A re-examination of “Lyric” as occasion as well as genre. Central questions to be explored will include: how do the “lyrics” of composed song come alive in performance? For example, how do the two librettists of Puccini’s opera La Bohème contribute to the making of a masterpiece in song? Shared readings include The Lyric Theory Reader: A Critical Anthology, edited by Virginia Jackson and Yopie Prins.
“New Directions in Indonesian Feminism,” Featuring Indonesian author Intan Paramaditha, in conversation with Prof. Annette Lienau & Doctoral Student Lara Norgaard, sponsored by the Asia Center, May 2022.
In this HarvardX presentation, Martin Puchner explores how the concept of World Literature came into being, describing the conversations of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Peter Eckermann.
Presented on May 6, 2016, by GC Public Programs at The Graduate Center in NYC.
Christopher Brown interviews Jeffrey Schnapp about The Electric Information Age Book: McLuhan/Agel/Fiore and the Experimental Paperback.
Founded as a graduate program in 1904 and joining with the undergraduate Literature Concentration in 2007, Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature operates at the crossroads of multilingualism, literary study, and media history.
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