Therapies for Melancholy and Inordinate Passion in the Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652–1654)

Dorothy Osborne’s letters to Sir William Temple, written during the period of the secret, protracted courtship between the pair, demonstrate a persistent interest in melancholy and in the regulation of inordinate passion. Osborne draws on a variety of discourses of melancholy to construct herself and Temple as melancholy lovers. She also uses her letters to express and regulate her passions associated with the uncertainty of the couple’s future. This essay argues that Osborne privileges literary therapies for inordinate passion, employing affective, therapeutic processes of reading and writing within the letters themselves.     

骚体新变与汉魏文体的演进

骚体为两汉辞赋的重要形式,汉人不仅拟楚骚作辞,而且不断推动骚体的新变：通过骚体句式的散化,使散体大赋注重抒情性和音韵美;通过减省兮字,促成了三言诗、七言诗,完成了骚体的诗化;广泛采用减省兮字的四言、六言句式,推动骚体赋向小赋发展的同时,并促进了骈赋的形成。     

OCCUPATION AND ETHNICITY IN FIVE NINETEENTH-CENTURY CITIES: A COLLABORATIVE INQUIRY

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Literary critics and historians often interpret authors and authors' works as more or less significant, but are reluctant to quantify those works. The interdisciplinary field of creativity studies, however, poses methods of quantifying the eminence of an author's works. This study uses four measures from that field (anthology entries, scholarly citations, entries in books of quotations, and auction sale records) and one measure from the fields of computational linguistics and data mining (ngrams using millions of books digitized by Google) to assess the eminence of John Milton's thirty-one prose works1. For the purpose of this study, Milton's short “A Letter to a Friend Concerning the Ruptures of the Commonwealth” (1659) was not included in the quantitative analysis out of concern with possible conflations and confusions with letters in Milton's Familiar Letters. and their relation to his greater achievement in epic poetry. These measures indicate the singular eminence of Areopagitica, Milton's 1644 tract on the liberty of unlicensed printing.     

村上春树的散文创作论

日本作家村上春树的散文创作,有一个鲜明的内倾性特征,即“自我之歌”。这个“自我”在内容上呈现为“生活外貌上的自我”、“与他人相关的自我”和“与社会相关的自我”,在形式上则通过爵士语言和节奏、散文结构“二重奏”、图文并茂及列项说明来加以阐释。对这个“自我”的成因与意义进行探析,有助于我们全面了解村上春树的散文创作及其作品内涵,存在一定的理论价值。     

简论黎庶昌散文创作

黎庶昌的散文在"桐城派"散文中独树一帜,尤其是他的海外游记达到很高的水平。在他散文中所描述的城外景色、西方科技及政策到今天依然值得我们关注与研究。     

骈文、律诗、对联之对偶论略

骈文中的对偶,自刘勰之后,并不被特别关注,而骈文研究的整个历史状况所显示的,大多在骈文的范畴、历史渊源、名家别集、典故考证等方面。骈文中的对偶作为其文体特征,其在文章结构意义上的作用和诗歌以及对联都有着显然的差异。问题还在于,长期以来,从事汉语言文学研究的学人对于律诗中的对仗与对联中的对仗所持的基本观点认为:律诗的基本句型由“对联”构成,分为首联、颔联、颈联和尾联。因此,对联就相当于将律诗中的这种具有“对仗”特点的句型抽取出来的结果。这种观点屡见于各种学术著作的教科书。本文以为,考察骈文、律诗和对联中的对仗结构,将有利于骈文文本和骈议创作心态与契机的研究,有利于律诗与对联写作与鉴赏的深化。     

浅谈韩愈散文的艺术成就

韩愈是唐代古文运动的领导者之一,也是唐代著名的散文家。他的散文内容丰富,形式多样,语言鲜明简炼,新颖生动,为古文运动树立了典范。     

S. Weir Mitchell’s Prose and Poetry on the American Civil War

The prose and poetry of S. Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) – related to the American Civil War – encompass a very significant portion of his non-medical writings. The Civil War, more than any other single event, shaped his future career as one of the founders of American neurology. Indeed, it should not be surprising how the war was also such a driving force in his non-medical writings. His novels, once widely read, now are scarcely noted. His accounts of the social, political and economic events of the Civil War are of historical interest to students of the period. Neuroscientists as a group, like others, are apt to be unfamiliar with these writings, with the possible exception of “The Case of George Dedlow.” A major purpose of this essay is to introduce readers, especially neuroscientists, to Weir Mitchell’s fictional works in which neurological cases so often appear. One appreciates more the medical aspects of his novels, written as they were by a first-hand observer. His non-medical writings, poetry and prose, are to a large extent timeless and can be appreciated by today’s readers.     

Approaching Personality through Style: The Seriously Perplexing Figure of Dezső Szabó

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Dezs? Szabó (born 1879, Klausenburg/Kolozsvár/Cluj, Austria-Hungary, died 1945, Budapest) was a towering figure of his generation. Literary critic, social pamphleteer, satirist, and novelist, he aroused strong passions on all sides with his rhetorically freighted prose and his fluid, yet forceful, political views. All accounts of his work concentrate on its intent, content, or consequences, and it is widely agreed that Szabó’s ‘style’ was his most prominent trait. And yet it is as if the political and ideological impact of the man has all but eclipsed the writing itself: with the exception of one brief monograph of 1937, we have no study devoted to the detailed examination of the ways in which he used Hungarian. Such a study is what is attempted in this essay. The method is primarily linguistic: all pertinent features of Szabó’s use of Hungarian are discussed, from the submorphemic (alliteration and other sound-patterning) through his immoderate derivational morphology, overstuffed noun phrases, and idiosyncratic lexis.     

20世纪30年代文言白话之争及其影响

本文主要阐述了发生在20世纪30年代关于文言文与白话文争论的原因、争论双方的基本观点,分析了这次争论对中小学课程改革所产生的影响.