Chinese literature

The existing monogatari, most likely penned by men, pulled largely from Chinese literature. Notably, Shikabu shifts from the male viewpoint of her prince, Genji to the inner lives of the women he encounters. This seems to be in direct counterpoint to The Tosa Diary, which begins in the female voice but quickly swings to the vantage…

Fiction reflects the thoughts, aspirations, and struggles of its author. Through literary works, one can come to understand a cultural consciousness previously unbeknownst to them. With this in mind, historians have learned to use rather than ignore literature as an aid in their studies. Vernacular and modern tales of the Congo region capture both the fantastical and factual elements. Epics, like The Mwindo Epic, echo the foundation of Congolese culture form which thereafter conflict has arisen…

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT Book 1 1. Author/Illustrator: Jerry Pinkney 2. Title and date of publication: The Tortoise and the Hare, published on 10/01/2013 3. Genre of the book: Traditional Literature 4. Format: Picture Book 5. Award(s): None 6. Summary of the book: The tortoise challenges the hare to a race. He tells him that he can beat him in a race. At the start the hare shoots off and is in the lead, but the tortoise throughout the whole story says that slow and steady will…

Kjerkegaard (2011:6 ) in his article "Seven Days without a Pun Makes One Weak. Two Functions of Wordplay in Literature and Literary Theory" attempts "to demonstrate that the significant differences between the various understandings of wordplay originate from its unique flexibility. This flexibility can be exploited in literary language through an interaction between a semiotic deficit and a semantic surplus. It could be claimed that wordplay is viewed in either a semiotic or a semantic…

Our educational system is quite similar to the American and the British as we were taught how to write various types of essays in our literature lesson. The most important essay structures that we needed to learn throughout our high school years were explanatory, discussion, and comparative essays. However, the structure itself was completely different even though these might sound similar…

How did Amy Lowell shape contemporary trends in american poetry? A quote of Amy Lowell shows both her determined personality and her sense of humor: "God made me a business woman, and I made myself a poet." During her career that spanned only twelve or so years, she wrote and published over 650 poems, but she is most often recognized for her work to open American readers up to contemporary trends in poetry. "Poet, propagandist, lecturer, translator, biographer, critic . . . her verve is almost…

A Dream of China is a Singaporean short story written by Ovidia Yu. Ovidia Yu is an author of various award-winning plays and short stories. She has had more than thirty of her plays produced and is considered one of the most well-known writers in Singapore, according to HarperCollins Publishers. Apart from that, she is also known for using humor and unique characters throughout her writing to explore changing roles and identities throughout society, especially for women. She is considered one…

education as well as training in modern foreign languages and literatures. While in school, he developed socialist convictions and an interest in writing. He became an anarchist in the mid-1920s. After two years of study in France, he moved to Shanghai, where he wrote his first novel, Miewang (“Extinction”), which appeared with great success in 1929. He signed his work with the pen name Ba Jin, the last character of which is the Chinese equivalent of the last…

Orwell and Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie have been seen as controversial for many years because they feature an oppressive government. Many people believe that 1984 portrays the strength of literature on the characters more effectively because it highlights how language and literature were used in the form of slogans to control the entire society. However, readers fail to notice that 1984 lacks the effective use of literature and language. Literature and language have a…

Chinese strategic culture It is very hard to define the meaning of strategic culture. According to Andrew Scobell, it is a persistent system of values held in common by the leaders or group of leaders of a state concerning the use of military force (Scobell 1999). Strategic culture consists of common beliefs, cultural assumptions, and behavior of individuals, based on shared experience and collective identification of a group’s relationship (Delios and Henisz, 2003). Research by Nisbett…