Autumn 2015 Schedule

 

Monday, October 5: Opening Discussion on Lyric: Chapter 2, “Lyric as Genre,” of Jonathan Culler’s Theory of the Lyric; poems by Emily Dickinson and William Wordsworth

Rosenwald 405, 4:30 – 6 PM

 

Monday, October 19: Eric Powell, English Department, University of Chicago

“Poetry | Machines”

Rosenwald 405, 4:30 – 6 PM

 

Monday, November 9: Srikanth Reddy, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago

“‘Like does not like like that’s obnoxious’: On Simile and Resemblance”

Rosenwald 405, 4:30 – 6 PM

 

Monday, November 23: Patrick Morrissey, English Department, University of Chicago

“Naive Modernism: Gertrude Stein’s Second Childhood”

Rosenwald 405, 4:30 – 6 PM

 

Monday, December 7: Berthold Hoeckner, Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities in the College, University of Chicago

“Poetry as Distant Philosophy”

Rosenwald 405, 4:30 – 6 PM