Notice

GMGC/ADMIN/22-23/No. 165     Date: 14/09/2022

Online lecture for the series "An Evening with an Expert"

Prof. Anirban Roy will be presenting an online lecture for the series "An Evening with an Expert" organized by Department of English, Gokhale Memorial Girls' College at 7:30 P. M. on 15.09.2022.

The title of the talk is "The Nile and His Romantics; the Ancient Egyptians and their Nile".

Concept Note: The presentation shall provide iconographic and geographical readings of the three compositions:

1. "To The Nile" by John Keats,
2. "A Thought of the Nile" by Leigh Hunt, and
3. "To the Nile" by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

The three texts shall be compared with references to Egyptian art and mythology, particularly the ancient Egyptian ideas regarding aquatic symbolism, stellar beliefs, and the connection between their river and the concepts regarding their native land. The mythical information shall be contextualized with the poetic visions of the three Romantics working on the same subject, and the discussion shall highlight the individual modes of admiration for the River and the Land it enriches.

The link to the talk will be shared shortly. All interested are welcome.