Professor William Egginton’s Lecture: The Invention of Fiction
8 Nov 2013 - 16:00 / 8 Nov 2013 - 18:00
Centre for Comparative Literature
93 Charles Street West, 3rd floor
Toronto
The Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese and the Centre for Comparative Literature present
A public lecture by Professor William Egginton, Andrew W Mellon Professor in the Humanities, The Johns Hopkins University.
In this lecture Professor Egginton explores how what we understand as “fiction” today may not be as universal as is commonly thought. In proposing it to be a genre specific to the culture of modernity, he explores the ways in which it differs from the forms of writing that preceded it, as well as how Miguel de Cervantes came to be the first to deploy fiction in all its aspects.
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Prof. Egginton teaches on Spanish and Latin American literature, literary theory, and the relation between literature and philosophy. He is the author of How the World Became a Stage (2003), Perversity and Ethics (2006), A Wrinkle in History (2007), The Philosopher’s Desire (2007), and The Theater of Truth (2010). He is also co-editor with Mike Sandbothe of The Pragmatic Turn in Philosophy (2004), translator of Lisa Block de Behar’s Borges, the Passion of an Endless Quotation (2003), and co-editor with David E. Johnson of Thinking With Borges (2009). His most recent book, In Defense of Religious Moderation, was published by Columbia University Press in 2011.
