Form and formalism in literary studies (intensive seminar)

FORM AND FORMALISM IN LITERARY STUDIES

INTENSIVE SEMINAR WITH PROFESSOR TORIL MOI

(DUKE UNIVERSITY)

 

May 28—30, 2018

Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value

University of Pardubice, Czech Republic

 

The seminar will consist of two two-hour sessions per day, 10-12 and 14-16.

 

Day 1: Wittgenstein and literary studies

Reading and discussing Toril Moi’s Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell (Chicago; Chicago University Press, 2017).

Morning session: Chapters 1-5

Afternoon session: Chapters 6-10

 

Day 2: Beyond formalism? Form in literary studies

During the second day, we will discuss 2-4 papers on these questions on the question about form and philosophical thought, written from different points of view.

 

Day 3: Reading My Struggle

How do the questions we have discussed help us to read My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård?

Participants should have read the first volume of My Struggle (Min kamp); and Moi’s paper “Describing My Struggle” (available online: https://thepointmag.com/2017/criticism/describing-my-struggle-knausgaard).

 

Attendance is free, but please register in advance since seating is limited, and so that we can distribute reading instructions etc. in advance. A complete, detailed, reading list will be distributed to the registered participants approximately one month in advance.

For registration and further information, contact niklas.forsberg@upce.cz.