Event overview
The Richard Hoggart Lectures in Literature: Professor Marina Warner (University of Essex) Knots of desire: Border crossings, crossed loves, cross-dressing in the Arabian Nights
The Richard Hoggart Lectures in Literature
Professor Marina Warner (University of Essex)
Knots of desire: Border crossings, crossed loves, cross-dressing in the Arabian Nights
Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, 6.30 pm
Marina Warner (President of the British Comparative Literature Association) will speak on ‘Knots of desire: Border crossings, crossed loves, cross-dressing in the Arabian Nights’. Marina Warner is a writer of fiction, mythographer and literary and cultural historian: she has explored figures from fairy-tale and myth and their reception in diverse art forms. Her well-known books include Alone of All her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary; Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism and Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds. Her study of the various figures and forms of magic in the Arabian Nights and their translation into European culture through multiple artistic exchanges, Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights, has been awarded the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, the 2013 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism and the 2013 Sheikh Zayed Book Award.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Nov 2013 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
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