‘The Blank Spaces of Early Modernity’

University of Sussex

Centre for Early Modern Studies and Society for Renaissance Studies Annual Lecture

8 June 2010

Professor Jonathan Sawday (Walter Ong Chair, Saint louis university)

Asa Briggs Lecture theatre A2

6pm

Professor Sawday will explore the curious history of gaps, absences, and lacunae in early modern writing and culture. Waste and scattered leaves of paper, blank sheets and empty space is not how we normally approach a culture so committed, rhetorically, to plenitude and copiousness but This lecture will examine the trope of emptiness – ‘the poetics of the blank’.

ALL WELCOME

Refreshments will be served