讲座题目：Ekphrasis of the Earth

主讲人：Thomas Oliver Beebee教授

主持人：胡易容教授

讲座时间：5月21日 下午14:30-16:30

讲座地点：江安校区文科楼1-526

讲座摘要：

Ekphrasis is the original form of intermediality between literature and art, as in the famous description of Achilles’ shield in Homer’sIliad. What sort of textuality emerges, however, when the object of description is landscape, the earth, which itself is conceived as having both stories to tell and forces and resources that shape narrative and language? This talk compares this ekphrasis of the earth as it shapes three texts set in the deserts of the American Southwest: Mary Austin’sLand of Little Rain(1903); Joy Harjo/Stephen Strom’sSecrets from the Center of the World(1989); and Nicole Brossard’sMauve Desert(Désert mauve1987).

主讲人简介：

Thomas Oliver Beebee is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature at Penn State University, editor-in-chief of the journal Comparative Literature Studies, and general editor of the Bloomsbury series, Literatures as World Literature. The author of Clarissa on the Continent (1991), The Ideology Of Genre (1994), Epistolary Fiction in Europe (1999), Nation and Region in Modern European and American Fiction (2008), and Conjunctions and Disjunctions of German Law and Literature (2011), Professor Beebee engages in a number of research areas, including criticism and theory, epistolarity, eighteenth-century literature, translation (theory, practice, and literary mimesis), mental maps in literature, and law and literature.