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CMLT Vambery Lecture: Orrin Wang, "The Cut of Romanticism"

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CMLT Vambery Lecture: Orrin Wang, "The Cut of Romanticism"

Center for Literary and Comparative Studies | English Tuesday, November 5, 2019 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Tawes Hall, 2115

Orrin Wang will deliver the Vambery lecture. A light lunch will be served afterwards.

A talk on the main argument in Wang's work-in-progress, Techno-Magism: Essays on Romanticism, Media, Mediation, and Theory, that to consider how Romanticism and media studies intersect we must first confront Romanticism's conflicting narratives on what mediation means: as both the most emphatic way we understand the social totality of capitalist production and as the unavoidable cut of radical negativity that replaces a belief in social totality with the theory of social antagonism.  Images "The Cut" will discuss include paintings by John Martin and William Blake, a clip from Frank Whale's 1931 film, Frankenstein, and the book cover of the 10th edition of the Norton Anthology of Romantic literature.

 

Add to Calendar 11/05/19 11:00 AM 11/05/19 1:00 PM America/New_York CMLT Vambery Lecture: Orrin Wang, "The Cut of Romanticism"

Orrin Wang will deliver the Vambery lecture. A light lunch will be served afterwards.

A talk on the main argument in Wang's work-in-progress, Techno-Magism: Essays on Romanticism, Media, Mediation, and Theory, that to consider how Romanticism and media studies intersect we must first confront Romanticism's conflicting narratives on what mediation means: as both the most emphatic way we understand the social totality of capitalist production and as the unavoidable cut of radical negativity that replaces a belief in social totality with the theory of social antagonism.  Images "The Cut" will discuss include paintings by John Martin and William Blake, a clip from Frank Whale's 1931 film, Frankenstein, and the book cover of the 10th edition of the Norton Anthology of Romantic literature.

 

Tawes Hall

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Oliver Gaycken
ogaycken@umd.edu