英國曼徹斯特大學文學教授 Jeremy Tambling 將於英文系演講

Prof. Jeremy Tambling, Chair Professor of Literature at Manchester University, is coming to our Department to speak in a seminar and give a lecture in the first week of 2012. This event is co-arranged by Dr. Louis Lo and the Department of English.

Academic Seminar

• Date: 3 January 2012 (Tue)
• Time: 10:00 am – 12:00 noon
• Venue: Rm 401, General Education Building

This paper looks at the question of where literary studies are today, and considers the place that ‘literature’ has in the conditions of new technology which have threatened to make literature, and art, what Hegel said art was: ‘a thing of the past’. It considers what the example of translation means in changing our ways of thinking about literature, and asks how through translation, it may have survival value. Theoretical support for these arguments comes from the work of Heidegger, Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida.

Open lecture on poetry

• Date: 6 January 2012 (Fri)
• Time: 2:00 pm - 3:50 pm
• Venue: Rm 716, General Education Building

Professor Tambling will offer an open lecture on the c17th poet Andrew Marvell’s ‘Upon Appleton House: to my Lord Fairfax.’ References will be made to the cultural and political backgrounds and to Shakespeare’s King Richard II.

About the speaker

Jeremy Tambling is Professor of Literature at Manchester University, UK, and before that, was Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. His most recent books are On Anachronism (Manchester University Press 2010) and Allegory Routledge, 2009. His book, On Reading the Will: Law and Desire in Literature and Music is forthcoming from Sussex Academic Press (2012).