Seminari “World Literature, from the Tablet to the Internet” per Martin Puchner

27 març, 2019

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Seminari “World Literature, from the Tablet to the Internet”, impartit pel professor Martin Puchner (Harvard University)

Dijous 4 d’abril de 2019
16:00h a 18:00h
UOC| Seu Central |Sala Tony Bates | Avinguda Tibidabo, 39-43| Barcelona
Organitza: Grup de recerca GlobaLS

El Grup de recerca GlobaLS us convida  al proper seminari internacional d’estudis literaris globals, amb el reconegut especialista en World Literature Martin Puchner.

Resum:
In this lecture, Martin Puchner will present an argument about the interaction between storytelling and writing technologies by drawing on case studies from his recent book, The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization (Random House, 2017; El poder de las historias, Crítica, 2019). Puchner will focus on moments when new technologies, such as paper and print, lower the cost of literature, when they give rise to new formats and format wars, such as the one between the scroll and the book, and when different writing technologies collide violently, as they did when Spanish Conquistadors encountered Maya writing. Puchner will use this history to cast light on the revolution in writing technologies brought about by the Internet, with its explosion of popular storytelling on websites such as wattpad.

Bio: 

Martin Puchner is the Byron and Anita Wien Chair of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. His prize-winning books cover subjects from philosophy to the arts, and his bestselling six-volume Norton Anthology of World Literature and his HarvardX MOOC (massive open online course) have brought four thousand years of literature to students across the globe. His most recent book, The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization (Random House), which tells the story of literature from the invention of writing to the Internet, is being translated into some 20 languages. He is a member of the European Academy and has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Cullman Fellowship, and the Berlin Prize.

Textos en discussió:

Puchner, Martin. “World Literature and the Creation of Literary Worlds”. Neohelicon (2011) 38:341–348. DOI 10.1007/s11059-011-0101-1.

Puchner, Martin. “Readers of the World Unite”. AEON, 20 Setembre 2017. https://aeon.co/essays/world-literature-is-both-a-market-reality-and-a-global-ideal.

Els interessants en assistir poden posar-se en contacte amb Marta Puxan Oliva (mpuxano@uoc.edu) per tal que els remeti el primer text en discussió (el segon, de caire divulgatiu, es troba en línia).

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