讲座时间：5月4日（周四）15:30-17:00

讲座题目：Reading LiteratureIn Light of Theory

主讲人：Prof. Michael STEPPAT

平台：腾讯会议

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讲座简介：WELCOME to this teaching event! Together, we will explore why a growing number of people believe that modern theories are indispensable when we try to gain an understanding of literature. Can theories offer us more powerful lenses for reading? A case study to explore this will be Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet (no specific previous knowledge is necessary). And we will ask: Do theories refer to remote ideas and objects, or rather to--ourselves?

Together, then, we will embark on a journey taking us to ….

 •The question whether we can make any objective/neutral statements about literature

 •The “logic” of structuralism, signifying constructs, deconstruction, ....

 •Analytical reading: with or without modern theory?

Previous acquaintance with theory is not a requirement.

主讲人简介：Michael Steppat is Professor of Literature in English at the University of Bayreuth (Germany), emeritus, and an international faculty member at SISU. After gaining his Ph.D. and his “Habilitation” he became a Fulbright professor at the University of Texas, then research professor at Arizona State University. As academic Dean of his Faculty for 12 years, Steppat devised an M.A. program in Intercultural Anglophone Studies. He is an elected project director in the national Excellence Strategy. His published books include Honor Face and Violence: Cross-Cultural Representations of Honor Cultures and Face Cultures; Literature and Interculturality (3 volumes); Historical Intersections of Intercultural Studies (2 volumes); Discourses of Exception, Exclusion, Exchange (in American studies).