BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20140313T000000Z DTEND:20140313T013000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Chinese Nobel Laureate Mo Yan's Short Stories DESCRIPTION:Session title: Chinese Nobel Laureate Mo Yan's Short Stories. Presenter: Dr. Lei Zhang\, Texas Woman's University. Date and location: Wednesday\, March 12\, 2014 from 7:00-8:30 p.m. at the Denton South Branch Library. Series: Professor's Corner: A Literary Discussion Group. Session description: Mo Yan\, China's most critically acclaimed contemporary author\, received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012. Mo Yan\, growing in extreme poverty in a peasant family in Shangdong province\, received only elementary school education. In the preface to his collection of short stories\, Shifu\, You Will Do Anything for A Laugh\, Mo Yan says hunger and loneliness were his muses for storytelling. Mo Yan\, the pen name which means "don't speak\," writes what he knows the best--human suffering and social injustice. Mo Yan is well-known for such daring novels as Red Sorghum\, The Garlic Ballads\, and The Republic of Wine. In this session of Professor's Corner\, we will survey three of his short stories--"Soaring\," "Shen Garden\," and "Abandoned Child"--to examine how he combines satire\, the supernatural\, and the mundane to offer social critiques in an art form. Background on presenter: Dr. Zhang earned her doctorate at Texas Woman's University and now teaches there. Her dissertation is titled "Old Adversaries\, New Understanding: A Rhetorical Analysis of Chinese and American Narrative Templates." Dr. Zhang has presented previously at Professor's Corner. Cost: This program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Coordinator: Fred Kamman\, Denton Public Library\; Fred.Kamman@cityofdenton.com\; 940-349-8752. Producer: Dr. Stephen Souris\, Texas Woman's University\; SSouris@twu.edu\; 940-898-2343. Location of the South Branch Library: 3228 Teasley\, Denton\, TX 76210. The South Branch Library is just south of the Teasley & Lillian Miller intersection. "This program was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas\, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities." X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Session title: Chinese Nobel Laureate Mo Yan'\;s Short Stories. Presenter:  \; Dr. Lei Zhang\, Texas Woman'\;s University.  \;Date and location: Wednesday\,  \;March 12\, 2014 from  \;7:00-8:30 p.m. at the Denton South Branch Library.  \;Series: Professor'\;s Corner: A Literary Discussion Group.  \;Session description: Mo Yan\, China'\;s most critically acclaimed contemporary author\, received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012. Mo Yan\, growing in extreme poverty in a peasant family in Shangdong province\, received only elementary school education. In the preface to his collection of short stories\, Shifu\, You Will Do Anything for A Laugh\, Mo Yan says hunger and loneliness were his muses for storytelling. Mo Yan\, the pen name which means "\;don'\;t speak\,"\; writes what he knows the best--human suffering and social injustice. Mo Yan is well-known for such daring novels as Red Sorghum\, The Garlic Ballads\, and The Republic of Wine. In this session of Professor'\;s Corner\, we will survey three of his short stories--"\;Soaring\,"\; "\;Shen Garden\,"\; and "\;Abandoned Child"\;--to examine how he combines satire\, the supernatural\, and the mundane to offer social critiques in an art form.  \;Background on presenter:  \;Dr. Zhang earned her doctorate at Texas Woman'\;s University and now teaches there.  \;Her dissertation is titled "\;Old Adversaries\, New Understanding: A Rhetorical Analysis of Chinese and American Narrative Templates."\;  \;Dr. Zhang has presented previously at Professor'\;s Corner. Cost:  \;This program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Coordinator: Fred Kamman\, Denton Public Library\; Fred.Kamman@cityofdenton.com\;  \;940-349-8752.  \;Producer: Dr. Stephen Souris\, Texas Woman'\;s University\; SSouris@twu.edu\; 940-898-2343. Location of the South Branch Library: 3228 Teasley\, Denton\, TX  \;76210.  \;The South Branch Library is just south of the Teasley &\; Lillian Miller intersection.  \;"\;This program was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas\, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities."\; LOCATION:Denton South Branch Library UID:e.690.5030270 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260408T154318Z URL:https://business.dentonchamber.org/events/details/chinese-nobel-laureate-mo-yan-s-short-stories-03-12-2014-5030270 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR