Department of French & Italian

• Lecture: Claire Nouvet, "Annihilation Through Consumption: Dali’s Double Game" (3/2/2012, 3:00-4:30pm)

  Claire Nouvet, "Annihilation Through Consumption: Dali’s Double Game"
  Date: 03/02/2012
  Time: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
  Location: 123 Folwell Hall
  Cost: Free
  Description:
  Annihilation Through Consumption: Dali’s Double Game
  
  Relentlessly and shamelessly, Dali claims to expose in his literary corpus all of his "secrets" which he "feeds," one by one, to his avid readers. One, in particular, will be exposed, most notably in La Vie Secrète de Salvador Dali: the vital role that Gala (his wife and muse) played in making any creative act possible. For all this exposure, the name of "Gala" will be shown to mark in fact the site of a secret that remains intractable. A maternal figure, Gala indeed stands in for an originary and annihilating experience of consumption that preempts self-constitution. And it is ultimately this annihilating consumption that Dali not only "feeds" to the oblivious consumers of his works, but also turns into a creative matrix of sorts.
  Contact:
  Name: Department of French & Italian
  E-mail: frit@umn.edu
  Phone: 612.624.4308
  Sponsored by: French & Italian

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• Lecture: Mary Franklin-Brown, "Reflections on Ekphrasis in Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie"

  6 December 20114:00 PM - 6:30 PM1210 Heller Hall

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• Lecture: A. Curran, "The Natural History of Slavery" (9/23, 2:30pm) 112 Folwell

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