[Research_mgreek] REMINDER OF RESEARCH SEMINAR

[Vrasidas Karalis]

RESEARCH SEMINAR
MODERN GREEK STUDIES
Thursday, March 10th, 2016
5.00-6.30 pm
INVITES YOU TO THE PRESENTATION
BY
Professor Sophie Iakovidou
(Democritus University of Thrace)
Color as an expression of affect: yellow reflections in the works of C. P. Cavafy, G. Vizyinos, G. Ioannou and M. Proust
(in Greek and English)
The Seminar will take place at the
REFECTORY ROOM
MAIN QUAD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
(follow down the stairs behind the Nicholson Museum)
All welcome

Color is usually not read in literature, at least not differently from everyday usage (physical characteristics, dressing code, the colors of nature etc). Even a symbolic reading of color is still somehow enclosed in a pre-coded frame, when not translating the literary text simply in terms of beauty, or erotic and social allusions. We will focus here on color as an expression, if not as an outflow, of the affect: as a basically sexual signifier, whose connotations lead us directly to the two main instincts struggling in the psyche, the life and death instinct, otherwise the yellow and the blue through an analysis of the works of Cavafy, Vizyinos, Ioannou and Proust.



CV: Sophie Iakovidou's research interests lie in 19th and 20th century Modern Greek poetry and prose, with a specific focus on comparative approaches, gender studies, autobiography, the mother-daughter relationship and sociology of literature. She studied Modern Greek literature in the University of Thessaloniki and theory of literature in Universite de Sorbonne-Paris IV (DEA), in Birmingham and in INALCO, Paris (PhD). Her PhD thesis focused on the connection between gender and ideology in the work of G.Ioannou (Georges Ioannou: le corps de l' oeuvre. Psyche de l'ecrivain, sociopoetique de l'oeuvre, publ. ANRT, Presses Universitaires de Lille, 2005). She has taught literature and theory of literature in the Universities of Thessaloniki, Ioannina and Western Macedonia and is currently Assistant Professor in Democritus University of Thrace.

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