SEM Seminar: Stephen Fredman, Robert Duncan’s Genealogies (Dante and Whitman)

Chères et chers collègues,

Le prochain séminaire de la SEM aura lieu en ligne le vendredi 20 octobre à 18h.

Nous aurons le plaisir d’accueillir Stephen Fredman (University of Notre Dame) pour une conférence intitulée « Robert Duncan’s Genealogies (Dante and Whitman) ». Clément Oudart (Sorbonne Université) sera le discutant.

Stephen Fredman, a native Californian, taught modern American poetry and poetics at the University of Notre Dame, in South Bend, Indiana, from 1980-2017. He has written a book of poetry, translated several works from Spanish, and authored many books of literary history and criticism, such as Poet’s Prose: The Crisis in American Verse (1983), The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition (1993), A Menorah for Athena: Charles Reznikoff and the Jewish Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry (2001), and his latest, which is American Poetry as Transactional Art (2020). He has edited four volumes, including How Long Is the Present: Selected Talk Poems of David Antin (2014) and a critical edition of Robert Creeley’s Presences: A Text for Marisol (2018). Currently, he is writing about the impact of John Dewey’s philosophy of art as experience on American poetry and performance art. His latest publication is Path Through: A Book of Memory Pieces (2022).

Voici le lien qui vous permettra de suivre le séminaire :

https://univ-lille-fr.zoom.us/j/99139701839?pwd=MlNJQit5emdxNTNDbERKNmx3YXVMZz09

Meeting ID: 991 3970 1839
Passcode: 381921

Bien cordialement,
Le bureau de la SEM

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Dear colleagues,

The next SEM seminar will take place online, on Friday, October 20, at 6pm.

We will have the pleasure to welcome Stephen Fredman (University of Notre Dame), who will give a talk titled “Robert Duncan’s Genealogies (Dante and Whitman)”. Clément Oudart (Sorbonne Université) will be his respondent.

Stephen Fredman, a native Californian, taught modern American poetry and poetics at the University of Notre Dame, in South Bend, Indiana, from 1980-2017. He has written a book of poetry, translated several works from Spanish, and authored many books of literary history and criticism, such as Poet’s Prose: The Crisis in American Verse (1983), The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition (1993), A Menorah for Athena: Charles Reznikoff and the Jewish Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry (2001), and his latest, which is American Poetry as Transactional Art (2020). He has edited four volumes, including How Long Is the Present: Selected Talk Poems of David Antin (2014) and a critical edition of Robert Creeley’s Presences: A Text for Marisol (2018). Currently, he is writing about the impact of John Dewey’s philosophy of art as experience on American poetry and performance art. His latest publication is Path Through: A Book of Memory Pieces (2022).

Here is the link allowing you to participate in the seminar:

https://univ-lille-fr.zoom.us/j/99139701839?pwd=MlNJQit5emdxNTNDbERKNmx3YXVMZz09

Meeting ID: 991 3970 1839
Passcode: 381921

All the best,
The SEM board