Session Details

Wednesday, 29 December

581. Brooks and Warren’s Understanding Poetry: Lasting Influences and Troubling Legacies

7:15–8:30 p.m., 406, Philadelphia Marriott

A special session

Session leader: John Donald Kerkering, Loyola Univ., Chicago

1. “Racial Scansion: Objectivity and Rhapsody in Metered Lines and Raced Bodies,” John Donald Kerkering

2. “The Call of the Popular: The Ballad as a Revision of Lyric,” Steven L. Newman, Temple Univ.

3. “Milk Cans and Well-Wrought Urns: Robert Rauschenberg and Close Reading,” Mena Mitrano, Univ. of Rome, La Sapienza

4. “The New Cognitivists and the Old; or, The New Critical Legacy of the ‘Embodied Mind,’” Jennifer Ashton, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago

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