CuSPP Literary Studies Seminar Series 2019: Manuel Clemens 'How (Not) to Become Tolerant: Affects and Habitus in Lessing’s Nathan the Wise'
Seminar
How (Not) to Become Tolerant: Affects and Habitus in Lessing’s Nathan the Wise The coincidences and phantasms that open Lessing’s Nathan the Wise reappear throughout the entire drama and even bring about its happy ending. While the usual interpretation of the plot maintains that the illusions held…
How books travel across the pond and down under: case studies in transnational reception of contemporary family-centered fiction
Seminar
Despite the transnational turn in book history (Shep, 2008) it is impossible to disentangle the nation from the text. It has been argued that the invention of the printing press was crucial to the creation of the modern nation-state (Anderson, 1983; Eisenstein, 1979; McLuhan, 1962), and that books…
CuSPP Literary Studies Seminar Series 2019: Katharina Bonzel 'Criminal Justice: Televisual Policing in the Age of Disillusionment'
Seminar
Criminal Justice: Televisual Policing in the Age of Disillusionment This paper argues that the popular television series The Blacklist (2013-present) marks a turn in “terror TV” (Tasker) towards criminals being the better police as trust in traditional law enforcement evaporates post 9/11. While…
CuSPP Literary Studies Seminar Series 2019: Paul Magee 'Writing is Speaking'
Seminar
Writing is Speaking Why is it that when we read a passage of dense theoretical prose, say in Frederic Jameson, or encounter a “garden path” sentence (e.g. The old man the boat), or just generally want more clarity from the text in front of us, that we slow down and sound the words out? The direct…
Centre for Classical Studies presents: Public reading of Homer's Iliad
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On Friday 22 March 2019, the Centre for Classical Studies will present a public reading of Homer's Iliad for the Festival Europeen Latin Grec. Some of our brightest and best students in Classics will read aloud sections of Book 22 of this ancient epic poem in Ancient Greek and in English. Book 22…
Eco‐regional Identities in the 19th‐Century French Caribbean Novel
Seminar
Eco‐regional Identities in the 19th‐Century French Caribbean Novel: Traversay’s Les Amours de Zémédare et Carina and Bergeaud’s Stella Caribbean literature ‘has continuously addressed, rather than belatedly discovered, its commitment to the environment’. Traversay’s Les Amours de Zémédare et…
Lancaster University Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Corpus Linguistics workshop
Workshop
This free two-day workshop, arranged jointly by the Australian National University Lancaster University Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, offers a series of sessions on topics in corpus linguistics and the application of corpus techniques in discourse studies and the study of health(…