The Department of French & Italian
presents a lecture by
Danielle Follett
The Total Artwork and the Aesthetics of Chance: Mallarmé, Artaud, Cage
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
4:00 pm,
Walnut Room, Indiana Memorial Union
This paper investigates the relations between the aesthetic use of chance and certain post- Wagnerian experiments with the "total artwork." The fascination with chance in the arts of the twentieth century may in part be understood as a post-romantic aspiration toward infinity and totality, a project with indirect links to the "total artwork."
Ms. Follett is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at Johns Hopkins University, where she is completing a dissertation entitled “The Ghost of God: Studies in the Nineteenth-Century Poetics and Aesthetics of Chance. Coleridge, Baudelaire and Mallarmé.”
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