Do you take risks when you read? Risk-taking in literature

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A lecture on some writing whose form seems to place it out with conventional literary value, and ask if we can read it, and if so, how? What risks are we willing to take? The risk of boredom? Alienation? Frustration? Or other more complicated risks?

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This event was on Thu, 11 Feb 1999

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Professor Lynette Hunter

Professor of Rhetoric

Lynette Hunter was the Gresham Professor of Rhetoric between 1997 and 2000.

She is currently Professor of the History and Rhetoric of Performance at the...

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