THE NEW MODEST PROPOSAL: A DIALOGUE

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  • Abbott Conway McGill University

Abstract

Surely somewhere in the dustier recesses of McGill, in leather armchairs and under dim light, there lurk for long hours each day the originals of Torpens and Scholasticus, those learned figures whose leisurely discourse, conducted over glasses of something forever partly plenished, oscillates forever between the lucid and the ludicrous. And somewhere in the empyrean far above, the lounging members of an even more Olympian club quaff their nectar and look down with their infinite amusement at the everlasting sturdy polarities of French and English, locked like two polecats within one polity. Out of such oppositions may emerge truth; and Abbott Conway puts deftly paid in one dialogue to two enduring misconceptions about language, the one academic and the other politic.

Author Biography

Abbott Conway, McGill University

Abbott Conway is graduate of the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Toronto, and the author of The Vita Christi of Ludolph of Saxony and Late Medieval Devotion Centred on the Incarnation (Salzburg 1976). He teaches Anglo Saxon, Middle English, and Canadian Literature in the Department of English at McGill University.

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Published

1979-01-01

How to Cite

Conway, A. (1979). THE NEW MODEST PROPOSAL: A DIALOGUE. McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 14(001). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/7258

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