Professor Jonathan Locke Hart Sonnets – classical and modern

Die Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft
lädt Sie herzlich ein zu einem Vortrag in englischer Sprache von
Professor Jonathan Locke Hart
University of Alberta
Sonnets – classical and modern
Wednesday, May 9th 2012 at 7 pm
Goethe-Museum, Schloss Jägerhof, Jacobistraße 2, 40211 Düsseldorf
This lecture-reading will discuss the poetics and temporality of Shakespeare’s sonnets and then
offer a reading of Jonathan Hart’s sonnets. Anyone writing sonnets in English cannot really
ignore Shakespeare, and whether using Perarchan ( Italian) or Shakespearean ( English) form as a
model as a point of departure , Shakespeare’s sonnets haunt the field. This is something positive
because Shakespeare and others open up a field to explore love, time and other concerns in a
form that is demanding but that has possibilities beyond the conventions of its conventions.
Imitation and invention “depart from” their literary sources in both senses.
Jonathan Locke Hart has written books of poetry, history and literary criticism and theory,
including Empires and Colonies (2008), Dreamwork (2010), Musing (2011), Shakespeare and
His Contemporaries ( 2011), Literature, Theory, History (2011) and Fictional and Historical
Worlds ( forthcoming). He has held visiting appointments at Toronto, Harvard, Cambridge,
Princeton, the Sorbonne-Nouvelle and elsewhere.
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Im Anschluß an die Veranstaltung bitten wir zu einem Umtrunk.
Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft e. V.
Schirmherr: Malcolm Scott, Britischer Generalkonsul und
Direktor der Britischen Wirtschaftsförderung in Deutschland
Geschäftsführung: Dr. Christel Jenkner, Birkenweg 4, 40627 Düsseldorf,
Fon: 0211 / 201 560, Fax: 0211 / 201 522, [email protected]; www.debrige.de
Vorstand: Peter Brock (1. Vorsitzender), Dr. Christel Jenkner (2. Vorsitzende),
Thomas Stein (Schatzmeister), Prof. Dr. Albert-Rainer Glaap, Peter Schweinhage,
Prof. Dr. Therese Seidel, Dr. Barbara Suchy