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SUMMARY:Percival Everett: The 2026 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Percival Everett: The 2026 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Percival Everett: The 2026 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters\n\n\n\nThe Myth of Propositional Content and the Possibility of Fiction \n\n\n\nWhere does meaning reside in fiction\, and how is it constructed when context itself is propositional? How does a culture read and understand when the driving push toward fiction is fueled by voyeurism? \n\n\n\nIn this lecture\, Percival Everett explores how readers generate meaning from narrative\, and how fiction’s interpretive demands are shaped by culture\, perception\, and curiosity. \n\n\n\nEverett argues that the ability to read fiction critically and extrapolate meaning beyond the text is essential to a culture’s capacity for reasoning and empathy. He considers how storytelling operates when driven by voyeurism\, and what this reveals about the ways audiences engage with narrative. \n\n\n\nPresented by the Rothermere American Institute as the 2026 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters\, Everett is a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author whose novel James reimagines Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from Jim’s perspective. \n\n\n\nThe lecture continues a distinguished series that has featured leading figures in American literature and criticism\, and forms part of Unfinished Revolutions\, a season tracing the living legacy of 1776. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease see important booking information below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooking information\n\n\n\nTickets: \n\n\n\nThis event is currently sold out. To be added to the waiting list\, email tickets@schwarzmancentre.ox.ac.uk or call 01865 615500 (Monday to Friday\, 12.00pm to 6:00pm). \n\n\n\nRunning time: \n\n\n\nApproximately 1 hour and 15 minutes \n\n\n\nAge guidance: \n\n\n\nRecommended age 12+ \n\n\n\nLocation: \n\n\n\nTheatre \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities\n\n\n\n\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n\n\nSchwarzman Centre for the Humanities is a major new cultural and academic landmark for the University of Oxford\, bringing together seven humanities faculties with performance\, exhibition\, and public engagement spaces under one roof. Located in the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter\, it is designed to foster interdisciplinary collaboration while opening the humanities to a wider public through events\, performances\, and year-round programming. \n\n\n\nAt its heart are world-class venues including a concert hall\, theatre\, cinema\, recital spaces\, and galleries\, supported by flexible teaching and meeting facilities. A central atrium acts as a social hub\, blending academic life with informal gathering spaces\, cafés\, and exhibitions. More than a university facility\, the Centre functions as a civic cultural destination\, connecting scholarship with creative practice and strengthening Oxford’s wider cultural life. \n\n\n\nView venue information
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