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SUMMARY:The Ideal Self: Flattery in Julius Caesar - Dr Maria Sequeira Mend
 es (Beaufort Visiting Fellow\, St John's College)
DTSTART:20170131T174500Z
DTEND:20170131T191500Z
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CONTACT:Dr Rachel E. Holmes
DESCRIPTION:Susceptibility to flattery has long been considered a characte
 r flaw\, which is the reason those who believe it are usually described as
  being vain\, proud\, tyrannical or conceited. I will close-read Shakespea
 re’s Julius Caesar\, so as to question if Caesar’s failure to antici
 pate the conspirators’ plot is\, as is usually thought\, an illustration
  of his proneness to flattery or\, as I hope to show\, an example of the f
 latterer’s capacity to mirror one’s own mind. Flatterers might be very
  able in showing rhetorically what the flattered person’s ideal self wou
 ld look like\, and they might in turn tend to supplement rhetorical sugge
 stion with their own desires and concerns. If this is the case\, flattery 
 is central to understanding that Julius Caesar describes a hermeneutic d
 ifficulty\, and characterises the difficulties of knowing another’s mind
 .
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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