Goggio Lecture; Companionship of/in the Arts: Books of Hours, Monteverdi’s music, and the Taviani’s Kàos
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Companionship of/in the Arts: Books of Hours, Monteverdi’s music, and the Taviani’s Kàos
What do the arts add to one another? How does the mixing of media bring us paradoxically closer to a work that previously existed only as words on a page? - even as it may take us further from what has been typically prized in literary criticism as the divining of an author’s ‘original intent’? What happens to that ‘intent’, as elusive as it may be, when it is joined by the intent of others: artists, composers, film directors? My examples of companionship in and among various arts will be drawn from a particular context: that of leave-takings. As we move from medieval to modern venues, we’ll explore how the intermingling of artistic forms enables profoundly collective ways of engaging with others’ grief – and our own.
Jane Tylus is Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Italian and Professor of Comparative Literature and of Divinity at Yale. Her primary interests are in late medieval and early modernity, especially as regards issues of literary ownership, women’s literature, and religious studies. Her books include Who Owns Literature?: Early Modernity’s Orphan Texts (forthcoming, Cambridge’s Elements series); Siena, City of Secrets (2015); Reclaiming Catherine of Siena (Winner of the 2010 MLA’s Howard Marraro Prize for Best Work in Italian Studies); and Writing and Vulnerability in the Late Renaissance (1993). She recently translated Dacia Maraini’s Chiara di Assisi: Elogio della disobbedienza for the series “Other Voices in Italian Literature” (Rutgers University Press, 2023); she has also translated the complete poems of Gaspara Stampa and Lucrezia Tornabuoni.
Tylus’s previous appointments were at the U. of Wisconsin-Madison, where she served as Associate Dean of the Humanities and Arts, and at New York University, where she was founding director of the Center for the Humanities and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs.
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