日本英文学会関東支部メールマガジン 臨時号 2024年5月31日
2024/05/31 (Fri) 08:20
日本英文学会関東支部メールマガジン
臨時号 2024年5月31日
田尻芳樹先生（東京大学）よりお知らせです。
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Stefanie Heine氏（コペンハーゲン大学准教授、一橋大学客員研究員）講演会
２０２４年６月２９日（土）午後４時から
東京大学駒場キャンパス１８号館４階コラボレーションルーム２
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam02_01_17_j.html
英語（通訳なし）、事前予約不要、対面のみ
当日、１８号館入り口は外側からは開けられませんので
午後４時少し前までに入り口までお越しくださるようお願いいたします。
講演者紹介
Stefanie Heine is associate professor for Comparative Literature at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of _Visible Words and Chromatic Pulse: Virginia Woolf’s Writing, Impressionist Painting, Maurice Blanchot’s Image_ (2014) and _Poetics of Breathing: Modern Literature’s Syncope_ (2021), co-editor of _Reading Breath in Literature_ (2019), and editor of _Mineral Poetics_ (2022). Her latest book, _Tangential Terrains: Cormac McCarthy’s Geoaesthetics_ is under review at the University of Nevada Press.
講演タイトルおよび要旨
Weak More-than-human Agency in Virginia Woolf’s _To the Lighthouse_
The lecture argues that reflections on exhaustion and withdrawal in Woolf’s writing open up an ecocritical and non-anthropocentric trajectory. Woolf often links mortality, illness, and bodily frailty with an ongoingness beyond the human through a particularly literary and material language. In this language – which is envisioned in her essays and implemented in her literary work – a counterforce to warfare and human domination of nature is staged. This counterforce can be described as a weak more-than-human agency which is not governed by intentionality and will-to-power; simultaneously destructive and creative, and always on the brink of passing away, it strangely persists, thus challenging grandiose phantasies of both apocalypse and deep time. The lecture will concentrate on the middle part of _To the Lighthouse_, “Time Passes”, which famously focuses on an abandoned house that is slowly taken over by nature while World War I – only mentioned marginally and in brackets – rages. Here, a weak agency counteracting human destruction can be detected in the “airs” and “breaths” pervading the house. Detached from human beings, the breaths are embedded in literary imagery and passages where the material and sensual dimensions of language are highlighted – in other words, they are staged as particularly linguistic agencies. The last part of the lecture will explore how these literary airs and breaths came to be through close readings of Woolf’s drafts for _Time Passes_, tracing a weak agency at work in Woolf’s writing process.
臨時号 2024年5月31日
田尻芳樹先生（東京大学）よりお知らせです。
______________________
Stefanie Heine氏（コペンハーゲン大学准教授、一橋大学客員研究員）講演会
２０２４年６月２９日（土）午後４時から
東京大学駒場キャンパス１８号館４階コラボレーションルーム２
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam02_01_17_j.html
英語（通訳なし）、事前予約不要、対面のみ
当日、１８号館入り口は外側からは開けられませんので
午後４時少し前までに入り口までお越しくださるようお願いいたします。
講演者紹介
Stefanie Heine is associate professor for Comparative Literature at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of _Visible Words and Chromatic Pulse: Virginia Woolf’s Writing, Impressionist Painting, Maurice Blanchot’s Image_ (2014) and _Poetics of Breathing: Modern Literature’s Syncope_ (2021), co-editor of _Reading Breath in Literature_ (2019), and editor of _Mineral Poetics_ (2022). Her latest book, _Tangential Terrains: Cormac McCarthy’s Geoaesthetics_ is under review at the University of Nevada Press.
講演タイトルおよび要旨
Weak More-than-human Agency in Virginia Woolf’s _To the Lighthouse_
The lecture argues that reflections on exhaustion and withdrawal in Woolf’s writing open up an ecocritical and non-anthropocentric trajectory. Woolf often links mortality, illness, and bodily frailty with an ongoingness beyond the human through a particularly literary and material language. In this language – which is envisioned in her essays and implemented in her literary work – a counterforce to warfare and human domination of nature is staged. This counterforce can be described as a weak more-than-human agency which is not governed by intentionality and will-to-power; simultaneously destructive and creative, and always on the brink of passing away, it strangely persists, thus challenging grandiose phantasies of both apocalypse and deep time. The lecture will concentrate on the middle part of _To the Lighthouse_, “Time Passes”, which famously focuses on an abandoned house that is slowly taken over by nature while World War I – only mentioned marginally and in brackets – rages. Here, a weak agency counteracting human destruction can be detected in the “airs” and “breaths” pervading the house. Detached from human beings, the breaths are embedded in literary imagery and passages where the material and sensual dimensions of language are highlighted – in other words, they are staged as particularly linguistic agencies. The last part of the lecture will explore how these literary airs and breaths came to be through close readings of Woolf’s drafts for _Time Passes_, tracing a weak agency at work in Woolf’s writing process.