“Does Literature Matter?"
In conversation with Jakob Lothe.
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Open to all, but we would particularly like to welcome students!
Is there still a point in reading? What role(s) can literature play in our globalized and screenified contemporary lives? Why do we still teach literature? University of Oslo Professor Jakob Lothe will be addressing these and other questions related to literature and reading. The discussion will be linked to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day.
Jakob Lothe is professor of English literature. He was associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Bergen 1987–1992 and professor of English literature at the University of Oslo 1993–2020. Lothe studied English, German and comparative literature at the University of Bergen and at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has been an invited visiting scholar at St. John’s College, University of Oxford (1996–1997), Harvard University (2005), University of Cape Town (2010), and Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford (2017–2018).
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