[Englmajors] Gert Morreel lecture Nov 7 @ Hugo House

[Sherry Laing]

***EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT***

“The Road of Excess: The Encyclopedic Urge in Literature and
Philosophy,” a talk and slideshow presentation by Gert Morreel

Why do we consider knowledge (and specifically lots of it) a good thing?
What are the roots of that idea in philosophy and how did they migrate
to literature? If the road of excess really leads to the palace of
wisdom, as William Blake put it, then what maps have philosophers and
writers – from Plato to Thomas Pynchon and Georges Perec, and from
Aristotle to François Rabelais and James Joyce – fashioned to guide us
there?


Gert Morreel teaches English and Comparative Literature at the
University of Antwerp, where he is a research assistant at the James
Joyce Center. He has taught courses on Herman Melville, James Joyce,
science and literature, and world literature from an epistemological
perspective, among other subjects. A literary critic with published
articles on Marianne Moore, Joyce, Thomas Nashe, Norman Mailer, and
Michael Chabon, he also reviews contemporary British and American
literature for a major Belgian newspaper and Belgian radio. Morreel
holds an MA and MPhil in English from Columbia University and is
currently completing his PhD at the University of Antwerp, researching
encyclopedism as a literary and cultural phenomenon during the interwar
period (1919-1939).

Where: Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Avenue, Seattle
Date: Monday, November 7, 2005 (7:00-8:30 pm)
Cost: Free

Talk hosted by Last Tangos Editions. For more information, please
contact jeff at matlub.net. For directions, contact Hugo House at (206)
322-7030.