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Brown University
The Department of English presents:
Richard Sieburth
Professor of Comparative Literature and French, New York University
Thursday, September 27, 2007
5:00 pm
at The Department of English
70 Brown Street
Barker Presentation Room 315
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Richard Sieburth, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University, is an acclaimed critic, editor and translator. He is the author of Instigations: Ezra Pound and Remy de Gourmont (1978) and Signs in Action (1987) -- a comparative study of Pound's and Michaux's theories of Chinese ideogram. He has edited a number of major collections of Pound's writings, including The Walking Tour in Southern France (1992), The Pisan Cantos (2003). and Poems and Translations (2003). Sieburth is also the prize-winning translator of works by Friedrich Hölderlin, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Leiris, Gérad de Nerval, Maurice Scève, Gershom Scholem, and Georg Büchner.
Reception to follow
Co-sponsored by the Geri Braman Hill Lecture Series and the Literary Arts Program at Brown University, the Cogut Center for the Humanities, and the departments of Comparative Literature, Italian Studies, Modern Culture & Media and The Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Media and Culture.
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