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Translating Polish Reportage: Challenges and Strategies
Virtual (Zoom link to be sent to those who register)Poland has a strong tradition of long-form, literary journalism, known as “reportage.” Pioneered by Ryszard Kapuściński (1932-2007), it has grown into one of the most dynamic and popular literary genres […]
“He was running it like a plantation”: Psychiatric spaces and social death in the Jim Crow South
Virtual (Zoom link to be sent to those who register)In 1967 a government inspector reported that conditions for Black patients in psychiatric hospitals in Alabama were the worst she’d ever seen, especially in terms of the physical spaces and […]
“Composition!”: On Parts and Wholes in Poetics (ca. 1800)
Virtual (Zoom link to be sent to those who register)Well into the present, the idea that the work of art is – at least potentially – a whole has been one of the basic models for understanding literary composition. […]
