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Thinking Space in Cinema and Literature – International Colloquium

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City

During this international colloquium, participants will be exploring the question of the relations between cinema and literature through the prism of space on the basis of three approaches: - The Geography of literary and cinematic creation examines the spatial context in which works are produced from a historical, social and cultural point of view; - Geocriticism explores spatial narratives as the result of perception and the substance…

Pasolini After Dante

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

The "Divine Mimesis" and the Politics of Representation A lecture by Emanuela Patti, Royal Holloway, University of London In the early 1960s, Pier Paolo Pasolini started his rewriting of Dante’s Divine Comedy, La Divina Mimesis. The aim of the project was to make it a new contemporary Comedia, including circles, sins, and characters inspired by Dante. Yet the project was…

New Genre Emerging: Contemporary German Graphic Literature

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the University of Cologne New York Office present a talk by Stefan Börnchen about "New Genre Emerging: Contemporary German Graphic Literature." By now, comics have taken their place alongside other recognized forms of literature, even in German-speaking countries. The renowned German publishing house Suhrkamp includes graphic literature in its program and comic festivals are organized by literary centers.…

Casi Desnudo: Film Screening and Book Presentation

Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street, New York

The screening of Oleksandr Fraze-Frazenko’s Casi Desnudo, a film about the Ukrainian-American avant-garde writer Yuriy Tarnawsky, will be followed by Mr. Tarnawsky’s reading from his newly-released books (Warm Arctic Nights, The Iguanas of Heat, Literary Yoga). He will be introduced by Prof. Maria Grazia Bartolini from University of Milan. * * * Yuriy Tarnawsky is a bilingual Ukrainian/English author of some three…

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