Burning Words: Cases from History of Text Burning
An act of destruction or creation? Doug Thorpe investigates four cases of manuscript burning.
Event
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.