美国文学专家Patrick Murphy教授讲座
题 目:Getting the Story Straight: Narrative and Rhetorical Strategies in Climate change
地 点:虹口校区文学研究院会议室(科研大楼511室)
主办单位:文学研究院、英美文学研究中心
Popular Science and Fiction
讲座提要:
Climate change provides an immediately useful and immensely valuable topic for language and literature teaching. Today, in both the United States and China, as evidenced by topics discussed during Secretary Clinton's first visit as a representative of the Obama Administration and subsequent bilateral discussions between Presidents Obama and Hu Jin Tao, addressing climate change has been publicly recognized at the highest government levels as a pressing concern calling for coordinated effort. Further, it has been called the key challenge of the twenty-first century.
In this talk I will discuss the narrative and rhetorical strategies that are employed in a range of novels and popular science books. Examples will include works from
主讲人简介:
Patrick Murphy教授执教于美国University of Central Florida大学英语系,《英美文学研究论丛》外籍编委。他的研究领域包括自然文学(nature-oriented Literature)、美国当代多元文化文学(Contemporary Multicultural American Literature)、亚裔美国文学和亚裔文学对比研究(Comparative Asian American and Asian Literatures)、现代美国诗歌(Modern American Poetry)、生态批评(Ecocriticism)、科幻小说(science fiction)、身体化主体身份(bodied subjecthood and identities)、巴赫金对话理论(Bakhtinian dialogics)。
出版的著作有:
Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies,
Farther Afield in the Study of Nature Oriented Literature, University Press of
Literature, Nature, and Other: Ecofeminist Critiques,
Understanding Gary Snyder,