清华大学外文系讲座
演讲题目：You are what you read—About literature and social cognition
主讲人：Gerhard Lauer
Professor of German Studies at the Universtiy of Goettingen, Germany
时间： 2013年10月17日（周四）下午3:30-5:30 地点：文南楼204房间
主办单位： 清华大学外国语言文学系
演讲者简介
Professor Gerhard Lauer is the Chair of German Studies at the Universtiy of Goettingen, where he is also the Director of the Goettingen Centre for Digital Humanities. He is the co-editor of the “Journal of Literary Theory” and is one of the principle investigators of the Interdisciplinary Centre “Multi layered text protocol”. He held visiting scholar positions at the universities of Bergamo, Coimbra, Delhi, St. Louis, Trieste. His recent publications are “Kunst und Empfindung” (2012, together with E. Décultot), “Lexikon Literaturwissenschaft” (2011, together with C. Ruhrberg).
讲座提要
We love characters that never exist; we feel suspense for events that never have taken place. Is all what we are engaged in part of our imagination? Moreover, literature alters our personality. ‘Harry Potter’ is doing this as well as ‘Anna Karenina’. In his lecture, Prof. Lauer elucidates the power of literature and explains why literature is another kind of social cognition.
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