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Faculty of Arts: Colloquium Talk – Professor Lee Ou Fan Leo on “Chance Encounters in Modern Literature: a Reading Report”

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Date:

28 Nov 2014

Time:

4 – 6 pm

Venue:

G24, Arts and Humanities Hub, G/F, Fung King Hey Building

Speaker(s):

Professor Lee Ou Fan Leo

Biography of Speaker:

Sin Wai Kin Professor of Chinese Culture

Enquiries:

3943 7107

Synopsis of Lecture:

“This is not, strictly speaking, a report on research but rather on my recent reading experience in preparation for teaching, lecturing, and research — an experience which I can only call “chance encounters” with a number of literary texts within the circuits of late 19th and 20th century Chinese and world literature. These texts — some well-known (Lu Xun, Kafka, Joyce), some not so well known (Musil’s “The Man without Qualities”, Pessoa’s “History’s Disquiet”, Shi Tuo’s “Tales of Orchard Garden”) — unveil a dazzling landscape of artistic creativity and imaginative power that I have not expected to find. Why is it so? and how should we treat such a “serendipitous” legacy? Frankly I don’t exactly know. I’d like to share my preliminary thoughts with interested colleagues and students in the Faculty of Humanities in a spirit of interdisciplinary inquiry”.