Wednesday, October 22 at 2:30pm – 4:00pm
Faculty Center, UP Diliman
Quezon City, Philippines
Likhaan: University of the Philippines Institute of Creative Writing invites everyone to “Myth and Writing: Notes from the Field” a lecture by Prof. J. Neil Garcia on 22 October, 2014 (Wednesday), 2:30-4:00 p.m. at the Claro M. Recto, Faculty Center, UP Diliman.
In this lecture, Prof. Garcia will “examine the idea and practice of myth in the various ways that comparative religious studies, psychology, and contemporary critical theory have defined (or appropriated) it, paying close attention to how myth has come to function as an inexhaustible source into which both artistic creativity and rational reflection now and again dip their fevered hands.”
The lecture is borne out of a semester-long “special problems” graduate course that Prof. Garcia has been teaching in UP Diliman. The lecture will conclude with a reading of some of Prof. Garcia’s own lyric “retellings” of some well-known (and -loved) mythic stories.
For questions and clarifications, please contact Mr. Ronnie Amuyot through (02) 922-1830.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
The posters for “Myth and Writing: Notes from the Field” features a mythical character. Can you identify who it is?
Design and art by Jedi Directo.
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