“I, I, I my selfe sometimes”: Authenticity in Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits and Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Speaker: Prof. David Scott Kastan, Yale University
Moderator: Prof. Hao Tianhu, Zhejiang University
Time: 19:00-21:00 pm, Sept. 19, 2024 (Thursday)
Venue: 浙江大学紫金港校区东五201
At least in the west, Shakespeare and Rembrandt serve as two of the foundational resources for our modern idea of a self, of the self. The real value of the playwright and the painter is regularly said to be found in their almost unique ability to insist upon some authentic “innerness,” and not least by their willingness to reveal themselves in the sonnets and in the self-portraits. The lecture, however, suggests that “the self” that is revealed is always a fiction; the art is not autobiographical self-disclosure but artistic self-display.
David Scott Kastan is the George M. Bodman Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University, having previously taught at Columbia University and at Dartmouth College. He has visited universities in China, Denmark, Egypt, England, Germany, and Hungary, among others, and has been the chief International Consultant for the CMRS, Zhejiang University since 2016. He has authored many books, including Shakespeare after Theory, Shakespeare and the Book, and On Color, all of which are available in Chinese. Presently he is working on a book on Shakespeare and Rembrandt.
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