GATSBY-A MODERN AMERICAN DON QUIXOTE

Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896—1940) won his international fame with hisThe Great Gatsby,which was published in 1925 but has always been somethingnew and exciting to literary critics and readers of many countries.His successfulportrayal of Jay Gatsby has made the fictional character a household name,alegendary figure,a symbol,and a modern American Don Quixote.The story takes place in the early 20’s.America was then booming in thereestablished international order after World War I,yet it could hardly afford to     

Dreiser the Naturalist Seen in "An American Tragedy"

An American Tragedy is the masterpiece of Theodore Dreiser. It not only solidifies Dreiser's reputation and position in the history of American literature, but also shows, as no other novel of his has ever done so perfectly, Dreiser as a naturalist in his literary creation.     

A Comparison Between the English and the Chinese Love Poetry Before the Modern Period

The thcme of romantic love may well be said to be a universal One inpoetry.But,since the content of love varies from one culture to another,itstreatments in the respective literatures also differ from one another.A com-parison between the English and the Chinese love poetry reveals their inter-defining relationship,adding unexpected new dimensions to our understandingof both.The theory of literary criticism,to be sure,could also benefit ap-preciably from the conclusions of sucn a comparison.     

Try to talk some about a predicate

Before discussing "The vagueness of the extension of a predicate and the senses of the prototype and the stereotype of a predicate" in Semantics,we, first, had better review semantics and the terms of semantics here. Semantics is a major branch of linguistics devoted to the studyof     

Some Artistic Principles Underlying Ellison''''s Choice of Language:A Stylistic Analysis

Ralph Ellison's novel,Invisible Man,has won high praise ever since its publication in 1952. A poll of literary critics in 1965 selected his book as the most distinguished novel of the previous twenty years. It tells about a Southern Negro who leaves the South,sickencd by racial prejudice and the hypocritical attitude towards whites of his Negro     

The Wind in"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Generally, Coleridge's poems are mainly divided into two groups:one is to use common Language to depict commom things and common people; the other is to use unique imagination to describe supernatural things. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"belongs to the second group. Some critics blame Coleridge for his lack of morals in this poem, but in fact,this poem contains lots of morals, as Coleridge himself said.Coleridge succeeds in exploring the theme of sin and punishment by his rich imagination and by the depicting of supernatural things. In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", Coleridge intentionally built a symbolic world of the supernatural wind, the bird, the sun, the moon ,the ship and the sea. All these symbols serve to develop the theme of Fall and Redemption, and play so important a part in the poem that we even can take it as a symbolic poem. In the following pages, I am going to devote to the functions of the supernatural wind in particular. Coleridge bestows the wind with a great deal of supernat     

REMEMBERING LIU WUGOU

I came to know Liu Wugou in HongKong in 1939--41. She was working in the China Defense League headed by Com. Soong Ching Ling, in which I was then in charge of English-Language Publicity. She had come on the introduction, I believe, of Liao Mengxing. We were colleagues and friends. She told me something about her participation in the Beiping student movement and subsequent arrest, and the time she spent in America.     

THE WIT OF WILDE''''S COMIC LANGUAGE——On the Art of Wilde''''s Comedies(Ⅱ)

According to Arthur Granz,a literary critic,“Oscar Wilde's societycomedies have foolish plots and brilliant dialogue.”We do not agree withhis unfair comment against the merits of Wilde's original use of conventionalplots as discussed in my previous thesis.However,we do agree with his impar-tial judgement about Wilde's brilliant dialogue,When Wilde's comedies were     

Voyage to Moral Autonomy: Education in Pride and Prejudice

D. D, Devlin in his book Jane Austen and Education claims that "all Jane Austen's novels, and many of her minor works, unfinished piece and juvenlia, are about education." The statement may sound surprising, for people nowadays are apt to think that education is something that takes place only in school. Fortunately, Jane Austen did not think the way many of u do now; she thought that education began at home, and the first teachers were parents; she held that education was both an intellectual experience and mo     

How to Develop student's Reading skills?

IntroductionWhen I taught extensive reading, I found many students didn't know how to read more effi-ciently. They had difficulties in understanding the text as a whole. They didn't know how toinfer something from what they had read. After reading a text, they could answer correctly only5--6 out of the ten questions following it. Questions like "What is the author's attitude?""What is the tone of this article?"or "How has the author organised his essay?" were difficultfor them.This article aims to present some suggetions for developing student's reading skills.     

短文改错

We had guests last night who have not stayed in a B＆B hotel ago. They did not want breakfast because that they were going out early in the morning. They came back lately and had some tea. I came into the riving room and saw one of them just go through the kitchen door but turn on the light. He was looking for a glass the cupboard. He had no ideas that the kitchen was not for guests. I just smiled to me and thought, “What can I do？ We are guests after all.”     

A Tentative Analysis Of Samuel Johnson's Definition To Metaphysical School In English Literature

The metaphysical poetry,as a rather influential literary school,plays a momentous andpredominant part in eariy seventeenth century English literature.The marked quality ofmetaphysical poetry,as practiced by Donne and his successors,is their philosophical subtlety orintellectual rigor,while the quintessence of which consists in its peculiar blend of thought andpassion of realistic violence and meditative refinements.Doctor Johnson accused the metaphysical     

论英语词语的文化特色对阅读理解的影响

不熟悉词语的文化历史背景,阅读理解往往会产生障碍。请看下面的例句、注意划线部分。 1)O’Donnell had never been handsome in the Adonic sense,but he had a rugged,creased irregularity of face (his nose still carried the scar of an old football injury)whichwomen so often,and perversely find attractive in men. 2)Mrs.Bern said,“Bob,Inever dreamed a guy like you would mess around,I mean,you and Sheila were like these Little figures on a wedding cake.” 3)Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss.     

没完没了的故事

Little Jack asks his mother to tell him a very very long story,or he is notgoing to bed.So his mother begins to tell him like this.There is a very big old house,and thers is some rice in it.One day abird goes into the house and comes out with apiece of rice.Then another birdgoes into the house and comes out with a piece of rice.Then a third bird goesinto the house and comes out with a piece of rice.Then a fourth bird…Thena fifth bird…“Stop,stop!I want to go to bed.”Jack says.阅读自评译…     

英文摘要

On Schiller＇s Aesthetics of Drama --His Theory of Comedy
ZHA NG Yu-neng （College of Chinese Language and Literature,Central China Normal University,Wuhan,Hubei,430079） Abstract： Throughout his life Schiller never wrote a comedy or an essay specifically on comedy. His limited discussion of comedy, however, formed the most unique theories of comedy and comedy aesthetics in the history of Western Aesthetics and literary theory. Schiller thinks tragedy ranks higher than comedy in terms of dramatic subject and objectives, but seen from the freedom of representation comedy should be superior to tragedy. Comedy represents the beautiful mind, and helps maintain the freedom of soul, but the comedian pursues an even higher purpose, which, once achieved, will make all tragedies become redundant. Schiller＇s theories of comedy and comedy aesthetics ended the classical comedy theory which degrades comedy and comedy art, and returned comedy to its due position, sublime purpose and great function. Key words： aesthetics of drama;drama ;comedy ;theory of comedy; aesthetics of comedy     

On A Telegram And Its Composition

Telegrams are an advanced means of communication. Even with the advent of the telex, telegrams play an important role in news transmission, information exchange, intercourse in public affairs, and foreign trade in particular. Therefore in the era with the motto of "Time is Money and Efficiency Means Life", it is necessary for us to know the characteritics and composition of a telegram.     

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AS A DISCIPLINE IN CHINA

In a historical retrospect, translation and publication of European andAmerican literary works by Shakespeare, Dickens, H. B. Stowe, WashingtonIrving, Hugo, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Cervantes. etc., started indeed as early as in theturn of the century. Lin Shu (1852-1924) and his collaborators together com-     

How to exert the student-center approach in middle school English teaching

In order to train a student to be a person with ability,who can self-study,use knowledge flexibly and bring firth new ideas constantly,the constant development of society demands a full exertion of student-center approach in the process of education.Therefore,how to exert the student-center approach is a question that every teacher is facing.I think that we can exert the student-center approach from the following aspects.One,a teacher must change his teaching conception.He should know that it's the students who are the main body of teaching and the teacher can act as a guider.The other,by all means,we ought to make the students know the purpose of their study and the function of themselves in learning.We also ought to culture their interest in learning,inspire and strengthen their main body consciousness.the teacher should,on the basis of full understanding his students and textbook,exert the leading function of himself.In the course of teaching,the teacher can exert the advantage of advanced teaching method,such as situational language teaching,and advanced teaching instrument,such as multimedia,which will inspire the students' interest and conscious activities.We can train the students' imagining ability through encouragement 、guiding and extracurricular activities.We can improve the students' ability of self-study.Thus,the students' main body function will reach a better exertion and the effect of teaching will be improved.This will train the students to suit the need of society.     

英语笑谈

Cut Hair While Bill was at the Barber's one day dur-ing working hours,his manager of the officecame in by chance to have his own hair cut.Billsaw him and tried to hide his face,but themanager came and sat beside him,and soonrecognized him.     

"The Living Fruit of Nignts"——a Thematic Study of Faulkner''''s "Barn Burning"

William Faulkner was the winner of Nobel Prize for Literature of 1950. Although he received public acclaim chiefly for his longer works, such as The Sound and the Fury, Sartoris, and Light in August, Faulkner found himself again and again writing short stories. In "Barn Burning," which appeared in 1938, he created the seed story of the whole Snopes trilogy that was to constitute his last great creative accomplishment. This story not only looks forward to the Snopes stories, but also shares some of the themes recurring in the early parts of the Yoknapatawpha saga—the legendary matrix in which Faul-