{"id":65357,"date":"2010-02-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/virginia-woolf-lecture-slated-for-feb-18-at-uri\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T00:00:00","slug":"virginia-woolf-lecture-slated-for-feb-18-at-uri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/02\/virginia-woolf-lecture-slated-for-feb-18-at-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Woolf lecture slated for Feb. 18 at URI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/Woolf-by-Gisele-Freund.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"259\" align=\"right\"\/>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013February 4, 2010\u2014Who\u2019s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Clearly not Stephen Barber, an associate professor and chair of the English Department, at the University of Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tBarber will deliver a lecture entitled &#8220;Out of Duty: Virginia Woolf\u2019s Aesthetics of Existence&#8221; Feb. 18 at 5 p.m. The talk, which arises out of a book Barber is writing, will be held in Lippitt, Room 402, 5 Lippitt Road, Kingston. It is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n \t\u201cMy talk concerns the critique and ethics Woolf fashioned in the 1930s as her response to the political atrocities introduced by the rise and  intensification of forms of fascism across Europe,\u201d the professor said. \u201cAll of Woolf&#8217;s final work, which she referred to as comprising her \u2018philosophy of the free soul,\u2019 may be read as her response to a question she posed to herself in 1935: What is my duty as a human being? <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\u201cI examine this duty, along with her attendant concepts of ethos, reason, and psyche, in relation to the new aesthetic she fashions, precisely, as an outsider, that is to say, out of duty,\u201d Barber continued. \u201cThis aesthetic folds together an astonishingly original critique of her \u2018here and now\u2019 that is, of Britain and Europe in the 1930s &#8211;and an ethics for living, here and now, the non-fascist life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tBarber\u2019s talk is part of the Dana Shugar Colloquium sponsored by URI Women\u2019s Studies Program to feature URI scholars.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013February 4, 2010\u2014Who\u2019s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Clearly not Stephen Barber, an associate professor and chair of the English Department, at the University of Rhode Island. &#13; Barber will deliver a lecture entitled &#8220;Out of Duty: Virginia Woolf\u2019s Aesthetics of Existence&#8221; Feb. 18 at 5 p.m. The talk, which arises out of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}