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The Identity Reconstruction of James in Everything I Never Told You
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 1, January 2020
Pages:
1-5
Received:
19 December 2019
Accepted:
16 January 2020
Published:
31 January 2020
Abstract: “Everything I Never Told You” is a grievous observation of identity crisis that the Lees, an interracial family, are subjected to. Being an essential part of human’s life, identity is often used by people to find their places and constitute relationships among members of the society. People are inherently uncertain about their own identities because it is not only a self-conception existing in each individual, but also a reflected image in the eyes of "others". James Lee rejects some defining parts of himself and makes every effort to construct a self-deceptive identity as he struggles to fix into the mainstream of the United States, but only to obscure the boundary between “self” and “others” and be plagued by his identity crisis. Awareness of the threat to personal identity is not confined to the Lees, but manifests itself at all levels of the population. The study makes serious observation to the mental crisis and social predicament other Chinese Americans like James are facing and further explores the underlying causes of their identity crisis and anxiety. In the binary or mixed cultures, since people can’t always gain recognition from the target society by changing roles or by subjective self-categorization, the change of personal identity ultimately depends on the increased status of the group as a whole.
Abstract: “Everything I Never Told You” is a grievous observation of identity crisis that the Lees, an interracial family, are subjected to. Being an essential part of human’s life, identity is often used by people to find their places and constitute relationships among members of the society. People are inherently uncertain about their own identities becaus...
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The "Dynamic" Behavior of Group Psychology Represented by Culture
Quanhua Song,
Hongji Wang
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 1, January 2020
Pages:
6-11
Received:
27 December 2019
Accepted:
16 January 2020
Published:
31 January 2020
Abstract: In culture and information transmission, signifier and signifier of symbols have changed into a new field with the change of ideology. For characterization of out of control and illegal ethnic composition for structural analysis of the existing culture, through the interactive relations between social groups - personal interpretation of the change of the psychological development, from the "social identification gradient" and "ideology", "the dilemma of characterization in different areas of the" three aspects to explore group psychological factors of kinetic energy release at the same time through the group of the unconscious psychological construct reshaping symbol categories,"maximum-minmum value new dynamic psychological field. Through the analysis of experience in the field of culture phenomenon, this paper proposes experience world was generated from surface world by inner-spirit selection. The main information of experience world was awaken by interactive ceremony that the public participated. Although information is an extension of the "self" image in the communication, the mirror is not the result of individual choice. The mirror is only from the guide and the interaction of internal spirit of the world, and finally forms our cognitive field.
Abstract: In culture and information transmission, signifier and signifier of symbols have changed into a new field with the change of ideology. For characterization of out of control and illegal ethnic composition for structural analysis of the existing culture, through the interactive relations between social groups - personal interpretation of the change ...
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Fashion Wearable Between Science and Design, From the Product to an Overall User Experience
Alba Cappellieri,
Nicolas Henchoz,
Livia Tenuta,
Susanna Testa
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 1, January 2020
Pages:
12-22
Received:
17 September 2019
Accepted:
6 February 2020
Published:
14 February 2020
Abstract: The purpose of the research is to develop a fashion wearable design methodology that could potentially embody authenticity. The paper first indicates and analyses the limits of wearable technologies here intended not only as products, but also as a systemic and procedural dimension offered by a design-oriented approach. A market analysis and a literature review had been conducted to provide the theoretical framework needed for a practice-driven inquiry into the design process. Starting from the limits of wearables, the experimentations on the methodology to design wearable devices run by Politecnico di Milano with EPFL + ECAL Lab gather 4 workshops and 2 industrial partnerships over 3 year. The findings offer the opportunity to reinterpret the design process and the interaction that designer have with areas such as art, technology and science. They lead to redefine both the design processes concerning the very meaning of the object and the interaction between human, object and context. The results of these experiments are presented in the form of an advanced methodology to design wearables and the value of this approach leads to an emphasis of the designer’s cross role and it can provide significant social and practical implications both in the academic research and in the market.
Abstract: The purpose of the research is to develop a fashion wearable design methodology that could potentially embody authenticity. The paper first indicates and analyses the limits of wearable technologies here intended not only as products, but also as a systemic and procedural dimension offered by a design-oriented approach. A market analysis and a lite...
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Oscar Wilde and the Late-Victorian Spectacular Theatre
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 1, January 2020
Pages:
23-29
Received:
23 January 2020
Accepted:
14 February 2020
Published:
26 February 2020
Abstract: The present paper mainly focuses on the stage of archaeological authenticity in the late-Victorian spectacular theatre and Oscar Wilde’s special response to this unprecedented theatrical style. The late-Victorian theatre was a place where spectacle was combined with archaeology. The spectacular effect on stage was achieved with the assistance of archaeological research. Paradoxically enough, theatre artists took great pains to find archaeological evidence for every stage scene, yet at the same time they felt entirely free to revise the text of the playwright and to replace words with images. Oscar Wilde did not understand the spectacular nature of his age until the early 1890s. His early journalistic essay “Shakespeare on Scenery” and its extended version “Shakespeare and Stage Costume” stressed the realistic effect created by the archaeological stage, while in “Truth of Masks”, the final version of “Shakespeare on Scenery”, Wilde radically reversed his original argument and turned to assert the importance of illusion by changing certain expressions of the text. The controversial views contained in the several versions of the text hinted at Wilde’s own ambiguous attitude towards the historical spectacles on stage. Yet the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, published in 1891, reflected Wilde’s growing understanding of the visual spectacles on stage. For Wilde, as represented by Dorian Gray in the novel, the spectacular stage provided the only proper site for visual concentration of his age. Dorian’s excessive love of stage image also accounted partially for Wilde’s advocacy of the predominance of appearance in his aesthetics.
Abstract: The present paper mainly focuses on the stage of archaeological authenticity in the late-Victorian spectacular theatre and Oscar Wilde’s special response to this unprecedented theatrical style. The late-Victorian theatre was a place where spectacle was combined with archaeology. The spectacular effect on stage was achieved with the assistance of ar...
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Reindeer Culture in the Last Quarter of the Moon
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 1, January 2020
Pages:
30-32
Received:
10 February 2020
Accepted:
21 February 2020
Published:
28 February 2020
Abstract: The Last Quarter of the Moon is the first novel in China to describe the living conditions of the Ewenki people over a century. As an ancient nomadic hunting nationality, the Ewenkis lived a reindeer-leading life and gradually formed the original ethnic minority culture in the deep mountains and dense forests of the Greater Xing’an Mountains. Reindeer culture is a typical representative of it, which not only reflects the daily production and life of the Ewenki people, forms a unique spiritual culture, but also condenses the sincere emotion of the Ewenki in harmony with nature. This text sorts out contents reflecting the reindeer culture in the work through textual reading. It is divided into daily life, including clothing, food, shelter, and transportation; spiritual life, including religious beliefs and art; and the theme of the work embodied by the reindeer. Finally, this article reveals the cultural connotation of reindeer culture for the Ewenki people, and the novel’s deep thinking on the integration of primitive ecological civilization and modern civilization.
Abstract: The Last Quarter of the Moon is the first novel in China to describe the living conditions of the Ewenki people over a century. As an ancient nomadic hunting nationality, the Ewenkis lived a reindeer-leading life and gradually formed the original ethnic minority culture in the deep mountains and dense forests of the Greater Xing’an Mountains. Reind...
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