From 12:00pm ending at 12:30pm 16 days later, on Wednesday 19 March
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Commonplaces are general truths distilled from lived experience which are passed down to guide people's understanding of other people, things and abstract concepts alike. The patterns of their appearances in literary texts similarly reflect people's approaches to generalisation and categorisation—of textual forms like genre as much as broader conceptual categories. This online exhibition showcases some commonplaces, analogies and metaphors ubiquitous across select early nineteenth-century narratives and poetry, which may give us a glimpse of the shifting networks of association and inferences from the past. Share your thoughts on these commonplaces via the online exhibition website so we may see if these fragmented understandings may still hold!
Please sign up here for this event: https://genericinference.co.uk/
