Gastvortrag – Thomas Austenfeld – „Between Lyric and Epic: The Challenge of Walt Whitman“

Die DFG-Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe „Russischsprachige Lyrik in Transition“ (FOR 2603) lädt Sie herzlich ein zum Gastvortrag von Herrn Prof. Dr. Thomas Austenfeld (Université de Fribourg, Schweiz): „Between Lyric and Epic: The Challenge of Walt Whitman“.

Is Walt Whitman a lyric or an epic poet, and how does answering this question help us understand him? In the year of Whitman’s 200^th birthday, this talk reexamines the controversial poet’s position in his own historical moment as well as in ours. Considerations of genre and questions of national identity will help elucidate how Whitman is memorialized and whether his work is amenable to more recent analyses such as Jonathan Culler’s Theory of the Lyric.

Mittwoch, den 22. Januar 2020

14-16 Uhr

Universität Trier, Raum DM 131

Gäste sind herzlich willkommen!