[情報] Imagining the Future in Modern Western Fiction
國立臺灣大學外國語文學系學術演講
DFLL Faculty Colloquium
Imagining the Future in Modern Western Fiction
Speaker: Professor David Punter (Department of English, University of
Bristol, UK)
Moderator: Dr. Ya-feng Wu (Associate Professor, DFLL, NTU)
主持人：吳雅鳳副教授（臺大外文系副教授）
Time: 3:30 ~ 5:00 pm, Wednesday, May 27, 2009
時間：2009年5月27日（週三）下午3:30-5:00
Venue: DFLL New Conference Room, Gallery of NTU History (Old Main Library)
地點：臺大校史館（舊總圖）一樓外文系新會議室
◎ David Punter is Professor of English at the University of Bristol, UK. He
has previously worked at the University of East Anglia (UK); at Fudan
University, Shanghai; at the Chinese University of Hong Kong; and at the
University of Stirling (UK). He is the author or editor of more than twenty
critical books on Gothic and romantic literature; on critical theory and
psychoanalysis; on modern and contemporary literature; and on ideas of the
postcolonial. His best-known critical work is probably The Literature of
Terror (1980, second two-volume edition 1996), but more recently he has
published Writing the Passions (2000), and his next book, which will appear
this month, is Rapture: Literature Addiction, Secrecy. He has also published
four small books of poetry.
For more information, please go to:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/english/contact/punter.html.
Abstract:
This paper will explore how western fiction from 1932 onwards – from the UK
and the US – has explored the future. It will pay attention to the future in
terms of warning; of prediction; and, occasionally, of celebration. It will
thus have something to say about notions of utopia and dystopia, and also
about how the future is imagined in terms of current social, cultural and
technological trends. I will say be referring, although sometimes quite
briefly, to eleven texts:
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)
George Orwell, 1984 (1948)
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1954)
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962)
Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan (1959)
J.G. Ballard, Vermilion Sands (1974)
Doris Lessing, Memoirs of a Survivor (1974)
Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (1978)
Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker (1980)
William Gibson, Virtual Light (1993)
Bret Easton, Glamorama (1998)
Some of the relevant issues are: how can we imagine a future at all? do we
necessarily imagine it in terms of the present? what technological futures
now confront us on a global level? how can texts suggest to us ways in which
we might influence the future rather than simply receiving it as it occurs?
and what might the role of literature itself be in these imagined futures?
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同學寄給我的演講訊息XD
外文系的少數會以科幻為主題的學術演講>///<
但時間實在是太不剛好，該不該衝啊？……冏rz
版上會有人有興趣嗎？
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