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SUMMARY:Quantum writing: literature and the world of numbers - Professor S
 teven Connor
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CONTACT:Paul Ireland
DESCRIPTION:Since the beginning of the 19th century\, literature has place
 d itself firmly in opposition to the realm of number and quantifying opera
 tions of all kinds. But for the last century there are also unmistakeable 
 signs that literature and number have been drawing ever more closely toget
 her. In this free public lecture\, Professor Steven Connor will discuss th
 e ways in which literary writers over the last century\, including Lewis C
 arroll\, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett\, have approached and sometimes em
 braced mathematical operations in their work\, often through reflections o
 n probability. He will also consider the statistical and quantitative appr
 oaches to literary analysis increasingly made available by digital technol
 ogy.\n\nBefore moving in 2012 to the Faculty of English in Cambridge\, Ste
 ven Connor taught at Birkbeck College London\, where he was Professor of M
 odern Literature and Theory from 1994. From 2003 to 2012\, he was Academic
  Director of the London Consortium Graduate Programme in Humanities and Cu
 ltural Studies\, a collaboration between academic and cultural institution
 s in the capital that fostered and supported students in projects of cross
 -disciplinary enquiry.\n\nHis research interests are focussed in the liter
 ature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries\, though many of his proj
 ects have a longer historical contour. He writes regularly on Dickens and 
 Beckett\, and his areas of interest include magical thinking\; the history
  of medicine\; the cultural life of objects and the material imagination\;
  the relations between culture and science\; the philosophy of animals\; a
 nd the history of sound\, voice and auditory media. He has also written ex
 tensively on contemporary art for Cabinet\, Tate Etc\, Modern Painters and
  others\, and broadcast regularly for radio. \n\nBooking is essential as p
 laces are limited – "book online via the ICE website":http://www.ice.cam
 .ac.uk/madingleylectures/book
LOCATION:Institute of Continuing Education\, Madingley Hall
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