Against Finality
Subtitle: Inaugural Lecture, Delivered 4th February 1993
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780521459549
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Public Speaking; History and criticism; Language Arts & Disciplines; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Reference; Theory, etc; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English language; English literature; Semantics
First sentence: Vice-chancellor, Ladies and Gentlemen, Inauguration takes its name from the ancient Roman custom of judging the omens for a particular enterprise by studying the flight of birds; and it is customary for an inaugural lecture to provide a similar occasion when the omens for one's subject can be considered, drawing on any auguries that offer themselves.