Donnerstag, 14. Januar 2021, 19:15 - 19:45 iCal
Life-Writing in Poetry
Two Biographies of the Nineteenth Century
Lecture
Charles Darwin and Ludwig Van Beethoven – two giants of the 19th century in their respective fields – are brought together in this poetry lecture by eminent British author Ruth Padel, Professor of Poetry at King’s College London. Among Padel’s many critically acclaimed works are Darwin – A Life in Poems (2009) and Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life (2020). In this lecture, Padel will read from her biographical poetry and reflect on the process of approaching nineteenth-century lives as a poet.
This event is open to the public and forms part of the lecture series “Celebrity & Memory: Victorian & Neo-Victorian Perspectives”, which brings together international Neo-Victorian scholars and writers of (bio-)fiction and poetry to explore a variety of cultural texts that re-imagine the nineteenth century and thus interrogate our ideological investments in the past.
If you are interested in joining this online event, please send an e-mail to ulrike.zillinger@univie.ac.at to register and request access.
Veranstalter
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik und Verein ViennaLit
Um Anmeldung wird gebeten
Kontakt
Sandra Mayer
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
00436644510999
sandra.mayer@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Freitag, 08. Januar 2021, 15:40
Letzte Änderung am Montag, 11. Januar 2021, 10:16