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Against Finality: Inaugural Lecture, Delivered 4th February 1993

John B. Beer

Synopsis:
Since the rise of scientific thinking in the seventeenth century the role of the imagination in literature has been a matter for debate. Is it an essential resource, or a treacherous purveyor of illusions? In this lecture Professor Beer suggests that one result of this uncertainty has been to set up a divison (which continues to pervade literary enterprises) between imaginative flights on the one hand and the weighing of words on the other. His examples are drawn from a wide range of writers, including Johnson, Dickens, Hopkins, Woolf and Wordsworth.

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