主讲人：William Baker教授
主持人：高奋教授
讲座时间：2023年5月20日上午9:00-11:00
讲座地点：腾讯会议442-191-955
讲座题目：
T. S. Eliot and Intertextuality
讲座摘要：
The presentation will apply the concept of “intertextuality” to various poems by T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) and explain why it illuminates Eliot’s work. An explanation of “intertexuality”—a term used in recent literary discourse to indicate the ways in which a text, in this instance individual poems by one poet draw upon other literary texts by other authors. Extracts from early poems by Eliot, such as “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” portions of “The Waste Land” will be followed also by readings and discussion of Eliot’s use of intertextuality in the opening section of “Burnt Norton” from his late great poetic sequence “The Four Quartets.” If time allows there will be an illustration of Eliot using “intertextuality” for humorous purposes in one of the poems “Macavity: The Mystery Cat” and hopefully an opportunity to hear and see Eliot read his own work and also discuss the ways in which “intertextuality” relates in literary theory to ideas relating to “modernism,” and “postmodernism.”
专家简介：
William Baker is Distinguished Chair Qiantang River Professor, Hangzhou Normal University, and Advisor to CMRS (the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies), Zhejiang University, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Northern Illinois University. He is co-editor of The Year’s Work in English Studies (OUP | English Association), co-editor of George Eliot—George Henry Lewes Studies, acting co-editor of Style (Penn State UP) and is the author, co-author or editor of upwards of 30 monographs and 185 articles in refereed journals. His especially love is Shakespeare which he also loves teaching and his undergraduate course on Five Shakespeare plays at Zhejiang University was a HIT! Author of books and articles on the bard, he co-edited and contributed to The Facts on File Companion to Shakespeare. His William Shakespeare in the Continuum Writer’ Lives Series appeared in 2009. Current projects include editing the Diaries of George Henry Lewes—an eminent Victorian critic of Shakespeare! Another great interest is the work of T. S. Eliot (1888-1965): his publications on Eliot’s poetry and drama include articles on his “Ariel Poems,” “The Cultivation of Christmas Trees,” “Animula,” “A Song for Simeon” and “Marina”—the last three with Professor Katie Wales—and the dramas “Murder in the Cathedral,” “The Cocktail Party” and “The Elder Statesman” in the refereed online The Literary Encyclopedia.
