讲座人简介：

Peter Zhang is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Grand Valley State University. He got his B.A. in English from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1991, his M.A. in English Language and Literature from Nankai University in 1997, and his Ph.D. in Communication and Culture from Indiana University, Bloomington in 2008. His research is interdisciplinary in nature, spanning such fields as rhetoric, media ecology, interality studies, Zen,I Ching, and Deleuze studies, among other things. He has published a series of articles in these fields. Currently, he serves as Associate Editor of Explorations in Media Ecology, Guest Editor of the Canadian Journal of Communication, Board member of the Media Ecology Association, and Director of the School of Communications’ Study Abroad Program in London. He has guest edited a special section of China Media Research on interology, guest co-edited two special issues of Explorations in Media Ecology entitled “Probing the Boundaries of Media Ecology.” He has given invited lectures at National Taiwan Normal University, Suzhou University, China Youth University of Political Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Shaanxi Normal University, and Yan’an University on rhetoric, the English language, media ecology, and interality studies. Right now, he is spearheading a second collective project on interology.

讲座题目：媒介生态学与文学（Media Ecology and Literature）

时 间：2016年4月27日下午16:00—18:00

地 点：逸夫外文楼B座10楼多功能报告厅

Abstract

This lecture foregrounds the interplay between media and literature. It draws on the theoretical insights of McLuhan, Ong, Hall, and highlights the notion of formal cause, and the distinction between the visual and the acoustic. The key assumption is that the dominant medium of communication, be it orality, manuscripts, printed books, electric, electronic, or digital media, bears upon the stylistics of literature, in-forms and motivates the emergence of literary movements and innovations (e.g., Modernism, Symbolism, Imagism, nonlinear narratology, miniaturization, fractalization). The lecture refers to Homer, Shakespeare, Poe, Baudelaire, Joyce, Yeats, Pound, Carroll, Burroughs, and Kerouac, etc. to illustrate the point. It will gesture toward parallel developments in the realms of art and music to reinforce the notion of media as formal cause.

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