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SUMMARY:Microscopes\, telescopes or kaleidoscopes?  Using digital quantita
 tive methods to explore  patterns and textures in a literary corpus - Juli
 e Blake\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20170118T170000Z
DTEND:20170118T183000Z
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:The study of poetry has been mandatory for pupils in England s
 ince 1988\, and English examinations for 16 year olds have compulsory ques
 tions on specified poems in exam board anthologies. Half a million schoolc
 hildren a year for 28 years is a lot of poetry in the collective cultural 
 imagination\, yet until now there has been no systematic study of what tha
 t body of poetry is. In this talk I will show how I am using digital quant
 itative methods of textual analysis to see this literary corpus from diffe
 rent perspectives and to facilitate fresh debate about its purpose in the 
 curriculum.\n\n*Julie Blake* is a PhD student in Education. Her thesis wil
 l examine the nature of the poetry specified for study by some 14 million 
 people in England since its mandatory inscription in the National Curricul
 um in 1988. She is interested in digital methods\, large archives\, and pr
 ocesses of cultural transmission.\n
LOCATION:MAB 106\, Homerton College\, Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PH
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