《浮士德》与神秘主义

歌德《浮士德》中的神秘现象及主人公的巫士身份，长期以来并未受到评论界应有的重视。本文试从三个方面对这些现象加以论述：１．巫术的动机：歌德从被视为异端的神秘主义著作及活动和基督教正统观念中接受了关于“巫术”的矛盾界说：前者认为它是超自然的力量，后者认为它是“否定”、“毁灭”的代名词。２．影响的焦虑：这两种界说交叉影响着人物形象和主题，作者对浮士德既爱又厌恶，既肯定又否定。３．欲望与毁灭。伴随着浮士德欲望追求的是一系列的毁灭意象，歌德采用巫术题材的意义正在于对正统、秩序、权威乃至文明的反叛与否定。     

"象同意异"与"象异意同"--试论先秦诗文比兴手法运用的一大特色

取象完全一致,但喻意不尽相同甚至截然不同的"象同意异"现象与取象全然不同,喻意却大致相仿甚至完全一样的"象异意同"现象在先秦诗文中大量存在,成为先秦诗文比兴手法运用的一大特色,文中主要研究探讨形成这一现象的诸多原因、所取得的独特效果以及对后世的深远影响.     

农家女进城的生存转向与城市意象研究

上世纪90年代以降,在文学的农民工进城叙事中,出现了性别向度上农家女进城的生存转向叙事。在空间对峙与文化并置中,她们作为游移的文化活体,在性别化的人与城的隐喻化、模式化、空间化、边缘化的文学构想中,农家女意象荷载着丰厚的文化内涵。基于城乡发展失衡与二元户籍制度的划分,文学的城市呈现出否定意象的文化症候,其历史进步性、文化熔炉的聚合性、生存家园的建构性成为被遮蔽的灰色地带。     

天人同感与以阳为尊理念的显现——《焦氏易林》灾异事象描写的透视点

《焦氏易林》的灾异事象描写涉及天文、自然风物、人间怪诞多种类型,常和不吉利卦旨相连.灾异的征兆与结果之间以天人同感为纽带,渗透了阴阳互动与以阳为尊理念.事象与相关理念整合,巫术与哲学融会,是灾异事象的一个透视点.     

Citing history

ABSTRACT

Although rarely considered within the existing scholarship on social movements, even a cursory analysis of protest activity suggests that movements regularly invoke historical citations (whether consciously or not) while working to clarify aims and mobilize constituencies. In order to make sense of this process, and to account for the variations that arise among the different citation modalities favored by movements on opposite ends of the political spectrum, I draw upon the theoretical contributions of Marxist cultural critic Walter Benjamin and, in particular, on his exploration of ‘wish images’ and ‘dialectical images,’ their attributes, and their interrelationship. According to Benjamin, such images summoned the past either to project visions of future happiness (as with the wish image) or to deposit the witness before a moment of decisive, present-tense reckoning. After outlining the role of historical citation in social movements and in the broader cultural field through which these movements find expression, I analyze two recent protest events – the ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, VA, in which wish images were actively deployed, and the 2017 Women’s Strike in New York City, where a dialectical image arose from the constellated nodes of the march’s route – to consider the relationship between citation modality and protest outcome. Following from this analysis, and in keeping with the unapologetically partisan nature of my investigation, I conclude by advancing some strategic recommendations for movements seeking – as Benjamin once enjoined – to ‘improve our position in the struggle against Fascism.’     

Analysis of a two incongruent arrivals and services M/G/1 queue with random feedback

A queuing system with two incongruent arrivals and services is considered. Two kinds of customers enter the system by Poisson process and the service times are assumed to have general distribution. After first kind service completion, it may feedback to repeat the first service, leave the system or go to give second service. The same policy is applied for the other kind of customer. All stochastic processes involved in this system are independent. We derive the probability generating function for each kind and for the system that yield the performance measures. Some numerical approaches examined the validity of the results.     

Ghosted Images: Old Lesbians on Screen

Screen images of old lesbians combine modes of representing female gender, lesbian sexuality, and old age, all of which contain layers of otherness within a hetero-patriarchal and youth-centered society. Analyzing a range of films, from independent to mainstream cinema, this article explores how the ghosted lesbian paradigm intersects with narratives of aging as decline in representations of lesbian characters who are over the age of sixty. The spectral matters of illness, death, mourning, and widowhood inevitably culminate in an unhappy ending. Removed from a lesbian community context, intergenerational continuity vanishes and the old lesbian emerges as the cultural other.