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Research Article
Research and Application of Chinese Auspicious Animal Images in Contemporary Clothing Design—Take “The Classic of Mountains and Seas” as Research Example
Bingbing Du*
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Kailun Feng
Issue:
Volume 12, Issue 6, December 2024
Pages:
149-155
Received:
23 September 2024
Accepted:
14 October 2024
Published:
12 November 2024
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijla.20241206.11
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Abstract: This thesis aims to investigate the auspicious animal images in “The Classic of Mountains and Seas”, exploring the profiling features and evolution of the auspicious animal patterns through cross verification of images, literature and cultural relics, and based on the research, the images are applied on the China-Chic clothing design. Ancient Chinese took the auspicious animals as things of blessing, which were endowed with many beautiful meanings to express our ancestors’ longing for a better life. Based on the concept of innovative design derived from the traditional culture, this thesis takes the images of auspicious animals in “The Classic of Mountains and Seas” as its research object to analyze their origins and evolution in China-chic fashion and, together with the case study of modern clothing design and a certain extent summary, to promote the inheritance, development and application of traditional culture in modern social life. The thesis will delve deep into the cultural connotations and aesthetic characteristics of the auspicious animal images, analyze and investigate the types, characteristics and implied meanings of such image to extract representative visual element symbols, which are then integrated into the modern fashion design, fulfilling the inheritance, development and application of traditional culture in modern social life.
Abstract: This thesis aims to investigate the auspicious animal images in “The Classic of Mountains and Seas”, exploring the profiling features and evolution of the auspicious animal patterns through cross verification of images, literature and cultural relics, and based on the research, the images are applied on the China-Chic clothing design. Ancient Chine...
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Research Article
Katherine Mansfield & the Trauma of Fractured Intimate Bonds
Najah Mahmi*
Issue:
Volume 12, Issue 6, December 2024
Pages:
156-162
Received:
17 September 2024
Accepted:
11 October 2024
Published:
20 November 2024
Abstract: In “Loneliness,” [1910] as in most of her writings, Katherine Mansfield voices out the darkness and coldness of her nights, because of an extreme feeling of loneliness; thus the silence of life. A great degree of sorrow is explicitly expressed hroughout her short story writing journey in which she expresses her estrangement towards life and agony due to her loneliness and permanent hanger for love. With an impressionistic style, polished satire, and an explicit feminist tone, Katherine Mansfield’s characters debate the human existence within the barriers of emptiness and affliction, usually resulted in alienated disproportioned grotesques who are struggling for survival. They are neither alive nor dead. In this context, this paper highlights Mansfield’s representation of traumatic love in male-female relationships. The main focus is on the painful love politics that characterize couples’ lives inside and outside the marital institution, and the way they shape and reshape the modern human experience. Through questioning Mansfield’s incongruous couples’ interactions, the paper envisions the couple’s life question in relation to men and women’s conceptualisations of love that abide by their advanced civilised past, present, and future, amid dark shadows of beginnings and endings which shape its psychological and social poisoning features. The scrutiny portrays the painful life of Katherine Mansfield’s lost miserable characters who endure hollowness and emotional withdrawal, suggesting a comparative study of “Mr Reginald Peacock’s Day,” [1917] “Poison” [1920] and “A Married Man’s Story” [1923] written by Katherine Mansfield.
Abstract: In “Loneliness,” [1910] as in most of her writings, Katherine Mansfield voices out the darkness and coldness of her nights, because of an extreme feeling of loneliness; thus the silence of life. A great degree of sorrow is explicitly expressed hroughout her short story writing journey in which she expresses her estrangement towards life and agony d...
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Research Article
Metamodern Subject: Towards Metaxy and Fragmentation
Ali Oublal*,
Houban Brahim
Issue:
Volume 12, Issue 6, December 2024
Pages:
163-172
Received:
7 July 2024
Accepted:
2 September 2024
Published:
22 November 2024
Abstract: The very last quarter of the century is characterised by a large-scale and deep-seated changes which distinguish it from the postmodern epoch. This is in part due to globalisation that has remolded the economic, social and cultural space. Those unprecedented alterations manifest themselves in all areas of human life as the key features of the contemporary cultural landscape. One of its mains, which must not be treated with eyes wide shut, is the reemerged subject that should be taken neither as the old modern nor the postmodern one as it encompasses no transcendental explanations. Concepts like identity, selfhood and subjectivity might continuously be dismantled and deconstructed.The fact that the theme of identity is engaged as an episteme to delineate metamodernist novelists’ conceptions can seem as if snappishly chosen, yet this is not the case. The question comes as follows: why exactly the theme of identity is singled out among others, particularly in metamodernist literature? The thematic should be considered within the historical context of metamodernism, which is not by chance coincided with the twenty-first century transformations. Identity has been one of the debatable issues among scholars from different disciplines since antiquity; it has never been cartelised by a certain discipline or field. However, more than ever before, new-fangled technologies at the turn of the twenty century have made identity a pinnacle compared to other themes. The first-time changes, which have resulted from the rise of technologies, and new forms of communication, have overlapped with the new sensitivity of 'metamodernism. As long as the centrality of language in literary works and linguistics as the study of language has the authority to study literature, the paper adopted linguistic analysis, notably stylistics. By virtue of the latter, it is argued that literary writers, namely metamodernist novelists have contributed to such an exchange over identity. Through a microscopic analysis of forms, functions, and meanings of literary language in a systematic way, it is asserted that the influx, hence, of values, morals, behaviours, and the multiple, fragmented and oscillating self is unequivocally exhibited in the metamodernist novels.
Abstract: The very last quarter of the century is characterised by a large-scale and deep-seated changes which distinguish it from the postmodern epoch. This is in part due to globalisation that has remolded the economic, social and cultural space. Those unprecedented alterations manifest themselves in all areas of human life as the key features of the conte...
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Research Article
Ethnography of the Dying Culture of Northern Punjab: An Insight into Potohar
Swera Hafeez*,
Rai Arslan Ahmad
Issue:
Volume 12, Issue 6, December 2024
Pages:
173-177
Received:
14 August 2024
Accepted:
14 September 2024
Published:
23 December 2024
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijla.20241206.14
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Abstract: The study aims to analyze and Document the traditional cultural practices of Potohar region Along with analyzing the factors contributing to the decline of Potohari culture. It is therefore significant to examine the impacts of modernization, globalization and urbanization on local traditions of this region. The Potohar Plateau in northern Punjab, Pakistan, is a region imbued with a rich cultural heritage characterized by unique linguistic, social, and artistic traditions. The era of modernization, globalization, and socio-economic changes are contributing to the erosion of these traditional practices. This research study focused on ethnographic methodology for conduction if qualitative research by using interviews conduction for primary data collection whereas using already present research papers and historical documents as a source of secondary data collection. The results of the study highlights that sustainable and progressive strategies are being adopted for the revitalization of cultural, linguistic, ethnic and traditional practices and identities. Through the adoption of various research methodologies and archival research, this study reveals the intricate traditions, customs, and values that have defined the Livelihood of the people of Potohar for decades. This ethnographic study seeks to document the traditional aspects of Potohari culture, identify the factors leading to its decline, and provide recommendations for cultural preservation. For the future policy makers, it is therefore necessary to ensure implementation of sustainable practices.
Abstract: The study aims to analyze and Document the traditional cultural practices of Potohar region Along with analyzing the factors contributing to the decline of Potohari culture. It is therefore significant to examine the impacts of modernization, globalization and urbanization on local traditions of this region. The Potohar Plateau in northern Punjab, ...
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Research Article
Narrative Strategies of Animated Short Films from the Perspective of Reception Aesthetics: Taking "A Dog Under Bridge" as an Example
Xiao Chen*
Issue:
Volume 12, Issue 6, December 2024
Pages:
178-185
Received:
8 November 2024
Accepted:
27 November 2024
Published:
23 December 2024
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijla.20241206.15
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Abstract: The "Reception Aesthetics" theory of the Konstanzer School in Germany holds that the meaning of a literary text depends not only on its own creative intention but also on the understanding of its content. On this basis, the audience is regarded as an important role in the narrative process of animated films, including "aesthetic distance", "expectation horizon", "calling structure", etc. The Birmingham Centre for Modern Literature was established in 1960 and holds a crucial position worldwide. The idea and method of "compilation and decoding" proposed by Stuart Hall made an important exploration for cultural research in China and had a considerable influence around the world. Raymond Williams' "cultural materialism" advocated the organic integration of Marx's historical viewpoints with specific cultural activities to form a new theoretical system. He Yun, a professor from the School of Fine Arts of Southeast University in China, encoded and decoded the hermit figures in Chinese landscape paintings based on the basic framework of "metaphor" and "recluseness", and decoded their emotional experiences. Through the analysis of the work "A Dog Under Bridge", this paper reveals how the author achieves a kind of encoding of narration through artistic techniques, thereby constructing a novel with realistic and transcendent significance. The "dog" in the film is not a simple character image, but a "symbol" with multiple cultural symbolic meanings. Its fate and choices are thought-provoking: life, freedom, and a sense of belonging. On this basis, by adopting an interdisciplinary cross-comparison method, this paper explores the blend of its narrative rhetoric between reality and escape, and how the audience enhances their emotional feelings through their own personal experiences and interpretations, thereby proposing new ideas and inspirations for the narration and emotional expression of Chinese animated films.
Abstract: The "Reception Aesthetics" theory of the Konstanzer School in Germany holds that the meaning of a literary text depends not only on its own creative intention but also on the understanding of its content. On this basis, the audience is regarded as an important role in the narrative process of animated films, including "aesthetic distance", "expecta...
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Research Article
Exploring Performance Techniques in Schumann's Piano Suite Papillons
Issue:
Volume 12, Issue 6, December 2024
Pages:
186-192
Received:
22 November 2024
Accepted:
5 December 2024
Published:
23 December 2024
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijla.20241206.16
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Abstract: Schumann's early piano suite Papillons is a cornerstone of Romantic piano literature and one of the most significant masterpieces of his youth. This work not only represents the evolution of the piano suite as a genre but also reflects Schumann's artistic maturity and innovative compositional style. Drawing inspiration from the composer’s life, this study explores the historical and cultural context of Papillons, its musical characteristics, and its role in shaping Romantic performance practices. The article examines the suite’s melody, rhythm, and harmony, highlighting the structural and thematic elements that contribute to its expressive depth. By focusing on the interplay between these musical components, the study identifies key challenges in interpreting Papillons and provides insights into the performance techniques required to overcome them. Special attention is given to the performer’s "imagination," emphasizing its critical role in interpreting Schumann’s intricate emotional landscapes. Through the construction of an inner vision, performers are encouraged to transform abstract musical ideas into vivid, evocative expressions. This research delves into technical elements such as force control, key touch, and pedal use, providing practical guidance for piano learners seeking to master Papillons. By dissecting the nuances of Schumann's phrasing and dynamic contrasts, the article offers actionable techniques to accurately convey the work’s shifting moods and characters. Ultimately, this study seeks to foster a deeper understanding of Papillons in both technical and artistic terms. It aims to enhance the interpretative skills of pianists by bridging analytical insights with expressive execution. The findings serve as a valuable resource for performers and educators, offering a pathway to elevate the performance level and appreciation of one of Schumann's most iconic compositions.
Abstract: Schumann's early piano suite Papillons is a cornerstone of Romantic piano literature and one of the most significant masterpieces of his youth. This work not only represents the evolution of the piano suite as a genre but also reflects Schumann's artistic maturity and innovative compositional style. Drawing inspiration from the composer’s life, thi...
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