Hooked: Art and Attachment, April 5, 2018

Rita Felski is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at the University of Virginia and Niels Bohr Professor at the University of Southern Denmark. She has written widely on literary theory and aesthetics, feminist theory, modernity and postmodernity, and cultural studies. Her most recent books are Uses of Literature (2008), Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses (2013), The Limits of Critique (2015) and Critique and Postcritique (2017).

This talk makes a case for “attachment” as an essential key word for the humanities. What are the devices that attach us to works of art? Zadie Smith’s conversion to the music of Joni Mitchell offers a striking example of one such device: that of attunement.

There will be a reception in the Wormser Room.
This event is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the English Department, the Center for Arts and Humanities, the Humanities Division, and the French and Italian Department.