好朋友，好礼物

                                    阎连科《受活》英文版

  新的学期开始了，罗宾博士Robin从英伦回来，带回了好多书，其中有阎连科的《受活》英文版，英文名为Lenin’s Kisses (列宁的吻)，是罗鹏 （Carlos Rojas）翻译的。最让我高兴的是他在与他的老师，著名学者彼得·巴里教授Prof. Peter Barry见面时，为我要到了Prof. Peter Barry教授最新的签名本著作English In Practice: In Pursuit of English Studies. 这里，根据Prof. Peter Barry所在学校网站上的资料，简要介绍一下这位著名学者。

                         
                                                                       Prof. Peter Barry

Peter's main research interests are in twentieth and twenty first century literature (especially modern and contemporary poetry) and literary theory, with additional interests in Romanticism and the short story.

Peter Barry has published chapters in twenty academic books, and over forty articles in academic journals, including:  American, British and Canadian Studies (twice); Archives; Belgian Essays on Literature and Language; Cambridge Quarterly (four times); Critical Quarterly (three times); Comparative Literature Studies; Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters; English (three times); English in Education (twice); English Language Teaching Journal; English Studies (twice); English Today; Essays in Criticism, (twice); The Explicator; Forum for Modern Language Studies (twice); Orbis Litterarum,(twice); PN Review (twice); Review of English Studies; Studies in Short Fiction; The Yale Journal of Criticism; and The Year’s Work in English Studies.

                                                       Prof. Peter Barry 2014年的新作

             He has also published poetry in: New Welsh Review (summer 1998); Interchange (spring 1998); Poetry Wales (autumn 2008 and spring 2010); Stand (autumn 2009), and a sequence of twelve poems in Kaleidoscope: an anthology of sequences, ed. Jan Fortune-Wood & Rowan Fortune (Cinnamon Press, 2011).

Series editor of “Beginnings”, a spin-off series from Beginning Theory, published by  Manchester University Press. These are books for BA and MA students on aspects of literary theory and related matters. Titles so far published include Beginning Postmodernism (Tim Woods, 1999, 2^nd edition, 2011), Beginning Postcolonialism (John McLeod, 2000, 2^nd edition 2010), Beginning Ethnic American Fictions (Maria Lauret, Martin Padgett, Helena Grice, 2001), Beginning Shakespeare (Lisa Hopkins, 2005). Beginning Film Studies (Andrew Dix, 2008), Beginning Realism (Steven Earnshaw, 2010), Beginning Modernism (Jeff Wallace, 2011).

                                 Beginning Theory: an Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory

                                                  《理论入门：文学与文化理论导论》

        Distributed in the USA by Palgrave and in Canada by University of British Columbia Press).  First edition 1995, second edition 2002, third edition 2009. Over 160,000 English language copies sold. Used in the teaching of literary theory in universities world-wide.

                                                                                                                            中文版