讲座学者：Claude Rawson教授

报告题目：Ethical Literary Criticism and Interdisciplinary Studies

时间：2022年11月5日 8:30 am - 10:00 am

腾讯会议 ID：346-222-472

专家介绍：

Claude Rawson is the Maynard Mack Professor Emeritus at Yale University. He was the President of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in 1973 and 1974, and once was the President of the International Association for Ethical Literary Criticism. He is General Editor of The Blackwell Critical Biographies (twenty-one volumes to date), The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift (six volumes to date) and The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (nine volumes). He has published widely on authors including Swift, Pope and Fielding, and on topics including the history of satire, and the development of mock heroic from Milton to T. S. Eliot. Among his books, God, Gulliver and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination 1492-1945 (Oxford, 2001) wastranslated into Chinese by Songlin Wang

讲座提要：

To be as wide ranging as this, under the disciplined umbrella of ethical criticism, which has never been more necessary than it is today, is an admirably challengingenterprise, that carries with it a responsibility to the texts of the literatures we study. These are, and should be, the true ethical focus of our profession. Our business as professors of literature is theknowledge, understanding and analysis of creative works of literature, and of whatthey have to tell us about ourselves and the world around us.