外语学院巴别论坛之“学贯中西”研究生学术沙龙本周主题预告（2016年3月24日）

时间：2016年3月24日晚18:30

地点：东五201（东）

 

摘要：丽莎·詹赛恩在《我们为何阅读小说》中将认知科学的研究成果运用到文学文本的探讨中，主要阐释了心灵理论(theory of mind)，元表征能力（metarepresentationality），指出通过元表征能力确定小说中人物的真实想法，使在阅读小说的过程中极大刺激了读者的认知能力。

关键词：心灵理论；认知能力；元表征

Abstract: In Why We Read Fiction, Lisa Zunshine analyses narratives by applying the results of a series of studies in the cognitive science. By introducing theoretical concepts including theory of mind and metarepresentationality, it argues that the attribution of mental states of literary characters is crucially mediated by the workings of our metarepresentational ability. By the complicated process of reading fictions, we deliver a rich stimulation to the cognitive adaptations constituting our theory of mind.

Key words: theory of mind; cognitive adaptations; metarepresentationality

 

Key words: Macbeth; witches; function analysis.

 

Abstract:Purgation serves as a national identity or obsession in early modern England as aresult of the improving medical pathology, prevailing Protestant relief andunavoidable civilizing process. The word “purgation”also dominates the storyline of Macbethwith explicit or implicit presence in nearly every scene. As a usurping king, Macbeth’s own unstable body - beheaded and obfuscated at the end of the play - functions as a synecdoche for the purgation of the Scottish body politic. This paperinitiates a reestablishment of orthodoxy versus heterodox (legitimate and illegitimaterule; male and female power; moral order and chaos) and probes into the set ofbinaries under the theoretical framework of purgation. It may provide a lens to examine the interrelation between the “clean” and the “dirty”in earlymodern culture, and in Macbeth in particular, where “fair is foul, and foul is fair.”