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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Performative Typography and the Threat of Metaphorical Identity in the Poetry of Douglas Kearney
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a work-in-progress workshop featuring Kelly Hoffer\, Helen Zell Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry. You can sign up to receive Kelly's draft and RSVP for lunch here: https://forms.gle/LECbaJrEQJkivQsG8\n\nKelly will present her chapter\, \"Performative Typography and the Threat of Metaphorical Identity in the Poetry of Douglas Kearney.\" Abstract: Metaphors move\, or\, etymologically\, “carry over.” At the level of the poetic line\, the metaphor is the consummate change-maker. Metaphor is always staving off its dismissal as a mere decorative rhetorical figure\, but modern critics and philosophers have affirmed its force. Nietzsche argues that metaphors constitute our notion of “truth”\; Lakoff thinks of metaphor as a mechanism essential to language and conceptualizing the world\; and Sontag concludes it is a force that both intervenes in\, and is shaped by\, societal attitudes. Despite this\, recently metaphor has come under attack by poet Douglas Kearney as a figure that resists\, rather than inducing\, change. In his book of poetics Optic Subwoof (2022)\, Kearney argues the metaphorical relation promises false equivalency\, substituting one form of suffering for another. As such\, metaphors offer the reader a narcissistic reflection rather than a true encounter with difference. This article considers Kearney’s resistance to metaphor in the context of debates about the (im)potency of the aestheticization of suffering (Sontag) and humanistic empathy (Hartman) as engines for social change. It then turns to analyze Kearney’s own poems in light of his stated poetics. Does his visual poetry avoid the metaphor he is so suspicious of? If this poetry isn’t doing metaphor\, what is it doing? And why might his form of visual poetics\, or what Kearney calls “performative typography” be the structure he chooses as his intervention in today’s experimental poetic field?
UID:113532-21831127@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/113532
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:English Department,Poetry
LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3241
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DTSTAMP:20231214T123048
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Art of Resistance in Early America
DESCRIPTION:The exhibition addresses the theme of the LSA Fall 2023 semester at the University of Michigan: \"Arts & Resistance.\" This exhibit asks us to think about resistance in different settings\, and in different forms. What \"arts\" did Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries use to resist various forms of power? The exhibit aims to show how the people of our nation's past tried to answer those questions\n\nExhibit Hours: Monday - Friday - Noon - 4 pm\n\nLink to online exhibit:https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/the-art-of-resistance/
UID:115674-21835230@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/115674
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Free,history,In Person,libraries,Library,Tour,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:William Clements Library
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DTSTAMP:20230914T165715
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20231204T123000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ESO Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the ESO workshop\, \"Instagram Worthy: Self-Appraisal Work in Social Media's Attention Economy\,\" with Michelle Rabaut.
UID:112407-21828884@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/112407
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Digital Media,Social Media
LOCATION:LSA Building - 4147
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