关于Peter Swirski教授的学术讲座的通知

 

讲座题目：American Literary History, or Just American History?

It is mainly a discussion of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, with an analysis of the deficits of American  democracy, both from the point of view of electoral anomalies and by comparison with the direct-democracy system of Switzerland.

 

演讲人：Peter Swirski, Professor of University of Hong Kong

讲座时间： 9月24日(周四) 下午1:30

讲座地点： 外语学院东五201（东）

 

演讲人简介：Doctor Swirski is an Honorary Professor of University of St. Louis, Associate Professor of University of Hong Kong, and Director of American Studies of University of Hong Kong. His research field mainly covers: 1. modern and contemporary American literature and culture, 2. American popular fiction, popular culture and film, 3. historical, Political, Social Perspectives on American Culture, 4. critical theory and methodology, analytic aesthetics, 5. Stanislaw Lem, literature and science, science fiction. He has published many books and articles. Here is a list of his books:

1.    American Political Fiction Post-2001: New Perspectives on Literature and Culture. In preparation.

2.    American Eutopia and Social Engineering: A Century of Experience, 1890-1990. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011.

3.    Stanislaw Lem: Provocation. New York: Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, 2010.

4.    Ars Americana, Ars Politica: Partisan Expression in American Nobrow Culture. Montreal, London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010.

5.    Literature, Analytically Speaking: Explorations in the Theory of Interpretation, Analytic Aesthetics, and Evolution (Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series). Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010.

6.    I Sing the Body Politic: History as Prophecy in Contemporary American Literature, editor. Montreal, London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009.

7.   Of Literature and Knowledge: Explorations in Narrative Thought Experiments, Evolution, and Game Theory. New York, London: Routledge, 2007.

8.    All Roads Lead to the American City, editor. Hong Kong, London: Hong Kong University Press, 2007. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007.

9.    The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem, editor. Montreal, London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006.

10.  From Lowbrow to Nobrow. Montreal, London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005.

11. Between Literature and Science: Poe, Lem, and Explorations in Aesthetics, Cognitive Science, and Literary Knowledge. Montreal, London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2001.

12.  A Stanislaw Lem Reader (Rethinking Theory Series). Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1997.

 

 

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