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English and Comparative Literary Studies

ECLS Research seminar

We run a series of seminars intended to provide a forum for discussion of literary research projects underway both within and outside of the department. The programme timetable and schedule changes annually.

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

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Research Seminar - Dr.Stacey McDowell
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鈥淲ordsworth and Reading鈥檚 Promise鈥�

Wordsworth鈥檚 idea of the poem as a 鈥榩romise鈥� or 鈥榩ledge鈥�
looks forward not only to the potential of literary reception,
but also to ways of establishing a relationship of obligation
that sees reading hold out the promise of future connection.
I trace instances when his poems imagine their own future
reading by someone who is absent for the time being or more
often by someone who has died. These poems consider how
a promise plays out over time, seeking consolation in
contingency by looking to the rhythms of reciprocity and
rhythms of reading. I鈥檒l be thinking about broken promises
and death-bed promises, while also drawing on some
Romantic-period discussions of the promise (by William
Godwin) and more recent accounts of promising as a
performative utterance.

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