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迄今为止,世界各国对通俗文化进行系统研究的专家学者还不多,美国伦道夫—麦康学院的著名教授托马斯·英奇是研究美国南方文学和福克纳的专家,但他对通俗文化也感兴趣。在深入研究的基础上主编了三卷本《美国通俗文化手册》(1978—1981)和一卷本《美国通俗文学手册》(1988),颇引起美国学术界的注意。1988年夏天英奇教授访问中国时应北京大学英语系及中国社会科学院美国研究所的邀请,在北京大学作了《美国通俗文化研究》的专题报告,这里译载的是征得作者同意后首次发表的全文。
So far, there are not many experts and scholars in systematic research on popular culture in the world. Thomas Inge, a famous professor at Randall-McMank College in the United States, is an expert on American Southern literature and Faulkner, Interested. On the basis of in-depth study, the author of three volumes of the “American Popular Culture Handbook” (1978-1981) and a volume of “American Popular Literature Handbook” (1988), quite attracted the attention of American academia. In the summer of 1988, when Professor Yingchi visited China at the invitation of the English Department of Peking University and the Institute of American Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, he made a special report on “Studies of Popular Culture in the United States” at Peking University. The translation was made for the first time with the author’s consent Published full text.