Dean Bakopoulos: Postponement in Fiction (January 2010)

Shaped by Lorca’s concept of duende, Dean Bakopoulos’ lecture explores the effect that moments of stillness can have when they come against backdrops of intense action. Bakoupolos draws on fiction by John Cheever, James Joyce, and Jane Smiley, poetry by Richard Hugo and James Wright, and Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” to consider how these writers allow their characters, and their readers, to access the “deep song” in their lives.