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On Emptiness and Losing Things that Matter in Early Modern Literature
07 February 2024, 5:00 pm–7:00 pm
In their discussions of embodiment, emptiness, and loss, the authors Dr Alani Hicks-Bartlett bring together draw attention to the binarisms that the representation of amorous frustration both defies and “embraces”.
This event is free.
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- All | UCL staff | UCL students
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- Free
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Early Modern Exchanges
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Room 132Foster CourtUCL, Gower Street, LondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
Building from Classical models that center vision, material access, and loss as the privileged vehicles for love - or frustrating impediments to it - Early Modern love laments frequently dramatize ocularcentric lovers’ attempts to control visual stimuli, while also detailing how they commonly fail in this endeavor due to various forms of material resistance.
In their discussions of embodiment, emptiness, and loss, the authors I bring together draw attention to the binarisms that the representation of amorous frustration both defies and “embraces”: it forces a confrontation between fading memory and present loss; between physical and imagistic embodiment; between idealized shadows that promise to last, and the formerly vibrant body that fails.
The talk will focus on Spanish and Italian literature.
All welcome - please register to attend: https://eme-emptiness.eventbrite.co.uk
About the Speaker
Alani Hicks-Bartlett
Visiting Research Fellow at Institute of Advanced Studies
Alani Hicks-Bartlett is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, French & Francophone Studies, and Hispanic Studies at Brown University. She holds official affiliations with the Department of Italian Studies, the Medieval Studies Program, and the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World. She has published recently in the Rivista di Studi Italiani, I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, European History Quarterly, MLN, and Hispanic Review, and is currently completing a book manuscript on premodern autobiographical representations of disability.
More about Alani Hicks-Bartlett