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2002 FALL LECTURES
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“Melancholy and Wit: A Humorous Relationship”
a lecture by Remo Ceserani, Professor of Comparative Literature, Università degli studi di Bologna
Wednesday, October 16 at 5:00 p.m.
Auditorium of the Hesburgh Center for International Studies, University of Notre Dame |
Professor Ceserani will also present an informal seminar:
"Melancholy in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature"
Thursday, October 17, from 2:00-3:30pm
Department of Special Collections, 102 Hesburgh Library,
University of Notre Dame
Professor Remo Ceserani is one of the leading literary critics of Italy. He trained at Yale where he studied comparative literature with René Wellek and at the University of Milan under Mario Fubini. Ceserani is president of the "Associazione per lo studio di Teoria e storia comparata della letteratura," Italy's leading professional organization for the study of literary theory and comparative literature. Professor Ceserani's lecture is sponsored by the Distinguished Visiting Chair in Italian Studies held this year by Prof. Piero Boitani, by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Ph.D. in Literature Program and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, and will be followed by a reception.
Among Ceserani's many books are: Argilla. Interpretazione di un racconto di J. Joyce, (Napoli, 1975); Il materiale e l'immaginario, (Torino, 1978-, 10 vols.); Breve viaggio nella critica americana (Pisa, ETS, 1984); La bestia umana di Émile Zola (Torino, 1989); Raccontare la letteratura (Torino, 1990); Il romanzo sui pattini (Ancona, 1990); Treni di carta. L'immaginario in ferrovia: l'irruzione del treno nella letteratura moderna (Genova, 1993); Viaggio in Italia del dottor Dapertutto. Attraverso vizi (e virtù) degli intellettuali (Bologna, 1996); Il fantastico (Bologna, 1996); Raccontare il postmoderno (Torino, 1997); Lo straniero (1998); Guida allo studio della letteratura (Roma-Bari, 1999); Viaggio in Italia del dottor Dapertutto tra vizi (e virtù) degli intellettuali (Bologna, 1996). He is currently working on a book about the relationship between literature and modern technology (photography, mass media, etc.) and heads a research group studying "Accounts of dreams in modern literature."
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“Du Bellay's Strategic Defense:
Petrarchan Illustrations of National Sentiment
in
Early Modern France”
a lecture by William J. Kennedy,
Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell
University
Sponsored by the Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures
with the help of the Devers Program in Dante Studies.
Tuesday, October 29, 2002 at 4:45 p.m.
Department of Special Collections, 102 Hesburgh Library,
University of Notre Dame |
William J. Kennedy, Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell
University, teaches the history of European literature and literary
criticism from antiquity to the early modern period. His interests focus on
Italian, French, English, and German texts from Dante to Milton. He is the
author of Rhetorical Norms in Renaissance Literature (Yale University Press,
1978), Jacopo Sannazaro and the Uses of Pastoral (University Press of New
England, 1983, recipient of the MLA's Marraro Prize), and Authorizing
Petrarch (Cornell University Press, 1994).
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