Oberlin College and Conservatory

Canceled: Jonathan Stone Gives Talk: ‘‘A Decadent Metaphysics’’

Monday, March 16, 2020 at 7:00pm

King Building, 321
10 North Professor Street, Oberlin, OH 44074

“A Decadent Metaphysics: Zinaida Gippius, Bram Stoker, and Fin-de-siècle Anxiety,” presented by Jonathan Stone, associate professor of Russian at Franklin & Marshall College.

Through reading and contextualizing two works published in 1897—Zinaida Gippius’s Among the Dead and Bram Stoker’s Dracula—this talk presents Decadence as an essential component of modernity. When notions of progress, evolution, and the complete comprehensibility of nature and society began to morph into frightening glimpses of decay and disorder, Decadence could offer a means of moving on into the new age by embracing, rather than escaping, the looming precipice. 

Event Type

Lectures/Symposia/Workshops

Departments

Administrative, OCREECAS - Oberlin Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies

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poster announcing lecture by Russian professor

Contact Person

Stiliana Milkova

Contact Phone Number

440-775-5212

Contact E-mail Address

stiliana.milkova@oberlin.edu

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