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Nowell Smith, David 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9840-2507
(2023)
Attuning ourselves to tunes.
English, 71 (275).
295–303.
ISSN 0013-8215
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Abstract
The below is a transcript (with a small number of footnotes added) for an inaugural lecture given at the University of East Anglia on 28 November 2022. The lecture sought to answer the following questions: why read poems? Why study poetry? This talk argues that poetry constitutes language in its most condensed, but also most enlarged, form: when we read poems, we enliven ourselves to the expressive power of language as a whole, we attune ourselves to the language’s tunes. Through discussions of poems from across history, the talk will explore the different ways that poems ‘make sense’: that is, generate senses and sensations. In particular, the talk will reflect on the sense of tunes and the tunefulness of sense. A recording of the lecture and ensuing Q&A can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flU1fuJVUqU
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | literature and literary theory ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1208 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Legible / Visible Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Feb 2023 10:30 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Mar 2024 18:16 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/91301 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/english/efad003 |
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