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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: TLRH | School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar
Description: Tuesday, 11 May 2021, 4 – 5pm
Research presentations by Jason Marrott, Tom Hedley, and Conor Brennan as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub.
Speaking to the Mirror: A Brief Cultural History of Solitude
JASON MARROTT
There is an inherently paradoxical aspect to the mediation of solitude, for to express it entails a betrayal of its core principal: the seclusion of the individual from the many. When an audience learns of an experience of solitude, it necessarily ceases to truly be a solitary one.
The choice to practice solitude is of...