※ [本文轉錄自 NTU04DFLL 看板] 作者: spanisheyes (hazel) 看板: NTU04DFLL 標題: [公告] 外文系學術演講 時間: Tue Apr 15 23:41:24 2008 國立臺灣大學外國語文學系學術演講 DFLL Faculty Colloquium The Conatus of Obsolescence: A.R. Ammons' Garbage and Other Studies of the Aged Male Subject Speaker: Dr. Sean Allan (DFLL Project Instructor) 演講人：項亞倫博士（臺大外文系專案計畫講師） Moderator: Dr. Bennett Yu-hsiang Fu (DFLL Assistant Professor) 主持人：臺大外文系傅友祥助理教授 Time: 3:30 ~ 5:00 pm, Wednesday, April 23, 2008 時間：2008年4月23日週三下午3:30-5:00 Venue: DFLL New Conference Room, 1F Old Main Library 地點：臺大舊總圖一樓外文系新會議室 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract: This presentation examines Ammons’ book-length poem Garbage. Ammons wrote the poem at the age of 63, and he used the poem to examine the elective affinities between the wasting away of the aged body and the nature of decay in the physical and social worlds. Through this examination, Ammons is able to interrogate America’s various obsessions with absence and presence. Said interrogation is wrought through an attempt by Ammons to absence the self: by “ ghosting” his aged body, he in fact celebrates the presence of both things thought (or wished) absent and things essentially made absent through our lack of attention to them. While the poem is a meditation on the subject position of the aged male subject, such a meditation in essence becomes a celebration of overlooked presences, oversights that marginalize the spiritual value of many kinds of “garbage”. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of how Ammons’ insights lead to some understanding of recent attempts in World Cinema and American art to examine the aged male subject. 外文系系辦 --

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