Comparative Literature

Bedros Tourian invented the language and imagery of modern Armenian lyric almost singlehanded. He died of consumption in Constantinople at the tender age of twenty-one when Rimbaud was beginning his life Paris. Juxtaposing them and triangulating south I have imagined Bedros as the beautiful boy Poet of the City whom the younger Cavafy might have hoped to meet but did not.

Meyer Library Building
Room 147

If media stimulates our internal states as narrative structure of imagination and interpretation, which process is then decisive between the boundaries of collective memory and personal fantasies?

DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
2nd ANNUAL CONFERENCE

CORRUPTION IN MODERN LITERATURE & THEORY
APRIL 4-5, 2008

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Building 260, Room 216

Antonis Balasopoulos, Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus, is one of the most important younger scholars working in literary criticism and theory today. He has co-edited Comparative Literature and Global Studies: Histories and Trajectories; Conformism, Non-Conformism and Anti-Conformism in the Culture of the United States; and States of Theory: History and Geography of Critical Narratives.

Presentation will focus on some of the transnational stories (historias) and novels written by Sandra Cisneros. It begins by considering how Cisneros thematizes the plight of Greater Mexico's beleaguered multiculture in The House On Mango Street and Caramelo and then defends it against the charges of failure. The presentation ends by turning toward the issues of figural language and border identities in Cisneros' fiction.

Location: Bldg 420, Rm 041

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Room 200-307

Interested parties, please RSVP to jenkins2@stanford.edu

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism was published exactly one hundred years ago on the front page of the Parisian daily Le Figaro. It famously celebrated "the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.. feverish sleeplessness, the perilous leap, the slap and the punch" and proclaimed the beauty of mechanical speed, setting the tone for many of the avant-garde movements that would follow.

This talk will address the history of the study of Germany and German literature in China. German academic life has developed considerable ties to China, while the greatest number of applicants to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation come from China. Most German universities and research centers have ties to China.

Talk will be given in German language.

Sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature and German Studies
Questions? email comparativelit@stanford.edu