The continuing presence of lyric in many cultures and media forms proves the endurance of older models of expression and modes of understanding today, with the central feature of the language of lyric poetry, originally and often thereafter as performed song, but also as verse meant for private and silent or collective and shared reading. This conference aims to provide a common and seminal understanding of a global medieval and Renaissance literature, as the model of literary scholarship and pedagogy moves away from the single literary traditions associated with particular (especially European) nation states. In this regard, the project openly and enthusiastically embraces lyric and other relevant cultural forms generated in the ‘global south’ and throughout Africa and Asia as well as Europe.
Session Speakers
Nancy Clark Smith Professor of the Language and Literature of Portugal
By courtesy, Professor of French and Music
Professor, by courtesy, of German Studies and of Comparative Literature
Director, French and Italian
Director, Structured Liberal Education
Anthony P. Meier Family Professor of the Humanities
Director, Humanities Center
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Organizer
Nigel Smith
William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature
Department of English
Princeton Universirty
With gratitude to these Princeton University sponsors
Bain-Swiggett Fund, Department of English
Department of English
Humanities Council
Department of Music
Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies