Lecture: Jonathan Culler
Tuesday, November 5, 6:30 PM
Vollum lecture hall
This event is open to the public.
"Theory of the Lyric"
Professor Culler will be examining a number of "hyper-canonical poems," ranging from Sappho to Ashbery, in order to explore the parameters of a theoretical account of the lyric.
Culler is Professor of English and Comparative Languages at Cornell University. His Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature, won MLA’s Lowell Prize and established his reputation as analyst and expositor of critical theory. Now known especially for On Deconstruction and Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (which has been translated into some 20 languages), he is working on Baudelaire and on the theory of the lyric.
Professor Culler has been President of the American Comparative Literature Association and chair of the departments of English, Comparative Literature, and Romance Studies at Cornell, as well as Senior Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and to the American Philosophical Society in 2006. Sponsored by the Division of Literature and Languages.
For more information, contact Robert Knapp.
Submitted by Brittney Corrigan-McElroy.
Posted on Oct 9, 2013