FEATURE ARTICLES 1
Variation Theory:A Breakthrough in Research of World Comparative Literature Theory&CAO Shunqing 1
"The Sounds an Atomic Bomb Makes:John Hersey's Hiroshima and the Birth of'Asian'Modernity"&CHRISTIE Stuart 9
The Concept of Decadence in Fin de Siècle English Literature&WU Fusheng 21
20th CENTURY BRITISH WOMEN WRITERS 45
Invited editor's note A Special Forum on"20th Century British Women Writers"&LIU Yan 45
Virginia Woolf's Aesthetics of Feminism and Androgyny:A Re-reading of A Room of One's Own&MA Jianjun 47
A Kristevan Reading of Carol Ann Duffy's"The Grammar of Light"&FU Jingjing 60
Reading the Maternal in The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing&CAI Xiaoyan 73
Urban Geography for Yard Gals&WANG Qiong 82
INFULUENCE STUDIES＆CANON FORMATION 94
The Influence of Johnson on Liang Shiqiu's Human Nature Theory of Shakespeare Criticism&LI Weifang 94
The Construction and Revision of American Literary Canon——A Study of The Norton Anthology of American Literature 1979—2003&JI Zheng 98
ECO-CRITICISM 105
Future of Ecocriticism:Strategic-openness and Sustainability—An Interview with Scott Slovic&SLOVIC Scott and YANG Yingyu 105
Article Complex and its Ecology:Reconstructing Writers'Identity in Consumer Age&ZHANG Bailing 117
GENDER,CULTURE＆LITERATURE 125
Studies of Male Identity in the West:a Theoretical Overview&ZHAN Junfeng 125
Gothic Architecture and Gothic Fiction:An Intertextual Approach&LIU Yi 135
NARRATOLOGY 143
Framing Possible-worlds Narratology&ZHANG Xinjun 143
The Narrator in Look Homeward,Angel&HU Lidan 154
BOOK REVIEW 164
Chinese and American Scholars on the"Path of Comparative Literature"—Preface to 1979-2009:Retrospect of the Development of Comparative Literature Studies of China&HUANG Weiliang 164
NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS 172