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论Peter Burke,或,怎样讨论那些你从没见过的书
本帖被 醉乡常客 设置为精华(2008-04-16)
Peter Burke(1937-)是当代英国史学名家,剑桥大学荣休教授。2001年,世纪出版集团,上海人民出版社出版了他的作品《历史学与社会理论》(History and Social Theory)。
该书的中译本前言,介绍了Burke教授在当代史学界的贡献和地位,文末落款是“杨豫2000年8月12日于南京大学”。今天,我出于纯粹的好奇,拜读了这篇前言,发现在这个前言的第10页中有以下段落:
特别引人注目的是,他的一些新近著作如《欧洲文艺复兴
的中心和边缘》(European Renaissance: Centres and Periph-
eries,1998年)、《淹没的梦想》(The Drowning Dream,1998
年)、《新大陆的乌鸫》(New World Blackbirds,1999年)以及即
将出版的《美洲英雄的形象》(Portrait America Heroes,2000
年)等有关欧洲文艺复兴的著作中把研究领域扩大到了亚洲、
非洲和美洲的文化。他的《欧洲文艺复兴的中心和边缘》最后
一章的标题是“文艺复兴后的文艺复兴”,把对文艺复兴时期
的文化研究作了地域和方法上的扩大。尽管对于他的研究对
象而言,这些都属于“边缘”文化,但他正确地认识到了这些地
区的文化是整个世界文化的组成部分,对于阐明作为他的研
究对象的“核心”文化来说,是十分必要的。
这勾起了我的兴趣。原来史学家的书名也能起得这么有文采,全无副标题,直接来一个“淹没的梦想”都可以?原来一个专业研究文艺复兴和近代早期欧洲的学者,为了对研究作出“地域和方法上的扩大“,竟需要转而去考察“新大陆的乌鸫”和“美洲英雄的形象”!我的心中不由对来自剑桥的大师充满了崇敬。
(附图是Peter Burke像,未完待续)
碰巧,我常去的一个图书馆藏有一册《淹没的梦想》,这本标题就透着文采的书。我喜悦地把书拿在手上,发现这居然是一本。。。长篇小说!讲的似乎是一个爱做怪梦的老头的故事。。。我们的大师,您纵然再多才多艺,书迷们也不会梦见您还藏着这一手啊。
扉页是这样介绍作者的:
PETER BURKE was born in East Fremantle, Western
Australia, in 1961. He is a doctor, specialising in the health
of travellers. From 1989 to 1996 he worked as a general
practitioner in the North-West of Australia. The Drowning
Dream , his first novel, was written during this time and
was inspired by his fascination with the history and the
people of the North-West. The novel was shortlisted for
the Australian/ Vogel Literary Award in 1996, and for the
Western Australian Premier’s Award in 1998.
并配有照片一幅(Photograph by Paul Ricketts)。
http://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/teaching/fellows/display/index.cfm?fellow=49
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Burke
有时我真不知该说什么,当初看了中译本前言,下巴都掉下来了。
好吧,《淹没的梦想》看来确实是淹没了。《新大陆的乌鸫》又是怎么回事?
看来我没有上一次走运,图书馆中不曾收藏这部“把研究领域扩大到了亚洲、非洲和美洲的文化”的“有关欧洲文艺复兴的著作”。好在有amazon.com这个常用的网站,想当年,学者“杨豫”在南京大学写那篇绝妙的“中译者前言”时,我都已经从该网站订购图书好多册了。对,我们看看去。
一看之下,又有新惊喜。这一次Burke大师发表了一册精装的鸟类图录。
http://www.amazon.com/New-World-Blackbirds-Alvaro-Jaramillo/dp/0691006806
7196YMDDA8L._AA240_.gif.jpg
书中收录了Icteridae(拟黄鹂科)的一百零三个成员物种,收录范围北至阿拉斯加,南至合恩角。网站上介绍说,虽然“blackbird”这个名字看上去是“黑鸟”的意思,但其实不少种类都色彩斑斓,漂亮得很!
我兴致勃勃地又找到了另一个推荐本书的网站,其中对作者有详尽介绍:
Peter Burke is a birder, artist and author who started birding 30 years ago. After obtaining a BSc. degree in Biology and instruction in Fine Arts, Peter worked in nature interpretation and various avian research projects before devoting much of his time to illustrating. He has co-authored various articles on bird identification and biology, and served as Chair on the Ontario Bird Records Committee. Peter has birded extensively throughout Canada and much of the USA and has traveled abroad to western and southern South America (with an emphasis on Chile), Papua New Guinea, much of Central America and Cuba. He is an accomplished artist as is evident from his artwork in the identification and biology of the New World Blackbirds (Jaramillo and Burke, Princeton University Press), the third and fourth editions of the National Geographic Society’s Birds of North America (J. Dunn), Birds at Your Feeder (E. H. Dunn & D. L. Tessaglia-Hymes) and Birds of Chile (A. Jaramillo, P. Burke, D. Beadle). He is also a contributing artist to the upcoming Field Guide to the Birds of Peru (T. Schulenberg et. al.) and the three volume series Birds of Brazil (B. Whitney et. al.). He has recently completed illustrating part of the Dragonflies and Damselfies of Algonquin Park, Ontario (C. D. Jones, et. al.) a group of animals which has attracted his interests for the past 15 years. Apart from tour leading for the past 10 years, Peter enjoys summers filled with fieldwork in his home province of Ontario where he lives with his wife Dawn and their three children.
http://www.eagle-eye.com/Guides/PeterB.html
嘿,不愧是常在野外的鸟类学家,这个加拿大小伙子还真精神。
(未完待续)
考察到这里,我也快像gidiok先生说的那样,下巴都掉下来了。为了保住吃饭的家伙,另一本《美洲英雄的形象》(Portrait America Heroes,2000年),我就不想探究了,可以留给感兴趣的朋友们,作为家庭作业。
照我原先的理解,从事历史研究的学者,终归还跟小说家不一样,追溯描摹的不是一个似有似无的世界,而是发言都要有事实依托的。看来这已经是老派过时的想法了。但不知江苏省世界历史研究会会长、南京大学欧盟研究所所长、南京大学历史学系杨豫教授,多年来写下的文章里,究竟有多少“淹没的梦想”,多少“新世界的乌鸫“,多少“美洲英雄的形象”呢?我合上这总共12页的“中译本前言”,满腹狐疑得好像是那个患上怪病的老头啦。
(全文完)
论Peter Burke,或,怎样讨论那些你从没见过的书
本帖被 醉乡常客 设置为精华(2008-04-16)
Peter Burke(1937-)是当代英国史学名家,剑桥大学荣休教授。2001年,世纪出版集团,上海人民出版社出版了他的作品《历史学与社会理论》(History and Social Theory)。
该书的中译本前言,介绍了Burke教授在当代史学界的贡献和地位,文末落款是“杨豫2000年8月12日于南京大学”。今天,我出于纯粹的好奇,拜读了这篇前言,发现在这个前言的第10页中有以下段落:
特别引人注目的是,他的一些新近著作如《欧洲文艺复兴
的中心和边缘》(European Renaissance: Centres and Periph-
eries,1998年)、《淹没的梦想》(The Drowning Dream,1998
年)、《新大陆的乌鸫》(New World Blackbirds,1999年)以及即
将出版的《美洲英雄的形象》(Portrait America Heroes,2000
年)等有关欧洲文艺复兴的著作中把研究领域扩大到了亚洲、
非洲和美洲的文化。他的《欧洲文艺复兴的中心和边缘》最后
一章的标题是“文艺复兴后的文艺复兴”,把对文艺复兴时期
的文化研究作了地域和方法上的扩大。尽管对于他的研究对
象而言,这些都属于“边缘”文化,但他正确地认识到了这些地
区的文化是整个世界文化的组成部分,对于阐明作为他的研
究对象的“核心”文化来说,是十分必要的。
这勾起了我的兴趣。原来史学家的书名也能起得这么有文采,全无副标题,直接来一个“淹没的梦想”都可以?原来一个专业研究文艺复兴和近代早期欧洲的学者,为了对研究作出“地域和方法上的扩大“,竟需要转而去考察“新大陆的乌鸫”和“美洲英雄的形象”!我的心中不由对来自剑桥的大师充满了崇敬。
(附图是Peter Burke像,未完待续)
碰巧,我常去的一个图书馆藏有一册《淹没的梦想》,这本标题就透着文采的书。我喜悦地把书拿在手上,发现这居然是一本。。。长篇小说!讲的似乎是一个爱做怪梦的老头的故事。。。我们的大师,您纵然再多才多艺,书迷们也不会梦见您还藏着这一手啊。
扉页是这样介绍作者的:
PETER BURKE was born in East Fremantle, Western
Australia, in 1961. He is a doctor, specialising in the health
of travellers. From 1989 to 1996 he worked as a general
practitioner in the North-West of Australia. The Drowning
Dream , his first novel, was written during this time and
was inspired by his fascination with the history and the
people of the North-West. The novel was shortlisted for
the Australian/ Vogel Literary Award in 1996, and for the
Western Australian Premier’s Award in 1998.
并配有照片一幅(Photograph by Paul Ricketts)。
http://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/teaching/fellows/display/index.cfm?fellow=49
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Burke
有时我真不知该说什么,当初看了中译本前言,下巴都掉下来了。
好吧,《淹没的梦想》看来确实是淹没了。《新大陆的乌鸫》又是怎么回事?
看来我没有上一次走运,图书馆中不曾收藏这部“把研究领域扩大到了亚洲、非洲和美洲的文化”的“有关欧洲文艺复兴的著作”。好在有amazon.com这个常用的网站,想当年,学者“杨豫”在南京大学写那篇绝妙的“中译者前言”时,我都已经从该网站订购图书好多册了。对,我们看看去。
一看之下,又有新惊喜。这一次Burke大师发表了一册精装的鸟类图录。
http://www.amazon.com/New-World-Blackbirds-Alvaro-Jaramillo/dp/0691006806
7196YMDDA8L._AA240_.gif.jpg
书中收录了Icteridae(拟黄鹂科)的一百零三个成员物种,收录范围北至阿拉斯加,南至合恩角。网站上介绍说,虽然“blackbird”这个名字看上去是“黑鸟”的意思,但其实不少种类都色彩斑斓,漂亮得很!
我兴致勃勃地又找到了另一个推荐本书的网站,其中对作者有详尽介绍:
Peter Burke is a birder, artist and author who started birding 30 years ago. After obtaining a BSc. degree in Biology and instruction in Fine Arts, Peter worked in nature interpretation and various avian research projects before devoting much of his time to illustrating. He has co-authored various articles on bird identification and biology, and served as Chair on the Ontario Bird Records Committee. Peter has birded extensively throughout Canada and much of the USA and has traveled abroad to western and southern South America (with an emphasis on Chile), Papua New Guinea, much of Central America and Cuba. He is an accomplished artist as is evident from his artwork in the identification and biology of the New World Blackbirds (Jaramillo and Burke, Princeton University Press), the third and fourth editions of the National Geographic Society’s Birds of North America (J. Dunn), Birds at Your Feeder (E. H. Dunn & D. L. Tessaglia-Hymes) and Birds of Chile (A. Jaramillo, P. Burke, D. Beadle). He is also a contributing artist to the upcoming Field Guide to the Birds of Peru (T. Schulenberg et. al.) and the three volume series Birds of Brazil (B. Whitney et. al.). He has recently completed illustrating part of the Dragonflies and Damselfies of Algonquin Park, Ontario (C. D. Jones, et. al.) a group of animals which has attracted his interests for the past 15 years. Apart from tour leading for the past 10 years, Peter enjoys summers filled with fieldwork in his home province of Ontario where he lives with his wife Dawn and their three children.
http://www.eagle-eye.com/Guides/PeterB.html
嘿,不愧是常在野外的鸟类学家,这个加拿大小伙子还真精神。
(未完待续)
考察到这里,我也快像gidiok先生说的那样,下巴都掉下来了。为了保住吃饭的家伙,另一本《美洲英雄的形象》(Portrait America Heroes,2000年),我就不想探究了,可以留给感兴趣的朋友们,作为家庭作业。
照我原先的理解,从事历史研究的学者,终归还跟小说家不一样,追溯描摹的不是一个似有似无的世界,而是发言都要有事实依托的。看来这已经是老派过时的想法了。但不知江苏省世界历史研究会会长、南京大学欧盟研究所所长、南京大学历史学系杨豫教授,多年来写下的文章里,究竟有多少“淹没的梦想”,多少“新世界的乌鸫“,多少“美洲英雄的形象”呢?我合上这总共12页的“中译本前言”,满腹狐疑得好像是那个患上怪病的老头啦。
(全文完)
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