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SUMMARY:CANCELLED ‘At the still point of the turning world’: Time and 
 Place in the Medieval Dream - Dr Lotte Reinbold (Bye-Fellow and Director o
 f Studies in English\, Selwyn College\, University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20181009T164500Z
DTEND:20181009T181500Z
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CONTACT:Dr Rachel E. Holmes
DESCRIPTION:In the Confessions\, Augustine exclaims '‘So what is time? I
 f no one is asking me a question about it\, I know what it is\; but if I w
 ant to explain it to the questioner\, I do not know how to.’ Using Augus
 tine's inability to define exactly what time is as my starting point\, in 
 this lecture I'll try to think about some of the ways that we might try to
  explain time\, with particular reference to its workings in the genre of 
 medieval dream poetry. I'll look at two poems in particular\, 'Pearl'\, a 
 heavenly vision experienced by a bereaved father\, and 'The Parliament of 
 Fowls'\, a dazzling vision of love\, marriage\, and squabbling wildfowl\, 
 in order to think both about how these poems manage their own complex inte
 rnal chronology\, and how they can speak to us today.\n
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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