詹姆斯.安格尔(James Engell)是美国哈佛大学Gurney Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature,英语系兼比较文学系主任。2007年12月16日,他应邀前来中国参加了中国外国文学学会英语文学学会成立大会,并在会上做主旨演讲。本刊和《外国文学评论》编辑部征得安格尔教授本人同意在两份刊物上同时发表这篇演讲,以飨读者。 James Engell is the Gurney Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, Department of English and Department of Comparative Literature. On December 16, 2007, he was invited to come to China to attend the inaugural meeting of the Institute of English Literature of the Chinese Foreign Literary Society and give a keynote speech at the meeting. The Journal and the editorial department of Foreign Literary Critics have granted Professor Ingel himself the permission to publish the speech simultaneously in two publications to readers.