讲座题目：Many Martyrs Fell: Bob Dylan's Guide to the Civil Rights Struggle

主讲人：ThomasOliver Beebee教授

主持人：赵毅衡教授

讲座时间：5月15日 下午14:30-16:30

讲座地点：望江校区文科楼二阶

讲座摘要：

Though he distanced himself from the status of a "protest singer" early in his career, and though his most famous songs only treat the theme of civil rights in a general or metaphorical way (e.g., "Blowing in the Wind"), from the 1960s to the 1980s Nobel prizewinning author Bob Dylan consistently returned to the theme of injustice committed against individual African-Americans, ending with a summary of America's original sin in the epic "Blind Willie McTell" (1983). Dylan's songs provide a catalogue of lynchings (Emmett Till), murders (Medgar Evers, Hattie Carroll, George Jackson), denial of civil rights (James Meredith), and a racially biased legal system (Hurricane Carter). This lecture-demonstration will provide the historical context for these songs, analyze text and music, and address their effect on attitudes.

主讲人简介：

Thomas Oliver Beebee is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature at Penn State University, editor-in-chief of the journal Comparative Literature Studies, and general editor of the Bloomsbury series, Literatures as World Literature. The author of Clarissa on the Continent (1991), The Ideology Of Genre (1994), Epistolary Fiction in Europe (1999), Nation and Region in Modern European and American Fiction (2008), and Conjunctions and Disjunctions of German Law and Literature (2011), Professor Beebee engages in a number of research areas, including criticism and theory, epistolarity, eighteenth-century literature, translation (theory, practice, and literary mimesis), mental maps in literature, and law and literature.