COD 2019 - E066

"Eureka!: Poe’s brilliant speculations on the origin of the Universe"

Literature teachers and Literature lovers

1 sessions, start: 06-May

Course detail

Year: 2019
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Dr. Gwendolyn Díaz-Ridgeway
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Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 800.00
Non affiliate
ARS 800.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 06 May 2019 06:00 pm 08:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Gwendolyn Díaz-Ridgeway

Born in the United States and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dr. Gwendolyn Díaz-Ridgeway obtained a Ph.D. in Literature and Language with concentrations in Spanish, French and English from the University of Texas at Austin. She is fluent in English, Spanish and French and publishes in both English and Spanish.
Díaz-Ridgeway specializes in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory with an emphasis on Twentieth Century authors, authors of the Latin American Boom and Post-Boom and contemporary women writers. Author of seven books and numerous literature and theory articles, she has also founded and directed the Las Americas Letters Series in Literature and the Arts, an annual series that features authors and artists of all the Americas. She has spoken at conferences throughout Europe and the Americas and has served as President of the South Central Modern Language Association and been active in the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, among other associations. She is a member of the Argentine chapter of PEN International (a worldwide association of Poets, Essayists and Novelists), where she serves on the Academic Committee.
She has served for many years as Director of the Graduate English Literature and Language Program at St. Mary’s University and has been active in international education as well as in various arts and cultural organizations. Her awards include a Fulbright Award for research and teaching at the Universidad Católica in Buenos Aires, a Carnegie-Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Rice University, three St. Mary’s University Distinguished Professor Awards, one for graduate teaching and two for undergraduate teaching, as well as Best Professor at St. Mary’s University Award based on a student poll by Texas Monthly Magazine.
Literature teachers and Literature lovers
One year after the death of Virginia Clem, Edgar Allan Poe published Eureka!, the little known prose poem where he attempts to explain his vision of the nature of the universe. Poe quarrels with the science of his times, particularly Newton, for what he considered a mechanistic view of the universe. He, on the other hand, felt that the universe had a spiritual dimension and his vision was centered in the idea of randomness and free will. This controversial work has merited new enthusiasm since the development of quantum physics in the XXth Century. Amazingly, Poe foresees in his poetic imagination many of the cosmological theories that are accepted as accurate today.
Poe and science: the poetic imagination foreshadowing quantum physics
Poe’s conception of the spiritual dimension of the universe
Cultural event (talk)
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