Dante and the anxiety of influence
As part of the Faculty of Arts' Literature and Comparison Seminar Series, Professor Peter Vassallo will deliver a paper called "Anxieties of Influence: The (Mis)Appropriation of Dante by Some Major British Writers" tomorrow at 6 p.m. in the Gateway...
As part of the Faculty of Arts' Literature and Comparison Seminar Series, Professor Peter Vassallo will deliver a paper called "Anxieties of Influence: The (Mis)Appropriation of Dante by Some Major British Writers" tomorrow at 6 p.m. in the Gateway Building, Hall E.
The paper will explore, in the light of Harold Bloom's theoretical study The Anxiety of Influence, some of the significant ways in which major British writers responded to the influence of Dante and how considerations of indebtedness became central to their consciousness.
The paper will focus on the appropriation or misappropriation of Dante and on the intriguing aspects of Dante's presence in some of the relevant works of Blake, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Joyce, Yeats and T.S. Eliot.
Professor Vassallo is Professor of English Literature and director of the Institute of Anglo-Italian Studies. He is also editor of the Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies and has been a guest specialist lecturer in a number of leading universities in Britain and Italy.