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On Creative Writing Teaching in the Context of New Liberal Arts Construction
Qiangchun Wang,
Tingting Liu
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 5, September 2022
Pages:
266-271
Received:
30 May 2022
Accepted:
5 July 2022
Published:
14 September 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijla.20221005.11
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Abstract: Creative writing dramatically benefits the development of cultural industry and harmonious society. Creative writing adopts teaching modes such as group discussion, case teaching, and on-site visit emphasizing the disciplines of intersection, integration, penetration, and expansion, breaking through the traditional writing of closed and self-sufficient individual creation. Creative writing teaching aims to train students to be innovative and productive writers at college and beyond to serve society and the cultural industry. However, many colleges and universities in China have not yet established a discipline system for creative writing teaching while it is developing in full swing in western countries. It is imperative to explore and construct a training model for creative writing teaching with a perspective of disciplinary integration in colleges and universities in China, which is highly consistent with the spirit of the document the Declaration on New Liberal Arts Project proposed by Chinese authorities. In line with the spirit of the new liberal arts program, the creative writing teaching models aim to train the students to be innovative writers with a perspective of disciplinary integration at college and beyond. The principle of the project is to promote the interdisciplinary integration of concepts, methods, and knowledge of various disciplines. Based on practical teaching experience, the research combines archival reading and literary analysis to explore how creative writing teaching develops in China. The creative workshop teaching model is conducive because it focuses on cultivating the students’ original writing talents by sparking innovative ideas in methods throughout the teaching.
Abstract: Creative writing dramatically benefits the development of cultural industry and harmonious society. Creative writing adopts teaching modes such as group discussion, case teaching, and on-site visit emphasizing the disciplines of intersection, integration, penetration, and expansion, breaking through the traditional writing of closed and self-suffic...
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Modernity as Hostile and Predatory: Synge and the Irish Anti Hero in The Playboy of the Western World and The Well of Saints
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 5, September 2022
Pages:
272-277
Received:
15 August 2022
Accepted:
22 September 2022
Published:
11 October 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijla.20221005.12
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Abstract: There is a constant and observable conflict in J. M. Synge’s drama between traditional pagan Irish values and those imported first by Christian missionaries and English invaders. Often, critics portray a single dimension of this conflict, with the Irish Anti-Hero character confronting those forces that represent modernity. The character’s heroism usually remains obscured by modern standards because he/she appears in the form of a tramp, an outcast, or even a violent criminal, and their inability to adapt causes them to stand as misfits in their own time. This article updates Irish identity politics narrative by presenting the “Irish Anti Hero” character as heroic in a traditional Irish sense because they choose the personal/local over the institutional/colonial. Their engaging in dreaming, song, poetry, storytelling and mythmaking are read as expressions of resistance to the foreign elements that threaten their culture and wellbeing. Drawing from The Playboy of the Western World and The Well of Saints, this article presents Synge as interested in creating narratives that condemn the history of Irish invasion and celebrate Irish cultural inheritance. As preserver of this tradition that predates colonialism and still lingers in the fringes of modern Irish society, Synge’s anti-Irish heroes, who are alien to their own environments, resist mores and/or circumstances defined by modern values and are exceedingly imaginative. This intergenerational context signals the importance of understanding the historical circumstances that continued to impact the lives of many Irish in Synge’s days. By highlighting the long-term background and its damaging effects on Irish political identity, the Anglo-Irish dramatist invites the reader and the politician to develop a deeper understanding of the Irish experience, which can lead to a debate and, ultimately, to change.
Abstract: There is a constant and observable conflict in J. M. Synge’s drama between traditional pagan Irish values and those imported first by Christian missionaries and English invaders. Often, critics portray a single dimension of this conflict, with the Irish Anti-Hero character confronting those forces that represent modernity. The character’s heroism u...
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7 to 5 Vowel Shift: Scars of the Lost Vowels in Runyambo
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 5, September 2022
Pages:
278-291
Received:
7 September 2022
Accepted:
30 September 2022
Published:
11 October 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijla.20221005.13
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Abstract: This paper relates diachronic to synchronic properties of the languages. The structural features in most of today’s languages are a result of the diachronic processes of language change. Most of the phonological changes especially the 7 to 5 vowel shift (in Bantu) left the remnants which still affect the languages today. This paper discusses this process in Runyambo which is among the languages which have shifted from 7 to 5 vowels. The evidence that Runyambo had 7 vowels is reflected from the phonological changes which are seen from Guthrie’s reconstructed terms to what we have today in Runyambo. Though the behavior seems diachronic, it is still seen synchronically today in the language. From the lexical data, it was realized that synchronic spirantization is similar to the diachronic spirantization. This suggests that we still have the remnants of the phonological environment which triggered the diachronic spirantization. Such remnants /į/ are found on the perfective –įre, the nominalizing -į, and causative –į/ -isį. However, the super close back vowel /ų/ was not found to cause the synchronic alterations in Runyambo. Its shifts are diachronic. The paper concludes that, though the two sounds got lost, their remnants still exist and are in complementary distribution with the remaining /i/ and /u/. Hence, though not found in the vowel inventories of Runyambo, their behavior especially that of /į/ are still found in some phonological contexts especially those on the said morphemes. Therefore, the shift from 7 to 5 vowels in Runyambo left out the same on the morphemes resulting into the synchronic phonological alterations we see today in Runyambo.
Abstract: This paper relates diachronic to synchronic properties of the languages. The structural features in most of today’s languages are a result of the diachronic processes of language change. Most of the phonological changes especially the 7 to 5 vowel shift (in Bantu) left the remnants which still affect the languages today. This paper discusses this p...
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Proposed Roads to Salvation: Narrative Analysis of The Painted Veil
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 5, September 2022
Pages:
292-297
Received:
8 September 2022
Accepted:
4 October 2022
Published:
18 October 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijla.20221005.14
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Abstract: The Painted Veil is a novel written by the famous British writer, William Somerset Maugham. It depicts the love tragedy of the couple, Kitty Garstin and her husband Walter Fane, which shows the themes of love and betrayal, plague and salvation and explores how Kitty struggled on the road to salvation. This paper firstly traced back to the source of her salvation, the human emotional instinct, which led to Kitty’s betrayal of marriage and Walter’s punishment. In order to revenge, Walter took Kitty to Mei-tan-fu, where the people were in the face of the outbreak of a terrible plague, cholera, which naturally resulted in Kitty’s death perception in a foreign land. Under the awful death threat from the plague in a strange place, Kitty was deep in thought. Especially after she worked in the monastery, she constantly reflected on herself and found she had reformed and broken the shackles of her original feelings influenced by her driving force from the the death crisis of the plague and the nuns’ positive attitude and efforts towards the plague. By tracing back to the source of her salvation, death perception and her salvation from the plague, the author carried out narrative analysis of Kitty’s thoughts in exotic locations in the “other” mode of thinking, aiming at criticizing the utilitarianism and worldliness in western modern concepts.
Abstract: The Painted Veil is a novel written by the famous British writer, William Somerset Maugham. It depicts the love tragedy of the couple, Kitty Garstin and her husband Walter Fane, which shows the themes of love and betrayal, plague and salvation and explores how Kitty struggled on the road to salvation. This paper firstly traced back to the source of...
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An Interpretation of Dazhen’s Novels from the Perspective of Ecological Holism
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 5, September 2022
Pages:
298-301
Received:
20 September 2022
Accepted:
29 September 2022
Published:
18 October 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijla.20221005.15
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Abstract: In recent years, the world has undergone profound changes: The natural geographical environment on which human beings depend for survival has been deteriorating, relations among countries and peoples in the world are in constant tension and conflict, and the spiritual beliefs of human beings have been alienated and collapsed, leaving a harmonious ecological world in urgent need of restoration. As a spiritual food for human beings, world literature has a significant role to play in dissolving antagonistic relationships, rebuilding ecological ethics, and helping people return to the Garden of Eden. Dazhen is one of the most important writers in Ganzi Prefecture, whose novels, for example Khampa and Destiny reflect the magical land of Khampa Plateau, the ancient tea-horse road of the Han- Zang convergence and the production and life style of Khampa people. In this paper, through literature search and close reading, we focus on the following aspects: ecological holism contains the triple ecological system of spiritual ecology, social ecology and natural ecology; the natural ecology of the harmonious coexistence of people and the Khampa Plateau is represented by Khampa people’s paying homage to cruel natural environment; the social ecology of the harmonious coexistence of multiple cultures is represented by Khampa people’s dissolving ethnic boundaries to carry the historical mission; and the spiritual ecology of the richness and uniqueness of the subject’s perception is represented by Khampa people’s holding up the culture of animism and the compassion of altruism. It is concluded that Da Zhen’s novels have a deep ecological thought that focuses on the universe, a loving heart, and the harmony and equality of all life, which has important implications for the harmonious development of ecological, material and spiritual civilizations in China and the whole world today.
Abstract: In recent years, the world has undergone profound changes: The natural geographical environment on which human beings depend for survival has been deteriorating, relations among countries and peoples in the world are in constant tension and conflict, and the spiritual beliefs of human beings have been alienated and collapsed, leaving a harmonious e...
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Conventional Preachers in Selected Plays of Henrik Ibsen and George Bernard Shaw
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 5, September 2022
Pages:
302-310
Received:
15 August 2022
Accepted:
22 September 2022
Published:
21 October 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijla.20221005.16
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Abstract: Bernard Shaw’s fervent admiration of Henrik Ibsen is not only registered in the former’s “The Quintessence of Ibsenism” but is also identifiable in the identical thematic concerns of both playwrights. Although the two authors may differ in the tone and mood of their plays, they are unanimous on the fact that the world is in motion and old values and previous conceptions are adrift. By presenting Ibsen and Shaw as precursors of change from a world of conventional practices to a freer and flexible world where both the woman and the man can impact each in his or her own way, this research endeavour seeks to consider the playwrights as revolutionists with a positive agenda for humanity. In this sense, the study examines the two authors as 19th century iconoclasts and seeks to determine their religious philosophies as illustrated in their plays. From a feminist perspective, the paper entitled “Conventional Preachers in Selected Plays of Henrik Ibsen and George Bernard Shaw” examines how modes of conventional preaching conflict with the evolutionary religious ideas of both authors. In line with feminist theology, the study which attempts to counter arguments or practices that place women in inferior spiritual or moral positions is based on the hypothesis that the heroines of Ibsen and Shaw are rebels against established theological preachings. The research postulates that Ibsen and Shaw are highly critical of the hypocritical religious preachers of the Norwegian and Victorian societies. It focuses on how the authors used the stage in the late nineteenth century to deliver the Victorian and Norwegian societies from rigid conventions. According to the study, conventional preaching is anti-feminist and society needs a more vibrant and progressive religion as conceived by Ibsen and propagated by Shaw.
Abstract: Bernard Shaw’s fervent admiration of Henrik Ibsen is not only registered in the former’s “The Quintessence of Ibsenism” but is also identifiable in the identical thematic concerns of both playwrights. Although the two authors may differ in the tone and mood of their plays, they are unanimous on the fact that the world is in motion and old values an...
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Anti-Capitalist Sentiments in George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 5, September 2022
Pages:
311-320
Received:
15 August 2022
Accepted:
22 September 2022
Published:
21 October 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijla.20221005.17
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Abstract: George Bernard Shaw is a great admirer of Henrik Ibsen and a great apostle of the so-called Ibsenism. The theme of discussion in the Ibsen’s plays inspired Shaw who suggested that Ibsen’s plays provided a technical novelty and signalled a new beginning out of the well made play of Eugene Scribe. Shaw expressed his recognition of Ibsen’s genius in The Quintessence of Ibsenism and championed the introduction of Ibsen to the English public. The purpose of this research endeavour entitled Anti-Capitalist Sentiments in George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is to show the disgruntlement of Ibsen and Shaw with the practice of conventional politics. The study investigates the political perspectives of the authors and seeks to examine how the playwrights condemned the political systems in 19th century Europe. The political vision of the authors is therefore of prime interest to this study which is based on the assumption that A Doll’s House and Mrs. Warren’s Profession are platforms for the anti-capitalist views of Henrik Ibsen and George Bernard Shaw. According to the authors, the poor systems of government in Victorian England and in Norway hinder man’s progress and destroy man’s freedom. They therefore share in the Marxist ideology that governments are machineries of exploitation of the masses and the Marxist belief that capitalism is based on the exploitation of workers by the owners of capital. In other words, the chapter will look at the poor notions of democracy and capitalism as obstacles on the road to self-fulfilment and self-realisation. The study postulates that for Ibsen and Shaw, no meaningful change is possible in a capitalist society.
Abstract: George Bernard Shaw is a great admirer of Henrik Ibsen and a great apostle of the so-called Ibsenism. The theme of discussion in the Ibsen’s plays inspired Shaw who suggested that Ibsen’s plays provided a technical novelty and signalled a new beginning out of the well made play of Eugene Scribe. Shaw expressed his recognition of Ibsen’s genius in T...
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Wandering Characters in Shattered Homelands: Between Place and Character in Qassim Tawfiq's Novel Jisr ʿAbdoun/ʿAbdoun Bridge
Issue:
Volume 10, Issue 5, September 2022
Pages:
321-334
Received:
6 October 2022
Accepted:
24 October 2022
Published:
29 October 2022
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijla.20221005.18
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Abstract: The novel JisrʿAbdoun/ʿAbdoun Bridge by the Jordanian writer Kassem Tawfīq celebrates the place and makes it a motivation for the characters to search for themselves in the shadow of their correlation with it, revealing the strength of its presence, its influence on them, and its control of their destinies. It also reveals the distortion of the meaning of the homeland within man in this age, in order to push him into alienation and migration and to create feelings of loneliness, isolation, and alienation. This study provides an in-depth analysis of the novel, its characters, and its relationship to the place. It seeks to investigate an individual's relationship with the homeland/place, answering several questions about several issues, including the essence of the relationship between the character and place; the possibility that the place is separated from the character; the character's feelings when defining the features of the place; the extent to which the place controls the character and affects its sensations and interactions with itself and its surroundings; the capability of distorting the self of the character and its alienation; the meaning of 'homeland'; the extent of creating a sense of alienation and loneliness within the human being; man's capability of saving himself from the grip of a homeland with such features; man's ability to create another alternative homeland due to the distortion of his native homeland and the possible location of that alternative. Artistically, the study will examine the technical mechanisms and their employment serving these contents. These techniques include intertextuality, name symbolism, meta-writing, and textual thresholds.
Abstract: The novel JisrʿAbdoun/ʿAbdoun Bridge by the Jordanian writer Kassem Tawfīq celebrates the place and makes it a motivation for the characters to search for themselves in the shadow of their correlation with it, revealing the strength of its presence, its influence on them, and its control of their destinies. It also reveals the distortion of the mea...
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