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講 題：“Corrupting Cultures: How to Dispose Chinese and Greek Ornament in Early Japan and Rome” (China Humanities Seminar)
主講人：Wiebke Denecke (Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College/Columbia University)
日 時：(Mon) February 23, 2009, at 16:00~
會 場：Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA, USA.
內容簡介：
Early Japanese and Latin writers were “latestarters.” They could build on the sophisticated repertoire of Chinese, respectively Greek, literary genres, and diction. Yet, they also desired to lay claim to literary merits of their own. Notions about simplicity, ornateness, and decline, which could be blamed on foreign influence, became one of the arenas in which this ambiguous psychology of the younger literary cultures unfolded. What is the relation between ornamentation and simplicity in early Japanese and Latin texts, and how do practice of and debates about ornate style play out differently in Japanese and Latin literary cultures? This talk argues that Latin writers had good reasons to be more aggressive, more diplomatic, and more embarrassed vis-à-vis Greek precedent than their Japanese colleagues vis-à-vis the Chinese tradition.
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