Dr. Jessica Valdez - School of English, HKU (https://englishhkuhk.foarts.hku.hk/people/Faculty/64/Dr%20J.%20R.%20Valdez) Abstract Victorian commentators saw the sensation novel—a short-lived sub-genre of the 1860s known for its fast-paced plots drawn from real life—as symptomatic of the newspapers’ growing influence on the reading public. In a famous 1860 review, H. L. Manse conflated this new novelistic form – which […]
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2 events,Dr. Alfie Bown - Hang Seng Management College (https://mst.hsu.edu.hk/en/) Abstract This paper discusses the relationship between literature and laughter, focusing not so much on representations of laughter nor on the role of laughter in literature, but on whether there may be a literary quality to laughter itself. Using examples from Kafka’s letters to his fiancé […] |
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2 events,Prof. Emeritus Eugene Eoyang - Indiana University Bloomington/Lingnan University (https://comparativeliterature.indiana.edu/people/eoyang.shtml) Abstract The study of the self has prompted many publications in the West in the last generation, but few studies examine the contrasting notions of the self in Asia and the West. In the West, the development of the self is regarded as essential to […] |
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2 events,Prof. Matias Martinez - Bergische Universität Wuppertal (https://www.ndlmm.uni-wuppertal.de/) Abstract In recent years narratologists have become increasingly aware of ways of telling stories that do not correspond to a narrow definition of narrative. Diverse phenomena such as ballets, games, buildings, gardens and lifes are now taken to tell stories. These ‚embodied‘ narratives challenge classical narratological concepts […] |
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