Jiena Sun
Biographic Data
| ID | 4606333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jiena Sun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jiena |
| FAMILY NAME | Sun |
| SIGNATURE | SUN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wuhan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6379-0105 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Routines and the Performance Piece in Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist
By anatomising Laruen's performance piece — Body Time in DeLillo's The Body Artist, this essay rereads her piece not merely as a response to personal loss, but rather, evolving contemplation on an uncertain existence of which death is only an episode. Staging three socially invisible bodies and their respective daily routines, Lauren goes beyond the private realm of personal loss to address in a broader context the lure of mechanical repetition b…
The Production of Space in Richard Selzer’s Wartime Story “The Whistlers’ Room”
The Human Slivers of a Civilization”
Through a series of language events—Max’s made-up broadcast, Martin’s trancelike talks, and the concluding soliloquies—and authorial experimentations with alternate uses of language, in The Silence Don DeLillo investigates the limitations and redemptive potential of language accentuated by an unspecified apocalyptic shutdown. By juggling his complicated feelings toward language, he seeks to alert his characters, along with his readers, to the des…
Affect and its Circulation in and Beyond Richard Selzer's “Imelda”
Appreciation and literary representation of affective responses in medical encounters help resist the reductionist temptation to quantify and simplify illness experience with test data, images, and medical jargon. Then how do these representations of affect make a difference in the medical profession? Surgeon writer Richard Selzer's short story “Imelda” (1982) might offer a unique perspective to examine physicians' affective engagements with illn…
Pillow talk
Pillow talk"The parents of my 28-week preemie twins stopped me in the garage".He broke the sleepy and blissful silence.She knew it would be another sad story."They pleaded with me to decide which one to let go, for lack of money"."Mom-and-wife-drowning-at-the-same-time situation?""Yep, a close contest".Yet, this time, the dreadful question was not asked by the jealous wife, but by a poverty-stricken couple, who believed that he could save the day…
Liminal Masculinity in Richard Selzer’s Knife Song Korea
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Liminal Masculinity in Richard Selzer’s Knife Song Korea
Pillow talk
Pillow talk"The parents of my 28-week preemie twins stopped me in the garage".He broke the sleepy and blissful silence.She knew it would be another sad story."They pleaded with me to decide which one to let go, for lack of money"."Mom-and-wife-drowning-at-the-same-time situation?""Yep, a close contest".Yet, this time, the dreadful question was not asked by the jealous wife, but by a poverty-stricken couple, who believed that he could save the day…
Affect and its Circulation in and Beyond Richard Selzer's “Imelda”
Appreciation and literary representation of affective responses in medical encounters help resist the reductionist temptation to quantify and simplify illness experience with test data, images, and medical jargon. Then how do these representations of affect make a difference in the medical profession? Surgeon writer Richard Selzer's short story “Imelda” (1982) might offer a unique perspective to examine physicians' affective engagements with illn…
The Production of Space in Richard Selzer’s Wartime Story “The Whistlers’ Room”
The Human Slivers of a Civilization”
Through a series of language events—Max’s made-up broadcast, Martin’s trancelike talks, and the concluding soliloquies—and authorial experimentations with alternate uses of language, in The Silence Don DeLillo investigates the limitations and redemptive potential of language accentuated by an unspecified apocalyptic shutdown. By juggling his complicated feelings toward language, he seeks to alert his characters, along with his readers, to the des…
Routines and the Performance Piece in Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist
By anatomising Laruen's performance piece — Body Time in DeLillo's The Body Artist, this essay rereads her piece not merely as a response to personal loss, but rather, evolving contemplation on an uncertain existence of which death is only an episode. Staging three socially invisible bodies and their respective daily routines, Lauren goes beyond the private realm of personal loss to address in a broader context the lure of mechanical repetition b…
Psychology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works)