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The UT Knoxville Department of English is sponsoring a series of events this week featuring Richard Halpern, professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. Halpern will lecture on “Greek Theater and Democratic Thought: Arendt to Ranci\u00e8re,” 4 p.m. Thursday, March 18, in 1210 McClung Tower, followed by a reception. Halpern will lead a seminar on his recent essay, “Hamlet and the Political Economy of Playing,” noon Friday, March 19, in 1210 McClung Tower.<\/p>\n
Both events are free and open to the public, and graduate students are encouraged to attend the Friday event.<\/p>\n
At both talks, Halpern will speak about his current book project, “Eclipse of Action: Tragedy and Political Economy,” which traces the dilemma of modern tragedy to an economic context that elevates making or production over doing or action, and uses this context to cast a retrospective glance over the history of tragic drama from Aeschylus to Beckett.<\/p>\n
Halpern’s research interests include 16th- and 17th-century literature, especially drama; Shakespeare; modernism; literary theory, especially Marxist and psychoanalytic theory; aesthetics; science and literature. His books include “The Poetics of Primitive Accumulation: English Renaissance Culture and the Genealogy of Capital” (Cornell, 1991), “Shakespeare Among the Moderns” (Cornell, 1997), “Shakespeare’s Perfume” (Penn, 2002), and “Norman Rockwell: The Underside of Innocence” (University of Chicago Press, 2006).<\/p>\n
Halpern has taught at Yale University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He won a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in 1993-1994 and is currently on the editorial board of English Literary History.<\/p>\n
Halpern’s visit is part of the 2009-2010 Visiting Speakers Series sponsored by the Department of English.<\/p>\n
For more information, e-mail Mary Dzon at mdzon@utk.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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