JEAN STAROBINSKI SPECIAL LECTURE
AT THE MAISON FRANCAISE OXFORD
15 MAY 2002
The eminent Swiss literary critic and author, Professor Jean Starobinski, will give a special lecture at the Maison Francaise d'Oxford, on "Baudelaire, les Chats et la definition de l'artiste".
The lecture is free and all are welcome. It will take place at the Maison Francaise, Norham Road, Oxford, at 5.15 p.m, on May, 15th. Please note that the lecture will be delivered in French.
Professor Emeritus of French literature at the University of Geneva, Jean Starobinski 's work is extemely innovative and influential. A literary critic, Jean Starobinski is also a historian of medicine and a historian and theoretician of art. His books include : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Transparency and Obstruction (translated 1988); 1789, the Emblems of reason (translated 1982), La Melancolie au miroir : trois lectures de Baudelaire (in French 1989), Largesse(translated 1997), Blessings in Disguise, or the morality of Evil (1993), Action et Reaction (in French 1999, to appear in English later this year).
For futher information please contact :
Mariana Saad : msaad@brookes.ac.uk
or the Maison Francaise : Phone : 01865 274220