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Lecture by Rei Terada: Pasolini's Acceptance
Date
Wed February 15th 2012, 5:15 - 7:00pm
Location
Pigott Hall (Bldg. 260), Room
252
252
Speaker(s): Rei Terada
This lecture
considers Pasolini’s turn away from
Italian politics in his late prose and Salò, and the
alternative models of working-through and legibility
subsequently engendered in the
“absence” of hope for
renewal.
Rei
Terada is Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine and
author recently of Looking Away: Phenomenality and
Dissatisfaction, Kant to Adorno (Harvard UP, 2009). Her
new project is a critique of the development of political realism
in the 19th and 20th centuries. Part of that project has
appeared in Studies in Romanticism and she will be
lecturing on other parts of it at the School of Criticism and
Theory this
summer.
Co-sponsored
by the Departments of Comparative Literature, French and Italian,
the Department of English, the DLCL, and the Program in Modern
Thought and Literature