Table of Contents

Cross-Dressing and Gendered Voice Representation in Cantonese Opera

Kar Yue Chan 1-14

The Aesthetics of Post Bellum: From Umberto Eco to Abu al-ʿAlaʾ al-Maʿarri

Asmaa Essakouti & Hossein Dabbagh 15-27

Shakespeare’s Othello and The Romance of Antar: The Politics of Racism and Self-Fashioning

Bilal Tawfiq Hamamra 28-37

East-West Theories of Tragedy: Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Ji Junxiang’s 纪君祥 Zhaoshi guer 赵氏孤儿 (The Orphan of Zhao)

Elizabeth Harper 38-52

From Thunderstorm to Golden Flower: Politico-Economic Conditions of Adaptive Appropriation

Feng Lan 53-67

Ideal Identity Arises from Bricolage: Identity Issues in Patrick White’s The Twyborn Affair

Jinlong Liu 68-78

Imitation and creation: Bing Xin’s Fanxing (A Maze of Stars) 繁星and Chunshui (Spring Water) 春水

Xiaoqing Liu 79-100

Tradition and Modernity in Thomas Hardy’s Wessex

Shaoting Wang 101-112

Re-Orient?

Theo D’haen 113-127

“Be Silent in that Solitude”: Women and the Subversion of Silence in Surah “Al-Mujadilah” and Poe’s “Ligeia”

Mohammed Hamdan 128-147

The Study of Thai Elephant Culture Based on the “Elephant Metaphors” in Thai Idioms

Jianghua Han 148-162

The Interplay of Literature and Psychology in Literary Productions: Lonely Days and Madame Bovary

Wole Olugunle 163-175

A Modern-Day Romantic: The Romantic Sublime in Hayao Miyazaki’s Creative Philosophy

Brendan C. Walsh 176-191

Towards Redefining Chinese Baroque Poetry

Pengfei Wang 192-204

Cross-cultural Variation: Chinese Monkey King Legend as a Trickster in America

Qing Yang 205-215