展望新千年：北京大学－纽约周立大学美国文学与文化研究国际学术研讨会论文选集（英文） (平装)

Peking University and the State University of New York at Albany, with the collaboration of Peking University Center for European and American Literatures, China Association for the Comparative Study of Chinese and American Cultures and the Office of Social Sciences of Peking University, jointly sponsored the international conference on new approaches to the study of American literature and culture in the new millennium during October 24-27, 2001 in Beijing, China. The emerging technologies and the global cultural and economic systems require a rethinking of the traditional themes and texts and a redefinition of traditional notions of literature, arts, and culture. The very way that meaning is made is changing, and this change is reflected even in the basic academic disciplines. New critical methods and new theories of literature and culture have appeared and are transforming literary and cultural studies. In an important sense the disciplinary boundaries are being redrawn, and new kinds of material enter int