海外名家系列讲座第62讲
主题：Small Places, Great Literatures. World Literature Today
承办单位：英语学院
时间：2019年3月14日（周四）10:05-11:35
地点：松江校区五教楼5268
姓名：Svend Erik Larsen教授
工作单位：丹麦奥胡斯大学荣休教授，目前为四川大学长江学者。
从事专业或研究方向：比较文学、世界文学
专家简介：Svend Erik Larsen教授是丹麦奥胡斯大学比较文学荣休教授，欧洲科学院副院长、文学部主席，并担任国际知名学术期刊Orbis Litterarum的主编。目前为四川大学长江学者。他的研究主要关注文学和文化史、思想史、符号学、记忆研究、世界文学等。Svend Erik Larsen教授著作丰硕，包括300多篇学术论文，其代表作有Sémiologie littéraire (1984)，Signs in Use: An Introduction to Semiotics (2002, with J. D. Johansen), Literature and the Experience of Globalization: Texts Without Borders(2017), Interdisciplinarity, History and Cultural Encounters(2016), Literary Studies Across Cultures: A Chinese-European Dialogue，等等。
讲座内容：The overall aim of World Literature is to study literature in a larger context than the linguistic and cultural context where local literatures originate, but also to always take the local conditions and particularities into account. This endeavor requires an enhanced sensitivity to two features. First, we have to be aware of the possibility of any local environment, no matter its size, to foster literature that can be labelled world literature. At this point, I will focus on the tiny town of Weimar in Germany where Goethe revived the notion of world literature. Second, we have to focus on cross-cultural issues beyond literature itself with regard to theory and methodology, which implies the formation of an interdisciplinary research agenda involving broader fields of disciplines than has often been the case in the literary studies. I will list a few hot topics of that nature. The lecture will exemplify this double awareness and the ensuing agenda for future literary studies.
