Lecture Series on British and American Literature
Faculty of Foreign Languages, Ningbo University
Professor: Péter Hajdu
June 6 TUE. 10:00-11:35
Lecture One: Enlightenment, Satire, Ireland
Text: Jonathan Swift, “Modest Proposal”
June 7 WED. 13:00-14:35
Lecture Two: The rise of the novel, social mobility, and the concept of
Romantic love
Text: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
June 13 TUE. 8:00-9:35
Lecture Three: Romanticism, detective story
Text: Edgar Allan Poe, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
June14 WED. 13:00-14:35
Lecture Four: Colonialism, post-colonial studies
Text: Rudyard Kipling, “On the City Wall”
June 15 THUR. 8:00-9:35
Lecture Five: Modernism, modernist short story, stream of consciousness
Text: Catherine Anne Porter, “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”
June 19 MON. 13:00-14:35
Lecture Six : Post-colonial literature, postmodernism, magic realism
Text: Salman Rushdie, “The Free Radio”
June 20 TUE. 10:00-11:35
Lecture Seven: Fantasy, post-modernism and popular culture
Text : Terry Pratchett, “The Sea and the Little Fishes”
June 21 WED. 13:00-14:35
Lecture Eight: Cultural memory
Text: Ivan Vladislavić: “The WHITES ONLY Bench”
June 22 THUR. 8:00-9:35
Seminar, a collective short story analysis.
Text : Ian McEwan, “Dead as They Come”
June 23 FRI. 15:00-16:35
Seminar, general discussion
讲座地点: 李达三外语楼422会议室
主讲人简介: Prof. Peter Hajdu，匈牙利比较文学和古典语文学著名学者，国际比较文学权威期刊Neohelicon执行主编，国际比较文学学会（ICLA）执行委员会成员，匈牙利科学院文学研究所高级研究员。2011年起担任匈牙利佩奇大学古典语文学系讲座教授。精通拉丁文和英、德、法等多种欧洲语言，主要研究领域为当代文学理论、古典诗学。著有《知识和叙事》（2010）、《文学、历史、神秘感、陌生感》（2009）、《即使是希腊人：古老的传统研究》（2004）、《Claudius Claudianus史诗》（2002）等。
