莎士比亚传记研究和文化诗学新动态:斯蒂芬·格林布拉特访谈录

Current Trends in Shakespeare’s Biographical Studies and Cultural Poetics:An Interview with Stephen Greenblatt

斯蒂芬·格林布拉特,哈佛大学约翰·科根校级讲座教授,美国艺术与科学院院士,美国艺术与人文学院院士,意大利阿卡迪亚文学院院士,著名莎士比亚研究专家,文学批评家,美国新历史主义领军人物,其著作《俗世威尔:莎士比亚新传》融学术研究与通俗传记叙事于一体,连续数周位列《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜,引起英语学术世界与大众读者的极大反响。本次访谈主要讨论以下问题:传记中的莎士比亚,莎士比亚研究与大众读者,传记与莎士比亚研究,传记叙事的新方向,传记中的自我形塑和文化诗学,传记的现实关切性。

Stephen Greenblatt is John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University,a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,the American Academy of Arts and Letters,and the Italian literary academy Accademia degli Arcadi,a renowned Shakespearean scholar,literary critic,and one of the founders of New Historicism.His Will in the World:How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare,characterized by both his academic insights and fascinating storytelling,was on The New York Times bestseller list for several weeks,reaching both the academia and general public.This interview with him addresses the following issues regarding the life-writing of Shakespeare and cultural poetics:Shakespeare portrayed by Prof.Greenblatt,Shakespeare studies and common readers,biography and Shakespeare studies,new directions in biography,self-fashioning and cultural poetics in Shakespearean biography,as well as the realistic concerns of biographies.