{"id":8090,"date":"2017-11-11T11:25:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T11:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=8090"},"modified":"2017-11-11T11:25:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T11:25:34","slug":"workshop-to-explore-west-east-poetry-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/11\/11\/workshop-to-explore-west-east-poetry-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop to explore West-East poetry links"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Centre for Modern European Literature<\/a>, in conjunction with the\u00a0School of Oriental and African Studies<\/a> (SOAS, University of London), is hosting a workshop entitled \u2018The West-Eastern Lyric: Modernist Poetry Between Asia and Europe\u2019, to be held on Friday 17 November 2017 at SOAS.<\/p>\n

In his book\u00a0Enlightenment Orientalism\u00a0(2011),\u00a0Srinivas Aravamudan<\/a>\u00a0argued that \u2018narratives of influence from “East” to “West” are often subject to special pleading, contingency, and “accidental sagacity,” whereas influences from the “West” to the “East” involve formulations deriving from scientific necessity, historical causality, and colonial power’. This workshop will consider the implications of Aravamudan\u2019s insight for lyric poetry, exploring the many lives of \u2018Eastern Poetry” and the ways in which its circulation\u00a0across several languages challenges any understanding of modernism as occurring along a \u2018single Greenwich meridian of world literature\u2019.<\/p>\n

Two members from the\u00a0School of European Culture and Languages<\/a>\u00a0will present papers.\u00a0Dr Xiaofan Amy Li<\/a>, Lecturer in the\u00a0Department of Comparative Literature<\/a>, will give a talk entitled \u2018The Nature of the Lyric?\u00a0Henri Michaux<\/a>\u00a0and Chinese Poetics\u2019, in which she will explore the connections between Michaux’s poetry (commonly seen as ‘Chinese-inspired’ or ‘Oriental’) and Chinese poetics.<\/p>\n

Ben Hutchinson<\/a>, Professor of European Literature in the\u00a0Department of Modern Languages<\/a>, will give a lecture entitled \u2018\u201cAfter-poems\u201d:\u00a0Hans Bethge<\/a>\u00a0and Chinese\u00a0Lieder\u2019. The talk will situate Bethge\u2019s reception of Chinese poetry \u2013 and in particular, that of Li-Tai-Po – within the context of European\u00a0chinoiserie, notably by concentrating on his engagement with a recurring imagery of song and lyric.<\/p>\n

The all-day workshop will be held at SOAS, 21\/22 Russell Square, London, beginning at 9.30am. The full programme is available here:\u00a0www.soas.ac.uk\/cclps\/events\/17nov2017-the-west-eastern-lyric-modernist-poetry-between-asia-and-europe.html<\/a><\/p>\n

To book, please use the Eventbrite page here:\u00a0www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/the-west-eastern-lyric-modernist-poetry-between-asia-and-europe-tickets-38427912922<\/a><\/p>\n

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