Politics and Public Space in Contemporary Argentine Poetry: The Lyric and the State by Professor Ben Bollig
This book addresses the connection between political themes and literary form in the most recent Argentine poetry. Ben Bollig uses the concepts of “lyric” and “state” as twin coordinates for both an assessment of how Argentinian poets have conceived a political role for their work and how poems come to speak to us about politics. Drawing on concepts from contemporary literary theory, this striking study combines textual analysis with historical research to shed light on the ways in which new modes of circulation help to shape poetry today.

Lunch will be available from 12.30, with discussion from 13.00-14.00
Date: 1 March 2017, 12:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Hilary 2017)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Speakers: Maria del Pilar Blanco (Professor in Spanish American Literature, University of Oxford), Eduardo Posada-Carbo (Professor of History and Politics of Latin America, University of Oxford), Leigh A. Payne (Professor of Sociology, University of Oxford), Professor Ben Bollig (Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford), Bart van Es (Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford)
Organising department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Organiser contact email address: rabyah.khan@humanities.ox.ac.uk
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Audience: All welcome
Editor: Laura Spence