Literary Value Research Articles

Russian rap and its literary value: analysis of social-political themes in the texts of Miron Fedorov (Oxxxymiron)

This article presents an analysis of the literary value of Russian rap through the lens of Miron Fedorov, better known as Oxxxymiron. The focus of the research lies in the social-political themes expressed in his lyrics. The article explores how rap texts serve as a means of profound literary expression, enabling the author to provide their responses to pressing societal issues. This study contributes to the understanding of how rap music can function as a form of literature and how it fosters a dialogue on crucial topics within contemporary society.

The Language Art and Tragic Beauty of Shen Congwen’s Border Town

As Shen Congwen’s representative work, Border Town was published in the 1930s. This work has a beautiful writing style, showcases unique local customs and ideal human beauty, and occupies a unique position in the history of Chinese literature. After nearly a century, it still receives high attention from the academic community and support from readers. Its literary value can withstand the test of time. The work Border Town has rich exploratory value. This article mainly analyzes the literary value of Border Town from two aspects. On the one hand, the language art of Border Town, which is the concentrated embodiment of the author Shen Congwen’s talent and the key to touching people’s hearts in this work. This article will deeply analyze how the work constructs poetic words that touch people’s hearts from the shaping of the environment and the psychological details of the characters. On the other hand, the tragic beauty of Border Town is reflected in the tragic love story between Cuicui and Nuosong, the tragic life story of her grandfather, and the tragedy of the author’s creation not being accepted by the times. This article will explore how the work creates a lingering and tragic atmosphere from these perspectives. The research ultimately proves that Border Town is a work that transcends the times and has research and aesthetic value, worthy of repeated reading and exploration.

Analysis of Marketing Strategies for Bestselling Books in the Context of Publishing Convergence: A Case Study of The Fugitive Artist

Driven by the dual forces of the digital wave and global trends, the publishing industry is undergoing unprecedented transformation, with publishing convergence becoming the new norm for industry development. In this context, the deep integration of traditional publishing and digital publishing has not only reshaped the methods of content production, distribution, and consumption but has also raised the bar for marketing strategies of international bestsellers. The Fugitive Artist, a fictional literary work that has made a global impact, owes its success not only to its profound literary value and captivating plot but also to its precise and innovative marketing strategies. This provides a valuable case for the market promotion of international bestsellers. This paper aims to analyze the marketing strategies of The Fugitive Artist in the context of publishing convergence, exploring how the book stood out in a complex and ever-changing market environment, and offering insights for the international promotion of similar works from China.

A Comparative Analysis of the Water Odes by Sururi and Fuzuli, and the Commentary on Sururi’s Water Ode

In our classical literature, all the poems of Fuzuli in the genres of ghazal, qasida, and masnavi have influenced subsequent poets in terms of their literary value. The Water Ode, due to the excellence in its subject matter and its treatment, has been imitated by poets who came after Fuzuli. Sururi, by composing his own Water Ode, proclaimed his presence in this field. However, Sururi's Water Ode is not as successful as that of Fuzuli. Renowned as a commentator on masnavi and known for his annotations on Sheikh Saadi Shirazi's works "Bostan" and "Gulistan," Sururi is one of the significant figures who shed light on his era. This article first provides information on text commentary and the theories proposed in this context. A comparison of the Water Odes by Fuzuli and Sururi will be made, and the commentary on Sururi’s Water Ode will be examined. Keywords: Sururi, life, art, works, Fuzuli’s Water Ode, Sururi’s Water Ode, text commentary.

Constructing an indexing template for ancient acupuncture medical cases based on knowledge element theory

Ancient acupuncture medical cases not only possess historical literary value but also hold significant clinical importance. To enhance the utilization of ancient acupuncture medical cases and to guide the excavation of acupuncture theory and its clinical application, this study constructs an indexing template for "Ancient Acupuncture Medical Cases" based on the knowledge element theory and the fine-grained indexing requirements of ancient acupuncture texts. This template includes two levels, 7 categories, 28 knowledge element data, 31 semantic types, and 15 semantic relationships. These element data construct the interconnections of knowledge in ancient acupuncture medical cases, serving as a basis for fine-grained indexing of acupuncture medical case literature.

The Interwoven Aesthetics and Identification: On Aesthetic Modernity in Frankenstein

Frankenstein is famous for its exploration of humanity in its bizarre plots, but the importance of this work also lies in its aesthetic modernity, which is revealed under the veil of the complementarity of aesthetics and identification. Based on the relevant theories of aesthetics and modernity, this thesis attempts to analyze the aesthetic connotation and literary expression of Frankenstein from both aspects of content and form and to reveal the aesthetic modernity in this novel. The novel exquisitely depicts the desire and reflection of the created “monster” on beauty and identity, exposes the social ills and humanity defects resulting from Enlightenment modernity in the contradiction between the construction of subjectivity and the modern aesthetic shackles, expands the scope and boundary of sympathy in the switch of multiple narrative perspectives, thus constructing a community of compassion in literary creation. As a result, Frankenstein and its research from the perspective of aesthetic modernity have great literary value and significance.

Comparing “Wandering through a Garden, Waking from a Dream” and “Ulysses” in Consciousness Stream Techniques

. “Ulysses” is one of the representative works of Irish writer James Joyce, and also a masterpiece of the writing technique known as “stream of consciousness,” which has had a significant impact on the world literary arena. “Wandering through a Garden, Waking from a Dream” is a novella created by Taiwanese writer Bai Xianyong which delicately exhibits the entire emotional flow and inner conflicts of the protagonist, Lady Qian, during her attendance at the banquet hosted by Lady Dou through the use of stream of consciousness technique. This paper compares these two classic works from the perspective of stream of consciousness, and analyzes the inspiration and creation of Bai Xianyong’s “Wandering through a Garden, Waking from a Dream” from “Ulysses”. The paper seeks to more profoundly unearth the profound literary value and social significance beneath the unique narrative style of “stream of consciousness” in the former. Based on his proficient mastery of Western stream of consciousness technique, Bai Xianyong fully exerts the creativity of an outstanding writer, forming a distinctive and unique Eastern stream of consciousness writing style rich in Chinese charm.

A Study of Premodern Folk Women’s Narrative Literature in Female Script

Folk women’s literature has always been a field of little research in the literary academic community. Due to the lack of seriousness in its texts, difficulty in collecting, and insufficient representative texts, many literatures analyse these texts from cultural and social perspectives. However, this article aims to explore the literary value behind these texts and prove that folk women can also achieve self-empowerment through literary creation.

Exploring the Fate of Common People in Feudal Society: A Case Study of The Lute

In the Yuan Dynasty, common people referred to those living at the lower strata of society, including the proletariat or small producers. Yuan Dynasty dramas depicted numerous images of common people. This paper begins with the image of common people and takes the Yuan Dynasty southern drama The Lute as its text. It deeply analyzes the fate trajectory of Cai Bojie and Zhao Wuniang, who represent common people in feudal society, exploring the reasons behind such tragic fates. Furthermore, it excavates the enduring literary value and contemporary significance of The Lute. The Lute not only reflects society and the era from a literary and artistic perspective but also perceives the tragic fate of common people during the feudal period. Indirectly, it demonstrates the significant contribution of traditional Chinese opera to the reconstruction of cultural concepts and moral-ethical notions.

A Study on the English Translation of “Taipei People” from the Perspective of Adaptation Theory

The collection of short stories, Taipei People, is one of the representative works of the famous writer Pai Hsien-yung. In this book, Pai portrays characters from different regions and fields vividly, displaying a contrast between the past and the present. The stories in this book are rich in Chinese culture and customs, which is concerned in this paper. This paper compares and analyzes the English translation of Taipei People from four aspects from the perspective of the adaptation theory, namely, contextual correlates of adaptability, structural objects of adaptability, dynamics of adaptability, salience of the adaptation processes. It is found that the translators consider the differences in language, culture and social environment between China and western countries, and make translation choices of different degrees of salience of adaptation. They adopt different translation strategies to dynamically adapt to the original book and target readers, make flexible choices according to different contexts, which show the salience and purpose of translators in the translation process. In view of the literary value of Taipei people, this paper hopes to provide some reference for more translators to translate and disseminate Chinese literature.

An Intertextual Approach to the Question of Literary Plagiarism: Ian McEwan’s Atonement, Solar, and My Purple Scented Novel

ABSTRACT In 2006 Ian McEwan was accused of plagiarizing sections of his 2001 novel Atonement from Lucille Andrews’ memoir No Time for Romance. This article explores how McEwan develops defenses against this charge in two later works of fiction Solar (2010) and My Purple Scented Novel (2016). Relying on his readers’ recognition of the intertextual nature of these texts McEwan metafictionally indicates that his literary refashioning of aspects of Andrews’ factual memoir absolves him of the charge of plagiarism. In so doing he also invites his readers to compare his putative plagiarism with the admitted literary transgressions of Jacob Epstein and Martin Amis. Assessing these defenses leads both to a discussion of the literary value of historical accuracy and to recognition of the roles that privelege and power play in discussions of plagiarism, whether literary or academic.

“Goodbye, I Love You”: Fyodor Dostoevsky in the Farewell Notes of Anna Dostoevskaya in 1881

The notebook of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s widow for the fatal 1881 is the most sought-after by the writer’s biographers. It contains the notes made by Anna Dostoevskaya for herself about her late husband within a few months after his death, according to the most recent memories of him. On paper, using shorthand signs in some cases, she recorded joint purchases, gifts received from her husband, his characteristic words, habits, tastes, manner of bearing, dressing, reciting aloud, peculiarities of eating, conversation, creative work (including the January issue of “A Writer’s Diary,” published after Dostoevsky’s death), recorded information related to the writer’s childhood years spent in Moscow, as well as the last days and hours of his life, the details of the funeral and funeral service, the children’s memories of their father. These recordings have already been published, but not in full and in violation of the sequence. Despite their fragmentary nature, unformulated into processed memories, and chaotic arrangement, they have their own composition and logic. The memoirist structures the farewell text with a dear person who continues to live in her memory in a specific way: she opens the entries with sketches of the writer’s plans for the next 10 years, and concludes with a dialogue about children as successors of the Dostoevsky family. Memories of the writer are not the only materials in the composition of Anna Dostoevskaya’s notebook. It also includes other documents of historical and literary value (bills, receipts, receipts, address records, letters, a newspaper clipping with an obituary about Doctor of Medicine Ivan Verevkin, etc.), a comprehensive review of which is presented for the first time in this article. In the course of the study, corrections were made to the previously transcribed text of Anna Dostoevskaya’s transcripts (by the Leningrad stenographer Ceciliia Poshemanskaya), errors in the manuscript rendition made in previous publications of this document were corrected. In the Appendix to the article, memoirs from Anna Dostoevskaya’s notebook of 1881 are published in full, accompanied by historical and literary commentaries based on the latest achievements of the study of Dostoevsky’s work.

Analisis Penerapan Kaidah Taqdim-Ta’khir dalam Tafsir Al-Munir Karya Wahbah al-Zuhaili

Al-Qur'an as Godly words is believed to have beyond-humanistic literary values. In the Qur'an, there are words whose unusual arrangement with sentences that should have ended actually came first and vice versa. The wording in the Qur'an is arranged in such a way for a reason. An exegesis work by Wahbah al-Zuhaili, Tafsir Al-Munir, has tried to explain such aspects of the Qur'an, including the rules of taqdim and ta'khir, which significantly influences the Qur'an verses understanding. Focusing to explore the application of the rules as advised in Tafsir al-Munir, this literature study research will present several examples of interpretation in Tafsir al-Munir. Wahbah al-Zuhaili explains that among the purposes of taqdim and ta'khir in the Qur'an is to glorify, to prioritize, to specialize, and to show the superiority of something. Therefore, the rules have clearly great influence on the understanding of the Qur'anic verses.

Kaleidoscope of a Self: Byron’s Ravenna Journal

The Ravenna Journal (written 4 January – 27 February 1821) documents a critical and complex period of Byron’s life. In light of the codependent and fluid relationship between Byron’s poetry and prose, this essay explores the literary value and poetics of the Journal and its function as a testing ground for Byron’s experimentation with style, tone, and language. I also place the Journal within Byronic self-representation and the era’s strong autobiographical impulse and suggest that the diary does not only reflect on the poetry/politics dilemma but reveals versions of Byron’s selfhood in a kaleidoscopic mode, one which resembles the make-up of Don Juan . In this way, the narrated self emerges as a refracted identity and an aggregate of moods and contradictions which, however, interrelate and are given shape and purpose through the regularity and conventions of the journal. Despite the limitations and challenges it poses to the reader due to its mediated and excised form, the essay argues that the Ravenna Journal enhances our understanding of the Byronic self and enriches our appreciation of the literary artistry of Byron’s prose.

Representation of Male Love in East Asia and West: “Fetish vs Activism”

Alice Oseman, the author of an LGBTQ+ young adult graphic novel that focuses on the lives and romance of two boys, has made a comment that caused some controversy on the internet. This comment by Oseman illustrates a somewhat common view held by Western society toward East Asian Boys Love (BL) genre. That is: BL novels and webcomics being highly sexual, fetish works with little literary value. This research note tries to analyze what could be the reason behind this commonly held view by the West, illustrated by Oseman’s comment through analyzing BL genre, Oseman’s work Heartstopper, the differences and tendencies within the works from East Asia, China specifically, and the West.

M. Barnard Eldershaw’s maritime modernism: economies of literary value and the woman writer at sea

ABSTRACT Interest in global modernisms has been followed by increased attention to connections between modernism and the oceanic world. This paper contributes to growing understanding of how writers from around the globe harnessed maritime settings and poetics to generate alternative perspectives on modernity. Using the ship at sea to stage a self-reflexive literary experiment, M. Barnard Eldershaw’s The Glasshouse (1936) can be placed in an expanding archive of interwar texts collected under the rubric of maritime modernism. Set on a cargo-boat as it makes its slow way down the globe, The Glasshouse concerns an Australian novelist, Stirling Armstrong, who hopes the sea voyage will alleviate the existential and creative ennui that is constraining her as a woman and a writer. Through Stirling’s experiences of living and writing onboard the oceangoing cargo-boat as a space both embedded in and outside of the marketplace, Barnard Eldershaw launches an investigation of the ways in which gender, national identity, and aesthetic allegiance shape the work of the women writer and augment judgments of literary value. This paper extends the scholarly discussion of maritime modernism by supplementing the field’s focus on marginalized labor and economic relations with attention to gender.

Translating metaphors in Chinese satirical literature: A foreignization approach

The paper delves into the complexities of translating metaphors in Chinese satirical literature, emphasizing the cultural and linguistic nuances involved. It highlights the importance of metaphors in expressing satire and the challenges posed by cultural differences between Chinese and English. The paper advocates for a foreignization translation approach to preserve the original’s cultural essence and satirical tone, balancing it with explanations to aid understanding in the target language. This method ensures the retention of literary value while facilitating cross-cultural dialogue and appreciation of the source culture’s literary aesthetics.

Angus MacPhail's Frozen Credits: Film Authorship and Collaboration in British Middlebrow and Celebrity Culture

This article, taking its cue from Charles Drazin's pioneering work, is the first extended analysis of the career of British screenwriter Angus MacPhail, described as one of the key figures who helped to lay the groundwork for the golden age of British cinema. MacPhail worked as scenario editor for producer Michael Balcon at the leading British studios Gainsborough, Gaumont-British and Ealing from the late 1920s to the late 1940s. The article considers MacPhail's work in relation to debates about authorship, collaboration and celebrity culture during this period. It explores his intellectual and cultural formation as a Cambridge undergraduate who studied for the newly established English Tripos during the early 1920s; and highlights MacPhail's ambivalent relationship to modernism, through his opposition to Virginia Woolf's reconfiguration of literary values during the 1920s, and his penchant for what Leonard Diepeveen has described as ‘mock modernism’. It goes on to analyse the circumscribed power and influence MacPhail exercised within the British studio system during the late 1920s to the late 1940s, before considering his career in relation to other key figures of this period such as Ivor Montagu and Elliot Stannard, and his relationship to British middlebrow culture. Finally, it explores how MacPhail's specialised, circumscribed focus on film writing set him apart from what Alexis Weedon describes as a new type of author-celebrity during this period, the emergent ‘transmedia storyteller’.

A study on the translation strategies of ancient Chinese cultural classics from the perspective of hypotaxis and parataxis--taking the A Dream of Red Mansions as an example

Translation serves as a bridge for telling Chinese stories and promotes the exchange of Chinese and foreign civilizations. By translating Chinese classics into foreign languages, it facilitates the international dissemination of Chinese culture and deepens the exchange and mutual learning of civilizations. As the first of China's four great classical novels, A Dream of Red Mansions is widely recognized for its literary value and achievements by scholars worldwide. From the early 19th century to the present, there have been over 100 translations into more than 30 languages. A Dream of Red Mansions represents the pinnacle of classical Chinese literature, involving complex terminology from various fields. In addition to translating ancient titles and food in the text, there are also extensive translations of ancient poems, all of which pose focal points and challenges in translation. By comparing various translations, this paper takes Hawkes' translation as an example to analyze the differences between English and Chinese in the translation of A Dream of Red Mansions from the perspectives of hypotaxis and parataxis, and expound the translation strategies in this type of translation.

Literary responses in Spanish adolescents: Adaptation, validation, and analysis of the Literary Response Questionnaire

AbstractThis study involves translating, cross‐culturally adapting, and validating the Literary Response Questionnaire (LRQ) for 413 Spanish adolescents. It explores the evolution of literary education in Spain and its alignment with the Reading Responses paradigm. The LRQ, adapted across various locations, is validated in Spanish through Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. The research analyzes reading responses in dimensions like Leisure Escape, Insight, Empathy, Story‐driven Reading, Concern with Author, Imagery Vividness, and Rejecting Literary Values. Findings reveal widespread indifference and rejection toward literary reading among the adolescents, along with a clear disapproval of the historicist‐authorial approach to literary education. Significant variations were identified based on students' gender, enrollment in a bilingual program, and notably, the number of books read per year. This underscores the significance of introducing literary reading practices in secondary education that align with the leisure preferences of adolescents, encouraging personal and experiential engagement with texts. This could materialize in the classroom the shift from a historicist to a reader‐centered approach suggested by the current Spanish curriculum.