系列学术讲座预告

德国马尔堡大学英美文学系教授Dr. Volker Bischoff应邀将于2007年9月10—9月28日来我院讲学。Dr. Volker Bischoff教授曾在美国普渡大学、哈佛大学、伊利诺斯州立大学、米歇根州立大学、芝加哥大学、以及德国汉堡大学任教或从事研究工作。此次来我院讲学的主要论题将涉及美国现当代文学和西方后现代文艺理论，具体内容如下：

I Modern Literature

               week 1   lecture class: The New Poetry (Pound/Eliot)           

                        discussion class: "In a Station of the Metro"

               week 2   lecture class: Lost Generation (Fitzgerald/Hemingway)

                        discussion class: "Gatsby's house was still empty...."

               week 3   lecture class: Plays of the Late Forties (Miller/Williams)

                        discussion class: "Requiem"

II Postmodern Literature

               week 1  lecture class: Metafiction (Pynchon/Barth)

                        discussion class: "For whom is the funhouse fun?..."

               week 2  lecture class: Theatre of the Absurd (Albee)

                        discussion class: "Which theater is the absurd one..."

               week 3  lecture class: Language Poetry (Mac Low/ Bernstein)

                        discussion class: "A Defense of Poetry"

III Literary Theory

             week 1   lecture class: "The words on the page" (The New Critics)

                      discussion class: "The poem as organism"

             week 2   lecture class: Mise en abime: Deconstruction and Criticism

                      discussion class: "How Deconstruction Works"

             week 3   lecture class: "The Empire Writes Back": Postcolonialism

                      discussion class: "Thorow"

推荐读书书目：

I  Modern American Literature

    Pound, Ezra：Canto XIII, Canto XLV, Canto LIII

    Eliot, T.S.：The Waste Land

    Fitzgerald, F. Scott：The Great Gatsby

     Hemingway, Ernest：The Sun Also Rises

   Miller, Arthur：Death of a Salesman

     Williams, Tennessee：A Streetcar Named Desire

II Postmodern American Literature

     Pynchon, Thomas：Entropy

     Barth, John：Lost in the Funhouse (short story)

     Albee, Edward：Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Mac Low, Jackson：Words nd Ends from Ez

    Bernstein, Charles：with strings 

III Literary Theory

         Brooks, Cleanth and Robert Penn Warren：Understanding Poetry

         Bloom, Harold et al.：Deconstruction and Criticism

         Ashcroft, Bill et al.：The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures