Gavin Hopps (University of St. Andrews)who authored Morrissey: The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart will be giving a lecture Friday 26 March in New York City at Fordham University, west 60th street campus at 5:30 p.m. in the South Lounge. The lecture is sponsored by the New York City Romanticism Group, English Department, Fordham University and is entitled:
Morrissey,Indie Music and the Legacy of Romanticism .
As far as we know, its free and open to the public!
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Hopps incarnate? (Score:1)
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Re:Hopps incarnate? (Score:2, Informative)
He alluded to the Gothic tendencies in Morrissey's lyrics and anatomies of present-absentedness to not only draw parallels with but to affirm Morrissey's place in continuing the tradition of Romantic self-hood first envisioned by Byron and later seen in Ruskinian sublime and pathetic fallacies.
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Re:Hopps incarnate? (Score:2, Interesting)
The romantic self-hood goes back a bit before Byron e.g.
" "...The Sturm und Drang movement emerged in Germany as a reaction against the Enlightenment - and as such, it is an important precursor to Romanticism. Sturm und Drang artists emphasized the limits of reason, believing that while man is capable of knowing the difference between right and wrong, his emotional nature may compel him to act irrationally. Instead of seeing this irrational urge as problematic, as Enlightenment thinkers tended to do, the Sturm und Drang movement sees it as the defining characteristic of a human being. A human being is most human, it holds, when she or he acts in accordance with unhindered emotions.
The term Sturm und Drang comes from the title of a play written in 1776 by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752-1831). However, the essence of the genre existed before Klinger's play gave it a name. German poets and philosophers such as Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg (1737-1823), Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788), and Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) were important precursors of Goethe in developing the vocabulary of Sturm und Drang. Yet it was Goethe and his friend, the playwright, poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), who brought the genre to its richest and most enduring expression. The Sorrows of Young Werther, without a doubt, is the Sturm und Drang work that most defines the genre today..." - http://www.gradesaver.com/the-sorrows-of-young-werther/study-guide/section7/ [gradesaver.com]
And a bonus piece of related trivia: -
"Eleanor Marx, the daughter of Karl Marx, published the first major English translation of Madame Bovary in 1886, the same year in which the first volume of Das Kapital would appear in English... The story of the translation took a tragic turn when, in a manner reminiscent of Emma Bovary, Eleanor Marx committed suicide with poison procured for her by her maid [after being jilted by her married fella]. Beyond parallels between the lives of Emma and Eleanor,.. the question of a suicide drive in Flaubert's text that may have drawn Eleanor to its most nuanced psychic undercurrents [arises]." - http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a788748151~db=all~jumptype=rss [informaworld.com]
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