Valentine Cunningham is Fellow and Senior Tutor in English Literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, University Professor of English at Oxford, and Visiting Professor at the University of Konstanz in Germany. He reviews widely for British and American journals and newspapers including The Observer, and broadcasts regularly for the BBC. He was a judge for the Booker Prize in 1992 and was formerly Regional Chair of the judges for the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia region.) He has written a number of books including Everywhere Spoken Against: Dissent in the Victorian Novel, British Writers of the Thirties, In The Reading Goal: Postmodernity, Texts, and History and Reading After Theory. BA (Keble College), MA, Dphil(St. John's College).
Getting to the Bottom of It, or What's Yarning for?
Speaker(s): Valentine Cunningham
Date: July 27, 2005
Length: 55:12
Product ID: RGDL3509V
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In this Evening Public Lecture Dr. Cunningham discusses the truth value of language and story in a modern context of conflict in interpretation.
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