A Clark Faculty Series Event Presented by Elizabeth Blake, PhD Assistant Professor of English Clark University Forbidden fruit has long been a convenient metaphor for illicit knowledge and sexuality, a trope easily traced to the garden of Eden. Modernist poets deployed this familiar figure in new ways, insisting on the fleshy materiality of fruit as […]
In this talk, Clark University professor Elizabeth Blake (English) focuses on T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and H. D.’s “Priapus” to discuss the way modernist poets disrupt lyric traditions by setting intertextuality and phenomenological referentiality in tension in order to explore queer experience.
Timur Hammond of Syracuse University will present “The Transmitted Past: Toward a Rethinking of Geography, Temporality, and Community.”
For our first meeting of the semester, we are re-introducing the E-board and our plans for this semester!
Richard (Rick) Harper (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Jay Dampier (Natural Resources, Department of Wautoma) will present their lecture on Firewood Banks.
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