Vortragsankündigung

29. Juni 2023, von JH

Im Rahmen der Vorlesungsreihe „Key Concepts of English Literature and Culture: The Early Modern Period” hält Dr. Thomas Vozar (Universität Hamburg) am 03.07.2023 um 16:15 Uhr eine Gastvorlesung in Raum Ü35-00129-02. Die Vorlesung trägt den Titel: "Early Modern Orientalism: Knowledge and Representation". Alle Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen.

Kurzer Abriss: This lecture explores the nature of orientalism as a form of knowledge and as a form of representation in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It considers the rise of oriental scholarship in Europe, with attention to the poet John Donne's Arabic learning as an example, and reflects on representations of the Orient in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590/1596), Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine (c. 1587–1588), and William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1607).