Poetics & Prose Theory in Early Modern English

Thomas Browne 1-day Symposium, CREMS

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Programme

 9.30-10.00 Coffee and Introduction

10.00-10.45 Poetic Treatises in Early Modern England

• Gavin Alexander (Cambridge), The proportions of early modern poetics

10.45-11.30

• Hannah Leah Crummé (King’s College London), Theorizing English rhetoric (Abraham Fraunce’s Arcadian Rhetorike and Fernando de Herrera)
• Michael Hetherington (Cambridge),  Remembering Lysias: The coherence of the text in early modern England

Coffee 11.30-12.00

12.00-1.15 From Theory to Poetic Practice

• John Roe (York), ‘Besely seeking with a continuell chaunge’: the poetics of indeterminacy in Petrarch and Wyatt
• Micha Lazarus (Oxford), Sidney and Vettori’s Aristotle
• Louise Wilson (St Andrews), Theories of pleasure in early modern literary criticism

Lunch, 1.15-2.15

2.15-3.30

• Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (King's College, London), A pause for thought? Critical writing by women and men 1610-1660

• Katherine Acheson (University of Waterloo in Ontario), The 'Way of Dichotomy': Visual rhetoric, dichotomous tables, and Paradise Lost

• Kevin Killeen (York), The Prose of the Physics of Resurrection

Coffee, 3.30-4.00

4.00-4.45 Prose Theory

• Florence Hazrat (Cambridge), Poesy, plot and parenthesis: Rhetorical figures as structural and narrative strategy in early modern prose writing
• Stuart Farley (St Andrews), The extemporary method in early modern english prose

4.45-5.30

• Jenny Richards (Newcastle), Appealing to ‘the physical ear’: Thomas Nashe on prose style

This symposium is part of a diffuse and ongoing Thomas Browne Seminar
that has digressed quite far, see: http://www.york.ac.uk/english/news-events/browne/