> > Dear all, > > We are delighted to announce two upcoming CCRSS events this term at 5.15 pm > in room G.21, Faculty of Classics. > > 1) Tuesday 22nd October, Katherine Fleming (Queen Mary) > > “The sphinx and another thinking of life” > > Taking its cue from Derrida, this paper will suggest ways in which we might > read the Sphinx as a rich figure for contemporary issues which adhere around > the post-human and ask whether we might deploy her inherent liminality to > re-stage critical ethical questions about the relationship between the human > and the animal, and about subjectivity. > Embodying both human and animal, can the Sphinx be recalled, cyborg-like (we > might imagine her as a riddling machine, programmed to repeat her puzzle > until short-circuited by Oedipus), to mediate those intellectual networks, > perhaps always already existent, between animality and humanity, between the > human and what is called the non/in-human? > > 2) Tuesday 12th November, Micha Lazarus (Cambridge) > > "Shakespeare's Aristotle: The Poetics in Renaissance England" > > Aristotle's Poetics has long been thought embarrassingly absent from > Renaissance England, despite its transformative impact on the Continent. > In fact there is plenty of hard evidence, on the contrary, that this work was > a real force in the period, which casts new light not only on the Poetics and > its influence but also on the methods we use to trace the larger narratives > of classical reception. In this paper I will present two approaches to a > restored Poetics. The first traces its arrival in 1540s England through the > Byzantine trivium, the Greek pronunciation controversy, scriptural tragedy, > and academic readings of classical drama, locating the Poetics within a > network of intellectual affiliations now mostly forgotten. Yet restoring the > Poetics to critical prominence opens new paths for literary criticism as well > as literary history. My second case study will suggest how we might read the > Poetics into the fabric of literary composition itself, as close comparison > of Hamlet and King Lear finds Shakespeare on the trail of Aristotle's elusive > notion of catharsis. > > All are welcome to attend! If you would like to join either speaker for > dinner afterwards, please make sure to email one of us at least a day before > the event. > > Best, > > CCRSS organisers > Zack Case (zc270), Nathaniel Hess (nh433) and Sofia Greaves (srg55) > > https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/seminars/crdg > <https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/seminars/crdg> _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents
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