products, humans develop from human extension to human deconstruction and turn into "humans by scientific choice". Strictly speaking, scientific selection, separating from ethics, has not yet arrived; nonetheless, science fiction has expounded how humans develop and use technology from the perspective of scientific choice, predicting the impacts and consequences science has exerted on humans, thus prompting us to consider the hybrid and coexistence of science and humans in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

John Osborne's Look Back in Anger is a classic work of "Angry Young Men" in Britain, telling a post-war British young man Jimmy Porter's psychological journey of being angry. By focusing on the prominence of "figure", the reversal of "figure and ground" and the construction of super-foregrounded "figure" of the character and theme in the play, this paper analyzes the characterization, ethical implication and ethical appeal of Jimmy's anger. Osborne uses the "dominant" of "anger" to present the lives of British post-war young men and steer the audience to adjust their focuses on the dynamic changes of "figure and ground" so as to perceive the panoramic vision of what the playwright has depicted: individuals, family, and the society, which projects the "other" in the drama into the reader's "self" in real life and arouses the audience's introspection and reflection, so that the theme of "anger" as well as its ethical implication is sublimated. This play exhibits the playwright's ethical reflection on the causes, expressions and possible solutions of the "anger" among Angry Young Men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the most influential novelists in the 19th century in the United States. His work The Scarlet Letter mainly tells the tragic ethical story of the heroine Hester because of the immoral love during the colonial North America. It is the masterpiece of American romantic novel. The paper, from the perspective of ethical literary criticism, returns to the historical scene, analyzes Hester's ethical choices under a specific ethical dilemma and complex ethical identity, and explores the inevitability of her ethical return in the constant conflict and struggle between her free will and rational will. After that we can further search out the ethical value in the novel, which is to enlighten people to abide by the social ethical norms, otherwise they must wash away their sins and realize the ethical return through complete confession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Professor Tian Junwu's A Study of Journey Narrative in 19th Century American Literature combines the theoretical elements of thematology with narratology in the study of journey narrative in the 19th century American classic literature. This book not only emphasizes the formulaic characteristics of journey narrative research, such as Journey space narrative, journey carrier narrative and journey purpose narrative, but also further points out three narrative models of it line-tracing narrative model, point-tracing narrative model and psychology-tracing narrative model. The theoretical construction and critical paradigm in this book are of great significance to the study of journey literature, which provide a useful reference for it at the same time. On the basis of sorting out the theoretical construction and critical practice of Prof. Tian's academic monograph on the study of Journey narrative, this paper attempts to summarize the hot issues and development trends of journey narrative research in the future bv integrating the theoretical perspective of postclassical narratology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Things Fall Apart presents us a fascinating picture about the local customs and practices in Africa. In the agrarian community depicted in the novel, we can not only find well, organized religious, administrative and legislative structures which abide by the traditional ethic order, but also harmony between the locals. However, because of the encroaching effect of Christianity backed by violence, the traditional society and its ethic order disintegrated. While ascribing the breaking-up of the traditional society to the invasion of the white people, Achebe did not forget to reflect on the inherent problems in the African society His ethical concerns about the history, culture and fate of Africa undoubtedly contributed to the breadth, density and tension of the story. This paper holds that Achebe is endowed with double ethical visions because of his double identities However, he encounters an ethical dilemma concerning the construction of alternative ethnic ethic relationships after falling victim to the rhetoric of Western modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism, the avant-garde narrative of Sheila Watson's The Double Hook implicitly constructs multiple ethical dilemmas: on the level of personal ethical dilemma, the protagonist James, like Orestes in the Greek mythology, committed matricide, and he also violated such ethical taboos as incest with his sister and abandoning his pregnant wife. On the level of collective ethical dilemma, James's matricide and escape were forgiven by the villagers at the expense of the rights and interests of the Other the indigenous women. Considering the Canadian ethical situation at that time and Watson's ethical anxiety regarding the condition of ethnic minorities. this paper demonstrates Watson's implicit criticism of the racial policies in Canada, and also reveals her limitation in relieving the collective ethical dilemma through a happy ending. Such ethical dilemma still remains in the present Canadian society, with lingering racial discrimination against the indigenous people and other ethnic minorities. This ethical literary interpretation provides a meaningful and insightful critique of the treatment of the Canadian ethnic minorities in the mainstream society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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