Inaugural lecture by Professor Adam Watt
2018-03-22 17:30 - 18:30 | Queens Building LT1
Chairs are banal, ordinary, everyday. This lecture sets out from the academic notion of the â€˜personal chairâ€™ and pauses for thought on some of modernismâ€™s chairs. It ranges from Poeâ€™s â€˜Philosophy of Furnitureâ€™ to rocking chairs and wheel chairs in Beckett, by way of Proustâ€™s fauteuil magique and a range of chairs in Woolf, Sartre and Ionesco among others. The lecture proposes that a consideration of the roles of these chairs might offer some alternative insights into the changing sensibilities and preoccupations of writers across the twentieth century.http://www.exeter.ac.uk/events/details/?event=7100
