2016年6月17日-26日，美国宾州州立大学世界文学与比较文学教授来院开设“世界文学与比较文学”主题短期课程，并做访问交流。我校文科院系研究生和本科生20多人参加了学习交流。

Schedule for World Literature Course

Thomas O. Beebee

What is world literature, and what do we gain by studying it? In this course, we will: examine different models for what is meant by the term “world literature”; test those models against the content of different literary forms and periods; examine particular literary works that are productive of world literature as an intercultural undertaking; explore the collaboration and tension between epichoric, panchoric, national, and world literatures; extend the notion of a level playing field in world literature to theory and criticism; and, finally, examine some of the arguments that have called the study of world literature into question.

Day 1: What is World Literature? Five Models

·        Herder, “Comparison of Different Peoples’ Poetry” (1797)

·        Goethe, Writings on World Literature, Conversation with Eckermann (1827)

·        Domínguez et al.,  “World Literature as a Comparative Practice”

Day 2: Myth: an Anthropological Constant

·         “Tricksters,” Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Mircea Eliade

·        Harold Courlander, Tales of Eshu

·        Kevin Crossley-Holland, “Tales of Loki”

·        John Minford, trans., “Gold Colt and Dragon Shirt”

·        Optional: Schnurbein, “The Function of Loki”

Day 3: What is a “goat-song”? Diffusion of a Form

·        Aeschylus, Agamemnon

·        Euripides, Electra

Day 4: What is a “goat-song”? Diffusion of a Form

·        Eugene O’Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra

Day 5: 1001 Nights: Diffusion and Re-entry

·        1001 Nights: Beginning, Porter’s Tale, Ending

Day 6: 1001 Nights: Re-entry

·         “How the 1001 Nights Became Western”

·        Borges, “Translators of the 1001 Nights”

·        Djebar, “Sister to Scheherazade”

·        Mohja Kahf, “E-mail from Scheherazade”

Day 7: The Ethics of World Literature

·        Goethe, Conversation with Eckermann

·        Auerbach, “Philology of Weltliteratur”

·        Casanova, “Literature, Nation, and Politics,” and “The Irish Paradigm”

·        Beecroft, “World Literature Without the Hyphen”

·        Beebee, “German Literature as World Literature”

·        Cheah, “What is a World?”

Day 8: What the World Thinks About Literature 1

·        Beebee, “What the World Thinks about Literature”

·        Pollack, “Rasa”

·        Bharata, from the “Treatise on Drama”

·        Zeami, “Notes on the Nine Levels”

·        Prefaces to the Kokinshu

Day 9: What the World Thinks About Literature 2

·        Mariategui, “Literature on Trial”

·        Antônio Cândido, “Literature and Underdevelopment”

Day 10: Against World Literature

·        Spengler, “Cities and Peoples”

·        Nietzsche, Chapter 18 of “The Birth of Tragedy”

·        Durs Grünbein,  “World Literature: A Panorama”

·        The Warwick Collective, et al., “Combined and Uneven Development”