Acknowledgements 1
Part One 3
Tracing the Signifier:Barthes and Althusser 3
Studying Raymond Williams in a Chinese Perspective 15
Critiquing Irigaray's Post-modern Feminist Theory 50
China's"Cultural Fever"in the Global Context 65
Globality and Cultural Trends in Contemporary China 75
Cultural Identity and Ideological Space 91
Part Two 121
Literary Works and Their Cultural Assumptions 121
Some Reflections on Frost's Pastoral and Philosophical Poems 138
Towards an Understanding of Said's Re-constructed Orientalism 154
Studying Ted Hughes's Poems:An Appreciative Survey 164
An Interview with Professor Shaun Richards on Irish Drama 176
Literary Theory Keywords 186
Appendix(Literature Translation) 214
A.Drama from Ibsen to Brecht(1973) 214
B.Poems by Robert Frost 239
C.B. Franklin's Autobiography(Exerpt) 253
D.Sayings of Dr.Samuel Johnson 260