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Professor Sarah Colvin to give inaugural lecture of Munich arts series of talks

Munich

We are delighted to announce that Professor Sarah Colvin be giving the inaugural lecture in new series of talks at the Literaturhaus M眉nchen.

Professor Colvin's lecture Literature in Moderne und Gegenwart (Literature in modern and present times) will kick off the series of topics and developments in literature and the arts.

Professor Colvin will the fundamental question of what "literature鈥 is, and how we recognise it, when it stages and subverts the familiar at the same time. Readers feel, as literary critic Harold Bloom once put it, 鈥渟trange at home.鈥 The lecture will show how innovation is based solely on form and derive insights and suggestions for our social interaction.

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