Date/Time
Date(s) - 17 Apr 2013
6:30 PM - 7:45 PM
Location
Bobst Library, 3rd Floor, Fales Reading Room
Category(ies) No Categories
Wednesday, April 17, 6:30 p.m.
Michael F. Suarez, S. J., Director Rare Book School, the University of Virginia
How to Look at Books: Objects, Systems, Sequences, Series, & Constellations
/The Fales Lecture in English and American Literature RESCHEDULED
/Bobst Library, 3rd Floor, Fales Reading Room, New York University
The traditional business of bibliography has chiefly been tracing histories of error and correction in printed artifacts. With the efflorescence of book history, however, bibliographical scholarship must now embrace a broader remit far beyond foundational work in service of textual editing. In this lecture, Michael Suarez (Director of Rare Book School, Professor of English University Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections University of Virginia) seeks to extend the intellectual mission of object-oriented, bibliographical inquiry in order to develop more capacious understandings of the historical agencies at work in the production of texts — and of texts as historically situated agents.