【5月23日】
/海外名家系列讲座·第111讲/
“The Thistle and the Dragon”： Exploring Scottish-Chinese Literary Encounters
主讲人：John Corbett
主持人：王岚
时间：5月23日（周五）13:00-14:30
地点：松江校区五教楼5361
主讲人简介
John Corbett has been, since September 2020, a full Professor of English at BNU-HKBU United International College, a liberal arts institution in Zhuhai, China. He is now Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Between 2017 and 2020 he was a CAPES International Fellow and Visiting Professor at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, working on a cross-faculty project to develop academic literacies in English. He was previously a full Professor of English at the University of Macau, where he served as Head of the English Department and also, for a time, Acting Director of the English Language Centre. He remains an Honorary Visiting Professor at Glasgow University, where he held a personal Chair in Applied Language Studies, and he also served there as Head of the Department of English Language. He has considerable managerial, interdisciplinary research and teaching experience in a number of institutions worldwide. He has published widely in the areas of language education, corpus linguistics, literary linguistics, Scottish literature and the Scots language.
讲座简介
This talk offers an introduction to literary encounters between Scotland and China. It addresses the import of Chinese poetry into the literature of Scotland, from James Legge’s translations of ancient Chinese poetry to recent translations of classical and contemporary Chinese poetry into Scots. It also addresses the translation and reception of Scottish literature in China, and covers writers such as Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Hugh MacDiarmid. The talk demonstrates the ways in which the cultures of the Other are perceived as mirrors of the Self; and they explore issues such as the challenges faced when translating classical Chinese poetry into non-standard language varieties such as Scots.
