Mary Shelly’s novel Frankenstein written in 1818 was considered to be the world’s first science fiction. The monster in the work is a humanoid creature created by the protagonist Frankenstein using science and techn...
According to Socrate, the allegory of cave is used to portray the human education, in which the ability and object of knowing reach a higher level with an increase in the degree of education. Man at first knows ‘shad...
This paper examines the filming practice of Zhang Yimou’s Shadow(2018)in the context of Chinese culture and from the perspectives of contemporary gender theories.It argues that Shadow constructs a male-dominated patr...
The《Eighty-One Dreams》was written by Zhang Henshui during the Anti-Japanese War.The work takes the form of dreams and appeals to the spiritual pursuit of intellectuals.The form of dreams gives different functions to...
The fate of poets like Li Shang-yin, who are labeled “medieval,” is never to be modern. Critics both ancient and modern read them within a perspective they call “medieval” and will not allow these poets the freedo...
Through reading Walter Benjamin's critical essay, Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia, the authors of this research would like to trace the key point of Surrealist aesthetics, particularly t...
The issue of the poetry of Li Shang-yin and the Baroque is not yet settled since various critical attempts have not proven sufficiently satisfactory to justify a definition of his poetry as Baroque.The main difficulty...