Modernist Poetics and Queer Fruit
Clark University, Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons - 2nd Floor 36 Maywood Street, WorcesterIn this talk, Clark University professor Elizabeth Blake (English) focuses on T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and H. D.’s “Priapus” to discuss the way modernist poets disrupt lyric traditions by setting intertextuality and phenomenological referentiality in tension in order to explore queer experience.
