菲利浦·拉金死亡题材诗歌中的非宗教超脱

拉金认为死亡是不可避免的。但正是因为如此,死亡的意识和对死亡的恐惧使生命获得另一种超脱的性质。本文将在拉金诗歌中死亡的意象世界里。分析诗人对死亡恐惧的原因,并发现对死亡非宗教的超脱途径。     

论摄影意象美的意蕴与构建

意象是中国古典美学的一个概念,是造型艺术超越机械写实囹圄的表达空间,是艺术家心中的风景与气象。摄影意象的提出旨在实现对摄影机械写实属性的超越,本文追溯了摄影意象的渊源,并对摄影意象美的意蕴作了阐释,进而提出了摄影意象美的构建前提与手法,旨在为摄影赢得意象表现自由做前沿性的探索。     

《了不起的盖茨比》意象描写的艺术效果

菲茨杰拉德在其代表作《了不起的盖茨比》中 ,采用了大量的意象描写。本文主要浅析了其意象描写所产生的艺术效果。绿灯是整个故事的中心象征。小说中反复出现对颜色、花、鸟的描写都起到了点画主题的艺术效果。作者还巧妙地将盖茨比与光亮 ,黛西与黑暗联系在一起。暗示了盖茨比的梦想最终毁在了黛西的手中。     

马来班顿体和土生华人班顿体比兴中的自然物象

对某些学者而言,马来班顿体也许是马来世界和马来灵魂的完美镜像。班顿体是一种口头文学,它扎根于许多不同的族群中,通过口头方式代代相传。本文的研究焦点是马来和马来西亚土生华人班顿体,其中有些文本直接录自马六甲和新加坡的口述者,分析的重点是马来班顿体首联中对自然的偏爱是如何在土生华人班顿体中得到强调的。此外,强调自然比兴的这种手法是马来班顿体和土生华人班顿体冲突后产生的“镜像效应”。这两种班顿体中反复出现的自然景象强调了当时与之紧密相关的日常生活,同时也形成了班顿体独特的审美性。     

Global Warming Risk Perceptions in India

Few studies have focused on global warming risk perceptions among people in poor and developing countries, who are disproportionately impacted by climate change. This analysis conducts a comprehensive assessment of global warming risk perceptions in India using a national sample survey. Consistent with cultural theory, egalitarianism was positively associated with global warming risk perceptions. In addition, perceived vulnerability and resilience to extreme weather events were also two of the strongest factors associated with global warming risk perceptions. While worry was positively associated with risk perceptions, it accounted for only a small proportion of the variance, unlike studies in developed countries. Finally, the study also collected global warming affective images. The most common responses were “don't know” or “can't say” (25%), followed by “pollution” (21%), “heat” (20%), and “nature” (16%). The study finds that the predictors of global warming risk perceptions among the Indian public are both similar and different than those in developed countries, which has important implications for climate change communication in India.     

老松意象的审美特征与文化意蕴

先秦至魏晋六朝松树审美的核心是常青、劲直,从唐代开始,老松的沧桑、丑怪、雄奇之美受到文人更多的关注,体现出以怪奇为关、以新异为关的时代新趣尚。老松的物色关主要体现在形体美、姿态关和神韵美三个方面。老松意象还在长期的风俗承继和文学创作中积淀了一定的文化意蕴和比德内涵,指示着相应的符号意义。     

Effects of Gay Identity,Gender and Explicitness of Advertising Imagery on Gay Responses to Advertising

Abstract

The present research draws from literature relating to gay identity in psychology and sociology and feminist theory to consider the effect of gay identity and gender on gays' and lesbians' attitudes toward various types of advertising content that are most commonly used to target gay consumers. As such, this study empirically tests whether gay males' and lesbians' responses to gay-oriented advertising content are moderated by individual characteristics: (1) the degree to which they identify as gay, and (2) their gender, and by the explicitness and gender of the gay-oriented advertising imagery.     

中诗英译意境缺失浅析

在文化交流全球化的今天,很多人都在通过各种各样的方式努力学习其他国家的文化。用本国语言来学习本国文化的确是最好的理解方式,所以有很多人就把一些他国文化翻译成本国的文字加以学习。可是在这当中会出现很多的文化元素的缺失甚至是误读。以汉诗英译为例来探析这种语篇中的文化意境的缺失,就具有特定的意义。     

The Vulnerability of the Nevada Visitor Economy to a Repository at Yucca Mountain

This article reviews the studies commissioned by the Nevada Nuclear Waste Project Office to estimate the economic impact of a high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. Case studies found that visitor impacts occur for some analogous facilities, but not for others. Assessments of behavioral intent indicate that at least some economic agents would avoid visiting Nevada under repository scenarios. A third set of studies tested the risk-aversion and negative-imagery models of visitor decision making; people avoid visiting places associated with either a significant health risk or negative imagery, but it has yet to be shown that a repository would induce these perceptions in nearby places. In sum, the NWPO-sponsored studies suggest the potential for visitor impacts, but do confirm that these effects will occur.