A Grammar of Surprise, <\/em>will be followed by a discussion and wine reception.<\/p>\nAs with all our events, the seminar is free and open to everyone, including postgraduates and members of the public. No registration is necessary.<\/p>\n
Marc Por\u00e9e is an alumnus of the Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure in Paris, where he teaches British literature. He also teaches at the Universit\u00e9 Sorbonne Nouvelle and is currently Vice-President of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 d\u2019\u00c9tudes du Romantisme Anglais. His publications includes articles on British Romanticism, on Victorian novelists and poets, and on British contemporary fiction and poetry. He co-authored a critical study, La Diff\u00e9rence en partage<\/em>, on the Lyrical Ballads<\/em> (PUF, 2011). He also translates (Ann Radcliffe, Byron, De Quincey, Conrad) and has recently completed the three-volume edition of R.L. Stevenson\u2019s fictional \u0153uvre with Gallimard.<\/p>\nRegarding the subject of his talk, Marc writes:<\/p>\n
\u2018\u201cA Grammar of Surprise\u201d is part of a larger on-going project that purports to account for Romantic texts grammatically<\/em>. Besides revisiting the topos of poetry as syntax, as \u201cArticulate Energy\u201d (Donald Davie), the aim is to approach the Romantic material by way of broad grammatical categories, constructions and usages. The latter should lend themselves to neo-Wittgensteinian \u201cInvestigations\u201d of a poetical, rather than an exclusively philosophical nature. Ideally, the conclusion arrived at should intersect with the findings of the French philosopher Vincent Descombes who, against erroneous definitions of the \u201csubject\u201d as a conceptually transparent and sovereign self, focuses instead on its agentivity, i.e. its capacity to act or be acted upon \u2013 to be complemented<\/em> in plain grammatical English (cf. Le compl\u00e9ment de sujet<\/em>, Gallimard, 2004).<\/p>\nBy way of illustration, and for the sake of brevity, my paper will address only a side-issue\u00a0: the grammar of surprise. Spoilers aside, it can safely be assumed that the paper will be starting from John Keats\u2019s memorable axiom (\u201cPoetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance\u201d) and build upon this so as to cover a range of variously syntactic, lexical, epistemic, emotional modalities of Romantic \u201cmirativity\u201d (Scott Delancey).\u2019<\/p>\n
We hope you can join us for this unique and exciting event.<\/p>\n
David Duff<\/strong> <\/a>(London Director, London-Paris Romanticism Seminar)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first seminar in the 2018-19 series of the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar will take place on Friday 19 October 2018 at 5.30 in the Bloomsbury Room (G35) at Senate House, University of London. To launch the new series, we are delighted to welcome Marc Por\u00e9e, Professor of English Literature at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/londonparisromantic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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