Please join Poetry Matters for a panel discussion on 鈥渁esthetic experience,鈥� from the perspectives of poetry studies, reception history, anthropology, and fashion.
Time & Day
Thursday, March 23, 2023
4:00-5:30 pm
Venue
Birks Building, McGill campus
Senior Common Room (Rm 100)
panel speakers: Laura Bertrand (English), Aqsa Ijaz (Islamic Studies), Setrag Manoukian (Anthropology)
Two recent books from cultural theorist Rita Felski, Hooked: Art and Attachment (2020) and The Limits of Critique (2015), have ignited considerable debate about how to respond to and describe the aesthetic effects of texts in various media. Our panel opens with commentary on both Felski鈥檚 arguments and what reception of her claims might illuminate about contemporary responses to the nexus of questions raised by the idea of 鈥渞eading for aesthetics.鈥� Panelists will then consider the nature, cultural work, and importance of aesthetic experience from the vantage of their current research.