Session Details

Thursday, 29 December

635. Agamben and Literary Criticism

9:00–10:15 p.m., Thoroughbred, Washington Hilton

Program arranged by the Division on Literary Criticism

Presiding: Jonathan Culler, Cornell Univ.

1. “Agamben’s Experience of Criticism and the ‘Old Quarrel’ between Philosophy and Poetry,” Max Statkiewicz, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

2. “Melancholy’s Embrace: Agamben, Dickinson, and the Paradox of Mourning,” Joanne Feit Diehl, Univ. of California, Davis

3. “Agamben’s Poetic Collapse,” Robert George Kaufman, Stanford Univ.

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