Date: 17 October 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 13:10-16:00
Venue: College of Liberal Arts 7006
Speaker: LI Ou, Associate Professor at Department of English, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Registration: https://forms.gle/cXfBtcrVzoueqYeR9
Abstract:
To join this year’s global commemoration of Byron 200—the 200th anniversary of Byron’s death in 1824, this talk introduces Byron’s life and his work, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. In particular, it reads the Dying Gladiator excerpt in Canto IV from the ekphrastic perspective, to unveil Byron’s Romantic aesthetics, radical politics, and self-reflexive poetics.
Bio:
LI Ou is Associate Professor at Department of English, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her recent publications are Keats and Scepticism (Routledge, 2024) and ‘Shelley’s Scattered Words in China’, Romanticism 29.3 (2023): 293-304. Her research interests include Romantic poetry, especially Keats, Romanticism afterlives in Greater China, and Romanticism and pedagogy.
