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Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Indian Institute of Technology Ropar

HSS Seminar

'Literary Aesthesis and Self-Reflexivity'

by

Dr.Divya Dwivedi

August 03, 2018 (Tuesday) at  11:30 AM

Venue:  Lecture Hall  6

Abstract

Reflection and reflexivity are terms used for diverse phenomena in a number of regions of being (to use a Heideggerian phrase) such as optics, acoustics, physiology, psychology, sociology, literary theory, philosophy, and pedagogy. The basic sense of turning and returning that speaks in the word reflect permits a family resemblance among these concepts which bear the name and its cognates, and whose stability depends on the definitions drawn in the respective region. What will be proposed in the following remarks pertains to reflection and reflexivity in the region of literary studies, in particular to narrative inquiry and the distinction of fictional and factual, but also to the philosophical problem of reflection that found its most acute articulation in the concept of “subject” in Kant, Hegel, and German Idealism in general. The lecture will contend with the exemplary status of metafiction and historiographical metafiction in literary theory through the works of Barthes, Binet and Kundera.

About the speaker: Dr. Divya Dwivedi teaches Literature in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. She is the co-editor of Public Sphere from outside the West (Bloomsbury Academic 2015) and Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form and Theory in Postcolonial Texts co-edited with Richard Walsh and Henrik Skov Nielsen (Ohio State University Press). Her treatise on M. K. Gandhi with Shaj Mohan titled Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics will be published later this year (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)

Brief Bio-sketch of the speaker

Dr. Divya Dwivedi teaches Literature in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. She is the co-editor of Public Sphere from outside the West (Bloomsbury Academic 2015) and Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form and Theory in Postcolonial Texts co-edited with Richard Walsh and Henrik Skov Nielsen (Ohio State University Press). Her treatise on M. K. Gandhi with Shaj Mohan titled Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics will be published later this year (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018)