【04月26日】叶扬 :A Strong Poet: John Milton and his Paradise Lost
 
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英语学院院庆60周年系列活动

“中外人文经典导读”系列讲座第5

讲座题目A Strong Poet: John Milton and his Paradise Lost

主讲人叶扬 教授(美国加州大学)

主持人:吴其尧 教授

时间2016426日(周二)18:00-20:00

地点:松江校区5126

举办单位:英语学院


讲座内容简介:

    To begin with, John Milton’s Paradise Lost is the best and greatest long poem in English. What was the background of its production? What was the Weltanschauung like at the time in England and Europe? Why would Milton be considered, in the American critic and scholar Harold Bloom’s term, a representative “strong poet”? What kind of experiments with poetic forms did Milton carry out, in preparation for the composition of his magnum opus? What accounts for his generic choice of writing it in the epic form? What is the structure of Paradise Lost? What is Milton’s power of descriptive art displayed in the work? And finally, why do we need to read the work as a student of English? These are some of the questions to be asked and considered in the talk.


主讲人简介:

叶扬,比较文学博士,美国加利福尼亚大学终身聘职教授,复旦大学顾问教授。 英文著作成书付梓者,包括《晚明小品》(Vignettes from the Late Ming, 1999)、

《中国诗歌的结尾》(Chinese Poetic Closure, 1996)、以及两卷本英译《简明中国文学史》(A Concise History of Chinese Literature, 2011, 骆玉明原著)等,另有收入《长篇小说大典》(The Encyclopedia of the Novel, 2011)、《现代中国百科全书》(Encyclopedia of Modern China, 2009)、《别有洞天:亨廷顿流芳园之构建》(Another World Lies Beyond: Creating Liu Fang Yuan, the Huntingtons ChineseGarden, 2009)《英译文学大典》(Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English,2000)等书籍以及发表于各期刊、杂志的文章、书评十余篇。中文作品除最近出版之文集《翰墨风流》(北京中华书局,2014年)及《覆水年华》(上海书店出版社,2012 年)之外,散见于《上海书评》、《上海文化》、《文汇报 ∙ 笔会》(自二零一三年三月起在《周末茶座》版开设《经典与画》专栏)、《文景》、《书城》、《万象》、《中国比较文学》、《无轨列车》、《人间世》等书刊;此外并有西方文学汉译数种付梓。