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SUMMARY:Inter-Island Festival 2023: Rhythms of the Inter-Island
DESCRIPTION:An experiential learning opportunity funded by the Transdisciplinary Experiential Learning Fund by contributing to the 2nd Inter-Island Festival\, will be held in Peng Chau\, Mui Wo\, Chi Ma Wan\, and Cheung Chau in November 2023. Students are invited to participate in one of the featured projects of the Festival\, entitled “Rhythms of the Inter-Island”.
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/inter-island-festival-2023-rhythms-of-the-inter-island/
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SUMMARY:“Why shouldn’t the flâneur be stoned”: Anglo-Québécois Writer Gail Scott’s Turn-of-the-Millennium Novel My Paris
DESCRIPTION:Simon Ng – The University of Hong Kong (https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/69/Dr_Simon_Ng) \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT. \nAbstract\nThis talk offers a slice of my ongoing book project “Imperfect Flâneurs” (in contract with McGill-Queen’s UP) which studies reïnterpretations of the flâneur in contemporary novels. Baudelaire sketches the perfect flâneur as a cosmopolitan spectator who feels everywhere at home and sees the world from the privileged position at the centre. My project emerges from this simple question: can the flâneur be imperfect? \nMy example for the talk is Gail Scott’s 1999 novel My Paris – a fictional travel journal of the writer who won a six-month residency with studio space in Paris. Like many travellers and sojourners in Paris today\, during her stay\, the narrator is tempted to taste the pleasures of walking Paris as a flâneur. Her daily flânerie leads her to this unexpected question with a street slang in the predicate\, “why shouldn’t the flâneur be stoned[?]” I propose an innovative reading of this novel by way of critical reflection on this rhetorical question. The profound implications behind it are relevant to Scott’s creative process and such unprecedented features in this novel as the conversion of most of the verbs into present participles and the fabrication of a narrative voice that can be described as porous and sutured. \n ||  \nBiography\nSimon Ng is a Full-time Lecturer in the School of English\, HKU. He obtained a PhD in English Studies in a francophone research university in Canada\, the University of Montreal. His primary field of specialization is literature and the city. The substance in this talk comes from the unique environment of his PhD study: the work of a Montreal-based literary writer who is committed to writing in English with the sound of French in her ear. \nTHIS IS AN IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/why-shouldnt-the-flaneur-be-stoned-anglo-quebecois-writer-gail-scotts-turn-of-the-millennium-novel-my-paris/
LOCATION:Room 7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
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