Lecture on Gothic in nineteenth century novels

The Department of English, 

Bharati College 

invites you 

to a lecture titled 

'Fairies and Monsters of the Bedroom' 

to be given by 

Ms. Aratrika Das, 

Research Scholar and University Teaching Assistant, 

Department of English, University of Delhi 

on Friday, 27th February 2015, 

in the college Seminar Room 

from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM. 

Abstract: 

The lecture will focus on Gothic as a form, its emergence and difference from domestic novels. This juxtaposition of two forms of novel writing will be explained in terms of their thematic concerns and protagonists. Texts discussed will include Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

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Aratrika Das is a final year doctoral candidate at the Department of English, University of Delhi. Her thesis titled “Demarcating those Foul Bodies: Mutating Masculinity, Body and Death in the Nineteenth Century” is concerned with the genealogy of dark masculinity that reaches its fullest potential in the figure of a vampire. She has been awarded several international fellowships that include Short-term research grant by the Charles Wallace India Trust (London), Research grant by the British Society for the History of Science (UK), International Travel grant by the Research Council University of Delhi, and, International travel grant by the Edinburgh University (UK). 

For more details, feel free to email to conf.eng.bc@gmail.com.

Lecture on text-and-image in Blake's poetry

The Department of English,

Bharati College

invites you

to a lecture titled

‘The Marriage of Words and Pictures’

to be given by

Dr. N.A. Jacob,

Assistant Professor, Department of English,

Ramjas College

University of Delhi

on Tuesday, 17^th February 2015

in the college Theatre Room

from 10:50 AM to 11:45 AM.

Abstract:

The dynamic relationship between words and pictures in Blake’s poetry resists the sterility of a text versus illustration hierarchy. By drawing our attention to the space that lies at the cusp of the visual and the verbal, Blake’s illuminated poetry attempts to bring about a rapprochement between words and pictures and also forces us to recognize the fragility of our distinctions between the mental and the phenomenal.

My paper will begin by placing Blake’s intermedial experiments within the broader context of Romantic theory and then go on to focus on specific plates from The Songs of Innocence and Experience,  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and The First Book of Urizen.

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N. A. Jacob teaches English at Ramjas College, University of Delhi. His doctoral thesis at Rutgers University was titled Looking Through Words: Histories of the Visual Image in Nineteenth-Century Literature.

For more details, feel free to call/text Ms. Bhawna Khera at 08376953641 or email to conf.eng.bc@gmail.com.