HS2020132

哥伦比亚大学

古典学、英语与比较文学终身教授

Professor of Classics and of English and Comparative Literature, Department of Classics

该教授毕业于加州大学洛杉矶分校，为该校比较文学博士。教授撰写并教授各种主题，以解决现代 性和民主的诗学和政治的融合问题。他是《梦幻国度》的作者：启蒙、殖民和现代希腊制度（斯坦 福，1996），其第二十五周年纪念版于 2021 出版（新序言）；文学会思考吗？文学是反艺术时代的理论（斯坦福，2003）；世俗批评的教训（Fordham 2013）；《一个人的危险》（哥伦比亚大学， 2019 年）；以及《弗洛伊德与原教旨主义》（Fordham，2010）、《与巴利巴尔一起思考》（Ford- ham，2020）和《卡瓦菲档案》（Cavafy 卷宗，2021）的编辑。此外，他还发表了许多关于古希腊哲学、政治理论、现代诗学、电影、当代音乐和精神分析的文章。他的第三卷世俗批评课程《没有 什么神圣的东西》即将完成。他会定期在互联网媒体（如《洛杉矶书评》、《开放民主》、《半岛 电视台》、《内在框架》）以及希腊主要报纸和期刊上发表关于政治和文学问题的文章。偶然性障 碍——一本关于诗学和政治的散文集，用希腊语写了 25 年（包括一些未出版的作品）——于2016 年出版。他也是一位国际获奖诗人，有四卷诗歌以希腊文出版，最近的一卷是《物理学概论》（雅   典，2005 年）。他的作品已被翻译成法语、德语、意大利语、塞尔维亚-克罗地亚语、土耳其语、阿拉伯语、日语和希伯来语。他的声音和诗歌拼贴画曾在国际上的不同场合表演或呈现在装置上。

Area of Expertise：

Comparative Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Modernity and Modernism, Secular Criticism, Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies,

 Political Theory, Marxism, and Critical Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Studies

Sample Topics：

Law and Justice in the Greek World

The course will serve as a survey of key texts that reveal how the ancient Greeks conceptualized, debated, and engaged the questions of law and justice – questions that are fundamental for every community and every society in human history. The course is brief, so the focus will be on key signposts in what is otherwise a complex and heterogeneous history. Starting indeed with the question of history, of self-narration and account of others (Herodotus and Thucydi- des), we will then engage with the two most important Sophoclean tragedies: Oedipus Rex and Antigone. We will examine in detail in what sense tragedy is the primary form through which questions of law and justice were considered by the population as a whole and discuss the theatrical dimensions of determining justice in court even today. We will close with two key philosophical texts by Plato and Aristotle that demonstrate how questions of justice are directly relevant to

questions of governing and being governed, which is the pillar of democratic think- ing. In the process, we will additionally examine and discuss how the Greeks understood the relation between the human and the divine realm.

Prospects for a Comparative Poetics

What are the prospects for comparative work with poetry and poetics beyond genre? Is there a role for formalism without historicism? Is it possible or desirable to dispense with ethical and political dynamics? We will read a series of theoretical interventions and histories of literary criticism, we will talk about developing our own tools, and we will experiment with them on poetry from all kinds of contexts.

Literary Modernism and Literary Modernity

This course is a US-focused case study in modernism in the context of the broader transfor- mation of print and literacy in the first half of the twentieth century. For a long time an Ameri- can-dominated modernism was thought to cover nearly everything of interest in (early) twen- tieth-century literature, but scholarship has increasingly acknowledged the limitations of this approach, which ignores or devalues a wide range of literary production that does not resemble classic modernism. In order to grasp the effects of the structural transformations that affected reading and writing broadly in the period, this course proposes that modernism and its many non-modernist others are best studied as joint products of an expanding, fragmenting, and polarizing literary field. To give our inquiry some heuristic limits, we accept a US national frame, bearing in mind as we read individual writers that really, universally, literary relations stop no- where. The course is divided into two parts. The first half of the course gives a selective overview of American modernism up to 1940. The second half of the course is a series of rapid intro- ductions to a few key US literary tendencies contemporary with but distinct from modernism: the Harlem Renaissance, proletarian literature, and several genres of commercial fiction. Need- less to say we cannot cover the field in its totality, but our goal is to articulate some of the themes, transformations, and interpretive problems that an expansive literary history of the twentieth century encounters. Readings include both primary texts and scholarship throughout the semester.

The primary texts are to be studied with particular attention to the era’s distinctive print media (little magazines,

pulps and slicks, experimental anthologies, and so on).The selec- tion of secondary readings gives rather short shrift to classic modernist scholarship in order to emphasize more recent approaches to the broader field