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Michel Jeanneret, Timothy Hampton, and Cécile Alduy on Rabelais: What's Next? A Workshop on New Approaches to Early Modern Studies

Date: 
Thursday, 14 April 2011 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: 
Building 460, Terrace Room
Speaker: 
Michel Jeanneret, Timothy Hampton, and Cécile Alduy
Focal Group: 
Renaissances

 

 
This event is intended for graduate students and faculty who are eager to reflect and learn about ways to rethink, reframe, and refresh our critical approaches to canonical authors, and to anyone interested in early modern studies, French Studies, or critical theory.  The same big question faces us all today: how do we find new angles that are insightful, relevant, and inspiring, when everything seems to have been said on Big Works, and when the role of the literary critic seems to be put into question in the Humanities?

Workshop format: three 20-minute presentations, followed by an hour of discussion.

Light refreshments will be served.
 


 

PROGRAM:

Michel Jeanneret (Université de Genève)
          "Rabelais and Proxemics" 

Professor Jeanneret has worked for many years as a professor of French Literature at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, head of the Department of French and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Letters.  His work is devoted mostly to the literature and culture of the Renaissance, particularly on Rabelais and the problem of interpretation in that period.

Timothy Hampton (UC Berkeley)
           "'Comment a nom': Humanism and Literary Knowledge in Auerbach and Rabelais" 

Professor Hampton's research interests include the relationship between literature and politics, the philosophy of history,  and the transmission of culture in the Renaissance and early modern periods. He is currently working on three projects: a book about Rabelais, a study of Montaigne's 'Essays,' and research project on Jazz in modern France.

Cécile Alduy (Stanford University)
           "'J’entens… mais quoy?' Style and Cognition in Rabelais”

Professor Alduy's work focuses on 16th-century poetry and poetics (Scève, Ronsard, Labé) and the hermeneutics of literary forms.  Working at the intersection of cultural history and literature, she is currently investigating two book projects: The Anatomy of Literature. The Body and Its Interpretation in Early Modern France; which taps into cognitive theory, semiotics, and the history of medicine to renew our understanding of Rabelais, Montaigne, or lyric poetry; andArchaeology of a Close-Up: The "Blasons anatomiques" and the Prehistory of Obscenity.


Discussion, moderated by Joshua Landy (Stanford University)


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Contact: Michael Wyatt (ganymede@stanford.edu) or Cici Malik (cjmalik@stanford.edu) 

co-sponsored by:
The Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) 
Renaissances, a focal group of the DLCL
cmems.stanford.edu / renaissances.stanford.edu

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