中国当代小说中民国叙事的语境、演变、局限

小说是作家以自我经验为基础的特殊言说,这种言说不可避免地受制于言说对象与言说语境,中国当代小说对民国时代的叙述也不例外。由于民国时代自身的多面性与含混性,由于中国当代作家所生活的历史文化空间的不断变易,以民国时期的社会风貌和生活状态为主体内容的小说,随着讲述时代的不同而呈现出各自独有的面貌,从而使艺术世界中的民国时代成为一张不断被重新涂写的羊皮纸。     

虚构与汉魏六朝杂传的小说化——从《雷焕别传》说起

检视汉魏六朝时期的杂传,多如《雷焕别传》,常羼杂有虚构性的内容和情节,通过这些具有虚构性质的内容和情节凸现出来的人物形象,也具有了明显的虚构性特征。可以说,虚构性已是汉魏六朝杂传的重要特征。而虚构性无疑使得汉魏六朝杂传渐离史传,并在不知不觉中趋进了小说。     

Death and the Penguin: modularity,alienation and organising

ABSTRACT

The originality of this paper lies in the ways in which it explores how the depiction of organised crime within Andrey Kurkov’s novel Death and the Penguin can inform our understanding of organisational modularity. This non-orthodox approach might open up new avenues of thought in the study of organisational modularity while further illustrating how novelistic worlds can inform accounts of organisational realities. Two main research questions underlie the paper. How can Andrey Kurkov’s novel further our understanding of the complexity of organisational worlds and realities by focusing our attention on different landscapes of organising? How does Kurkov’s novel help us grasp the concept of modularity by drawing attention to new forms of modular organisation? Drawing from our reading of Kurkov’s novel, we primarily explore organisational modularity through Kurkov’s depiction of organised crime and consider the themes of alienation and isolation in the context of modular organising.     

文学、历史与时代精神--革命历史小说与新历史小说比较研究

历史文学是人类对历史的一种感性思考,它将特定历史时期的意识形态、文化娱乐、思想倾向以及风土人情等时代精神的构成因素浓缩在历史客观形象中,以立体、全面的方式呈现于世.通过文学反映历史是帮助后人认识和了解过去往事的一种辅助手段.作为分别引领两个时代文学潮流的小说模式,革命历史小说作家与新历史小说作家面对同样的历史题材时,作出了大相径庭的历史判断,从而帮助人们从不同角度去认识和了解革命历史.     

“将笔锋探入社会的深层和人性的本质中去”——论王晓玉小说创作的主题意蕴

王晓玉在其丰厚生活积累的基础之上, 构成了她创作的独特追求, 也形成了她创作的主题意蕴。她以其对生活细致地观察、深入地思考, 强调创作的真实感和历史感, 她十分关注女性的命运, 努力写出她们对悲剧命运的不屈抗争, 在创作中力图将笔深入社会的深层和人性的本质中, 从而表达她对历史、社会、人生的道、情、理的思考, 这使她的小说在写真事、描真人、抒真情中, 现出其思想的深度和人生的感悟     

麦尔维尔创作中的通俗小说手法

随着后现代文艺思潮的盛行,严肃小说和通俗小说界限的消失,对麦尔维尔的研究也不再囿于传统的束缚.从麦尔维尔作品中采用的通俗小说手法入手,尤其是对其在具体作品中采用的讽刺冒险、哥特、城市暴露和言情等通俗小说模式逐一论述.麦尔维尔在创作中吸纳诸多的通俗手法,不只是为了取悦读者,更多的是为了实现自己的创作理念、形成自己独特的创作风格,从而在更深、更高的层次上实现与读者的心灵沟通.     

积极人格理论评述

积极人格理论反思和批判了传统人格心理学研究中所存在的问题,认为人格形成过程受先天因素和后天因素共同影响。目前,积极人格理论的研究主要包括解释风格理论和积极人格特质研究等。解释风格理论可以尝试让人们通过改变归因方式或增进积极体验来转变一个人的解释风格,并帮助其形成乐观型解释风格。而积极人格理论倡导人格心理学研究应把关注点更多地放在积极的心理品质和美德上,不仅要注重人格特质的研究,还要关注问题人格的矫正及健康人格的培养,以提升人类的生活幸福感,促进全人类的和谐发展。     

Robust regression: an inferential method for determining which independent variables are most important

Consider the usual linear regression model consisting of two or more explanatory variables. There are many methods aimed at indicating the relative importance of the explanatory variables. But in general these methods do not address a fundamental issue: when all of the explanatory variables are included in the model, how strong is the empirical evidence that the first explanatory variable is more or less important than the second explanatory variable? How strong is the empirical evidence that the first two explanatory variables are more important than the third explanatory variable? The paper suggests a robust method for dealing with these issues. The proposed technique is based on a particular version of explanatory power used in conjunction with a modification of the basic percentile method.     

Pulping the Black Atlantic: Chester Himes’ A Case of Rape and the Limits of Expatriation

Abstract

This article examines the early expatriate career of Chester Himes, and his overlooked Paris-set novella A Case of Rape (1956). Scholars have identified postwar Paris as the locus of a ‘Black Atlantic’ cosmopolitanism that allowed African American writers to transcend American racial and literary regimes, and in particular the stigma of black ‘protest’ fiction. By contrast, this article argues that Himes’ exile was paradoxical; defined by an exchange, rather than an ‘exceeding’ of American racial and literary stigmas. First, I explore the fetishistic racial politics that energized the Left Bank’s construction of black expatriates as symbols of individualist, masculine, and specifically western transgression. Second, I examine the way in which A Case of Rape, and its narrative of the false conviction of four African American expatriates for rape, dramatizes this paradox. With supreme irony, the novella sees the expatriate celebrity merge with a central symbol of the African American ‘protest’ novel: the black male rapist of white women. Finally, I argue that A Case of Rape is of particular importance for the ways in which it anticipates Himes’ move into pulp fiction. Like his later detective series, A Case of Rape captures Himes’ own disillusionment with conventional notions of authorial autonomy, and literary instrumentality. I conclude that expatriation worked to galvanize, rather than displace, Himes’ interest in the overdetermination of African American literature within dominant western racial discourses.     

Mystification as an Artistic Strategy in Milan Kundera's Work

ABSTRACT

Using close reading of Kundera's texts, Jan ?ulík argues that many arguments in Milan Kundera's literary works are deliberate provocations. Kundera's approach is undoubtedly related to post-modernism, although he used his mystification techniques long before the arrival of postmodernism, as early as in the Stalinist 1950s when he published fake quotes from Lenin in official Stalinist publications. In Jan ?ulík's view, it is the purpose of Milan Kundera's systematic use of false facts, distortions and disrupted logic to warn his readers against against the unreliability of words and human communication. Kundera seems to argue that the world in its complexity is basically unknowable and the only thing that is left for us is, in despair, in our ignorace of what is going on around us, to carry out pranks.