Rich with literary awards and honours, Alberto Manguel extends his literary genius to address and complete a thoughtfully crafted extrapolation on a paper left unfinished by Northrop Frye in 1943. The result is a succinct yet densely multilayered examination of how various readings of Homer throughout the annals of history cast light upon the human tendency towards war rather than peace and asks what roles writing and reading play to bring the world into better equilibrium. Central to this lecture is the concept of re ...
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Rich with literary awards and honours, Alberto Manguel extends his literary genius to address and complete a thoughtfully crafted extrapolation on a paper left unfinished by Northrop Frye in 1943. The result is a succinct yet densely multilayered examination of how various readings of Homer throughout the annals of history cast light upon the human tendency towards war rather than peace and asks what roles writing and reading play to bring the world into better equilibrium. Central to this lecture is the concept of re-binding, a word drawn from the Latin roots for the word religion, which Manguel posits is the essential definition of poetry. Homer's writings, the point of origin of all written verse, are also the first written instance of the binding of imagined, written, and read realities. The semantics of Homer's name and the literal and figurative ramifications of his blindness are investigated as Manguel builds the scaffold for unveiling our own blindness through our desire to read Homer in our own image. We are left to examine our own assumptions. Combl� de prix litt�raires et d'honneurs, Alberto Manguel pr�te son g�nie litt�raire � l'�tude et au parach�vement d'une extrapolation song�e que Northrop Frye avait laiss�e en plan en 1943. Il en r�sulte une analyse succincte mais en replis serr�s des multiples lectures d'Hom�re l�gu�es par les si�cles, qui r�v�le comment ces interpr�tations �clairent la propension humaine � la guerre plut�t qu'� la paix, ce qui le m�ne � s'interroger sur le r�le que jouent l'�criture et la lecture quand il s'agit de cr�er un monde plus �quilibr�. La notion de re-lier, un mot dont les racines latines sont les m�mes que le mot religion, est au coeur de cette conf�rence, et Manguel en fait la d�finition essentielle de la po�sie. Les �crits d'Hom�re, point d'origine de toute la po�sie �crite, fournissent aussi la premi�re occurrence d'un lien entre les r�alit�s imagin�es, �crites et lues. La valeur s�mantique du nom d'Hom�re et les r�percussions concr�tes et figur�es de sa c�cit� font partie des �l�ments que Manguel scrute pour fonder son �vocation de notre aveuglement � nous quand nous insistons pour lire Hom�re � notre propre image. Nous n'avons plus qu'� remettre nos hypoth�ses.
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