Burning Words: Cases from History of Text Burning

Posted on 2019-10-07 in Events
Oct 16, 2019



Literature Matters
A free public lecture and discussion series

Burning Words:
Cases from History of Text Burning

by Douglas Thorpe

Wed, Oct 16

7:30 p.m.

Grace-Westminster United Church
505 - 10th Street East

All are welcome.

This talk concerns manuscript burning, not book burning. It examines four cases of the burning of literary texts prior to publication, from threatened burning to requested burning, from alleged burning to compulsively repeated burning. In some cases, paradoxically, the destruction of a text can be construed as a creative act.

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