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Knowledge of Nothing: Apocalyptic Ekphrasis in The Flowers of Evil
Apr 17, 2025
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
English-Philosophy Building, 304 Gerber
251 West Iowa Avenue, Iowa City, IA 52242
Nathan Brown will be presenting.
Nathan Brown is Professor of English and Canada Research Chair in Poetics at Concordia University, Montreal, where he directs the Centre for Expanded Poetics. He is the author of Baudelaire's Shadow: An Essay on Poetic Determination (MaMa, 2021); Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique (Fordham, 2021); and The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics (Fordham, 2017). His translation of Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil was published in a new edition by Verso in 2025.
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