A Talk Presented by NYU's Romanticist Reading Group, 4/18

The NYU Department of English &  
The Romanticist Reading Group of NYU 

(nyurrg.org) 

PRESENT:

"Modern Nature; or, Imagination Revisited"

Anahid J. Nersessian (Presenter, Columbia English and Comparative Literature)

Maureen N. McLane (Respondent, NYU Department of English)

20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor Flex Space

Wednesday, April 18th

6 - 8 pm

**Snacks and wine will be served**

"This talk suggests some new possibilities for ecological critique by revisiting the familiar, gently antiquated concept of the Romantic imagination. Through readings of William Cowper, Dorothy Wordsworth, and the late-Romantic artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman, I propose a return to literary and aesthetic questions about how we imagine, represent, and make sensible phenomena which are intermittently or not at all available to the senses." 

- Anahid J. Nersessian