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SUMMARY:Digital Scholarship Seminar: Brad Pasanek (University of Virginia) and Moore Institute visiting fellow - Poetic Diction: Tokens and Change
DESCRIPTION:Digital Scholarship Seminar:\nBrad Pasanek (University of Virginia) and Moore Institute visiting fellow\nPoetic Diction: Tokens and Change\nDigital Scholarship Seminar‘s final visiting speaker event of this series takes place next Tuesday lunchtime and features Dr Brad Pasanek from the Department of English at the University of Virginia. Dr Pasanek is a current Moore Institute Visiting Fellow\, and his talk focuses on computing the language of early modern poetry. The presentation will be followed by lunch (kindly provided by the Moore Institute) at 1pm. \nAbstract: “Poetic diction” is an early modern term of art\, used to mark distinctions between prose and verse. It signals a belief that poets speak and write a special kind of language. But “poetic diction” is also the term selected by William Wordsworth in the preface to Lyrical Ballads to sum up and mark a break with eighteenth-century poetics. “Poetic diction\,” complained Wordsworth\, is “mechanical” and “artificial\,” a “hubbub of words.” Poets should instead write poems\, claims Wordsworth\, famously\, in the “real language of men.” By 1800\, it would seem\, the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century stock of words and phrases was well worn if not worn out. \nPoetic diction\, as a topic of scholarly interest\, had itself become a worn one by the 1950s; but then computational methods may offer new insights into moribund topics. In particular\, when I see critics compile a large “set of phrases” that occur with “wearisome iteration” or provide a short list of stock phraseology (“blushing flowers\,” “cool gales\,” ” lab’ring oxen\,” “curling smokes\,” “fleet shades\,” and “dusky green”)\, it is the mechanical\, iterative quality of the verse surveyed that most interests me. Computational methods work by iteration; and from the perspective of a computational linguist\, the stock of phrases complained of by some literary critics are so many types and tokens\, waiting to counted and mapped. In the current moment\, in which great quantities of verse-Metaphysical\, Neoclassical\, Romantic-have been digitized\, an opportunity to identify the stock of phrases and visualize their changing frequencies presents itself. \nBio: Brad Pasanek is an Assistant Professor in the English Department of the University of Virginia. His first book\, Metaphors of Mind: An Eighteenth-Century Dictionary ships in the coming month from Johns Hopkins University Press. (Act now! Buy two\, get one free.) His efforts have been described by one of his colleagues in the digital humanities\, as “distant reading by hand\,” and his book digests and analyzes over 10\,000 of the metaphors collected online at The Mind is a Metaphor. \nFor further informatition\, contact: Dr PÌÁdraic Moran (padraic.moran@nuigalway.ie)\, \nor Dr Justitin Tonra (justitin.tonra@nuigalway.ie) \nwww.nuigalway.ie/digital-seminar ‰ۢ www.facebook.com/nuigdss
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SUMMARY:Moore Institute Visiting Fellow Seminar: Maria McGarrity (Long Island University)  'Exhibiting Ireland:  Immigrants and Visual Culture in Derek Walcott's Joycean New World Epic'   - Jack Fennell (University of Limerick)  'Thrasymachus versus Calib
DESCRIPTION:Moore Institute Seminar \nMaria McGarrity \n(Long Island University and Moore Institute) \n‰Û÷Exhibiting Ireland: \nImmigrants and Visual Culture in Derek Walcott’s Joycean New World Epic’ \nJack Fennell \n(University of Limerick and Moore Institute) \n‰Û÷Thrasymachus versus Caliban: Monstrosity and the Limits of Expansion’ \n“Exhibiting Ireland: Immigrants and Visual Culture in Derek Walcott’s Omeros\, a Joycean New World Epic” \nThe John C. Messenger manuscript in the Hardiman library details folklore and ethnography on Montserrat\, “the Emerald Isle of the Caribbean\,” in the mid twentieth century.  Such a vibrant catalog of the Caribbean Irish frames Derek Walcott’s Irish textual exhibit\, a highly organized and illustrated collection of Irish characters in his transatlantic epic Omeros: Major Plunkett\, Maud Plunkett\, and Lawrence. These characters have cultural associations not simply to Ireland but to a specific collection of historical figures that helped shape Dublin museum culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This network of allusion\, inspired by the “the keeper of the Kildare street museum” that Joyce mocks in the “Circe” episode of Ulysses becomes reframed and reimagined on St. Lucia in the mid twentieth century.  Walcott’s imaginary museum of the book includes several dominant cultural and political figures from Ireland\, from radically different social registers and affiliations\, and re-locates them to the West Indies.   Walcott’s catalogue becomes a Joycean museum. \nMaria McGarrity is Professor of English at Long Island University in Brooklyn\, New York.  She works on island geographies\, primitivism\, and transnational modernism in Irish and Caribbean literatures.  Her two new books are just out this month: Allusions in Omeros: Notes and a Guide to Derek Walcott’s Masterpiece (University of Florida Press\, 2015) and a co-edited collection\, Caribbean Irish Connections: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (University of the West Indies Press\, 2015). Caution: the ink may not yet be dry.
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