题目：MAGICAL REALISM IN: LITERATUREAND BEYOND
主讲人：Kate Rose （PhD）
讲座时间：2014年9月26日（周五）晚7:30
讲座地点：教4B101
承办单位：外文学院
内容简介：
Thislecture provides keys to understanding magical literature, including how theimagination shapes our ways of seeing and acting in the world. I am interestedin the surprises, the way literary study challenges how the world is usuallythought to be, including the stereotypes on culture and gender. Good fictionreexamines and transcends categories.
Witha brief history and definition of Magical Realism, we will move on to someexamples and what they can teach us. Then we will examine why and when authorstend to use magical realism in recent years. Lastly, we will focus on thedifference between how Magical Realism is generally perceived, and what it isactually doing (which is much deeper and more complex than generally thought).Issues of Magical Realism in relation to women’s rights and postcolonialsituations will also be explored.
主讲人简介：
Kate Rose, PhD, is an Englishteacher and researcher with the Department of Comparative Sinology at CUMT.Originally from the U.S., she earned a doctorate in Comparative Literaturewhile in France. Her dissertation and first book are about Magical Realism andits influences on reality, both in terms of societies and individuals. Kate isalso a fiction writer, poet, and playwright.
