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    A Feminist Reading of (Oedipa Maas in) The Crying of Lot 49
    (國立僑生大學先修班, 1996-07-??) 李健美; Li Jian-mei
    In this paper, The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon's second novel, is being discussed through the lenses of feminism and Michel Foucault's theory of the new/general history in order to evaluate the accomplishment achieved by its heroine, Oedipa Maas: to see how successfully she has performed her job as a historian trying to piece together the history of the mysterious and subversive "Tristero." It is also hoped that this paper will help to raise the consciousness of the readers, especially the female ones, so that when (re-)reading this story, they will not only become more aware of the oppression experienced by the women living under a patriarchal society/system but try to prevail it.
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    Battles for Identity and Dignity ： Dutchmαn and Other Black Plays in the Sixties
    (國立僑生大學先修班, 1995-07-??) 李健美; Li Jian-mei
    From the beginning, life for the black Americans has been extremely difficult. For almost two and a half centuries before 1863，the year the Emancipation Proclamation was announced by US President Abraham Lincoln, more than ninety percent of all the blacks living in the United States were forced to live out their lives within a brutal and degrading system of slavery that openly declared that the blacks were not human beings but merely things, pieces of property. Tragically enough, no fundamental discontinuity was brought about in the black experience after Emancipation. Even today complete freedom physicallyand spiritually is not secured for all black people, and it is precisely this lack of genuine freedom then and now, consistently the essential and unique characteristic of African-Americans' life in America, that provides stuff for great literature. In this paper six plays all produced in the 1960s dealing with the theme of black identity have been chosen in order to see how the issue has been dealt with by black play-wrights of prominence.
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    Either/Or: A Study of Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    (國立僑生大學先修班, 1997-07-??) 李健美; Li Jian-mei
    "I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail. / Yes I would. / If I only could, / I surely would. / Away, I'd rather sail away / Like a swan that's here and gone. / A man gets tied-down to the ground. / He gives the world his saddest cry / His saddest cry ..."--a popular song runs something like this, singing of man's deepest desire to flyaway from the ground to which he is tied down. Indeed, it seems to be human beings' fate that the "heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground.,,1 If one could choose a life of lightness abundant with aesthetic beauty and physical enjoyment, who would want to live a life of weight full of ethical burden, duty, and responsibility? However, in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness? (Kundera 5) Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being deals with this question by introducing, at the very beginning, two philosophers' perspcetives on this issue: Nietzche's mysterious eternal return of weight; Parmenides' freedom of positive lightness. One basic element of a burden is its repetition, or eternal return, for if an event only happens once, its effect, whatever it is, will gradually recede fromman's memory and eventually become ineffectual. Nietzsche's idea of eternal return--that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum--implies that "a life which disappears once and for all, which does not return, is like a shadow, without weight, dead in
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    What Peter Experiences A Study of Mrs. Dalloway
    (國立僑生大學先修班, 2004-10-??) 李健美; Li Jian-mei
    This paper aims to appreciate Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by focusing on Peter Walsh, the second important character, next to Clarissa, in the novel. From the analysis of Peter Walsh, we can not only get to know Peter better but also find Clarissa a richer character. What Peter experiences is also what each reader will experience-the enlightenment is shared by both the character(s) and the reader(s). Lifeis to be enjoyed moment by moment with every detail of life; passion is not a bad thing--not something one, especially the adult, should be ashamed of. In short, life can be enjoyed moment by moment intensively. And people are not necessarily the best companies; nor is solitude asocial. What really counts is the successively created moments--heart over brain--which can be derived from absolutely absorbing the people as well as every detail of life. Life should be lived intensely and this is exactly what Peter comes to see eventually.