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Alternative Modernisms
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022, 11:00 am - 5:15 pm
- Location: Ira Raymond Exhibition Room, Barr Smith Library
The rationale for this event is to explore some of the key concepts outlined in what has come to be called the New Modernism Studies: to test their viability, the scope of their application, and their utility as critical coordinates for present and future research.
The Waste Land at 100
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022, 10:00 am - 2:30 pm
- Location: Ira Raymond Exhibition Room, Barr Smith Library
For 100 years, T. S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' has stood at the pinnacle of modern poetic achievement in the English language: by turns baffling, seducing, electrifying, alienating, and engaging generations of readers. What does it mean to read the poem today? How have changing critical fashions altered the reception of a work once considered essential? Who teaches it anymore? What aspects seem to have aged poorly; what ones well? Where is its influence being felt today? Over the course of the day, we will probe the lasting significance of a masterpiece still as controversial as it is unavoidable.
The Waste Land 100th Birthday Celebration
- Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022, 12:00 pm - 4:15 pm
- Location: The Hetzel Lecture Theatre in the Institute Building at the State Library of South Australia
Join us at the State Library to mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.
