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SUMMARY:How To Do Things With Tunes: Alexander Pope and the prosodic intel
 ligence - Prof. Simon Jarvis\, Gorley Putt Professor of Poetry and Poetics
 \, Robinson College
DTSTART:20090527T183000Z
DTEND:20090527T200000Z
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CONTACT:Johanna Hanink
DESCRIPTION:All are welcome to join us for a paper\, wine\, and discussion
  at our third meeting of the term!\n\nAbstract:\nThis talk investigates th
 e paradox that the single obvious feature conferring superiority upon Pope
  over all his contemporary rivals was his matchless excellence in versific
 ation\; yet that such excellence was often declared to be among the poet's
  less important\naccomplishments. It will argue that it is a mistake to ta
 ke such declarations at face value\, and suggest both that a powerful disa
 vowal of the supposedly merely 'mechanical' parts of poetry-making was at 
 work in early eighteenth-century critical talk\, and that such disavowals 
 have survived into our understanding of Pope's verse today. Instead this p
 aper will start from the principle that technique is how art thinks. It wi
 ll attempt to develop an account of Pope's 'prosodic intelligence' as a mo
 de of (pleasurable) *thinking* in its own right.
LOCATION:The Old Kitchens\, Queens' College
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