He is the author of numerous books on Chinese literature and on comparative literature, and he has edited others. After teaching for a decade at Yale, he moved to Harvard in 1982. The moment spontaneity becomes a value, it becomes out of reach. Bio: Stephen Owen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard. The story he tells brings together art theory, social history, money and art, body and mind, the serious and the very silly. We will look at eleventh century account by the famous Su Shi, when he unrolls a painting in his collection to air it. The Institute for Chinese Studies presents the Re-Imagining China's Past and Present Lecture Series:Stephen OwenJames Bryant Conant University ProfessorHarvard University"Bamboo in the Breast and in the Belly: Thinking Through Literature"Flyer: Stephen Owen FlyerAbstract: Literature can be a means to think through basic issues, grounded in human circumstance, that other forms of discursive prose could not do. Add to Calendar 16:00:00 17:30:00 Institute for Chinese Studies - Stephen Owen - "Bamboo in the Breast and in the Belly: Thinking Through Literature"
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