[JFKI-News] WG: Gastvortrag von Prof. Dr. Douglas Lanier 03.07.2019 18:00 - 20:00 Uhr

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Reparative Shakespeare

Douglas M. Lanier

 

In an important essay, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick began the work of theorizing "reparative reading" of literature, readings that seek to address–only partially and often idiosyncratically–psychic needs particular to the gay community. Extending Sedgwick's notion of literary reparativity, this talk concerns a body of Shakespeare adaptations often neglected by scholars–adaptations that address the traumas and stigmatization of certain marginalized social groups, such as veterans, prisoners, refugees, gay youth, the disabled, the elderly, and the economically disadvantaged. Though this mode of adaptation has considerable currency in popular culture and in theatrical circles, it runs counter to prevailing modes of interpretation in the academic community. Professor Lanier will offer an introduction to this mode of Shakespeare adaptation, sketch out some of its central premises and techniques, and suggest how it raises crucial questions about the nature and purposes of Shakespeare adaptation in the twenty-first century.

 

Lecture: 03.07.2019 6:00-8:00 pm

Room: J 32/102

 

 

Vielen herzlichen Dank und liebe Grüße,

 

 

Melanie Krüger

- Sekretariat -

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sabine Schülting

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Mahler

 

Freie Universität Berlin

Institut für Englische Philologie

Habelschwerdter Allee 45

14195 Berlin

 

Raum JK 29/203

Sprechzeiten: Mo, Mi, Do, 09:30 – 11:30 u. 14:00 – 16:00

              Di    09:30 – 11:30 und 15:00 – 16:00

              Fr    09:30 – 11:30

Tel: +49-(0)30-838 636 11

 

melanie.krueger@fu-berlin.de