BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20080309T100000 RDATE:20080309T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20081102T090000 RDATE:20081102T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081202 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081203 SUMMARY:Kurt Fosso and Jerry Harp on J. Hillis Miller's Virtual Reality o f Reading DESCRIPTION:In his recent book\, On Literature (2002)\, J. Hillis Miller recounts his curious intuition\, active in him since he was a young reade r\, that literary works precede their being written down\; his perception or sense is that the text pre-exists in some Platonic realm. This idea i s a curious one coming from one of our "arch-deconstructionist" critics\, one of the leaders of a "movement" much devoted to critiquing the tradit ional metaphysics of presence typified by Plato's doctrine of Forms. In w hat sense might this Platonic realm or script "exist" for a deconstructon ist like Miller? Professors Kurt Fosso and Jerry Harp will present severa l possible answers along with examples of their relevance to the reading and meaning of literary texts. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
In his recent book\, On Literature (200 2)\, J. Hillis Miller recounts his curious intuition\, active in him sinc e he was a young reader\, that literary works precede their being written down\; his perception or sense is that the text pre-exists in some Plato nic realm. This idea is a curious one coming from one of our "arch-decons tructionist" critics\, one of the leaders of a "movement" much devoted to critiquing the traditional metaphysics of presence typified by Plato's d octrine of Forms. In what sense might this Platonic realm or script "exis t" for a deconstructonist like Miller? Professors Kurt Fosso and Jerry Ha rp will present several possible answers along with examples of their rel evance to the reading and meaning of literary texts.
UID:20081202T080000Z-4504@www.lclark.edu DTSTAMP:20110127T153012Z URL:https://www.lclark.edu/live/events/4504-kurt-fosso-and-jerry-harp-on- j-hillis-millers LAST-MODIFIED:20110127T233012Z X-LIVEWHALE-TYPE:events X-LIVEWHALE-ID:4504 X-LIVEWHALE-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles X-LIVEWHALE-ALL-DAY:1 X-LIVEWHALE-SUMMARY:In his recent book\, On Literature (2002)\, J. Hillis Miller recounts his curious intuition\, active in him since he was a you ng reader\, that literary works precede their being written down\; his pe rception or sense is that the text pre-exists in some Platonic realm. Thi s idea is a curious one coming from one of our "arch-deconstructionist" c ritics\, one of the leaders of a "movement" much devoted to critiquing th e traditional metaphysics of presence typified by Plato's doctrine of For ms. In what sense might this Platonic realm or script "exist" for a decon structonist like Miller? Professors Kurt Fosso and Jerry Harp will presen t several possible answers along with examples of their relevance to the reading and meaning of literary texts. X-LIVEWHALE-TAGS:english|literary arts END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR