Table of Contents

Kafka’s Seinfeldian Humor

Lauren Brooks 1-14

Academic Barbarism Reconsidered—A Comparative Study of Vladimir Nabokov’s Pnin and Qian Zhongshu’s Fortress Besieged

Derong Cao 15-27

Love in Dreams and Illusions: Fate and Prognostication in Hongloumeng

Kar Yue Chan 28-44

Variation Studies of Literary Dissemination: The Image of China and Dee Goong An (Di Gong An)

Siyu Chen 45-57

On Feng Youlan’s Construction of an Image of Chinese Philosophy in his Chinese-English Translation

Yong Zhou 58-64

A Comparative Study of the Compilation of Classical Chinese Literary History between China and the Anglophone World

Peina Zhuang & Yawson Edward Joseph 65-73

“Trust neither the Horse, nor Modernity”: Explicating Mahmoud Darwish’s Allusions to Babylon, Sodom and Ancient Indians in “Counterpoint: Edward Said”

Ahmad Qabaha 75-85

General Variation Theory: A Perspective of Generalized Science

Shunqing Cao, Jinzheng Li & Qing Yang 86-105

Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Vishal Bhardwaj’s Maqbool: A Comparative Analysis

Fatimah Javed 106-117

Reflections on Martin Buber’s Approach to Upaniʂads and Vedānta

Vikas Baniwal 118-136

Theory, Cultural Studies And Cross-Disciplinary Research: A Dialogue With Jonathan Arac

jiazhao lin & Jonathan Arac 137-142

Social Position of Victorian Women: Villette and Emma

Aycan Gökçek 143-155

Cultural Unconscious And L2 Writer’s Identity Construction—A Case Study On Ha Jin

Lu Zhang 156-170