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Derek Attridge 'The Experience of Poetry' Book Launch Panel Discussion

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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This event celebrates the publication of Professor Derek Attridge's work The Experience of Poetry with a book launch panel discussion.
The Experience of Poetry asks, was the experience of poetry—or a cultural practice we now call poetry—continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Ben Jonson's Works and the death of Shakespeare in 1616? How did the pleasure afforded by the crafting of language into memorable and moving rhythmic forms play a part in the lives of hearers and readers in Ancient Greece and Rome, Europe during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and Britain during the Renaissance?
This event is part of the 'Writers Make Worlds' series, Professor Attridge will offer a response to the panellists.
About the book:
In tackling these questions, this book first examines the evidence for the performance of the Iliad and the Odyssey and of Ancient Greek lyric poetry, the impact of the invention of writing on Alexandrian verse, the performances of poetry that characterized Ancient Rome, and the private and public venues for poetic experience in Late Antiquity. It moves on to deal with medieval verse, exploring the oral traditions that spread across Europe in the vernacular languages, the place of manuscript transmission, the shift from roll to codex and from papyrus to parchment, and the changing audiences for poetry. A final part investigates the experience of poetry in the English Renaissance, from the manuscript verse of Henry VIII's court to the anthologies and collections of the late Elizabethan era. Among the topics considered in this part are the importance of the printed page, the continuing significance of manuscript circulation, the performance of poetry in pageants and progresses, and the appearance of poets on the Elizabethan stage. In tracking both continuity and change across these many centuries, the book throws fresh light on the role and importance of poetry in western culture.

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Derek Attridge
Helen Cooper
Cathy Shrank
Stephen Harrison
Mohamed Salah-Omri
Elleke Boehmer
Keywords
poetry
rome
shakespeare
greek
pageant
codex
middle ages
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 29/05/2019
Duration: 00:48:26

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