SISU学术角活动为上外教务处“SISU学术文化带”系列活动之一，SISU学术角第五十三期活动由英语学院人文实验班承办，将于3月17日准时开启！
本期学术角论坛的主题是“文学中的社群与个体（The Community and The Individual）”，三位主讲同学将分别从理想城邦和个人成长入手，探索文学中社群与个体的相互影响。本次活动特邀龙超博士为论文点评人、符梦醒博士为主持人，2021级人文实验班陈心远、应晓帆、杨瀚文同学为主讲人。
论坛议程
时间：2023年3月17日周五 13:30-14:50
地点：松江校区第五教学楼5420活动室
主讲人及论文介绍
陈心远
论文题目：
What is an Ideal Polis: Passion and Deities in Euripides’s Hippolytus and Racine’s Phaedra
何谓理想城邦：《希波吕托斯》与《费德尔》中的爱欲和神祇
主讲人：
陈心远，英语学院2021级英语专业及人文实验班学生。
Abstract:
Although based on the same myth, Euripides’s Hippolytus and Jean Racine’s Phaedra represent the divinities and passion, two crucial elements concerning human life and relationship within a Greek polis, in different lights. Hippolytus presents passion as generated and guided by the goddess Aphrodite, while in Phaedra, passion is mimetic and intractable, and the deities are “absent presences” that no longer offer help or guidance, but are ruthless judges that watch over the deeds of mankind. This paper contends that a possibility of an ideal human community, or an ideal polis, is implied in both tragedies, though imagined in different ways as are conditioned by their different takes on divinities and passion. For Euripides, this ideal community exists in the here and now embodied by the contemporary Athens, where human beings hold reciprocal communications with the deities; while for Racine the possibility of such a polis is realized only after the denial of passion and mythical deities themselves.
应晓帆
论文题目：
Why do We Always have Peer Spiritual Advisors in Bildungsromans: Taking Jane Eyre and North and South as Examples
为什么成长小说中会有“同龄良师”——以《简·爱》与《南方与北方》为例
主讲人：
应晓帆，英语学院2021级人文实验班成员。
Abstract:
This paper, based on the analysis of two keywords, “peer spiritual advisors” and “Bildung”, tries to answer one question: “why do we always have peer spiritual advisors in Bildungsromans”, with the concrete examples of Helen Burns in Jane Eyre and Bessy Higgins in North and South, as they can be counted as peer spiritual advisors for the two protagonists (Jane Eyre and Margaret Hales) in the two Bildungsromans. The paper will start with the meaning of “peer” and “spiritual advisor” which contribute to Building unhindered and mutual interactions between the advisors and protagonists, and providing love in a higher sense out of humanitarian affection; as a result, the heroines reach their completeness, or according to Karl Morgenstern, they fulfill their “Bildung”. Then the article will continue with an etymological study of the word “Bildung”, suggesting that it embodies the religious meaning of being a complete human. This meaning is depicted both in Jane Eyre and North and South as both the advisors carry the belief in the metaphysical solace. As a result, they reach the state of “resurgam”, in other words, their humanitarianism is carried on by the protagonists of the Bildungsromans.
杨涵文
论文题目：
Stuck in Girlhood: Sylvia Plath’s Female Adolescence in The Bell Jar
困于少女时代：从《钟形罩》看西尔维娅·普拉斯的女性青春
主讲人：
杨涵文，英语学院2021级英语专业及人文实验班学生，曾获学科竞赛奖项及学院奖学金若干。
Abstract:
The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath’s famous self-confessional and semi-autobiographical novel written in her youth. Despite having a classic Bildungsroman setting, the novel goes against the tradition of the type of stories by portraying a young protagonist that does not grow up and rejects the social standards of female maturity, and casts its gaze on the inner paradox of the adulthood of the female, where a woman is expected to grow into submission and relinquish individuality, instead of a well-rounded individual. This essay focuses on the conflict between womanhood and girlhood portrayed in the novel and—borrowing Plath’s own words—the choice between being a “nobody”, i.e. relinquishing individuality, and an “anybody”, i.e. clinging on possibilities. It also explores Plath’s attempted solutions to the conflict: the one meant for failure, which is to regress to full childhood, and the one which she proposes, which is to maintain individuality within art.
点评人与主持人简介
点评人：龙超
龙超，新加坡南洋理工大学博士，现任英语学院讲师，主要教授本科二年级英语精读、人文阅读等课程，研究方向包括城市文学，族裔文学，比较文学和文化。
主持人：符梦醒
符梦醒，香港城市大学博士，主要研究领域为十九世纪英国文学，哥特、志怪文学比较研究，女性写作。担任英语学院人文实验班“原典阅读与批评”课程主讲教师和2022级英语专业班导师。
