Instituto Cervantes: Jonathan Mayhew: Lorca's Modernist Self-Fashioning

CONVERSATIONS IN THE OBSERVATORY
JONATHAN MAYHEW: LORCA’S MODERNIST SELF-FASHIONING

The proposal is to read Lorca's self-creation as a literary artist from the perspective of the postmodern "death of the subject." The result will be to locate this questioning or dissolution of subjectivity in modernism itself (rather than in its later manifestations) and to re-situate Lorca in relation to his modernist contemporaries, like Kafka, Borges, and Pessoa. Prof. Mayhew’s approach presents a challenge to the biographical imperative of Lorca studies, which has prevented this wider view of how he fits into the literature of this period. The conversation will be moderated by Prof. Daniel Aguirre, from Harvard University.

Jonathan Mayhew received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford in 1988. He has taught at the University of Kansas since 1996. Professor Mayhew is the author of four books on modern and contemporary peninsular poetry. He is currently working on a book with the title What Lorca Knew: Fragments of a Late Modernity, and a volume of original poetry, Mayhew’s Mood.

Coordinated by Daniel Aguirre, Harvard University

In English

Co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures

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Program Sponsored by Santander Universities, a division of Santander Bank

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