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