The Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, invites you on December 6, 2021 at 9:00 to an online lecture (via MS Teams) by Associate Professor Dr. Michaela Weiss from Silesian University in Opava, entitled Make it British, Make it New!: Pound and Eliot as the Fathers of Modern(ist) Poetry.
The lecture discusses the leading roles of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot in the process of formation and expression of modernist artistic sensibilities. Following the formal and thematic concerns of both poet, it further comments on the immense influence as well as topicality of their poetic missions within the context of British and American literature and culture.
Michaela Weiss is Associate Professor at the Department of English and American Studies at the Institute of Foreign Languages at the Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic. She teaches courses on English and American literature, Literary Theory and Criticism, and Creative Reading and Writing. Her main areas of interest include American Jewish literature, graphic novels, and women’s studies.
Dr. Zuzana Buráková
Deputy-Head of the BAS FF UPJŠ
