Editing Myth and Writing

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The UP Institute of Creative Writing (UP ICW) 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.

Prof. J. Neil C. Garcia earned his AB Journalism (magna cum laude)
from University of Santo Tomas, his MA in Comparative Literature and
PhD in English Studies: Creative Writing from UP Diliman. He is
currently a Professor of English, creative writing and comparative
literature at the College of Arts and Letters, UP Diliman.

He is the author of several books of poetry and criticism, including
Our Lady of the Carnival (1996), The Sorrows of Water (2000), Kaluluwa
(2001), Slip/pages: Essays in Philippine Gay Criticism (1998),
Performing the Self: Occasional Prose (2003), The Garden of
Wordlessness (2005), Misterios and Other Poems (2005), and Philippine
Gay Culture: The Last Thirty Years (1996).

For questions and clarifications, please contact Mr. Ronnie Amuyot
through (02) 922-1830.


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The lecture is free and open to the public.