Friday, 2 June at 17:00
University of Malta, Faculty of Arts Library (Old Humanities Building), Msida Campus
The University of Malta’s M.A. programmes in Film Studies and in Literary Tradition and Popular Culture, offered by the Faculty of Arts, announce the public talk Fredric Jameson’s ‘’&Բ;by Professor Peter W. Rose.
The public talk will be held on Friday 2 June in the Faculty of Arts Library at the University of Malta, Old Humanities Building, Msida Campus, at 17:00.
The title of this talk may seem quite odd: apparently, Fredric Jameson has only once mentioned the ‘Iliad’ in his extensive writings on literature: in ‘The Political Unconscious’, he alludes to “monuments of power societies (for Goethe, the ‘’&Բ;was a glimpse into hell)”. By a curious irony, a scholar named Sean Homer has written a book entitled ‘Fredric Jameson’, so that while there exists Homer’s Jameson, Jameson’s ‘Iliad’ exists only in the peculiar sense in which Professor Rose is using it.
Professor Rose will be dealing, among other Jameson-related issues, with Clint Burnham’s recent book ‘Fredric Jameson and The Wolf of Wall Street’, entirely focused on applying Jameson’s critical method to Martin Scorsese’s much-debated film.
Professor Peter W. Rose has been lecturing on Greek, Latin, and comparative literature, as well as on film and on Marxist literary criticism at Miami University since 1975, after being Tutor in Classics and Teaching Fellow in Humanities and Classics at Harvard University (1960-61 and 1962-63), Lecturer and Assistant Professor in Classics at Yale University (1963-66 and 1966-71), Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin (1971-74), and Visiting Associate Professor at Haverford College (Fall Term 1974). Among his numerous publications, the monographs ‘Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece’ (Cornell University Press, 1992) and ‘Class in the Archaic Period of Ancient Greece’ (Cambridge University Press, 2012) stand out.
The public is cordially invited to the event.
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