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Professor Toril Moi will guide a close reading of The Golden Notebook to reach deep levels of appreciation of this remarkable text, and as a way to explore different ways of reading women’s writing today. This seminar will explore some of the following kinds of reading: historicizing, political, postcolonial, feminist, Marxist, psychoanalytical, formal, literary historical, and philosophical. We will also strive to achieve some insights about when (under what circumstances) to take the author’s person, the author’s life, or the author’s gender into consideration in literary criticism.
SEMINAR LEADER: Toril Moi, James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, Professor of English and Theater Studies, Director of the Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature, Duke University
SEMINAR DATES: June 26 -- July 1, 2011
STIPENDS AND EXPENSES: Participation in an institute carries a stipend of $1,500. The National Humanities Center will cover the cost of travel, lodging, meals, and texts.
ACCOMMODATIONS: Participants will have individual apartments in a residence hotel within ten minutes of the Center. The Center will provide bus service to and from the hotel.
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