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Research seminar  
Presented by:
Francesca Haig
Title:
Poetry, referentiality and history: a poetic ethics of writing the past.
Date & Time:
18/10/2006   5.30 - 6.30 pm
Venue:
Foundation Life Members Room, SGS
Description:
  

This paper addresses the postmodern problematization of history through an exploration of how poetic writing engages ethically with the contested past. The question of referentiality in poetic writing is discussed in relation to Emmanuel Levinas’ theory of alterity. The polysemic and unstable referentiality of poetic writing is considered as a non-totalizing but insistent engagement with history, in relation to lyrical postmodern historical novels, particularly Kim Scott’s Benang.
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