. My Paper A look at literature will show readers that many literary texts deal with characters’ incessant quest for happiness through various means. A prime example is Michael Cunningham’s The Hours (1998). By making special reference to Mrs Dalloway written by Virginia Woolf in 1925, Cunningham uses her novel to link the quests for…
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“Zhang Longxi on World Literature” by James Au
I first heard of Professor Zhang Longxi in Dr. Heidi Huang’s lecture. She introduced his article “The True Face of Mount Lu: On the Significance of Perspectives and Paradigms”, which I found truly impressive. In that article, Zhang mentions the importance of not analysing anything from only one perspective and suggests one trying to read from…
“The Institute for World Literature 2014 at the City University of Hong Kong: A Reflection” by Heidi Huang
The IWL organisers and the MALCS participants: From right to left: IWL local assistant Jiang Zhuyu, MALCS student James Au Kin-pong, MALCS lecturer Dr. Heidi Huang Yu, IWL Assistant director Dr. Delia Ungureanu, IWL Director Prof. David Damrosch, MALCS students Candy Li Yalin and Yolander Tang Yingying This summer, I was fortunate enough to attend the…
“Reflections upon my Conference Presentation at the ICAH 2014 – Sri Lanka” by Jayantha Wannisinghe
The topic of my presentation at the ICAH (International Conference on Arts and Humanities) in Sri Lanka was “The Exclusivity of Sri Lankan Feminine Identity in Nihal De Silva’s The Road from Elephant Pass”. This presentation was an attempt to create an international dialogue on the exclusivity of Sri Lankan feminine identity as portrayed in…
“Conference Reflections: The Long Modernist Novel” by Jessica Siu-yin Yeung
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) My Paper In her review “Dragonflies”, Katherine Mansfield describes the seventh volume of Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage, Interim as “a nest of short stories”. She sees the heroine of the novel sequence, Miriam Henderson, as “the box which holds them all, and really it seems there is no end to the number of…
“Reflections on a Conference — Travelling Texts: Encounters of Literatures” by Garfield Lau
The Conference The conference “Travelling Texts: Encounters of Literatures” (13–15 March 2014) aimed at exploring mutual influences and inspirations between authors. The focus of the conference was the South African writer J.M. Coetzee, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature in 2003. This conference provided a forum for scholars with a strong interest in…
“Reflections Upon My Conference Presentation at ACAH/LibrAsia 2014” by James Au
My presentation topic during the Osaka Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities (ACAH) 2014 was “Comparative Studies: Europe Dada Poetry, Guo Moruo’s “The Goddesses” and Takahashi Shinkichi’s Poetry”. As the topic suggests, this paper compares “The Goddesses” written by Guo Moruo (郭沬若), a Chinese literary poet renowned for his new poetry, European Dada poetry and the…
Department of English, Hong Kong Baptist University 