Teach with Collections: Open House
Firestone Library Rare Books and Special Collections Princeton University, PrincetonThe Princeton University Art Museum, Library, and McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning cordially invite faculty and graduate students to the launch of Teach with Collections, an initiative that supports the use of Princeton's rich collections to enhance undergraduate and graduate-level teaching. Learn about our collaboration, new collection-based resources and pedagogical guidance on teaching with […]
“A Monster in its Breadth and Length”: Schiller’s Wallenstein and the Poetics of Scale, 1798–2007
205 East PyneWhat happens when works are expanded or shortened? How does scale relate to literary form, and how do changes in size qualitatively impact a work of literature? This talk will explore the German play most famous for its gigantic length – Friedrich Schiller’s „Wallenstein“ – and its reception up to the present day, using Schiller’s […]
Nathalie Sarraute’s Quiet Revolution
111 East Pyne 111 East PyneNathalie Sarraute, a major figure in French modernism commonly associated with the Nouveau Roman, or New Novel, is not usually seen as a political writer. As she expressed in an interview with the actress Isabelle Huppert, she is feminist as a citizen but not as a writer, which we can take more broadly as a […]
Slow Thought and The Love of Language
010 East PyneDepartment of Comparative Literature Lecture Series Talk
Susan Stewart Presents Two New Princeton University Press Poets
Labyrinth Books 122 Nassau Street, PrincetonCelebrated poet, critic, Professor of English, translator, and editor of Princeton University’s poetry series Susanne Stewart will introduce the two most recent poets published in that series. Please join us for a reading. Kathleen Graber is the author of two previous collections of poetry, The Eternal City and Correspondence. She is Associate Professor of English […]
