{"id":38803,"date":"2016-03-23T03:54:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T07:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=38803"},"modified":"2016-03-22T13:22:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T17:22:25","slug":"lines-drawn-between-literature-and-the-arts-at-humanities-happy-hour-march-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_23_2016\/lines-drawn-between-literature-and-the-arts-at-humanities-happy-hour-march-24","title":{"rendered":"Lines drawn between literature and the arts at Humanities Happy Hour March 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether singing African-American blues or looking at a sculpture of bicycle wheels and a piano, this month\u2019s Humanities Happy Hour has something for everyone. <\/p>\n

Dr. Sarah Lundquist, UT associate professor of English, and Dr. Kimberly Mack, UT assistant professor of English, will present at Humanities Happy Hour Thursday, March 24, from 6 to 7 p.m. in the Libbey Hall dining room. <\/p>\n

\"\u201cHomage<\/a>

\u201cHomage to New York\u201d was created in 1960 by Jean Tinguely.<\/p><\/div>The free, public event will begin at 5 p.m. with a beer and wine cash bar and free refreshments that will continue through the talks and end at 8 p.m. <\/p>\n

Lundquist\u2019s presentation, \u201cThings Seen Are Things as Seen: Wallace Stevens and the Visual Arts,\u201d will focus on \u201cThe Man on the Dump,\u201d a piece by modernist poet Wallace Stevens, and work of Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely, particularly his \u201cHomage to New York,\u201d made from materials gathered from a dump. <\/p>\n

\u201cPoetry is a vital and essential art; attention to language and how it works helps people understand and analyze their inner and outer worlds,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Lundquist said she finds many correlations between the visual arts and literature, and has written about ekphrastic poetry \u2014 poetry about particular paintings, photographs or sculptures. <\/p>\n

\u201cI find many opportunities to show my students artwork, particularly when teaching Modern and Contemporary American Poetry, as the poets and the painters often worked together and were working out similar aesthetic and representational issues.\u201d <\/p>\n

Mack\u2019s talk, \u201cWhen the Blues Come to Town: U2, Gary Clark Jr., and the Blues Apprenticeship,\u201d is based on a chapter from her book project, Fade to Black: Blues Music and the Art of Narrative Self-Intention From Robert Johnson to Jack White. <\/em><\/p>\n

\"U2<\/a>

U2 and B.B. King collaborated on \u201cWhen Love Comes to Town,\u201d which was featured on the band’s 1988 disc and movie titled \u201cRattle and Hum.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\u201cMy book explores racialized blues mythology and puts forth a new take \u2014\u00a0that these artists and others, far from having ready-made racial and cultural identities, instead have fashioned worlds through their own autobiographical and biographical storytelling,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

This particular chapter focuses on the Irish rock band U2\u2019s collaboration with the late African-American bluesman B.B. King, and African-American blues-rock performer Gary Clark Jr.\u2019s apprenticeship with white mentors. Mack said she will discuss the role that blues authenticity plays in these dynamics and how they are affected by racial fluidity. <\/p>\n

As an English assistant professor, Mack said she finds connections between music and literature, especially African-American literature because the genre comes out of an oral tradition that includes music. In the fall, she plans to teach a graduate seminar called The Autobiographical Impulse in the 20th-Century American Blues Literature, Drama and Music, in which students will have the opportunity to hear the music alluded to in literature.<\/p>\n

\u201cMusical references are abundant throughout African-American literature, so I think it is important for students to actually hear the music in class rather than simply reading about it,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Humanities Happy Hour was originated by the Humanities Institute in the College of Languages, Literature and Social Sciences. The institute serves as an advocate and support for the study of human cultures at UT. <\/p>\n

\u201cMuch of the research we do in the humanities is interdisciplinary in subject and approach, and doesn’t fit into neat categories,\u201d said Dr. Christina Fitzgerald, director of the institute and English professor. \u201cThe work of Drs. Lundquist and Mack exemplifies this boundary-crossing. Although they both teach and work in the English Department, their research engages with the intersections of literature and the arts.\u201d <\/p>\n

For more information, contact the Humanities Institute at 419.530.4407 or humanitiesInstitute@utoledo.edu<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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