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 with Professor Nan Z. Da (Department of English Johns Hopkins University)
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DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Lear sits in the heart of literar
 y criticism. It is in the discussion of Lear that the terms “data” and
  “critical data” come up for the first time in literary studies: “da
 ta” in an 1819 lecture by Samuel Coleridge and “critical data” in an
  influential essay by Stanley Cavell that was published in 1987. No other 
 work of literature has produced as much insight into intelligent design no
 r placed as much stress on interpretive validity. Inspired by this traditi
 on of seeing through Lear\, Professor Nan Z. Da tests the ability of liter
 ary criticism to accurately depict great acts of wronging and their corres
 ponding predicaments in a recently published personal book on the history 
 of Maoist totalitarianism in China. Professor Da will also be presenting n
 ew work\, still inspired by this tradition\, that makes a radical proposal
  for where literary criticism is-- not as a practice in this or that domai
 n but something which slices through all domains at the spot where data be
 comes inference.\n\nPlease RSVP Here\n\nCo-sponsored by The Department of 
 East Asian Languages and Cultures\n\n--\n\nNan Z Da 笪章难 is an associ
 ate professor in the Department of English at John's Hopkins University. D
 a's teaching and scholarship cover nineteenth-century American and trans-A
 tlantic literature and letters\, modern Chinese literature and letters\, l
 iterary and social theory\, and the intersection of literary studies and t
 he data sciences. She is interested in empiricism and its difficult cases\
 , the mechanisms of disambiguation\, and the relationships between literat
 ure and complexity and parrhesia and literary criticism.
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LOCATION:Building 260\, Pigott Hall\, Rm 252
SUMMARY:Comparative Methodologies: The Location of Literary Criticism with 
 Professor Nan Z. Da (Department of English Johns Hopkins University)
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 an-z-da-department-of-english-johns-hopkins-university
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