{"id":1899,"date":"2023-03-26T20:19:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T17:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2023-03-26T20:19:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T17:19:44","slug":"the-seance-of-reading-uncanny-designs-in-modernist-writing-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/the-seance-of-reading-uncanny-designs-in-modernist-writing-event\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seance of Reading. Uncanny Designs in Modernist Writing (Event)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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You are kindly invited to join us in welcoming Professor Thomas J. Cousineau on April 5, from 10am, in Sala de Consiliu (1st floor of our 7-13, Pitar Mos building). Professor Cousineau will be presenting his latest book, The Seance of Reading. Uncanny Designs in Modernist Writing, whose second edition has recently come out from Editura Universitar\u0103.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas J. Cousineau is Professor of English (Emeritus) at Washington College, former visiting professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, and Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bucharest. He edited the newsletter of the Samuel Beckett Society for several years and co-directed the Presence de Samuel Beckett conference at Le Centre Culturel International de Cerisy-la-Salle in Normandy. He is the author of After the Final No: Samuel Beckett s Trilogy, Waiting for Godot: Form in Movement, Ritual Unbound: Reading Sacrifice in Modernist Fiction, Three-Part Inventions: The Novels of Thomas Bernhard and An Unwritten Novel: Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet (recipient of an \u201dOutstanding Title\u201d citation from the American Library Association). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We look forward to seeing many of you there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can order the book and find out more details about it by clicking on the link below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.editurauniversitara.ro\/…\/the-s%C3%A9ance-of…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Seance of Reading is part of a three-book project titled The Manole Trilogy. Please find more information about each title (both published and projected) below.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ritual Unbound: Reading Sacrifice in Modernist Writing. University of Delaware Press 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Ren\u00e9 Girard, Violence and The Sacred. Michigan State University Press, 2021]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction: The Oedipus Complex [aka The Manole Complex I \u2013 ritual scapegoating]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch. 1 Occulted Rivalry in The Turn of the Screw<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch. 2 Heart of Darkness: The Outsider Demystified<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch. 3 Borrowed Desire in The Good Soldier<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch. 4 The Great Gatsby: Romance or Holocaust?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch. 5 Ending Rituals in To The Lighthouse<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The S\u00e9ance of Reading: Uncanny Designs in Modernist Writing. Editura Universitara 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Mircea Eliade, Commentaires sur la l\u00e9gende de ma\u00eetre Manole. L\u2019Herne 1994]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction: The Manole Complex [aka The Manole Complex II \u2013 ritual building]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch. 1 Fixing Things in The Great Gatsby <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch. 2 Being Scrupulous in \u201cThe Sisters\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch.3 Rebuilding Lisbon in The Book of Disquiet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch. 4 Doing It in Waiting for Godot<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch. 5 The Eliot Way: Turning Back in \u201cThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch. 6 Playing It in Endgame<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch. 7 Crafting Transfigurations in A Short History of Decay<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch. 8 Being Misfits in \u201cA Good Man is Hard to Find\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch. 9 Framing Things in Light in August<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To Double-Business Bound: The Symmetrical Imperative of Writing (in progress)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Cedric Whitman, Homer and The Heroic Tradition. W. W. Norton, 1965.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction: The Exekias Complex [aka The Manole Complex III \u2013 the doppelg\u00e4nger effect]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Homer, The Iliad and Ezekias, Ajax and Achilles Playing a Board Game <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch 1: Setting It Right in Oedipus and Hamlet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch 2: Fixing Maimed Rites in Waiting for Godot and Endgame<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch 3: Being Hamlet in The Book of Disquiet and A Short History of Decay<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch 4: Forging Bonds in \u201cHeart of Darkness\u201d and \u201cThe Secret Sharer\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch 5: Blending Opposites in Murphy and Molloy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch 6: Longing for Another Country in \u201cEveline\u201d and \u201cThe Dead\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch 7: Obtaining Relief in \u201cKrapp\u2019s Last Tape\u201d and \u201cOhio Impromptu\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch 8 Balancing All in \u201cAn Irish Airman Foresees His Death\u201d and \u201cSailing to Byzantium\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch 9: Vanquishing Them Again in \u201cA Rose for Emily\u201d and \u201cDry September\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ch 10: Going Back and Forth in Woodcutters and Wittgenstein\u2019s Nephew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You are kindly invited to join us in welcoming Professor Thomas J. Cousineau on April 5, from 10am, in Sala de Consiliu (1st floor of our 7-13, Pitar Mos building). Professor Cousineau will be presenting his latest book, The Seance of Reading. Uncanny Designs in Modernist Writing, whose second edition has recently come out from … <\/p>\n

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