※ [本文轉錄自 NTU07DFLL 看板] 作者: titdnic (傑克維) 看板: NTU07DFLL 標題: [公告] 外文系學術演講 時間: Tue May 19 11:48:41 2009 國立臺灣大學外國語文學系學術演講 DFLL Faculty Colloquium （若需公務人員終身學習時數認證者，研習後可登錄時數2小時） 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：吳雅鳳副教授（臺大外文系副教授） Time: 3:30 ~ 5:00 pm, Wednesday, May 27, 2009 時間：2009年5月27日（週三）下午3:30-5:00 Venue: DFLL New Conference Room, Gallery of NTU History (Old Main Library) 地點：臺大校史館（舊總圖）一樓外文系新會議室 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ◎ 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? --

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