English Language, Literature & Culture

Volume 5, Issue 3, September 2020

  • The Deconstructed Angels in Tess of the D’Urbervilles

    Tianyu Xu

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 3, September 2020
    Pages: 79-83
    Received: 13 July 2020
    Accepted: 30 July 2020
    Published: 10 August 2020
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    Abstract: The nineteenth-century is an age when traditional social expectations for a truly pure and angelic woman pervade the Western world. In Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891), two main characters apparently bear unignorable relevance to the term “angel” or its connotation: Angel Clare, whose Christian name alone suggests the subtle artistic... Show More
  • Critical Discourse Analysis of Sino-U.S. News Reports on Trade War: A Corpus-based Comparative Study

    Wang Liyang, Wang Jiayi, Luo Qian

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 3, September 2020
    Pages: 84-90
    Received: 20 July 2020
    Accepted: 5 August 2020
    Published: 10 August 2020
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    Abstract: Since April 2018, the U.S. government headed by U.S. President Trump has adopted trade protection measures, and the Sino-U.S. trade war broke out. This lasting event has attracted widespread attention from domestic and foreign media, and the attitudes and opinions presented by various reports are different. In order to explore more in-depth informa... Show More
  • The Political Rhapsody and Ethical Expression in Bernard Shaw’s The Apple Cart

    Liu Maosheng, Long Yanxia

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 3, September 2020
    Pages: 91-97
    Received: 1 August 2020
    Accepted: 14 August 2020
    Published: 25 August 2020
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    Abstract: As a Nobel Prize winner, Bernard Shaw is undoubtedly one of the most prominent and prolific playwrights of the Victorian age. His works have exerted a great influence on world literature. The studies of Shaw and his works have achieved fruitful results. However, most scholars have long focused on Shaw’s early problem plays and paid little attention... Show More
  • Exploring Silence Embedded in Three Selected Sonnets

    Nwe Nwe Hlaing

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 3, September 2020
    Pages: 98-106
    Received: 2 August 2020
    Accepted: 18 August 2020
    Published: 27 August 2020
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    Abstract: Most sonnets are love poems, but a vast array of subjects can be embedded in sonnets. Silence can be considered a fascinating subject in both British and American Poetry as it is usually associated with philosophy and can arouse intense emotions in readers. In poetry, silence is subtly portrayed despite its negative impact on the moods of some poet... Show More
  • The Noise of Time: Shostakovich in Biofiction

    Li Jin

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 3, September 2020
    Pages: 107-111
    Received: 29 August 2020
    Accepted: 11 September 2020
    Published: 21 September 2020
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    Abstract: The life of Dmitri Shostakovich, a Soviet composer and Russian intellectual who was censored under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin, features in many bio-works. Julian Barnes’s The Noise of Time is a reconstruction of the well-known composer’s life story, and it confronts the readers with the deconstruction of biographical conventions. In the nove... Show More
  • Female Gender Identity in the Adaptation of Disney Live-action Film Mulan

    Xu Qingli, Shi Ying

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 3, September 2020
    Pages: 112-115
    Received: 21 August 2020
    Accepted: 2 September 2020
    Published: 21 September 2020
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    Abstract: The Disney’s 2020 live-action Mulan is remade from its 1998 animated one whose box office globally grossed 304 million. Both movies are based on Chinese “The Ballad of Mulan” that a young woman disguised as a man to join the army about 1500 years ago. The 2020 Mulan movie is adapted to strengthen Mulan’s motto “loyal”, “brave” and “true” as a warri... Show More
  • Gender Ambiguity, Domesticity and The Public Space: The Case of Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White

    Debora Antonietta Sarnelli

    Issue: Volume 5, Issue 3, September 2020
    Pages: 116-123
    Received: 1 September 2020
    Accepted: 23 September 2020
    Published: 12 October 2020
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    Abstract: Starting from Linda Brannon’s “the Doctrine of Two Spheres” (Brannon 2004) and Barbara Welter’s “the Cult of True Womanhood” (Welter 2000), the contribution aims at analyzing how the “Doctrine of Two Spheres” is clearly visible in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White (1859), where the main protagonists’ personalities and behaviors reveal both the pr... Show More