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Thursday 25 March 2021
07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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As part of this 'in-conversation', Professor Gary Hall and Professor Carolina Rito explore Hall's latest Book A Stubborn Fury.
The discussion will be followed by an open Q&A, where Gary and Carolina will invite questions from the audience online.
In A Stubborn Fury, Gary Hall offers a powerful and provocative look at the consequences of inequality for English culture in particular. Focusing on the literary novel and the memoir, he investigates, in terms that are as insightful as they are irreverent, why so much writing in England is uncritically realist, humanist and anti-intellectual. Hall does so by playfully rewriting two of the most acclaimed contributions to these media genres of recent times. One is that of England’s foremost avant-garde novelist Tom McCarthy, and the importance he attaches to European modernism and antihumanist theory. The other is that of the celebrated French memoirists Didier Eribon and Édouard Louis, and their attempt to reinvent the antihumanist philosophical tradition by producing a theory that speaks about class and intersectionality, yet generates the excitement of a Kendrick Lamar concert.
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