摘要：

英国数学家道奇逊（笔名刘易斯·卡罗尔）在一个半世纪前创作的《爱丽丝漫游奇境记》与其姐妹篇《镜中奇遇记》是一套堪与英国文学瑰宝媲美的奇书。本讲座将从不同角度分析和欣赏《镜中奇遇记》中爱丽丝的奇幻经历对读者的认知挑战；从文本的语言艺术和文学魅力出发，解读数学家的童话的语言学、逻辑学、叙事学和认知诗学意义，引导大家重新思考童话的文学价值、文学的社会和认知功能、何为经典以及何以成为经典的问题。

The English mathematician Charles Dodgson’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass written under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll one and half a century ago are comparable to the best works of English literature. This lecture will analyze Through the Looking Glass in terms of the cognitive challenges that Alice’s experiences pose the readers from the verbal art and literary excellence, it will interpret its significance in linguistics, logic, narrative studies and cognitive poetics; it will lead us into rethinking about the literary significance out of what would have seemed to be simply a fairytale, the social and cognitive functions of literature, the questions of what is a classic and what makes a classic a classic.

讲座人介绍：

封宗信教授（清华大学）

Prof. FENG Zongxin (Tsinghua University)

封宗信, 清华大学外文系教授，博士生导师，北京大学博士(1998)，北京外国语大学博士后(1998-2000)，哈佛大学访问学者(2003-2004)、剑桥大学访问学者(2007)、加州大学伯克利校区富布莱特学者(Fulbright Research Scholar, UC Berkeley, 2009-2010)。2005年获“清华大学青年教师教学优秀奖”，同年入选“教育部新世纪优秀人才支持计划”，2018年获选清华大学第十六届“良师益友”， 研究方向：语言学、文体学、叙事学、翻译研究。

FENG Zongxin is a Professor of Linguistics and English Language/Literature at Tsinghua University. He holds a PhD from Peking University (1998) and was a visiting scholar at Harvard University (2003-2004), Cambridge University (2007), a Fulbright Research Scholar at UC Berkeley (2009-2010). His research interests include linguistics, stylistics, narrative and translation studies, with papers published in international journals, such as Semiotica (Walter de Gruyter), Neohelicon (Springer Netherlands), Language and Literature (Sage Publications), Narrative (Ohio State University Press) and Journal of World Languages (Routledge), etc.