话本小说时空构架的"江南"特征及其叙事意义

南宋以后,随着经济、文化中心的南移,话本小说在江南得以迅速兴起,并在明代走向全面成熟.生活在江南的话本小说家基本依据江南的地理特点、地质构造以及节日风俗等人文地理状况来构架小说时空;即使写到江北时空,也往往参照江南"版本"进行.以"游赏"为主题的江南节日,为话本小说故事的生发提供了带有地方人文色彩的叙事时间刻度.同时,江南水乡又为话本小说提供了别致的叙事空间.其中,作为故事的多发地带和情缘的多生场所,"桥"、"船"、"岸"成为故事得以展开的基本场景.总之,话本小说的时空构架带有明显的江南地域特征,这些江南化的时空有力地促进了这类小说的叙事运动,并确立了其"江南文学"性质.     

论《红楼梦》叙事风格在翻译中的显性与隐性再现及再现缺失

曹雪芹在《红楼梦》中创造性地采用了第一人称与第三人称的叙事手法，这一观点虽然在红学界颇存争议，但“石兄”作为第一人称叙事者的观点仍然为许多红学研究者所接受。本文通过对杨宪益、戴乃迭全译本《红楼梦》的文本解读，对翻译中如何传达原作者叙事风格进行了研究。由此发现，原作中所体现出的叙事风格，无论是显性的还是隐性的，在译本当中都得到了较妥当的处理。但是因为红学界在“石兄”、“神瑛侍者”和贾宝玉之间的关系上存在争议，或者是因为译者的翻译中处理失当，而使这种叙事风格并未获得完美的转译。     

黑格尔体系化哲学对赫勒历史叙事的影响

黑格尔的体系化哲学深刻影响了赫勒的历史叙事方式及历史叙事风格,其宏大叙事式的历史叙事起点有其内在必然性。黑格尔运用辨证的方法和发展的观点对人的意识、精神的发展进行的分析,直接影响着赫勒关于历史意识发展的阶段论,表现为典型的黑格尔式的螺旋。同时,黑格尔表达的关于绝对精神把握世界的确信,也直接体现为赫勒历史哲学对拯救星球的责任与使命的担当。     

认同重构与文化整合——吴越文化的东周外部叙事

吴越文化在历经东周方国覆灭、民族大离散之后,由于话语权的缺失,其自身除了地域因素之外在物质意义上的文化传承能力基本丧失,而掌握着绝对话语权的中原文化解释系统对其的外部叙事却在某种程度上为吴越文化的传承在文献上连接起了这中断的一环。中原外部叙事一方面保存、还原了某些吴越文化的真实面貌,另一方面也自然而然地流露出了以“礼制”为文化解释核心的中原文化立场叙事框架下的认同重构与文化整合意识,表现出一方面极尽对吴越文化的歧视与排斥,另一方面却又积极寻求对某些文化共性的吸纳的双重姿态,吴越文化的东周转型正是在排斥与吸纳的双重叙事的中原文化认同重构与文化整合之下完成的。     

Violent men’s paths to batterer intervention programmes: masculinity,turning points and narrative selves

Drawing on interviews with voluntary participants in intervention programmes for perpetrators of intimate partner violence in Sweden, the present article analyses violent men’s turning-point stories, that is, their narratives of deciding to start and starting treatment. Three types of turning-point stories are identified: narratives that describe men recognizing their violence either before or during treatment, and narratives of returning to treatment. Through these stories, the men not only present reasons for joining therapy, but also produce gendered narrative selves. In particular they present themselves as morally ‘good’ and self-conscious men by simultaneously acknowledging their abusive behaviour and distancing themselves from being violent men.     

从“自述其名”方式看“卒章显志”叙事模式的变迁——以《崧高》《烝民》《巷伯》《节南山》《閟宫》为中心

《诗·小雅·巷伯》《节南山》《大雅·崧高》《烝民》《鲁颂·閟宫》的"叙述者"皆采用在卒章"自述其名"方式"显志"的叙事结构模式,即在叙事文本中以"真实作者"替换了叙述者"我",是一种最典型的"公开的叙述者",其共同特点就是叙事主体显性评价与自我意识的不断强化。由此而开创的在诗歌叙事文本中"卒章显志"的叙事模式,对后世中国诗歌乃至个体文学创作产生了深刻影响。     

Stories that matter: subverting the before-and-after weight-loss narrative

Contemporary scholarship does not pay enough attention to stigma in relation to its temporal status; i.e. whether the stigma is temporary and changeable, or is it permanent? The present article links the study of sociology of time, of de-stigmatization strategies and of narrative resistance, through a case study of individuals who are stigmatized on the basis of an attribute perceived as temporary and changeable – fatness. Conducting a comparative analysis of Before-and-After weight-loss articles appearing in an Israeli online health magazine, I examine how these narratives marginalize fat people by presenting fatness as temporary and changeable. I then compare these narratives to life narratives produced by Israeli-Jewish women, who self-identify as fat. Participants subvert mainstream narratives in two ways: (1) assigning the fat body to “After,” thereby challenging the temporary and transient status of fatness and (2) subverting other discursive characteristics of Before-and-After Weight-Loss Narratives. As a result, participants produce valid knowledge and social criticism from a stable fat subject position.     

The politics of Mikhail M Bakhtin's Carni‐Phallic body

While many scholars attribute Barack Obama's success in the 2008 presidential election to his so-called deracialized campaign strategy, I argue that Obama constructed a persuasive message strategy that was fundamentally based on race. I argue that in pursuing what I call a racial distinction strategy, Obama mobilized race differently than previous Black candidates running in White-voter electoral majorities. Specifically, Obama's racial distinction strategy constructed a seamless racial narrative – deployed through constellations of subtle racial language and imagery – incorporating Obama's own personal biography within a broader narrative of the nation, specifically a narrative of American progress. The fact that Obama employed a racial distinction strategy, and the fact that he succeeded in doing so, sheds new light on, and leads us to reconsider the veracity of popular political theories such as post-Blackness, post-racialism and deracialization, along with the general ideology of colorblindness.     

Interpreting the signs of the times: beyond Jung

This article introduces the semiotics of Tarot images in the context of human experiences and in the framework of Jung's analytical psychology. It presents Tarot pictures as symbolic representations of the archetypes embedded in the collective psyche. The images can function as symbolic triggers especially significant at the time of socio-cultural transitions, therefore making it imperative to read, interpret, and understand the meanings of those important signs that act out in human culture. The article addresses in particular the Jungian archetype of the Shadow as a sign and symptom, and considers some consequences of its functioning at both individual and social levels. It also posits the necessity of the integration of the Shadow in view of its projection as embodied in some real-life events affecting the collective psyche in the twenty-first century.