The Lost Art of Literary Criticism
2019 Germaine Brée Lecture
Event Details
Date
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Time
6 p.m.
Location
Description
Professor Alice Kaplan
French, Yale University
What did it mean to be a literary critic in 1960, and what does it mean today? Kaplan will explore the life and career of Germaine Bree (1907-2001), reflecting both on her key role in bringing Albert Camus’s fiction to American readers, and on her clear-eyed engagement with “French theory” at the onset of the great culture wars of the 1960s and 1970s.
French, Yale University
What did it mean to be a literary critic in 1960, and what does it mean today? Kaplan will explore the life and career of Germaine Bree (1907-2001), reflecting both on her key role in bringing Albert Camus’s fiction to American readers, and on her clear-eyed engagement with “French theory” at the onset of the great culture wars of the 1960s and 1970s.
Cost
Free
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