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Reading Against Time: Transhistoricism and Early Modern Literature

Reading Against Time seeks to create a forum for scholars working seriously across the traditional boundaries of academic periodization. With one foot planted firmly in the early modern period, we ask how perspectives from eras both adjacent and distant can influence our reading practices, offer new interpretations of standard texts, and help us rethink the chronological barriers that often confine our work as literary scholars. What kinds of innovative interpretive practices are developed when one brings together texts from periods we have traditionally held to be distinct? How might we expand or revise traditional theories of influence and literary history? What literary histories are occluded by the modes of periodization currently built into our institutional structures? We aim to bring together a diverse group of scholars working in what we might broadly call a transhistoricist literary practice, and to ask what transhistoricism can offer us at this moment.

Jeff Dolven, Princeton University, will deliver the keynote address.

This conference organized by the Early Modern Colloquium of the Department of English and Comparative Literature and by Gabriel Bloomfield, Department of English and Comparative Literature; Alexander Lash, Department of English and Comparative Literature; Michael West, Department of English and Comparative Literature.











When: Fri., Apr. 22, 2016 at 5:00 pm
Where: Columbia University
116th St. & Broadway
212-854-1754
Price: Free
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Reading Against Time seeks to create a forum for scholars working seriously across the traditional boundaries of academic periodization. With one foot planted firmly in the early modern period, we ask how perspectives from eras both adjacent and distant can influence our reading practices, offer new interpretations of standard texts, and help us rethink the chronological barriers that often confine our work as literary scholars. What kinds of innovative interpretive practices are developed when one brings together texts from periods we have traditionally held to be distinct? How might we expand or revise traditional theories of influence and literary history? What literary histories are occluded by the modes of periodization currently built into our institutional structures? We aim to bring together a diverse group of scholars working in what we might broadly call a transhistoricist literary practice, and to ask what transhistoricism can offer us at this moment.

Jeff Dolven, Princeton University, will deliver the keynote address.

This conference organized by the Early Modern Colloquium of the Department of English and Comparative Literature and by Gabriel Bloomfield, Department of English and Comparative Literature; Alexander Lash, Department of English and Comparative Literature; Michael West, Department of English and Comparative Literature.

Buy tickets/get more info now