Gresham College Lectures
Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597, making us London's oldest higher education institution. This podcast offers our recorded lectures that are free to access from the Gresham College website, or our YouTube channel.
Gresham College Lectures
Reading as a Reader and Reading as a Critic
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Gresham College
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Does analysing a book 'spoil' its charm? Does understanding the workings of a writers' craft (rhetoric, grammar and syntax etc.) undermine the pleasure of their books? Can reading "as a critic" ever increase our pleasure of a poems and novels?
Professor Belinda Jack offers a new a model for reading, based on 'subliminal advertising.' This allows for a detailed explanation of how an understanding of the tools of writing can add to and enrich the reading experience.
Close reading of a selection of passages from a wide range of authors from Virginia Woolf to Charles Dickens will form the focus here.
Professor Belinda Jack offers a new a model for reading, based on 'subliminal advertising.' This allows for a detailed explanation of how an understanding of the tools of writing can add to and enrich the reading experience.
Close reading of a selection of passages from a wide range of authors from Virginia Woolf to Charles Dickens will form the focus here.