论小说诸要素审美价值的嬗变

当后现代小说正致力于淡化情节,淡化人物,淡化主题,等等,并愈来愈呈现出诡异的面目时,传统小说的必备要素似乎已被弃置一旁.这里旧话新提,针对小说的情节、人物、主题、环境、基调和气氛等传统要素的审美价值,历时性地检视其嬗变过程,为身处后现代语境之中的读者更好地把握小说的阅读和鉴赏提供参考.     

A Note on the Non-equivalence of the Neyman-Pearson and Generalized Likelihood Ratio Tests for Testing a Simple Null versus a Simple Alternative Hypothesis

Despite the great increase in the use of color in statistical graphics, we know very little about how color affects people's perception of the quantitative information on graphical displays. Perceptual psychologists have already demonstrated that color can cause optical illusions of various kinds. We ran a simple experiment to see if this can happen with a statistical map and found that an illusion did occur.     

隐含作者的想象制作:《文心雕龙》历史叙事性批评话语的深层结构

历史叙事性是《文心雕龙》批评话语的一个显著特质。话语能指层面所标明的显而易见的历史叙事性,只构成了它的表层结构,其深层结构是制作者刘勰建构多种情节结构,使文学历史事实成为可理解的现象的过程。凭着某些先见,由对文学的一般认识和对批评客体的提炼,特别是主要遵循时序性、程序化和相似性原则以及神话-原型模式,刘勰对众多包括文学在内的历史事实进行想象制作,也即把历史编排为某种特定的情节结构,并以此阐释文学。因此,这是一种作为修辞的叙事。     

论新世纪工业题材长篇小说的情节模式

一个时代有一个时代的文学,每一种艺术形式都负载着特定的生产方式及意识形态所规定的意义。与传统工业题材小说基于阶级斗争、生产矛盾、思想冲突设置叙事框架不同,新世纪工业叙事显现独特的叙述特征和艺术追求,其主要情节可以概括为编年体、成长、“生活流”三大模式。三大模式具有丰富的具体内容和深厚的文化蕴涵,表达了创作者和阅读者特定的文化心理诉求,但也存有值得警惕的趋于“另一种模式化”的隐忧。     

Computing first-order sensitivity indices with contribution to the sample mean plot

In this paper, we investigate the use of the contribution to the sample mean plot (CSM plot) as a graphical tool for sensitivity analysis (SA) of computational models. We first provide an exact formula that links, for each uncertain model input X_j, the CSM plot C_j(·) with the first-order variance-based sensitivity index S_j. We then build a new estimate for S_j using polynomial regression of the CSM plot. This estimation procedure allows the computation of S_j from given data, without any SA-specific design of experiment. Numerical results show that this new S_j estimate is efficient for large sample sizes, but that at small sample sizes it does not compare well with other S_j estimation techniques based on given data, such as the effective algorithm for computing global sensitivity indices method or metamodel-based approaches.     

Inference for the Birnbaum–Saunders Lifetime Regression Model with Applications

The Birnbaum–Saunders distribution is a positively skewed distribution that is frequently used for analyzing lifetime data. Regression analysis is widely used in this context when some covariates are involved in the life-test. In this article, we discuss the maximum likelihood estimation of the model parameters and associated inference. We discuss the likelihood-ratio tests for some hypotheses of interest as well as some interval estimation methods. A Monte Carlo simulation study is then carried out to examine the performance of the proposed estimators and the interval estimation methods. Finally, some numerical data analyses are done for illustrating all the inferential methods developed here.     

小议魔灵在《亚瑟王之死》中的叙事功能

魔灵是<亚瑟王之死>中的魔法师,他在叙事过程中发挥了很大的作用,主要体现在其预言推动情节、强化作品叙事的逻辑性等方面.     

武林秘籍:武侠小说"情节模式"论之一

“武林秘籍”在武侠小说中频频出现,皆受瞩目,是武侠小说常见模式之一。“武林秘籍”模式导因于“武”,从“武林盟主”、“武林至尊”的区别中,可以发现在武侠小说中,武功是最关键的因素。“武林秘籍”的设计具有高超性、隐秘性、神异性、灵妙性、正宗性、道德性的特点,对小说的情节设计及推展具有枢纽作用。     

赛珍珠短篇小说写作特色分析——以作者的双重文化背景为出发点

赛珍珠作为首位获得诺贝尔文学奖的美籍女作家,虽然遭受到不少的批评,却也获得世人称赞。在她的众多短篇小说里,精湛的情节设置、巧妙的称谓、生动的词汇表述都使其小说可读性更强、文化意义更深远。通过对其短篇小说写作特色的分析读者不仅发现赛珍珠把中国真实客观地介绍给西方读者,而且体会到拥有中西双重文化背景的赛珍珠对中国人的热爱和同情。     

刘国芳小小说叙述技法摭谈

刘国芳是当代有影响的小小说代表作家之一。他较早形成了自己的创作风格。在叙述技法上 ,刘国芳的特色鲜明地体现在细节凸现、情节链重复和意象象征等几个方面