CANCELLED: The Appeal of Tragedy
-
March 7, 2018
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Works in Progress Seminar
The Appeal of Tragedy
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER PREDICTIONS
8:00 pm
Presenter: Paul Schwaber, Ph.D.
Looking closely at Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and King Lear, and guided by both Aristotle and Freud, Dr. Schwaber will explore the special appeal of tragedy as a literary form, the ways verbal art imitates significant human action and the illuminating experience it enables.
No CME/CE credits offered.
Paul Schwaber is Professor of Letters Emeritus at Wesleyan University and a practicing psychoanalyst. For many years, he was Director of the College of Letters, Wesleyan’s undergraduate major in Western literature, philosophy and history. He has published extensively on the relation between imaginative literature and psychoanalysis.