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3/24/03

SLU HOLDS CELEBRATION FOR AUTHOR OF TWO NEW BOOKS

CANTON - The Friends of Owen D. Young and Launders Libraries 
at St. Lawrence University will hold a reception to 
celebrate the publication of two recent books by Professor 
of English Sidney L. Sondergard on Friday, April 4, at 4 p.m. 
in the Josephine Young Room of Owen D. Young Library. It is 
open to the public, free of charge, and Sondergard will speak 
about his work prior to the reception.
	The event celebrates the recent publication of The 
Cabala of Pegasus: An Annotated Translation of Giordano 
Bruno's Cabala del cavallo Pegaseo; Sondergard translated 
the work, with Madison U. Sowell. The Cabala of Pegasus 
consists of vernacular dialogues that turn on the identification 
of the noble Pegasus (the spirit of poetry) and the humble 
ass (the vehicle of divine revelation). In the interplay of 
these ideas, Bruno explores the nature of poetry, divine 
authority and secular learning, which had great influence 
on James Joyce and many other writers and artists from the 
Renaissance to the modern period. This book, the first 
English translation of The Cabala of Pegasus, contains 
both the English and Italian versions as well as annotations.
	Also recently published is Sharpening Her Pen: 
Strategies of Rhetorical Violence by Early Modern English 
Women Writers, written by Sondergard. The book demonstrates 
how six early modern women authors exploit, or evade, a 
rhetorical discourse founded upon images, tropes, and dialectics 
of violence to secure authorization for their work as writers 
and empowerment for the personal agendas unique to each of them.
	The 1997 Frank P. Piskor Faculty Lecturer on campus, 
Sondergard has been a member of the faculty at St. Lawrence 
since 1986. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees 
from Wichita State University, and the Ph.D. from the 
University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

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