The Myth of Authority and the Authority of Myth

The view of local governors in the Russian Empire as all-powerful is overly simplistic and cannot in itself explain the Russian Revolution of 1917.     

Stories in Space: The Geographies of Children's Literature

This paper argues for the uses of children's literature in the study of children's geographies. It focuses in particular on the nature of representations of urban space in children's literature, a genre more usually connected with the pastoral and explores the narrative strategies and approaches of children's literature which does venture into the city. I propose five modes in which the city is written for children and ask, from the position of literary criticism which distrusts children's stories' ability to speak for children, how far these modes can be said to coincide with children's lived experience of the city.     

有关狼的话题

狼来了!这是中国人从小孩时就知道的一句警语,十分古老,含义多多。但时过境迁,如今人们不再说"狼来了!"原因是城市变得越来越大,人也越来越多,狼的生存空间被大大压缩,狼的种群正在变小,数量越来越     

欧洲民族主义的迷思

民族主义的歧义源于对民族主义的原产地属性缺乏分析.破解欧洲民族主义的迷思是深人剖析民族主义的必要工作."原生"民族主义是欧洲现代化的产物,欧洲通过现代民族国家的形式完成了自己的现代化任务,最终以欧盟的框架逐步化解各民族国家原有的矛盾,使得欧洲的民族冲突大致不必以战争的方式解决.因此,欧洲民族主义有可能是一种现代化的阶段性产物.     

民间叙事中的“伦理悬置”现象——以陆瑞英演述的故事为例

所谓“伦理悬置”,是指在民间故事演述中时常出现的一些伦理乖违现象,现实伦理既不能控制故事的伦理诉求,又不是完全不起作用的,它在完成叙事这一主要使命的途中,暂时被搁置起来、悬而不议了,体现了叙事对于伦理的干扰作用.从民间叙事的内在逻辑来看,故事情节越远离日常生活逻辑,“伦理悬置”的几率就越高;同时,伦理乖违涉及的对象范围越大,其实际的乖违感就越弱,“伦理悬置”的可能性也就越高。这是民间叙事与作家叙事的重要差别之一。