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 in Hamlet and in Macbeth)
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. Müller is 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 |
