You are warmly invited to join us on Tuesday 25th February, when Professor
Patrick Pollard (Birkbeck) will be addressing our Seminar with his paper
entitled: ''When Heaven Meets Hell: William Blake and André Gide"
We begin at *5:30pm* in *Room G24*, Foster Court, University College
London, Malet Place, London WC1.
Please note the change of venue. Directions to this building can be found
here <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps>.
Prof Pollard's paper will be followed by questions and discussion, and the
meeting will conclude with a glass of wine at 7:30pm. A précis and speaker
profile are appended below for your interest.
*"When Heaven Meets Hell: William Blake and André Gide"*
Professor Patrick Pollard considers two reactions to Blake's poetry and
prose, specifically to The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, in France in the
first half of the 20th century. Charles Grolleau's 1900 translation, with
its preface, was subsequently read by André Gide who translated the text in
his turn in 1922 for the influentialN.R.F. Whereas the Catholic Grolleau
praised Blake as a mystic poet and painter, Gide, an unorthodox Protestant,
saw him principally as someone who, like Dostoievsky, Nietzsche and
Browning, recognised the need to keep the simultaneous presences of Satan
and God in play.
*Patrick Pollard, *Emeritus Professor of French and Honorary Research
Fellow at Birkbeck College, is a specialist in 19th and early 20th century
French literature and has published a number of articles on André Gide and
his relationship with English authors adiverse as Richardson, Carlyle,
Gosse and Wilde. His André Gide: Homosexual Moralist was published by Yale
in 1991; his annotated critical editions of Gide's Proserpine et Perséphone
and Le Roi Candaule appeared in Lyon in 1977 and 2000 respectively. His
annotated Répertoires des lectures d'André Gide (2000-2010) include coverage
of the areas of Greek and Latin literature and thought, British and
American literature, German literature and culture, Oriental poetry and
narratives. His other publications and research interests include the
novels of Émile Zola, the history of (homo)sexuality, and the
reception of Classical
literature and mythology.
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*Dr Elinor Shaffer, FBA*
Research Director, The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe
Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR),
University of London
http://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/rbae/RRSS-2013-2014.htm
Supported by* Prof Timothy Mathews*, Professor of French and Comparative
Criticism, Vice-Dean Research Arts and Humanities, UCL
<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/multidisciplinary-and-intercultural-inquiry/reading-and-reception-seminars>
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