Speaker: Prof. John-Paul Riquelme, English, Boston University
Title: “Modernist Authenticity: Sincerity and Lying From Oscar Wilde to Toni Morrison”
Prof. Jean Paul; Riquelme is one of the most distinguished modernists currently writing in the US. He is the author of Harmony of Dissonances: T.S. Eliot, Romanticism and Imagination, Teller and Tale in Joyce’s Fiction, both from Johns Hopkins University Press, and the recent Gothic in Modernism. He has edited, among many others, a volume of Modernism/modernity dedicated to Hugh Kenner, and has written numerous articles on topics from Bram Stoker to Octavia Butler.
There will be a reception following the talk and discussion. All are invited. |
