Lawrence Kritzman of Dartmouth College leads a colloquium on the lecture from the previous evening. Brunch will be provided. RSVP to Ruth Kaplan, ruth.kaplan@stanford.edu.
Lawrence Kritzman is Professor of French and Comparative
Literature at Dartmouth College, where he specializes in French
Renaissance Literature and 20th century French intellectual thought.
His interests also include semiotics; psychoanalysis and literature;
critical theory; cultural studies; and Jewish studies.
Professor Kritzman has been instrumental in the investigation and
transmission of French political and critical thought in the United
States, from his collection of essays on and interviews with Foucault
to the translation of Realm of Memory: The Construction of the
French (Lieux de mémoire), the masterpiece by Pierre
Nora. He has most recently been the editor of The Columbia History
of Twentieth Century French Thought (2006), which has received
critical acclaim both in France and in the United States.
A preeminent specialist in Rabelais and Montaigne, his books on
the Renaissance include The Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature
of the French Renaissance (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
and The Fabulous Imagination: The Mind's Eye in Montaigne's
Essays (Columbia University Press, due out in 2006).
No paper will be precirculated for this lecture;
those interested in preparing are encouraged to read Montaigne's
final essay, Of Experience (III, 13), either in the French (Villey
edition) or in English (Donald Frame's translation).