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TheoreticalConsiderationfromEthicalSelectiontoScientificSelection：InterviewingProfessorNieZhenzhao/LIUHongweiNIEZhenzhao

Abstract：In the whole theoretical system of Ethical Literary Criticism, “Ethical selection” is the core concept and theoretical cornerstone.Professor Nie Zhenzhao, the founder of Ethical Literary Criticism, mainly elaborates on the value and critical practice of “ethical selection” in the interview.Ethical Literary Criticism holds that the development of human civilization includes “natural selection”, “ethical selection” and “scientific selection”.“Natural selection” solves the problem of human form, “ethical selection” solves the question of human essence, and “scientific selection” solves that of human science.The method of “ethical selection” is ethical instruction of teaching and learning.With the help of edification, human beings become highly scientific, thus morals disappear and human civilization enters the stage of scientific selection.In critical practice, “ethical selection” as theory and “ethical choice” as terminology are two different terms and concepts.The former is the whole selection process and is made up of the latter.As for ethical selection, it belongs only to human beings, and there is no ethical selection in the animal world.In the stage of ethical selection, human reproduction is a natural selection of ethical nature.Even if the cloning of human beings is made with the aid of science and technology, which is permitted by ethics and law, it is still an ethical product and cannot be a symbol of human civilization entering scientific selection.Ethical selection is subjective as well as objective, so in a sense, it is not free choice.

Keywords：Nie Zhenzhao; Ethical Literary Criticism; ethical selection; natural selection; scientific selection

ForeignLiteratureTeachingandResearchintheInternetEra:InterviewingProfessorJiangChengyong/HUANGWeiJIANGChengyong

Abstract：This article is based on an interview with Professor Jiang Chengyong, a senior scholar at Zhejiang Gongshang University.Combining his profound accumulation in the field of foreign literature research and teaching, Professor Jiang first analyzed the problems and positive factors behind the “fragmented” or “screen” reading in the Internet era, and proposed effective measures for young students to “re-read classics”.Emphasizing that “Literature is essentially Human Studies”, Professor Jiang explained the humanistic connotation of Western literature and the significance of reading classics.Professor Jiang also emphasized that in foreign literature studies, it is necessary to take into consideration the current academic situation and needs in China, and to decide our academic interest in accordance with the construction of the discipline and discourse system of China’s foreign literature studies; while maintaining a clear awareness of the problems caused by the disconnect between theories and texts, we cannot ignore the necessity of “theoretical guidance” in classic reassessment and literary research.This interview shows Professor Jiang’s insights into the research and teaching of foreign literature in the Internet Era, and fully reflects the humanistic and patriotic visions in the research and teaching of foreign literature.

Keywords：Internet age; foreign literature teaching and research; classic rereading; theoretical guidance

NothingMattersMoreThanaGoodCommandoftheChineseLanguage:APieceofAdviceforForeignLanguageStudents/HUANGYuanshen

Abstract：A good command of the Chinese language is essential for students of all disciplines and all the more so for those learning foreign languages.Language learning is, in a way, interrelated.Mastery of Chinese contributes to the learning of English.Likewise, a good English learner is very often buttressed by his high cultivation of the Chinese language.In this sense, a good command of Chinese makes everything else simple for language learners, and foreign language students have no reason whatsoever to ignore the Chinese language.But what happens in real life causes concern.The students’ Chinese is far below the standard, which in return impairs their study of English, and therefore calls for measures to be taken to improve the situation.It is time, this article emphasizes, that enough attention was given to the study of the Chinese language.To sum up, a good command of Chinese means everything.

Keywords：foreign language students; the Chinese language; the standard

TheEthicalTraditionsinBritishDramaNarration/LIUMaosheng

Abstract：This paper focuses on the ethical thoughts contained in the most representative morality drama, humanist drama, comedy of manners, social problem plays, theatre of absurd and other classical dramas in the history of British drama from the diachronic dimension.On the other hand, on the basis of summarizing the different types, thoughts, language and other related issues of British drama studies in various periods, it analyzes the ethical motivations and the development of ethical thoughts based on the needs of moral education.On account of the rich ethical connotation of the works and the current situation of British drama study in each period, this paper summarizes the development laws and ethical traditions of drama that aim at moral education.British drama has different works, different forms of performance and different audience groups in various periods, but it has never left the ethical traditions with moral instruction as its core.

Keywords：British drama; generation of classics; ethical traditions

AnOverviewofBritishDramaoverthePastDecade/WANGLan

Abstract：The development of British drama between 2010 and 2020 was full of vitality, reflecting both mainstream values and the social composition of the audience, as well as the aspirations of different ethnic groups and social strata.Among those who are active on the British theater scene, one can find both well-established playwrights, such as Tom Stoppard, Howard Brenton, David Hare and Caryl Churchill, as well as younger playwrights, such as debbie tucker green, Jez Butterworth, Vivienne Franzmann, Lucy Kirkwood, Tom Wells, etc.The achievements of British drama in the second decade of the 21stcentury are mainly reflected in the following aspects: expressing minority demands, continuing to voice feminist views, exploring British politics, reflecting contemporary life and social problems, and paying attention to social equity and the plight of mankinds.

Keywords：English drama; political topics; overview

NovelsofOlgaTokarczukintheContextofMagicalRealism/MAOYinhuiXIEShilei

Abstract：Olga Tokarczuk is a well-known Polish contemporary female writer, who is good at combining different elements, such as folklore, nature and religious tales, with Polish history and human life in her works.She creates stories from a novel perspective, blurring the boundary of time and space and drawing on post-modern narrative strategies.Olga Tokarczuk maintains a fantastical writing style in a light vein through her lively linguistic ability.In a career spanning more than thirty years, Tokarczuk has selectively inherited traditional magical realism literature, while blending her own writing characteristics to develop a distinctly personal style of magical realism.

Keywords：magical realism; Olga Tokarczuk; narrative style

Form,Nature,andBeast:AnExplorationofHumanNatureinPrimevalandOtherTimes/GUANRongzhenLIUYi

Abstract：Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, takes the Second World War as the textual background and constructs the text with the human nature narration of different characters.From three ethics perspectives, namely, human form, human nature, and beast nature, this article conducts an in-depth reading of the different renderings of the Primeval villagers in terms of human form, human nature, and the beast in the novel, focusing on the practical significance of the fictional text, with philosophy thought over the constructive meaning of human nature between the fictional and real characters, so as to reveal the humanity connotation through the presentation of the fictional ancient village mapping on the real world, as well as to show the artistic attainments achieved by the novel with a small ancient village to map out the whole world.

Keywords：PrimevalandOtherTimes; human nature analysis; human form; human nature; beast

TheMenippeanSatireofMoscow-Petushki/HUYing

Abstract：Venedikt Yerofeyev’sMoscow-Petushkiis one of the “original texts” of Russian postmodernism literature.To certain extent, its subversive and mixed literary style inherits the tradition of the Menippean Satire in European classical literature, combining absurd and demented fiction with profound and wise thought, and conducting a psychological experiment full of irony and philosophy.According to Bakhtin’s definition and interpretation of the Menippean Satire,Moscow-Petushkicomprehensively presents the important features of the genre both in content and form, but it is not merely an imitator or a reproducer.The inherent dialogue, argument, resistance and flexibility in this work are more distinct, and it reflects a strong anti-genre and anti-sublime feature.Moscow-Petushkinot only enriches the connotation of the Menippean Satire, but also further expands its outer edge, giving this classical genre a new vitality in contemporary literature.

Keywords：Moscow-Petushki; Venedikt Yerofeyev; Menippean Satire; Bakhtin

Non-polyphonicInterpretationofPolyphonicStructure/TIANPingCHENGYanRENShimei

Abstract：Polyphonic structure, serving the theme of the works, is a kind of discourse to be interpretated, and through non-polyphonic interpretation, certain new meaning can be gained from the structure.First, it is necessary to integrate the structure’s componential parts into its clear form to be matched with proper context.Then, comes the hunting for two types of context for the matching: subject context and connectional one, with the former prescribing the direction in which to hunt, and with the latter, on the one hand, to match the polyphonic structure with the same/similar form as/to that of the polyphonic structure so as to build formal connection between the subject and the polyphonic structure, and on the other, to obtain a sememe in the direction of subject so as to prescribe the scope of the thematic meaning of the polyphonic structure.Finally, by the completion of the above two steps, the meaning of the form of the polyphonic structure could be made clear and concrete by metaphor.

Keywords：notion of non-polyphony; polyphonic structure; interpretation method; hunting for the contexts

Non-linearityofTimeinNarrativeDiscourseandItsRepresentationofCognitiveViewpoint/LIYongzhong

Abstract：The non-linear feature of time is the outcome of cognitive operation of the conceptual metaphor TIME IS SPACE.The integration of time and space constructs temporal-spatial dimension of narrative discourse.The result of spatialization of discourse time is the temporal process transfer from linear to non-linear.It also reflects the purposeful choice of the narrative viewpoint.This paper, from the cognitive perspective, mainly discusses non-linearity of narrative time and the narrative viewpoint that it indicates.

Keywords：narration; time; non-linear; space; viewpoint

TheMeaningConstructionofMentalSpacesinCopenhagen/LIYing

Abstract：Contemporary American writer Michael Frayn places literary narratives in scientific and historical contexts, and explains the uncertainty of history and the relativity of morality from a cognitive perspective through the aesthetic experience of uncertainty, such as soul, memory, metonymy, and metaphor inCopenhagen.The play considers three questions from macro to micro: why do people rewrite history? How to write history in literature and keep pace with the times? This paper investigates how ethics, cultural identity, the light of reason, and aspirations of the subject are delivered through three cognitive methods of possible worlds, mental spaces, and conceptual integration.

Keywords：Michael Frayn;Copenhagen; Cognitive Poetics; Mental Space; Conceptual Integration Network

RhythmicPotentialandRhythmicAesthetics:TakingaClose-readingof“ThisIsJusttoSay”/LIZhimin

Abstract：Scholars of traditional poetics considered that poetic rhythm is totally objective, so that they built up all sorts of strict poetic forms on the basis of the traditional rhythmic aesthetics.However, scholars of the day have discovered that rhythm is subjective by carrying out certain scientific experiments, and have thus put forwards modern rhythmic aesthetics on the basis of human cognitive mechanism.The pauses in and between lines caused by poetic rhythm help readers fully consume phrases and lines in a poem, so that deep and powerful impressions are left on minds of the readers.Professional poets are good at taking advantage of the mechanism of human rhythmic potential and capability to create many different poetic forms, among which the most effective is to attract cognitive attention from the readers with poetic lines, and help them to be fully immersed in the beauty of certain poetic words and the whole poem.William Carlos Williams is a master in making beautiful poetic rhythm with line breaks with “This Is Just to Say” as a wonderful example.In this poem, with his skillful application of rhythmic aesthetics, readers are deeply impressed by the sweet love of the poet to his wife via the emotional substance of the words applied in the poem.

Keywords：poetry; rhythm; rhythmic potential; rhythmic aesthetics; “This Is Just to Say”

WilliamCarlosWilliamsandHis“Anti-poetic”/QIANKun

Abstract：The “anti-poetic” refers to phenomena, things or humans in the modern industrial system, which are not beautiful or poetical at all in accordance with traditional aesthetics and poetics.William Carlos Williams, a modernist American poet, maintains his theory of “immediate contact”, chooses them as raw materials and adopts techniques of visual arts, to write poems through which he attempts to cure America’s disease and attain his ideal of national governance.His rebellion and modernity entails his complexity.Therefore, the practice of an interdisciplinary study to review the poet and his “the anti-poetic” from multiple perspectives of philosophy, aesthetics, poetics and socio-history is beneficial to a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of his poetry and a more objective evaluation of his success and failure.

Keywords：Williams; “the anti-poetic”; immediate contact; national governance