Guest lecture by Prof. Richard Andrews at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna
Join us for a guest lecture and Q&A with Prof. Richard Andrews, on the theme of “Poetry off the Page: Rhythm, Free Verse and Translation in Context”. Richard Andrews is Professor Emeritus of the University of Edinburgh and has held professorships at the Universities of Hull, York, UCL Institute of Education and the University of East Anglia. He is series editor of Palgrave Studies in Multimodal Poetics (Palgrave Macmillan), as well as a published poet.
Poetry Off the Page: Rhythm, Free Verse and Translation in Context
Thu 15 May, 9:30am-10:30am
Besprechungszimmer, 2nd floor
Department of English and American Studies
University of Vienna
Altes AKH Hof 8.3
Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Vienna
In his talk, he will introduce selected aspects of his manifold work on poetry and poetics, including on rhetoric, rhythm and polyrhythmicity, translation, and multimodal poetics.
Richard Andrews’ books include
— The Problem with Poetry (Cassell, 1991)
— A Theory of Contemporary Rhetoric (Routledge 2014)
— A Prosody of Free Verse: Explorations in Rhythm (Routledge 2018)
— Multimodality, Poetry and Poetics for Routledge (Routledge 2018)
— Polyrhythmicity in Language, Music and Society: complex time relations in the arts, humanities and social sciences (Springer 2021)
— Choreography of the Poem, on the relationship between dance, poetry and poetics (Springer, forthcoming)
Places are limited – please register by 12 May via pop.anglistik@univie.ac.at.