Event overview
Goldsmiths Literature Seminar
Jeremy Worman (Goldsmiths alumnus): 'The Problem of Characterisation in the Collected Stories of Hanif Kureishi'.
Joyce Carol Oates makes an incisive point about the short story: ‘My personal definition of the form is that it represents a concentration of imagination, and not an expansion’. I shall consider the reasons why Kureishi’s methods of characterisation in many of his short stories do not contribute to ‘a concentration of imagination’ that is necessary to the form. I shall focus on what I consider to be the central flaw in his work: the inability to convey deeper emotion, or varied emotion, in his characters, either for the purpose of psychological revelation or to illuminate a broader sociological world of the story.
http://www.jeremyworman.com
Followed by Isabel Dexter (TBC)
For more information, contact Tanguy Harma
tharm009@gold.ac.uk
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Oct 2014 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
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