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    (英語學系, 2017-03-??) Gry Ulstein
    This paper investigates and compares language and imagery used by contemporary ecocritics in order to argue that the Anthropocene discourse contains significant parallels to cosmic horror discourse and (new) weird literature. While monsters from the traditional, Lovecraftian weird lend themselves well to Anthropocene allegory due to the coinciding fear affect in both discourses, the new weird genre experiments with ways to move beyond cosmic fear, thereby reimagining the human position in the context of the Anthropocene. Jeff VanderMeer’s trilogy The Southern Reach (2014) presents an alien system of assimilation and ecological mutation into which the characters are launched. It does this in a manner that brings into question human hierarchical coexistence with nonhumans while also exposing the ineffectiveness of current existential norms. This paper argues that new weird stories such as VanderMeer’s are able to rework and dispel the fearful paralysis of cosmic horror found in Lovecraft’s literature and of Anthropocene monsters in ecocritical debate. The Southern Reach and the new weird welcome the monstrous as kin rather than enemy.
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    Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing? Reinventing Intermedial Urban Space in Early 1980s Taiwan
    (英語學系, 2017-09-??) 鄧紹宏; Shao-Hung Teng
    This paper situates the proliferating media culture of early 1980s Taiwan against a social backdrop characterized by urbanites' malleable living environment. I argue for a reconsideration of urban space less as blueprinted or represented than as brought together by intermedial nexuses and collaborations. To do so, I study three media works-a video art work, a feature film, and a street performance-to illustrate their interrelations. By foregrounding the identity of mainlander veterans and their vanishing homes as underlying all three media works, I illustrate how intermedial networks help foster a collective citizenship that acutely reflects the issue of urban dwelling. A refocus on intermedial practices takes up issues of displacement, embodiment, and mobility, keys to teasing out body-environment relations in Taiwan's ultra-urbanizing era.
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    Antiphilosophy, Philosophy, and Love: Reading of “Tony Takitani” by Murakami Haruki
    (英語學系, 2018-09-??) Youngjin Park
    According to Badiou, the history of Western thought is constituted by a ceaseless dialogue between philosophy and antiphilosophy. In this article, I examine how love can be addressed in terms of the dialogue between Lacanian antiphilosophy and Badiouian philosophy. To this end, I present a reading of “Tony Takitani” by Japanese writer Murakami Haruki as subject matter to facilitate that dialogue. From the perspective of this article, it is crucial to hold onto both the psychoanalytic and philosophical readings of the story. Through the former, we can recognize that love is involved in the symptomatic real and that the lover is supposed to assume the position of a quasi-analyst to work through the symptom. Through the latter, we can consider that love should pass through the symptomatic real to construct the infinite truth and that love is a way to metaphysical happiness beyond animalistic satisfaction. Love thus belongs neither to philosophy nor to antiphilosophy but instead straddles the two disciplines. In this regard, “Tony Takitani” makes the dialogue between philosophy and antiphilosophy inconclusive.
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    Walter Pater, the Stephens and Virginia Woolf's Mysticism
    (英語學系, 2004-01-??) Tseng, Jui-hua
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    Memory, Forgetting, and Joyce in the Third Millennium
    (英語學系, 2005-07-??) Lin, Yu-chen
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    Discontinuity of Conversational Topics
    (英語學系, 2002-06-??) 徐嘉慧; Kawai Chui
    「主題不連續」是指說話者改變話題的情況。本論文首先分析會話主題的結構,以探討主題不連續現象的文法表現。研究發現當說話者要改變主題的時候,停頓會比 較長,話語的自我修正也較多;說話者也使用表示時間、事件、人物改變的語言標記。至於內容方面,大約一半的新主題不必經由背景訊息引介而被直接談論。那些 被背景訊息引介的新主題,引介方式很多,而最常使用的是問句形式,因為當其他說話者回應問題時,自然就參與討論新話題了。
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    Comic Noise and the Textual Surface
    (英語學系, 2004-07-??) Stevenson, Frank W.
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    (英語學系, 2017-03-??) Chen Hong
    A rapid increase in the number of pet dogs in Chinese cities since the late 1980s, ant the prosperity of the pet industry as a result, seem to indicate that dogs have been accepted as worthy companions for humans, and that pet dogs have thereby become a comfortable part of the Chinese dream of a prosperous and harmonious future. Yet just outside the frame of this bright and hopeful picture looms another huge group of dogs who have been removed from rather than accepted into the human world, often in ways that are extremely cruel and barbaric. This article examines this perplexing contrast in connection to Chinese modernization and urbanization, which is situated within the larger context of the Anthropocene. By placing the situation of urban stray dogs－and the prosperity of the urban pet industry－alongside the deteriorating condition of country dogs, the artical looks at the condition of dogs in relation to the serious internal an external social inequalities involving humans and dogs in today's China. Reading Chinese dog narratives across genres, it argues that the promise of prosperity, security and harmony is hust part of the myth of modernization and urbanization.
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    Border Pedagogy in American Schooling
    (英語學系, 2005-07-??) Liu, Xinmin