December 1, 2015
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Denney 311
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Elena Fratto (Harvard University), "Time, Agency, and Bodily Glands: Metabolic Storytelling in Italo Svevo and Mikhail Bulgakov"
In the wake of fin de siècle discoveries in the field of endocrinology, bodily glands featured prominently in the literary works, visual arts, and popular culture of early 20th-century Europe. This talk addresses their function in selected writings by Italo Svevo and Mikhail Bulgakov, and explores how metabolic processes complicate narrative time and raise questions on narrative agency in those texts.Elena Fratto is a Project Narrative Visiting Scholar for Fall 2015. She visits from the Comparative Literature department of Harvard University, where she is working on a dissertation entitled "Medicine As Storytelling. Emplotment Strategies in Doctor-Patient Encounters."
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Elena Fratto (Harvard University), "Time, Agency, and Bodily Glands: Metabolic Storytelling in Italo Svevo and Mikhail Bulgakov"
In the wake of fin de siècle discoveries in the field of endocrinology, bodily glands featured prominently in the literary works, visual arts, and popular culture of early 20th-century Europe. This talk addresses their function in selected writings by Italo Svevo and Mikhail Bulgakov, and explores how metabolic processes complicate narrative time and raise questions on narrative agency in those texts.Elena Fratto is a Project Narrative Visiting Scholar for Fall 2015. She visits from the Comparative Literature department of Harvard University, where she is working on a dissertation entitled "Medicine As Storytelling. Emplotment Strategies in Doctor-Patient Encounters."
Denney 311
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In the wake of fin de siècle discoveries in the field of endocrinology, bodily glands featured prominently in the literary works, visual arts, and popular culture of early 20th-century Europe. This talk addresses their function in selected writings by Italo Svevo and Mikhail Bulgakov, and explores how metabolic processes complicate narrative time and raise questions on narrative agency in those texts.
Elena Fratto is a Project Narrative Visiting Scholar for Fall 2015. She visits from the Comparative Literature department of Harvard University, where she is working on a dissertation entitled "Medicine As Storytelling. Emplotment Strategies in Doctor-Patient Encounters."
