Curtin Hall, 839
“Catalan Literature / Literature Written in Catalan”
Curtin Hall, 839 3242 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesPatricia Lunn, Professor Emerita, Spanish and Portuguese, Michigan State University The recent publication of Winter Journey, Patricia Lunn's translation of Viatge d'hivern, a collection of short stories written in Catalan by Jaume Cabré, brings up the question of what constitutes […]
Literary Theories and the Hebrew Bible. Excavating the Hebrew Bible’s Aesthetic Secrets
Curtin Hall, 839 3242 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesYair Mazor, Hebrew Studies Program, Department of Foreign languages and Linguistics This presentation aims to introduce my part in a forthcoming co-taught MALLT seminar (Spring of '09/'10). The seminar will be about literary theories and their application to both the […]
The “Chinese” of the Rhine, or how a few Dutch and German dialects developed tone (kinda)
Curtin Hall, 839 3242 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesGarry W. Davis, Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Translation Many languages use tone (differing levels of pitch) to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning. In languages such as Chinese or Thai, for example, each syllable of a word can carry its […]
Author and Self in Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel García Márquez
Curtin Hall, 839 3242 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesCésar Ferreira, Department of Spanish and Portuguese This talk will examine the private and public figure of two canonical contemporary Latin American writers through their autobiographical writings.
Anger, Teaching, amd Learning: Reflections on the possibility of using anger as a pedagody of discomfort in the classroom
Curtin Hall, 839 3242 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesYanmei Jiang, Department of English Black Feminist writer Audre Lorde writes: "When there is no connection at all between people, then anger is a way of bringing them closer together, of making contact." In this presentation, I will discuss the […]