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| September
26 |
Sam Solecki: "The
painter may be in hell, but painting
Is still heaven": Julian Bell's Van
Gogh: A Power Seething Texts: Julian Bell: Van Gogh: A Power Seething. Supplementary readings TBA Sam Solecki is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Toronto. His books include Prague Blues: The Fiction of Josef Skvorecky; Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems of Al Purdy; and Ragas of Longing: The Poetry of Michael Ondaatje. Recently published: A Truffaut Notebook. His current project is a series of interconnected essays on the Etruscans in the Western Imagination 1760. |
| November
7 |
Garry
Leonard: "Like a Cat I Have Nine
Times to Die": Reading Between the Lives
of Sylvia Plath Texts: Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar; Janet Malcolm: The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Others TBA Garry Leonard, Professor of English at U of T, is widely published on James Joyce, Comp Lit, and Cultural Studies. His current project is Making it Now: Modernism, Modernity and Cinema. With his wife Deirdre Flynn, he has coauthored Where All the Ladders Start: 20th Century Western Culture in Literature and Film and When Harry Met Godzilla: How Hollywood Genres Hold the Key to Your Personality. He has also written a novel entitled Proxy. |
| December 5 |
Melba Cuddy-Keane: Whose Lives? Virginia
Woolf, Eccentric Biographies, and Elizabeth
Barrett Browning's Dog Texts: Virginia Woolf: Flush; Selections TBA from Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf, and others Melba Cuddy-Keane is Emerita Professor, University of Toronto. A noted Virginia Woolf scholar and former President of both the International Virginia Woolf Society and the Modernist Studies Association, she was featured in 2011 as a Woman of Influence in the U of T Bulletin. link |
| April
3 |
Ted
Goossen: The Last Samurai:
Seppuku and Self-Love
in the Work and Life of Yukio Mishima Text: John Nathan: Mishima: A Biography. Film: Mishima: A Life, directed by Paul Schrader. Supplementary: Yukio Mishima: Runaway Horses Professor Theodore (Ted) Goossen is professor of Humanities at York University and a founding member of the Department of Contemporary Literary Studies at the University of Tokyo. He has written extensively on Japanese literature and film, and has published translations by numerous authors including Hiromi Kawakami, Yoko Ogawa, Naoya Shiga, and Haruki Murakami. He is editor of The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories and is presently coeditor, with Motoyuki Shibata, of the literary journal Monkey Business International. His translations of Murakamis first two major works, Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973, were published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2015. He is presently translating Murakami's, most recent novel, Killing Commendatore, due to appear in the fall of 2018. |
| May 1 |
Rosemary
Sullivan: Biography and
Narrative Non-Fiction:
Recounting the Extraordinary
and Tumultuous Life of
Stalin's
Daughter Text: Rosemary Sullivan: Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva Rosemary Sullivan is professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. Her 14 books include the critically acclaimed Villa Bel-Air: World War II, Escape and a House in Marseille and Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion and Romantic Desire. Shadow Maker, her biography of Gwendolyn MacEwen, won the Governor Generals Award for Non-Fiction. She has been the recipient of Guggenheim, Trudeau, and Jackman Fellowships and was awarded the Lorne Pierce Medal by the Royal Society for her contributions to Literature and Culture. Her latest book, Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva has received much critical acclaim! In 2012 she became an Officer of the Order of Canada. |
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Garry Leonard
Garry Leonard, Professor of English at U of T, is widely published on James Joyce, Comp Lit, and Cultural Studies. His current project is Making it Now: Modernism, Modernity and Cinema. With his wife Deirdre Flynn, he has coauthored Where All the Ladders Start: 20th Century Western Culture in Literature and Film and When Harry Met Godzilla: How Hollywood Genres Hold the Key to Your Personality. He has also written a novel entitled Proxy. link
"Like a Cat I Have Nine Times to Die": Reading Between the Lives of Sylvia Plath
Other Readings
Garry Leonard: "Sylvia Plath and Mademoiselle Magazine": pdf
A Collection of Plath Poems: pdf
On Plath by Elizabeth Hardwick (1971!): pdf
A Mixed bag of Plath Bios and Tales: pdf
A Review of An Imagined Novel of Sylvia Plath: pdf
Recent Unpublished Letters of Plath from The Guardian: pdf
To keep us totally up-to-date, here's a new Plath controversy: pdf
More on the Bikini controversy: pdf
See Plath's poem "In Plaster" relevant to this "blond" summer: pdf
Films
Here's a YouTube trailer for the film Sylvia, 2003: link
The Bell Jar, 1979: Look for it at your "local" video store
