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A Caucus Michaelmas 2023 - the value(s) of close reading

Seminars are held on Wednesdays, 5.15-6.45pm, during Full Term in room G21

11 October, Constanze Güthenke: Hermes, Close Reader

18 October, Elena Giusti: Horace's Poetics of Conspiracy

25 October, Bruno Currie: Close reading and the principle of Ἡσίοδον ἐξ Ἡσιόδου σαφηνίζειν: Works and Days 90–105 and 202–12

1 November, Jenny Strauss Clay: Gods and men in Odyssey 5

8 November, David Butterfield: Texts and problems

15 November, Ahuvia Kahane: The Horizons of Close Reading: Repetition and Promiscuous Form in Ancient Epic and the Ancient Novel

22 November, Lyndsay Coo: Reading tragic fragments, loosely

29 November, Victoria Rimell: Close Reading and the Hermeneutics of Mourning

 

 

 

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