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How Literatures Begin: A Comparative Approach to Problems and Methods
April 13, 2018 · 9:00 am—5:45 pm · 010 East Pyne
Department of German
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Der Arme Poet
The one-day symposium will bring together scholars from within the Princeton community as well as a small number of external guests and seeks to discuss the cultural processes that, in a variety of different contexts, brought forth literatures.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics, Department of East Asian Studies, Humanities Council, Comparative Literature, and Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures