Founded In    1993
Published   semiannually
Language(s)   Chinese
     

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Literatures in English

     
ISSN   1024-2856
     
Affiliated Organization   English and American Literature Association of TAIWAN
     
Publisher   Bookman Books, Ltd.
     
Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief:
Ping-chia Feng.
Professor of Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chiao Tung University

Editorial board:
Eva Yin-i Chen Professor of Department of English, National Chengchi University
Wen-ching Ho Professor of Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Feng Chia University
I-ping Liang Professor of Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University
Yu-chen Lin Professor of Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Sun Yat-sen University
Ching-hsi Perng Distinguished Professor of English and Drama of National Taiwan University
Tsu-chung Su Professor of Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University

     
Advisory board:
Ying-Hsiung Chou   Emeritus Professor of Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Chiao Tung University
Yu-cheng Lee   Distinguished Research Fellow and Director of Institute of American and European Studies, Academia Sinica
Te-Hsing Shan   Research Fellow and Deputy Director of Institute of American and European Studies, Academia Sinica
Rey Chow               Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Modern Culture & Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and English
William Tay   Chair Professor of Division of Humanities, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Sau-ling Cynthia Wong   Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

 

 

Submission Guidelines and Editorial Policies

A.The journal will not consider for publication manuscripts being simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Any content of thesis or dissertation will be considered as submitted manuscripts.

B.Two or three pundits of the concerned fields will participate in the anonymous refereeing process. Please take the advice of the comments of referees to revise the acknowledged manuscripts. We reserve the rights of revising the acknowledged manuscripts including any translation and the bibliography.

C.The author of the acknowledged manuscript will be presented with five latest issues.

D.It is the Journal’s policy to upload the content of the publication manuscripts to the associated websites of EALA for academic use.

E.Please send the manuscript, an abstract, and a list of keywords separately in Chinese and English as Word-attachments to: ealataiwan@gmail.com

F.Manuscripts should be prepared according to the latest edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, or please refer to the following concise principles:
a.The title of any book, journal, film, or painting in Chinese should be quoted with 《》. Titles in western languages should be italicized. For example: 《在理論的年代》by Lee Yu-cheng, 《歐洲雜誌》、the French children film 《大雨大雨一直下》, 《葛爾尼卡》by Picasso, Matrix, and Portnoy’s Complaint.
b.The Chinese title of a single thesis or brief work should be quoted with <> and with ” ” if it is in western languages. For example: 貢布里希的<魔法、神話與隱喻:論諷刺畫>, 以薩.辛格的<卡夫卡的朋友>, “Migrations of Chineseness: Ethnicity in the Postmodern World,” “Interview with Toni Morrison.”
c.Any names or titles of people, books, or translated works quoting in the manuscripts for the first time should be noted with the original language in parenthesis. For examples: 拉岡<Jacques Lacan>, 《人性污點》(Human Stain), <支持阿爾及利亞> (“Taking a Stand for Algeria”). However, commonly known foreign names (like “Shakespeare”) or nouns (like “postmodernism”) require no notes.
d.Numbers and year should be written in Chinese characters; page numbers and published year of the cited works should be written in Arabic numerals. For example: 「經濟學家在十八世紀末首次被視為自成一類。到了一七九○年,偉大的英國哲學家兼政治家勃爾克(Edmund Burke)就已預見了歐洲的未來,並為之哀嘆不已,他說道:『騎士時代一去不復回,如今詭辯家、經濟學家與謀略家當道;歐洲的榮光永滅了。』」(1985:3).
e.Information of the bibliography should be quoted with the parenthesis in the manuscripts. For example, “(Ondaatje 75)” or “(Dissemination 236).” If different books or essays of an author are quoted more than once, note their title or year of publication. For example, “(Said 1978:7).” If different works of an author in the same year are quoted, note “a,” “b,” and “c” after the year of publication. For example, “(Derrida 1996a:68).”
f.Footnotes are only for supplementary exposition. Please list the bibliography after the main text. For the form of bibliography, please refer to the latest edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.

     
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Renaissance: between innovation and tradition, Volume 5

The theme of this issue is “renaissance” in the hope of connecting with issue number four, whose theme was “middle age English literature,” to form a systematic discussion. The scheduled theme of issue number six will be “neo-classcism and romanticism.” This chronological arrangement may seem hackneyed, but our ambition remains high. Four articles focus on the theme of renaissance in this issue. There are also two essays depicting the John Donne’s painting and Milton respectively. A record of the conference on the research and pedagogy of English and American literature in Taiwan is also included in this issue.

Courtly Revels and Entertainment in the English Renaissance


By means of historical texts and literary texts, this article expects its readers to hold a positive view of the English Renaissance. Furthermore, the readers' response to the control mechanism may blend Renaissance cultural values with those of entertainment thus propounded are not merely linker with festivals, they also form activities of social functions, etiquette, ceremony, aesthetics, hierarchy, power and wealth. They are activities freed from religious prohibition, leading to secularized communal social consciousness. To fare well in such occasions, the participants need to have certain charismatic qualities which are largely the appeal of Renaissance humanism. To some extent, revels and entertainment have become instruments of politics. Queen Elizabeth I, in particular, manipulates them well. She applies them is feasts to entertain herself and to entertain her subjects, rendering the occasions as an extension of court politics and an interface of merriment that cuts across different social classes.

Shakespeare’s Metadramatic Devices: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Other Examples


Literally, metadrama is drama about drama. Technically, and play which has as its subject other play(s), or which attempts to describe and analyze theatrical practice and conventions and to establish general "poetics" for this particular genre qualifies as metadrama. On different scales Shakespeare experimented with metadramatical devices, ranging from the play-within-the-play to verbal and special allusions to theatrical reality. Focusing on A Midsummer Night's Dream and drawing on nine other Shakespeare's dramaturgy in this respect. My reading of A Midsummer Night's Dream suggests that the play mirrors the process of theatrical production. The inner play seems on the surface to go against the grain theatrical representation, but on a deeper level, it serves as a point of departure for an investigation of representation.

Region and Class in Oroonoko and Castle Rackrent


This article attempts to explore the interrelationships of region and class in two English novels of seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The texts used for discussion are Aphra Behn's Oroonoko; or, The Royal Save (1688) and Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale (1800). Behn uses Africa and South America to unfold the grisly tale of a black prince/slave and to build up the relation of region and class to Oroonoko's life and transformation. Edgeworth sets the scene in Ireland to illustrate various kinds of tension between the ruling Anglo-Irish and the Irish. Moreover, Oroonoko is told from the perspective of an observant English woman whereas an old Irish steward's point of view is used to trace the rise and fall of his four Anglo-Irish masters in Castle Rackrent. These intriguing relationships of region and class, as complicated more by peculiar narrative stances, are dealt with thoroughly in this article.

A Queer Mirror-Image: Re/Inflecting Court Favoritism in Pre-modern Chinese Same-Sex Culture through Marlowe's Edward Ⅱ


Intended as part of a larger project that re-inscribes pre-modern Chinese same-sex culture from a contemporary queer perspective, this article tackles one of the most disreputable aspects in that culture, namely court favoritism, which dominates relevant historical documents available today. As these documents are so informed with conventional wisdom that there can hardly be any space for transvaluation if they are read simply the way they are supposed to, this article undertakes an unusual comparative detour. That is, Christopher Marlowe's play Edward Ⅱ is discussed first, in order to be enlightened by the Renaissance problematics that are foregrounded by its contemporary critical studies; the most significant of which lies in the deemed incompatibility between absolutist monarchy and private friendship. (Contemporary British queer director Derek Jarman's film version of Edward Ⅱ is also briefly mentioned.) Thus equipped, the investigation finally turns its critical attention to the concrete textuality of the "notorious" story of West Han Emperor Ai and his favorite Dong Xian as recorded in Ban Gu's Han Shu, seeking to demonstrate the text as well as de-legitimatize its embedded conventional wisdom.

The Private Truth Revealed in the Concealment of Public Costume: John Donne's 1591 Portrait Miniatture by Nicholas Hilliard, a Case in Point


In the early modern England, the private sphere was gradually being separated from the public sphere, but the demarcation line between them was not yet clear-cut. At that time, some people saw no distinction between these two spheres, believing that the public costume one wore could reveal his private self. But it did not hold water for those who emphasized the distinction. For them, the costume was simply an empty signifier conveying nothing but the concealment of inner self. However, in such a period of transition, there were some people who held the opposite views at the same time. Nicholas Hilliard is a case in point. My article concerns itself with analyzing the portrait miniature of John Donne he painted in 1591. In this portrait miniature, Hilliard makes sumptuous costume a transparent medium to signify the religious allegiance of the 18-year-old Donne. At the same time, he also takes a devious route in this portrait to reveal the sitter's inner self. Besides, being a transparent vehicle, the costume is also treated as the translucent veil through whose concealment the young Donne's subtle attitude toward his faith is revealed.

Milton, Puritanism, and Free Will


This work is devoted to scrutinizing Puritan elements, especially those concerning free will and the intertwisting between good and evil, in Milton. One focus of this essay is therefore to demonstrate in what way Milton, whether directly or indirectly, deals with these issues in different works. Though Milton is generally considered as sharing the belief in many orthodox Puritan doctrines with other contemporary Puritans, he, according to many studies, denies the Puritan idea of predestination and follows Arminius in his open and strenuous advocacy of free will. This assessment of Milton cannot be regarded as completely wrong, but it needs some modification. Thus, another objective of this work is to argue that Milton's attitude toward "free will" can be viewed as a concoction of Arminianism and Puritanism.

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