南京大学人文社会科学高级研究院

名家讲坛第210期人文基金讲座第117讲

南京大学-伯明翰大学-凤凰出版集团莎士比亚（中国）中心系列学术讲座第8讲

讲座人： 德国耶拿大学（Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena）教授、著名莎学家

 Wolfgang G. Müller

讲座题目：Pretence and Poetry in Shakespeare's Dramatic Works

主持人：南京大学高研院副院长从丛教授

评议人：南京大学外国语学院院长杨金才教授

时间：2017年5月22日（周一）晚上19:00-20:30

地点：仙林校区邵逸夫楼C308高研院报告厅

备注：英语演讲

讲座提要及演讲人简介：

Silence is a conspicuous formal element in communicative contexts which draws attention to itself. It is not to be understood as a mere renunciation of language, but as a zero signifier carrying meaning. The lecture refers to silence in classical literature and then concentrates on Shakespeare. Silence can result from the choice of the speaker to fall silent. Cases of voluntary silence are, e.g., tactical silence (for instance inHamletand inMacbeth) and silence as a result of emotions and attitudes, for instance joy (Much Ado About Nothing) or contempt and humiliation (The Merchant of Venice). Other silences result from enforced silencing. These range from physical violence (Titus Andronicus) to jocular threats (Much Ado About Nothing). Also female silence, which varies between inflicted and self-chosen and affective silence, will be discussed.

Wolfgang G. Mülleris retired professor of English Literature at the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena. He received his academic education at the universities of Mainz, Manchester, and Leicester. He taught as professor at the universities of Mainz, Leicester and Jena. Book-length publications include Rilke’s"NeueGedichte"(1971), The Lyric Self, (1979), The Political Speech inShakespeare (1979), Theory of Style (1981), English and Scottish Balladry (1983),Dialogue und Conversational Culture in the Renaissance(2004),Edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet(2005) and Genre in Shakespeare (2015).He published articles on rhetoric in Renaissance literature, the tradition of Don Quixote in English literature, narratology, intertextuality, iconicity, the letter as a genre, and detective fiction. At present he runs research groups on the flaneur in English and American literature and on the victimology of crime fiction.

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