FEATURE ARTICLES CAO Shunqing Variation 7heory:A Breakthrough in Research of World Comparative Literature T heory CHRIsZIE Stuart “The Sounds an Atomic Bomb Makes:John HerseyS Hiroshima and the Birth of'Asian'Modernity” WUFusheng The Concept ofDecadence in Fin de Si6cle English Literature 20 CENTURY BRITISH wOMEN wRITERS LIU Fan Invited editor'S note A Special Forum on“20*Century British Women Writers” MA Jianjun Virginia woolf'S Aesthetics of Feminism and Androgyny:A Re-reading ofA Room ofOne's Own FU Jingfing A Kristevan Reading of Carol Ann Duffy,'S“The Grammar ofLight” CAIXiaoyan Reading the Maternal in The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing WANGQiong Urban Geography forYard Gals INFFULUENCE STUDIES&CANON FORMATION LI Weifang The Influence of Johnson on Liang Shiqiu,S Human Nature Theory of Shakespeare Criticism JI Zheng The Construction and Revision of American Literary Canon——A Study of The Norton Anthology of American Literature 1979——2003 ECO-CRITICISM SLOVIC Scott and YANG Ying yu Future of Ecocriticism: Strategic-openness and Sustainability——An Interview with Scott Slovic ZHANG Bailing Article Complex and its Ecology: Reconstructing Writers' Identity in Consumer Age GENDER, CULTURE & LITERATURE ZHAN Junfeng Studies of Male Identity in the West a Theoretical Overview LIU Yi Gothic Architecture and Gothic Fiction: An Intertextual Approach NARRATOLOGY ZHANG Xinjun Framing Possible-worlds Narratology HU Lidan The Narrator in Look Homeward, Angel BOOK REVIEW HUANG WeUiang Chinese and American Scholars on the "Path of Comparative Literature——Preface to 1979-2009: Retrospect of the Development of Comparative Literature Studies of China NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS