主讲人：Professor Thomas Oliver Beebee

讲座时间：2019年6月11日19:00-20:30

讲座地点：如心楼806

主讲人简介：

Thomas Oliver Beebee, who graduated from University of Michigan with a Ph.D in Comparative Literature, was the Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and German in Penn State University in 2008 and Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature and German in Penn State University from 2012 to the present. He serves as the editor-in-chief of Comparative Literature Studies, a top A&HCI journal in the sphere of Comparative Literature Studies. Thomas Beebee has won many honours and awards in his life time, such as Eisenhower Award for Excellence in Teaching, Penn State University in 1993 and Faculty Scholar Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities in 2010.He has single-authored more than seven books, such as Clarissa on the Continent: Translation and Seduction, Epistolary Fiction in Europe, Millennial Literatures of the Americas, 1492-2002 and Nation and Region in Modern European and American Fiction published many articles in top literature and translation journals such as Comparative Literature, German Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, CLCWeb, Translation Studies, The Translator, Law and Literature, Neohelicon

讲座内容：

Ekphrasis is the original form of intermediality between literature and art, as in the famous description of Achilles’ shield in Homer’s Iliad. What sort of textuality emerges, however, when the object of description is landscape, the earth, which itself is conceived as having both stories to tell and forces and resources that shape narrative and language? This talk compares this ekphrasis of the earth as it shapes three texts set in the deserts of the American Southwest: Mary Austin’s Land of Little Rain (1903); Joy Harjo/Stephen Strom’s Secrets from the Center of the World (1989); and Nicole Brossard’s Mauve Desert (Désert mauve 1987).