Let us begin with a question: how is it that we have Freudian interpretations of tragedy and myth, of fairy tale and comedy--yet nothing comparable for the novel? For the same reason, I believe, that we have no solid Freudian analysis of youth: because the raison d'être of psychoanalysis lies in breaking up the psyche into its opposing "forces"--whereas youth and the novel have the opposite task of fusing, or at least bringing together, the conflicting features of individual personality. Because, in other words, psychoanalysis always looks beyond the Ego--whereas the Bildungsroman attempts to build the Ego, and make it the indisuptable center of its own structure.
Showing posts with label Franco Moretti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Franco Moretti. Show all posts
Monday, April 06, 2009
Et in Arcadia ego
From Franco Moretti, The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture:
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Thursday miscellany
Writers' passports in the Beinecke Library.
jane dark's sugarhigh! on Franco Moretti and 'distant reading.'
Sarah Weinman gives linkage on Charles Ardai and Hard Case Crime at Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind - we are doing a panel discussion along these lines at Columbia on Wednesday, March 25 at 6pm. It is an event geared towards Columbia alums, but I think it will be OK if I post details here - drop a line to the RSVP address below if you would like to attend, perhaps mentioning my name...
Please join alumni and friends of the Department of English and Comparative Literature for a special event co-sponsored by the GSAS Annual Fund
Pulp Fiction: Hard Case Crime, Hard-Boiled Sentimentality, and the New Wave of Crime Writers
A panel discussion and reception with authors Charles Ardai, B.A. ’91, Leonard Cassuto, B.A. ’81, and Professors Jenny Davidson and George Stade
Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Havana Central at the West End, 2911 Broadway, New York, NY
RSVP by March 18 to Toni Hooper at 212-851-7832 or tj2122@columbia.edu
Dress: Fedoras and period dress will be appreciated!
Hmmm, I am certainly not contemplating period dress myself - I do not have anything suitable, I am thinking (wardrobe skews heavily towards running gear these days)...
jane dark's sugarhigh! on Franco Moretti and 'distant reading.'
Sarah Weinman gives linkage on Charles Ardai and Hard Case Crime at Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind - we are doing a panel discussion along these lines at Columbia on Wednesday, March 25 at 6pm. It is an event geared towards Columbia alums, but I think it will be OK if I post details here - drop a line to the RSVP address below if you would like to attend, perhaps mentioning my name...
Please join alumni and friends of the Department of English and Comparative Literature for a special event co-sponsored by the GSAS Annual Fund
Pulp Fiction: Hard Case Crime, Hard-Boiled Sentimentality, and the New Wave of Crime Writers
A panel discussion and reception with authors Charles Ardai, B.A. ’91, Leonard Cassuto, B.A. ’81, and Professors Jenny Davidson and George Stade
Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Havana Central at the West End, 2911 Broadway, New York, NY
RSVP by March 18 to Toni Hooper at 212-851-7832 or tj2122@columbia.edu
Dress: Fedoras and period dress will be appreciated!
Hmmm, I am certainly not contemplating period dress myself - I do not have anything suitable, I am thinking (wardrobe skews heavily towards running gear these days)...
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