The use of the psychosocial maturity inventory in evaluations of youth conservation corps programs

Although work experience has been widely recommended as beneficial to adolescent development, there is little empirical support for this recommendation. The Youth Conservation Corps (YCC), combining as it does some of the best features of both paid work and unpaid community service, offers an opportunity to explore the developmental impact of work experience. However, the need to pay as much attention to the problems of measurement as to the programs themselves dictates simultaneous evaluation of both programs and measures.     

Thomas Szasz' “critical reflections on child psychiatry”: An alternative view through a systemic lens

In “Critical Reflections on Child Psychiatry,” Thomas Szasz (1979) argues that children are without the rights afforded adults, that children are often coerced into therapy, and that most children do not appear to benefit from psychotherapy. Szasz raises many pertinent questions for mental health professionals working with children. However, his arguments appear to be based on literature limited to traditional psychodynamic approaches. His position also neglects to consider literature in the developmental psychology and legal fields. This paper, written from the cognitive developmental and the family systems perspective, provides another examination of the important issues raised by Thomas Szasz.     

不期而遇的偶然亦或命定发生的必然——试析斯蒂芬·克莱恩作品中的荒诞

在美国文学史上,斯蒂芬·克莱恩以其富有天赋的创作才能和深刻的洞察力而享誉文坛。自然主义,印象主义,荒诞主题等文学流派先于他的同代而早早地出现在他的作品中。偶然的权威力量决定了是非善恶,奖惩,甚至生死的宿命论主题在他的作品《红色勇士勋章》"The Red Badge of Courage",以及《蓝色旅店》"B lueHotel"中展示出来,同时自然对人类命运的冷漠的悲观主题也能从他的作品《敞蓬小船》"Open Boat"中清晰地感受到。本文着重从这些角度对其作品中所蕴涵的直到现代才成潮流的文学主题——荒诞进行了分析,从中窥见克莱恩的天才之处。     

生态语言学的新型模式:根性生态语言学——史蒂芬·考利教授访谈录

文章系对南丹麦大学语言与传播系教授史蒂芬·考利(Stephen Cowley)的访谈。他是分布式语言协会(Distributed Language Group)创立者之一，国际互动性、语言与认知协会(International Society for the Study of Interactivity，Language and Cognition)秘书长，分布式语言运动(Distributed Language Movement)和生物生态共存观(Bioecological Awareness)的倡导者。其代表性著作有:《语言和语言学的生物符号学视角》(Biosemiotic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics， 2015)、《超越大脑的认知》(Cognition Beyond the Brain: Computation， Interactivity and Human Artifice，2013)、《分布式语言》(Distributed Language，2011)等。访谈主要涉及生态语言学的学科属性、生态语言学的新型模式——根性生态语言学等问题。      

Manacled to Identity: Cosmopolitanism,Class, and ‘The Culture Concept’ in Stephen Crane

Abstract

This article begins with a close reading of Stephen Crane’s short story ‘Manacled’ from 1900, which situates this rarely considered short work within the context of contemporary debates about realism. I then proceed to argue that many of the debates raised by the tale have an afterlife in our own era of American literary studies, which has frequently focused on questions of ‘identity’ and ‘culture’ in its reading of realism and naturalism to the exclusion of the importance of cosmopolitan discourses of diffusion and exchange across national borders. I then offer a brief reading of Crane’s novel George’s Mother, which follows Walter Benn Michaels in suggesting that the recent critical attention paid to particularities of cultural difference in American studies have come to conflate ideas of class and social position with ideas of culture in ways that have ultimately obscured the presence of genuine historical inequalities in US society. In order to challenge this critical commonplace, I situate Crane’s work within a history of transatlantic cosmopolitanism associated with the ideas of Franz Boas and Matthew Arnold to demonstrate the ways in which Crane’s narratives sought out an experience of the universal within their treatments of the particular.     

论木斋、宇文所安古诗研究对台湾国文教学的影响

古诗起源及其形成与发展,是否如同传统文学史所言,大约是东汉中后期无名氏文人所作,在木斋先生《古诗十九首与建安诗歌研究》与宇文所安《中国早期古典诗歌的生成》二本古诗研究相关著作问世后,这个概念濒临重组或解构的挑战。     

一位西方学者的中西阐释学比较

美国著名汉学家宇文所安（Stephen Owen）从中西文化的真理观与语言观出发,深入考察了中西阐释学的最初关注点和核心假定,并据此辨析了中西阐释传统关于作者——文本——读者之间关系的基本观念。虽然他并未全面涉及中西阐释学的所有问题,但其基本思路与观点却颇具启发意义,值得中国学者思考与借鉴。     

宇文所安对中国文论的艺术阐释——以《典论·论文》的英译与评论为例

从《中国文论:英译与评论》可以看出,宇文所安对中国文论的阐释充分展示了施莱尔马赫艺术阐释的内涵:从文本本身出发,尊重其差异或特色、采用灵活的阐释原则、运用心理学解释和语法解释手段。其中《典论·论文》的英译与评论,尤其集中体现了对施莱尔马赫心理学解释任务的完成。     

“冲天”一怒为哪般？——从柳永的浪子行迹看其自我理性的缺失

"浪子"是北宋词人柳永的身份标识之一。这一标识不仅使柳永迟迟不能得第,而且为其日后的仕进蒙上了一层阴影。而考察发端于《鹤冲天》一词的浪子行迹和由失意士子到无行浪子的过程,柳永自我理性的缺失是不能不加以重视的。大致来看,柳永自我理性的缺失表现在四个方面,即:对"功名"的讥刺超出了"怨而不怒"的儒家规范;没有看重统治者对于士子的修身要求;对封建士大夫所标榜的雅文化缺乏自觉意识;没有参透朝廷逸乐政策的玄机。     

克莱恩与美国文学的自然主义

美国自然主义的兴起对文学发展起着至关重要的作用,斯蒂芬·克莱恩是这类作家中的代表人物,他在极为短暂的一生中不断探索独特的表现手法,推出对后世影响深远的作品,这是南北战争后新大陆的环境状况和社会现实在他文学创作中的反映。