Members of the COMPARATIVE-LITERATURE list may be interested in the
following talk(s):
Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies presents:
Sophie Levie (Radboud): ?Literary Liaisons in Europe: The Network
around Commerce 1924?1932?
Commerce was a European modernist little magazine, whose conductors
included Claudel, Von Hofmannsthal and its proprietor Marguerite
Caetani. Valéry was among its advisers. Transnational, it published
all of its contributions in French, including chapters of To the
Lighthouse, which appeared there before its issue by the Hogarth Press.
Sophie Levie is Chair of Literary and Cultural Studies at Radboud
University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Her dissertation on the literary
periodical Commerce (1924?1932) was published by the Fondazione
Camillo Caetani, Rome in 1989. She is currently editing the letters of
Marguerite Caetani, patron of Commerce and Botteghe Oscure
(1948?1960). This year Caetani?s correspondence with German and
Italian authors will come out with Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura,
Rome. Her research interests are European literary reviews 1900?1960,
Russian Formalism and the work of Vladimir Nabokov.
Thursday 15 March, 7.30 pm
Keynes Library (Room 114, School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD)
Free. All welcome.
Advance notice of Matt ffytche's talk on Monday 19 March and
associated reading
Matt ffytche (Essex) will discuss his recently published book, The
Foundation of the Unconscious: Schelling, Freud and the Birth of the
Modern Psyche (Cambridge University Press, 2012) on Monday 19 March,
6.00 pm.
The Foundation of the Unconscious offers a compelling new argument
about the origins of the unconscious psyche in the critical philosophy
and Romantic psychology of the early nineteenth century. As well as
Romanticists and those with interests in psychoanalysis, ffytche?s
work is fascinating for anyone wishing to think further about
post-Enlightenment attempts to theorize individuality ? and especially
the liberal self so important in the nineteenth century.
A PDF containing sections from the book?s introduction is available at
<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-research/research_cncs/our-events/ffytche.pdf>. Please read: ?The broader unconscious?, ?The liberal unconscious?, ?The unconscious?, and the first pages of ?The argument?. Matt ffytche will talk about his book, followed by
discussion.
Keynes Library (Room 114, School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD)
Free. All welcome.
Programme for Summer Term 2012
Our programme of talks continues into the summer term, including Maria
DiCenzo (24 April), Robert Bud (24 May), Garrett Stewart and Matthew
Rubery (7 June), and more to be announced. See
<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-research/research_cncs/our-events/programme-for-birkbeck-forum-for-nineteenth-century-studies-summer-term-2012>. The page will be regularly updated with additional events (tbc) and further
information.
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