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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 343–365.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and is usually labeled as a “regionalist” writer. Yet as an ethnically hybrid author, Shen's ethnographically inspired, mythologizing accounts of indigenous non-Han tribes place him in a long tradition of searching for moral truths in borderland societies in Chinese literary and cultural history. The article...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
... hypocrisy correspondance mythology Like his May Fourth contemporaries, Lu Xun 魯迅 (1881–1936) embraced the ideas of enlightenment, evolution, science, and modernity as means of saving China. But early on Lu Xun became wary of how knowledge of science and technology might degenerate into a new...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 157–173.
Published: 01 March 2019
... mythology Pindar Virgil intertextuality When it comes to Greece, we actually hold a great deal of imagination—or, to put it in a different way, memories. 關於希臘，我們其實保有很多想像，或者就說是回憶。 —Yang Mu Yang Mu 楊牧 (1940−), the pen name of Ching-hsien Wang 王靖獻 or C. H. Wang, is widely considered one...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 283–300.
Published: 01 September 2022
... as to facilitate its homebound voyage. A diplomatic mission presupposed a favorable wind. We now turn to the modern mesological and mythological inscriptions of the Southeast Asian Sinophone community. Take, for example, beliefs about Tua Pek Kong (大伯公, Grand Uncle or the God of Prosperity), the most popular...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 395–416.
Published: 01 September 2023
.../skin to mean a hero in its original skin, and skin to mean skin in general. Many of HoK 's hero/skins are modeled on renowned figures from Chinese history, mythology, and literary classics. 23 Their looks, quotes (a hero/skin's remarks in the game), and abilities resemble those figures...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 35–54.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... . . . Myth is already Enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts to mythology. For Enlightenment, anything that does not conform to the standards of calculability and utility must be viewed with suspicion. The urge to rescue the past as something living, instead of using it as material for progress, has been...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 143–156.
Published: 01 March 2020
... at not so much denouncing any beliefs, religious and otherwise, thus falling into the pitfall of atheism, as challenging any attempts to idolize, dogmatize, and mythologize modern thoughts and doctrines. In other words, he seeks to point out the enchanting powers looming in the modernist projects that arose...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 236–239.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in the soil of everyday life and society—imagination, allegory, mythology, legend, dream, fantasy, magic, and transference are the means through which mythorealism arrives at the real and reality. (162) In sum, this book provides a valuable contribution to the study of cultural memory and of the post...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 431–455.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and Indigenous literature that are often tied to agendas of local activism. 53 A final juxtaposition on the theme of the transformational, boundary-crossing being is made with a poem by Amazonian poet and filmmaker Juan Carlos Galeano. Galeano has incorporated the Indigenous mythology of the shape-shifting...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 491–508.
Published: 01 September 2022
...,” such as the recuperation of folklore and Indigenous practices, the integration of mythology in contemporary writing, and the propagation of regional cultural productions. Lauriat 's posthumanism also manifests as a radical faith in the plurality of Filipino Chinese identities and representations, a way...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 277–297.
Published: 01 October 2020
... foregrounding questions of identity and taxonomy. In one revealing entry, the narrator draws on Greek mythology to attempt to characterize her queer identity: Take a person like me. In the eyes of the average person, I was a woman, but that vague semblance was an illusion, an easy category. In my own mind, I...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 1–15.
Published: 01 December 2022
... crises and climate change. In contrast, Chinese mythological figures come across not so much as technological agents and more as moral and political figures. The goddess Nü Wa 女媧, a half human, half snake figure, created humans from the clay and used five colored stones to repair the broken skies to stop...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 454–473.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... 36 Ibid., 14, 60–63. 37 Paradijs, Boekoe sair “park , ” 7, 13. 38 Ibid., 20. 39 Keppy, Tales of Southeast Asia's Jazz Age , 143 . 40 The word barongsaij is a mixture in itself, blending Javanese barong (mythological animal) and Hokkien sai 獅 (dance). Elsewhere...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 297–314.
Published: 01 September 2023
... into a chronicle of an ordinary day in twentieth-century Dublin ( Ulysses , 1920); T. S. Eliot's (1888–1965) Waste Land (1922) abounds with classical allusions from Ovid, Dante, and Shakespeare to Buddhism. In the Chinese context, Lu Xun 魯迅 (1881–1936) invokes mythologies, legends, and personal accounts...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 138–169.
Published: 01 March 2021
... be that of receptive v. rejective ” (“Receptiveness would come under Elevated, and rejectiveness under Earthly,” he adds). Where receptive poetry might include “lines that try to accommodate a range of things of great magnitude, from the heritage of ancient civilizations and mythologies to the pinnacles of world...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 75–86.
Published: 01 December 2022
... the harsh terrain. A sentiment of awe before the Dragon King, the mythological god who controls oceans, waters, and rain, and feeling of resignation to nature have kept the community impoverished and miserable for generations. But the young pioneers challenge and defy this superstitious worship...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 326–352.
Published: 01 October 2020
... Confrontation with Zola, Tolstoy, Wertherism, and Nordic Mythology .” In Milestones in Sino-Western Literary Confrontation, 1898–1979 , 73 – 99 . Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz , 1986 . Harvey, David . The Urban Experience . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1989 . Hsia, C. T...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 157–171.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., this mode of criticism echoes Ernst Cassirer's reflections on the cultural roots of Nazism in premodern mythologies. In The Myth of the State (1945), the exiled philosopher traced the racial and political myth of totalitarian ideology to the Greek tradition. In Cassirer's view, while myth and religion...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 163–176.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of resurrection. 16 In any case, the image of the crane is central in this poem as well as in later poems by Zhang Zao. 17 One reference that springs to mind is the Daoist mythological folktale of Ding Lingwei 丁令威, 18 renarrated by the modern poet He Qifang (何其芳1912–1977) in his 1937 collection of prose...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 249–264.
Published: 01 September 2023
... ontological entity. We argue that Sinophone classicism may at times be associated with, but must be decoupled from, Chinese cultural nationalism as well as global postmodern conservatism. Caution against the misuse of the past as chauvinistic mythology, however, should not lead to a blanket denunciation...
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