Monteverde Plenary Address: Finding Oursevles in the Voices of Others
Location
Beaman A&B
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
14-9-2011 11:00 AM
Description
In this talk, Dr. Stover will begin with the very basic question, “What does it mean to be human?” While not presuming to answer such a question, she will discuss writers and artists ranging from Matsuo Basho to Virginia Woolf to Marilynne Robinson (among others) who have helped her find the language to ask it and who have encouraged her to accept the insights that she finds. She will explore how the great writers and artists have written words or produced art in which we can recognize a truth we have experienced, or that we instinctively know, but have not yet articulated for ourselves. In recognizing ourselves in works of artists from remote cultures, time periods, and circumstances, we are liberated both from a smothering solipsism and a detached cynicism. Finding ourselves in the voices of others reawakens a shared, poignant recognition of what it means to be human.
Recommended Citation
Stover, Andrea, "Monteverde Plenary Address: Finding Oursevles in the Voices of Others" (2011). Humanities Symposium. 29.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2011/2011/29
Monteverde Plenary Address: Finding Oursevles in the Voices of Others
Beaman A&B
In this talk, Dr. Stover will begin with the very basic question, “What does it mean to be human?” While not presuming to answer such a question, she will discuss writers and artists ranging from Matsuo Basho to Virginia Woolf to Marilynne Robinson (among others) who have helped her find the language to ask it and who have encouraged her to accept the insights that she finds. She will explore how the great writers and artists have written words or produced art in which we can recognize a truth we have experienced, or that we instinctively know, but have not yet articulated for ourselves. In recognizing ourselves in works of artists from remote cultures, time periods, and circumstances, we are liberated both from a smothering solipsism and a detached cynicism. Finding ourselves in the voices of others reawakens a shared, poignant recognition of what it means to be human.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Academic Lecture