Difficult poetry in performance: sense-making, pleasure and the parodos of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon

Programme

From 10.45 | Registration

11.15 | Welcome

11.30-13.00 | Complexity or How to blow minds

Max van Duijn (Leiden): The cognitive and aesthetic rewards of poetic complexity

Nick Lowe (Royal Holloway): Choral lyric and the invention of poetic complexity

lunch

14.00-15.30 | Neologisms

Evert van Emde Boas (Aarhus): Boastful-bundle-babbling Aeschylus: compound coinages in the parodos

Greta Zeller (Groningen): Understanding Aeschylean neologisms

coffee

16.00-17.30 | Religion

Luuk Huitink (Amsterdam): Prayer and presence

Andrej and Ivana Petrovic (Virginia): Gods and ritual language

Dinner for speakers

09.00-10.30 | Ambiguity

Xavier Buxton (Warwick): Not making sense: ambiguity and affect in the Agamemnon

Petra Hendriks (Groningen): Interpreting ambiguity in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon

coffee

11.00-12.30 | Intertextuality and intervisuality

Emily Clifford (Oxford): The face that launched a thousand ships? Intervisuality in Agamemnon 218-46

Katharine Earnshaw (Exeter): Hesiod, Lucretius, agriculture and the weather in the Agamemnon

lunch

13.30-15.00 | Performance

Helen Eastman (theatre director) and André Lardinois (Nijmegen): Experiencing the chorus in the prologue of Aeschylus' Agamemnon in performance

coffee

15.30-17.00 | Sound, meaning and enjoyment

Karen Coats (Cambridge): The music of what happens: phonological worldbuilding

Arjan Nijk (Amsterdam): Rhythm and melody

17.00-17.30 | Close