Please join us this Wednesday at 5.15 in M20 for our first guest speaker of the semester. This promises to be a terrific paper, and we look forward to seeing as many of you as possible there. Details below:

Kevin Nolan (University of Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China)
'The two camps of elegy: Frank O'Hara's "In Memory of my Feelings" and Charles Olson's "As the Dead Prey upon us"'

Kevin Nolan is the author of five books of poetry, including Alar (1998) and, most recently, Loving Little Orlick (2008). A new text of prose poems, Hey Filament, is forthcoming. He has written extensively on late-twentieth-century American poetry, has curated the Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry, and has written groundbreaking pieces on the Cambridge poet J H Prynne. He is currently working on two book- length critical studies: A Byzantine Place: Frank O'Hara and American Transcendentalism and Living with Odradek (on Kafka).

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TCD STAFF POSTGRADUATE SEMINARS
HILARY TERM, 2010

20th Jan Dr. Marisa Ronan (UCD), Towards an Intellectual History of Evangelicalism

Niall Gillespie, Macroeconomics, Materialist Historiography & Jacobin Literature

27th Jan Dr. Brendan O’Connell , The Pardoner's 'Vernicle': The True Face of False-Seeming

Hilde Losnegård, Flexible Dancers: Doctor Who Fan Fiction and the Romance Genre

3rd Feb Prof. Ian Campbell Ross, Remapping the Irish Novel: Early Irish Fiction, 1680-1820

10th Feb Catherine Hannon, 'Saving the world so science can proceed': Eco-catastrophe and the rehabilitation of the scientist

Anne Rutledge, Roads to Where: Self and Destination in the novels of Paul Auster

17th Feb Dr. Antoinette Curtin, The Reluctant Muse: Representations of Beauty in the Work of Sara Coleridge

Niamh Dowdall, ‘It has a flowery hand but deep roots in the passions’: Dress and marriage in Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction

24th Feb Prof. Kevin Nolan (University of Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China), The two camps of elegy: Frank O’Hara’s ‘In Memory of my Feelings’ and Charles Olson’s ‘As the Dead Prey upon us’

3rd Mar Niamh Campbell, Safely and Solidly Outside: The Space of Death in John McGahern's That They May Face the Rising Sun

Wendy Mooney, The influence of William Allingham’s poetry on the early poems of W.B. Yeats

10th Mar Anthony McGrath, The Aesthetics of Renunciation: Schopenhauer, Beckett, and the Palliation of Life

Chris Borsing, William Dampier, Johnny Depp and William Walters: Crossing the line in Daniel Defoe’s Captain Singleton

17th Mar No seminar (St. Patrick’s Day)

24th Mar Dr. David Hillman (University of Cambridge), on Anthony and Cleopatra and the concept of Transference-Love

31st Mar Dr. Philip Coleman, On Verse Letters

7th Apr Panel II on the Discipline of English: Periodicity (speakers to be announced)

Seminars take place every Wednesday at 5.15 in room M20, Museum Building
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