English Department Meeting Room, M8015, Level 8, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre
Uncertain communications between doctors and patients: East and West
Professor Barta will examine literary and cinematic narratives dealing with communications about illness and its treatment. He will focus on Chinese, Russian and European cultural products, and will consider the emergence of medicine as an art and science from its mythic roots in Europe and China.
Professor Peter I. Barta
Professor of Comparative Literature and Russian, Texas Tech University
& Professor Emeritus, University of Surrey
Professor Barta specializes in Russian Literature and Culture, Comparative Literature, literary and critical theory and the novel. He has particular expertise in Russian, English and European Modernism (especially James Joyce), 19th-century fiction (especially Pushkin, Turgenev and Tolstoy,); comparative literary studies (Anglo-French, Franco-Russian, East/West); the Classical Tradition (Ovidian metamorphosis in modernist texts; Byzantium and "the Third Rome"). His work focuses on issues of mythic consciousness, post-colonial studies, Empire and identity and contemporary cultural trends in post-Soviet Russia and Europe.
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