大卫·贾斯柏（David Jasper）“理解文学，理解文化”系列研讨课招募信息

内容简介

全球化时代、互联网时代的蓬勃而至并未消除人类语言和文化的巴别塔，不同文化的交流与文化内部的传承仍不断遭遇新的壁垒，新的危机。在当下社会，当我们谈论文化和文学时，我们在谈论什么？在全球文化环境急速扩容的当下，文学何为？本次系列讲座中，贾斯柏教授将从不同角度探讨文学与文化议题，横瞰东西方文化的比较与交流，纵览西方文学自希伯来和古希腊传统以来的延续与发展，宏观文明进程中文学权威的确立，细探英语文学经典之一莎士比亚，追寻现代以来文学在与时代的角力中仍应具备的力量与关怀。

本次研讨会将以系列讲座的形式进行，时间定于2017年9月13日、20日、25日，10月11日、16日、18日，共六次课。英文授课，无中文翻译。现将相关事宜公告如下，欢迎同学们前来交流：

主题

理解文学，理解文化

Understanding Literature, Understanding Culture

主讲人简介

大卫·贾斯柏教授（Professor David Jasper），英国格拉斯哥大学文学与神学教授、中国人民大学文学院特聘长江学者及海外名师、美国爱荷华大学特聘教授，多种著名学术刊物编委。主要研究领域为文学与神学、诠释学、当代批评理论。著作有《神圣的群体》、《神圣的身体》、《诠释学概要》、《圣经与文学读本》等。

时间

2017年9月13日、20日、25日；

10月11日、16日、18日；

晚6:00-9:00，共六次。

地点

国学馆525

日程安排

9月13日 第一讲

在多元文化社会中相互理解

Not long after his arrival in Hong Kong in 1843, the Scottish missionary and scholar James Legge became convinced that “he should not be able to consider himself qualified for the duties of his position until he had mastered the Classical Books of the Chinese, and had investigated for himself the whole field of thought through which the Sages of China had ranged.” We can understand neither ourselves nor one another until we have studied the literature and writings that form the bases of our societies and thought. The importance of language, literature and poetry.

9月20日 第二讲

西方两种伟大的文学传统

Western culture has two great literary roots – the Classical or Hellenic, with its origins in ancient Greece, and the Hebraic, with its origins in the Semitic societies of the ancient Middle East. The first begins with the two epic poems of Homer, develops in the tragedies of Aeschylus and reaches its flower in the philosophy of Plato. The latter finds its greatest expression in the Hebrew literature of the Bible.

9月25日 第三讲

文学经典与权威

All great literatures have developed canons of supremely important and influential texts. These texts survive the trials of history, and where others fail and are forgotten, remain fresh and important with a synchronic tenacity. What makes for the survival and continuing importance of such texts as The Analects, the Tao Te Ching, the Aeneid of Vergil or, perhaps most ancient of all, the Book of Job? Why should we defend the canons of literature?

10月11日 第四讲

英语文学一例之莎士比亚

Why is Shakespeare at the centre of the Western Canon? This lecture will argue that Shakespeare is a supreme example in literature of originality fused with tradition. Through Shakespeare’s great tragedies, comedies and historical plays we realize more clearly where we come from and what the possibilities for the future might be.

10月16日 第五讲

二十世纪的文学

The twentieth century was arguably the most convulsive period in the history of humankind in both Eastern and Western societies. In both cases centuries of tradition and social were ended and much in them was lost and much that was new learned. What role does literature play in such times? Examples will be taken from Russian, South African, American, Chinese and British writers.

10月18日 第六讲

世界文学及人类的未来

Yet remain both connected and divided by language and tradition, literary cultures are threatened by the spread of information through the immediacies of the internet and information technology. Such rapid information is often available at the cost of careful, imaginative and intelligent reflection upon our nature as human beings. Such reflection comes through the study and sharing of literature and of our literary canons, Eastern and Western.

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来源：中国人民大学文学院