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'Literature and Globalisation: Some Thoughts on Translation and the Transnational' by David Roberts.

David Roberts is Emeritus Professor in German Studies and a former Director of the centre. His many publications include Art and Enlightenment: Aesthetic Theory after Adorno (1990), Reconstructing Theory: Gadamer, Habermas, Luhmann (1995), Canetti's Counter-Image of Society (2004), Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism (2004). He is a member of the editorial board of Thesis Eleven.

Abstract: The paper has a dual focus: a critique of the institutionalisation of literary studies in departments of national literature and a re-evaluation of the role of translation in literary studies.

Time: 3 to 5 pm
Date: Wednesday 14 October, 2009
Venue: Room W710, Menzies Building, Building 11, Clayton campus

For further information contact:
Name: Ms Gail Ward
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2208
Email: gail.ward@arts.monash.edu.au
Website: Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies website