History & Forms of Lyric: Lecture by Christophe Wall-Romana
| When | February 21, 2018 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
| Where | Logan Center, Seminar Terrace 801 |
| Contact Information | Committee on Creative Writing |
| Description | The reception of Baudelaire in the humanities today is heavily filtered through Walter Benjamin. This talk will present a rather different facet of Baudelaire by opening a dialogue between his verse and prose poems and the ethics of ethics of Emmanuel Levinas. The latter admired Baudelaire for reasons not yet convincingly established: what has an ethics vaunted for its critique of ontology to do with a poetics vaunted for its critique of modernity? The recent publication of Levinas’ Captivity Notebooks reveals the remarkable role of optical staging within Baudelaire’s poetics for Levinas’ thinking about vision, the face, the “there is,” and the vexed status of poetry for philosophy. Christophe Wall-Romana is associate professor of French in the Department of French and Italian, and graduate faculty in the moving image program at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Cinepoetry: Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry (2013) and a number of articles on poetry, most recently "Arthur Rimbaud's Poem 'H': A New Exegesis Through Restif de la Bretonne." He is also a translator of Ed Dorn, Robert Duncan, and William Merwin into French. He is currently at work on a book about astronomy and race in the archaeology of photosensitive medias. |
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