Gary Kuchar Talk on the Art of Hearkening: March 1, 2016, 2:30 PM
Gary Kuchar will present a talk on "George Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Art of Hearkening: Listening for 'The Odour'" on Tuesday, March 1, 2:30 p.m. in Clearihue Building, Room A303.
Gary Kuchar will present a talk on "George Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Art of Hearkening: Listening for 'The Odour'" on Tuesday, March 1, 2:30 p.m. in Clearihue Building, Room A303.
Although the Protestant Reformation is generally viewed as a revolution in reading, most people in early modern England heard the bible more often than they read it. The oral nature of biblical culture in early modern England was part and parcel of its general tendency to ethically privilege hearing over sight. Such attitudes and practices raise the question of what, exactly, it meant to listen to God’s Word in seventeenth-century England? Dr. Kuchar addresses this question in his talk on March 1.