国立台湾大学外国语文学系学术演讲 DFLL Faculty Colloquium Imagining the Future in Modern Western Fiction Speaker: Professor David Punter (Department of English, University of Bristol, UK) Moderator: Dr. Ya-feng Wu (Associate Professor, DFLL, NTU) 主持人：吴雅凤副教授（台大外文系副教授） Time: 3:30 ~ 5:00 pm, Wednesday, May 27, 2009 时间：2009年5月27日（周三）下午3:30-5:00 Venue: DFLL New Conference Room, Gallery of NTU History (Old Main Library) 地点：台大校史馆（旧总图）一楼外文系新会议室 ◎ David Punter is Professor of English at the University of Bristol, UK. He has previously worked at the University of East Anglia (UK); at Fudan University, Shanghai; at the Chinese University of Hong Kong; and at the University of Stirling (UK). He is the author or editor of more than twenty critical books on Gothic and romantic literature; on critical theory and psychoanalysis; on modern and contemporary literature; and on ideas of the postcolonial. His best-known critical work is probably The Literature of Terror (1980, second two-volume edition 1996), but more recently he has published Writing the Passions (2000), and his next book, which will appear this month, is Rapture: Literature Addiction, Secrecy. He has also published four small books of poetry. For more information, please go to: http://www.bris.ac.uk/english/contact/punter.html. Abstract: This paper will explore how western fiction from 1932 onwards – from the UK and the US – has explored the future. It will pay attention to the future in terms of warning; of prediction; and, occasionally, of celebration. It will thus have something to say about notions of utopia and dystopia, and also about how the future is imagined in terms of current social, cultural and technological trends. I will say be referring, although sometimes quite briefly, to eleven texts: Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932) George Orwell, 1984 (1948) Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1954) Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962) Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan (1959) J.G. Ballard, Vermilion Sands (1974) Doris Lessing, Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (1978) Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker (1980) William Gibson, Virtual Light (1993) Bret Easton, Glamorama (1998) Some of the relevant issues are: how can we imagine a future at all? do we necessarily imagine it in terms of the present? what technological futures now confront us on a global level? how can texts suggest to us ways in which we might influence the future rather than simply receiving it as it occurs? and what might the role of literature itself be in these imagined futures? ===================================================================== 同学寄给我的演讲讯息XD 外文系的少数会以科幻为主题的学术演讲>///< 但时间实在是太不刚好，该不该冲啊？……冏rz 版上会有人有兴趣吗？ -- Every memory of looking out the back door I had the photo album spread out on my bedroom floor It、s hard to say it, time to say it...... ---Nickelback《Photograph》 --

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