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SUMMARY:Becoming an abcedminded Brofèsor [not]\, josser [not]\, ?
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DESCRIPTION:There has long been a call to save literary studies from itsel
 f by appealing to the ‘lay reader’ (in John Guillory’s revealing phr
 ase). This is a bad idea—as Joyce took pains to spell out in Finnegans W
 ake (1939). In this workshop\, Peter McDonald (St Hugh’s) considers how 
 the Wake’s many reading lessons speak not only to our current disciplina
 ry and institutional malaise but to the future of literary studies in the 
 age of the reader bot.\n\nPeter McDonald teaches English at St Hugh’s Co
 llege. He is the author of The Double Life of Books: Making and Re-making 
 the Reader (2024)\, Artefacts of Writing: Ideas of the State and Communiti
 es of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing (2017)\, The Literature Polic
 e: Apartheid Censorship and its Cultural Consequences (2009)\, British Lit
 erary Culture and Publishing Practice\, 1880–1914 (1997)\, and co-author
  of PEN: An Illustrated History (2021). He is currently working on a book 
 about re-imagining a literary education in the age of artificial intellige
 nce.\n\nAll welcome.
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LOCATION:New College - Lecture Room 6\, Lecture Room 6 New College Holywel
 l Street Oxford Oxfordshire OX1 3BN United Kingdom
SPEAKER:Professor Peter McDonald
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