老師有交代 大家有空的可以多多參加 講者是在University of Essex 很有名的學者 主要研究領域是中古 今年被邀請到中山客座一年 不過他這次要講的主題 和中古無關 主要是提供大家一個可能的研究方向 請大家踴躍參予~~~ Subject: 5/5(一)政大英文系文學組演講： Prof. Jonathan White 中山大學客座教授, University of Essex, UK 文學研究的新方向：文學和文化歷史 5月5日12：30-- 14：00 地點：學思樓040205室 Jonathan White, University of Essex. 'Questions Concerning Literature and Cultural History' Abstract Over the last twenty years we have witnessed an acutely increased historicization of literary studies, a development mostly to be welcomed. We have moved from a discipline that placed greatest emphasis upon the close study of individual texts – an immensely valuable training, but now usually felt to be insufficient in itself to sustain far-reaching scholarship - to one in which attempts to read all texts and text types contextually is a commonly assumed expectation. This paper mainly concentrates on questions that naturally arise in consequence, as to how we read texts in terms of complex historical data, or understand cultural history itself as vastly complicated by the literature that we study. In an aside to his Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin formulated an abiding question: ‘What sort of perceptibility should the presentation of history possess?’ - driven to such speculation by his belief (worked into almost everything he wrote) that ‘being past, being no more, is passionately at work in things.’ Benjamin should be one important benchmark in any attempt we make (as he put it) at ‘distilling the present, as inmost essence of what has been.’ Antonio Gramsci, writing in a somewhat different vein, requires us to recognise about any period we may come to study - as he did in the specific case of the Risorgimento - that its ‘traditions, mentalities, problems and solutions were multiple, contradictory, often highly individual and arbitrary by nature, and were not at the time seen in unitary ways.’ In looking at short examples from Pope and Wordsworth, the present paper asks how cultural history can be energised by complexities in the texts that we study. Finally, do these new difficulties in the methodologies that we seek to practice in turn connect with serious work on 'realms of memory,' and also ‘postmemory’ as defined and exemplified by Marianne Hirsch? or for that matter, with cultural geographers who retrace lineages of the present, often from textual or other material remnants of tragic historic circumstance? --

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