Friends of the GP Public Library Announces 5th Classic Books Lecture Series 4/22

The Friends of the Grosse Pointe Public Library announce the fifth program of their Classics Books Lecture Series, "Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: Great African-American Novel or Great American Novel"? on Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. The talk will be presented by Dr. George Bornstein, professor emeritus of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in the auditorium of Grosse Pointe South High School, 11 Grosse Pointe Boulevard at Fisher Road in Grosse Pointe Farms. General admission is $10. The lecture is free to members of Friends, students and teachers with identification.

For more information call 313.343.2074 ext. 6 or see the website at www.gpfriends.org.

George Bornstein is professor emeritus of the University of Michigan where he retired from active faculty status as a C. A. Patrides Professor of English Language and Literature in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, on December 31st, 2006.

George Bornstein attended Harvard University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1963. He then attended Princeton University, where he earned his Doctorate in 1966. Professor Bornstein joined the faculty at the University of Michigan as associate professor in 1970 and was promoted through the ranks to professor in 1975.

Professor Bornstein is one of the most distinguished and admired scholars of Modernism in his generation. For decades, as he devoted himself to the study of the literature and culture of the later 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries. His energetic work has done an enormous amount to further scholars' understanding of an extraordinarily wide range of topics in the field of literary studies. His many former students, now teachers and scholars themselves, are continuing to shape the study of twentieth-century literature, profiting by his training and his example.

In his courses and his publications, Professor Bornstein has always encouraged his students and his readers to cross intellectual, historical, and methodological boundaries. He is the author of seven scholarly monographs, and the editor of twelve books. He has published close to fifty articles, numerous reviews, and he has given talks at conferences, colleges, and universities throughout the United States, in Ireland, England, and Germany.

Dr. Bornstein's interest include nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry, especially Yeats, Pound, Moore, and Stevens; modern Irish Literary Renaissance, especially Joyce; editorial theory and textual construction; material textuality; modernism; literary and cultural influence, history of the book, Irish literature, and American Jewish literature.

The next Friends' Classics Books Lecture will be held Thursday May 13, 2010, 7:30 p.m. "Harold Pinter's Menacing Rites of Passage: The Birthday Party and The Homecoming," presented once again by Dr. George Bornstein.

On Tuesday, May 11, 2010 (7:30 p.m.) at their annual meeting, the Friends will feature author Joel Thurtell who will speak about his experience in Up The Rouge! Paddling Detroit's Hidden River (Text by Joel Thurtell, Photographs by Patricia Beck). The meeting will be held at the Grosse Pointe Farms Community Center in Pier Park, Lakeshore Road at Moross in Grosse Pointe Farms. The meeting is open to Friends members. Seating is limited and reservations are required. Join Friends for an opportunity to attend. Annual dues are $25 individual, $30 family and $10 junior. Go to www.gpfriends.org for more information.

The Hill Seafood & Chop House, located at 123 Kercheval, offers pre-lecture dinners for under $20 beginning at 5:30 p.m. the evening of the lecture. Lecture goers can enjoy a three-course meal with other FRIENDS supporters by calling in their required reservations to the restaurant at (313) 886-8101.

The Friends of the Grosse Pointe Public Library is a non-profit volunteer organization. They invite new friends to join, participate in their activities and have fun in support of the public library. Among the membership benefits is free admittance to all Classics Books Lectures. For information write to: Friends of the Grosse Pointe Public Library, 10 Kercheval Ave., Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236, call 313.343.2074 ext. 6, or see the website at www.gpfriends.org.

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