Table of Contents

Jia Pingwa, the Concept of Ren 仁, and the Reading of Fiction

Eugene Chen Eoyang 1-10

Imagination and Construction of Cultural Identity: A Comparative Study of Different Reports on the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition

Yan Liu 11-24

Empson the Space Man: Literary Modernism Makes the Scalar Turn

Stuart Christie 25-39

From the History of the Pre-Marxist Aesthetics in Bohemia: Herbartian Formalism

Peter Steiner 40-50

Bauman and Heller: Two Views of Modernity and Culture

Peter Beilharz 51-60

Discursive Construction of Art as a Subject of Politics: Selected Notes on Polish Aesthetic Thought

Lidia Godek 61-73

Australia between White Australia and Multiculturalism: a World Literature Perspective

Svend Erik Larsen 74-95

Paradigm Shift in Chinese Landscape Representation

Lian Duan 96-113

Representation and Contextualization: A Comparative Study of The Joy Luck Club and Typical American

Li Wang 114-124

Medio-translatology: New Perspectives on Comparative Literature and Translation Studies

Tianzhen Xie 125-133

A Review on Deconstruction and Criticism

Xiaoli Fang 134-139

Lament or Expectation: After Theory Revisited

Li Tang 140-144

Research on the Literature of National Minorities Under Three Discourse Hegemonies

Cao Shunqing 145-156

Franz Kafka and Contemporary Chinese Culture

Yanbing Zeng & Qiuran Hu 157-167

“Nature,” “Homer,” and “Shakespeare”: Revisiting Pope and Wordsworth on How to Write Poetry

Zhuyu Jiang 168-175

About the Situation of the Discipline of Comparative Literature and Neighboring Fields in the Humanities Today

Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek 176-203

Decoding the Translations of Political Terms in the Nineteenth-Century Chinese–English Dictionaries – Lobscheid and his Chinese–English Dictionary

Wong Tsz 204-215

A Survey Comparison of Faulkner Studies in China and the West

Aaron Lee Moore 216-227

Evidence of the Hand in Art/Life in Light of the Livre D’Artiste

Sophia Kidd 228-233

Magic World in Song of Solomon: A Return to Black Culture

Ping Du 234-245

Reading Undoing Gender in East–West Comparative Literature

Lin Song 246-251