Orientalism,otherness, and the Soviet empire: travelogues by Latvian writers of the Soviet period

ABSTRACT

The development of travel writing in a national literature is closely related to the geographical and mental cartography that characterizes that territory. This article investigates Latvian travelogues of the Soviet era as encounters with other nations within the Soviet empire in order to analyze the role of Latvian travel writings in shaping a feeling of belonging to the empire. In addition to fostering obedience and a sense of belonging to the Soviet empire during the first 15 oppressive years of the Soviet regime, Latvian travelogues of the later years represented the Soviet empire as a conflictual site of the destruction of traditional values and landscapes.     

Imagining the modern city: Miyamoto [Chūjō] Yuriko in Moscow and London, 1927–1930

After her life-changing sojourn in the Soviet Union and Europe in the late 1920s, Miyamoto [Chūjō] Yuriko (1899–1951) devoted herself to the cause of communism. Her ideological conversion was rooted in the context of the modern city – in particular, Moscow and London – and the close interrelation between literary and filmic modernism and the modern city is evident in two key articles she wrote during her time abroad. In this article I will analyse how Yuriko represented her profoundly political experience and interpretation of two cities embodying alternative, opposed modernities – communism and capitalism – through modernist literary techniques and the new artistic technology of film.     

信息技术与课程整合的现实困境与实践探索——基于高职英语教师的视角

当前,我国教育进入了教育信息化发展的新时期。教育信息化的重心转向以课程改革为导向,教师的信息化教学设计培训为核心,推进课程与信息技术整合的深入发展。高职公共英语课程的信息化教学设计过程,是提高高职院校公共英语课程教学效果的有效途径,也对各级公共英语的教学设计起到示范和参考作用。     

耗散结构论对英语写作的启示

英语写作是一个复杂、动态的思维过程。事实上,它是一个耗散结构。英语写作是一个开放的系统,远离平衡态系统,非线性系统和一个有序的系统。研究耗散结构理论可以为英语写作教学提供一个新的研究视点,以期改善写作教学,全面提高学生的英语写作水平。     

加强专业英语教学 促进学生就业——以高职酒店管理专业为例

在知识经济时代,人才是最重要的资源,人才的培养离不开素质教育的全面实施。在英语教学中,要改变以往的偏重语音、语法的教学模式,适应社会需要,注重培养学生必须掌握的实用的英语语言知识和技能,为进一步提高英语的交际能力打下坚实的基础。     

公安院校警察英语教学初探——英语国家警察培训对我院专业英语教学的影响与启示

公安院校的定位应是应用型和专业型的大学,在英语教学上对学员进行警察专业英语培训是其基本要求。本文从专业英语教学的角度探讨了警察英语教学的性质、现状与教材建设,并结合我院作为外警培训基地的有利条件,总结了外警培训的特点及其对我院警察英语教学的影响,提出结合实战、努力构建具有我院特色的警察英语教学的设想。     

日据时期旅行文学论述：身份认同与现代性

日据时期旅行文学研究在台湾方兴未艾。台湾文论界通过对旅行日本、欧美、中国大陆的不同游记的论述,探讨日据时期台湾人身份认同的暧昧两难。台湾社会特殊的历史际遇造成其现代性具有多种不同的表现形态。     

The Literary Journalism of Guadalupe Loaeza and Cristina Pacheco

Abstract — This article examines the writings of the Mexican literary journalists, Guadalupe Loaeza and Cristina Pacheco. It traces the political agendas of the writers through an analysis of their work in two collected volumes, Las niñas bien (Loaeza) and Sopita de fideo (Pacheco). The paper argues that while each author focuses on opposite ends of the social scale, each piece of writing contains an implicit or explicit attack on the Mexican ruling classes which mismanage the economy, squander its wealth and condemn the majority to economic misery.     

多媒体技术在英语教学中的运用

多媒体技术手段的运用是现代外语教育的一个重要发展方向,也是当今外语教学的发展趋势。如何充分利用多媒体技术为英语教学服务,全面提高学生的英语语言能力是值得探讨和研究的问题。     

《漱玉词》中的闺音原唱——兼及“男子而闺音”的比较分析

缠绵婉约的风格和女性化的柔婉抒情,是诗词两途的重要表现。＂男子而作闺音＂的婉约词,以女性口吻伤怀怨别,甚至能够以假乱真。但《漱玉词》立足于女性创作本位,抒写了天真烂漫的少女情怀、幽怨相思的少妇情怀、饱经忧患与淡忘世情的老妇情怀和意欲突破女性角色的性别焦虑这四种情感类型,其真实、全面、细腻是＂男子而闺音＂的代言词所不及的。这也是《漱玉词》对于词史的巨大贡献所在。