May 14th
6:30–9:30pm EDT
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Erich Auerbach: Mimesis
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Explore the profound insights of Erich Auerbach's "Mimesis" in a journey through Western literary tradition. Join us as we delve into Auerbach's groundbreaking analysis, unraveling the complexities of literary representation from Homer to modernity.
Tue, May 14th, 6:30–9:30pm EDT
(12 hours over 4 sessions)
Fiction and Inner Life: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Can words describe what Virginia Woolf calls “the daily drama of the body”? Can literature verbalize our interiority: physical and spiritual change, the home, the mind, and the relationships between them? In her celebrated novel Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf’s eponymous protagonist is plagued with perpetual anxiety: Clarissa Dalloway is always on the verge of sickness, waking up on a sunny morning with a feeling of “terror,” “overwhelming incapacity,”...
Annie Ernaux: Shame and the Politics of Memory
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
What does it mean to describe one’s drive to write as a lifelong struggle against loneliness and forgetfulness? Annie Ernaux, whose “courage and clinical acuity” in writing earned her the Nobel prize in 2022, takes the matter of her own working-class milieu as the stuff of literature: her factory worker parents, their lives on either side of WWII, her personal experience of illegal abortion, the ungovernable vicissitudes of sexual desire,...
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Reading Jacqueline Rose: Literature, Politics, and Psychoanalysis
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Explore the relationship between literature, politics, and psychoanalysis through the thought-provoking works of Jacqueline Rose. Uncover the insights she offers on war, gender, and maternal rage, as we delve into the texts that have shaped her ideas. Join us in this intellectually stimulating journey to challenge conventional notions and ignite change in society.
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