Hall Bjørnstad: 'By example and by counsel': The Royal Art of Interpretation According to Louis XIV
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Speaker(s): Hall Bjornstad
Join us onThursday,January 26th, in welcomingHall Bjørnstad(Indiana University – Bloomington, French) and discussing his paper'By example and by counsel': The Royal Art of InterpretationAccording to Louis XIV, a rereading of the understudiedéǾof Louis XIV.
As customary, we will meet in Pigott Hall, Room 216 at 6pm for dinner, with discussion starting at 6:30pm.Contactbilianak [at] stanford.edu (Biliana Kassabova)to RSVP and for a copy of the pre-circulated paper.
Hall Bjørnstad(Ph.D. in French Literature, University of Oslo, 2006) is Assistant Professor of French Literature at the Indiana University in Bloomington. His research interests are in 17th-century literature and culture, with emphasis on the relationship between literature, politics and philosophy.He is the author ofCréature sans créateur:Pour une anthropologie baroque dans les “Pensées”de Pascal. Saint-Nicolas, Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval (collections de la République des Lettres), 2011, the editor ofBorrowed Feathers: Plagiarism and the Limits of Imitation in Early Modern Europe.Oslo: Unipub, 2008. His translation into Norwegian of Blaise Pascal’sPenséesappeared in 2007.