November 14, 2007. VIULECTURES 2|07_1 Why Writers Love Venice
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14 November 2007, 5.00pm
VIU, Isola di San Servolo
Why Writers Love Venice
Kevin Newmark, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literature, Boston College
With discussant: Rosella Mamoli Zorzi, Professor of American Literature, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Prof. Newmark will explain how and why Venice became a literary topic in its own right, through the writings of leading authors, such as John Ruskin, Henry James, Thomas Mann and Marcel Proust.
Kevin Newmark is currently teaching two courses in the Semester Program of the VIU School of Humanities and Social Sciences: The City as Metaphor: Why Writers Love Venice and How to Begin Thinking: some versions of Twentieth Century History, Philosophy, Literature and Theory. His areas of specialization are post-romantic poetry and prose, literary criticism and theory, philosophical approaches to literature and literary approaches to philosophy.
