Faculty Colloquium Series: Adam Rosenthal (INTS) 3/3/20
“Poetics of the Gift” Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 4-5 p.m. Location: 311 Glasscock Building Dr. Adam Rosenthal International Studies, 2019-2020 Glasscock Faculty Research Fellow Abstract: “Poetics and Donation (Part One)” offers an analysis of many central figures of lyric subjectivity in Western poetics, such as genius, talent, inspiration, and imagination. The project tracks the implication […]
“Poetics of the Gift”
Tuesday, March 3, 2020, 4-5 p.m.
Location: 311 Glasscock Building
Dr. Adam Rosenthal
International Studies, 2019-2020 Glasscock Faculty Research Fellow
Abstract:
“Poetics and Donation (Part One)” offers an analysis of many central figures of lyric subjectivity in Western poetics, such as genius, talent, inspiration, and imagination. The project tracks the implication of a logic of the gift within each of these figures, so as to show how they act in concert. Part Two of the chapter (not provided) analyzes their confluence with European practices of patronage. Within the full manuscript of the book, these chapters supply both historical and analytic background into the role of the gift in Western poetics.
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