On second thought. / by Gray, James, 1899-1984

Table of Contents: “…Marquand, Struthers Burt -- Forever panting and forever young: Thomas Wolfe, William Saroyan -- A local habitation: Erskine Caldwell, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, John Steinbeck -- Aunts from Virginia: Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow -- The catastrophe of competence: Edna Ferber, Louis Bromfield -- Obituary for the human race: Aldous Huxley, Somerset Maugham -- Dream of unfair women: Nancy Hale, Clare Boothe Luce, Dorothy Parker -- Hypatia at the helm: Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain, Phyllis Bentley, Storm Jameson -- We walk in anguish: Thomas Mann, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, André Malraux, Jules Romains, Erich Maria Remarque, Arthur Koestler, Mark Aldanov, Georges Duhamel -- Half-gods on the threshold.…”
CONNECT
CONNECT

A future in ruins : UNESCO, world heritage, and the dream of peace / by Meskell, Lynn

CONNECT

Lockdown cultures: the arts and humanities in the year of the pandemic, 2020-21. /

Table of Contents: “…Hart</i>18 The Great Plague: London's Dreaded Visitation, 1665<br><i>Justin Hardy</i><i> </i></p><p><b>Part IV: Literature and writing</b>19 Lessons for lockdown from Thomas Mann's <i>The Magic Mountain</i><i>Jennifer Rushworth</i>20 The locked room: On reading crime fiction during the Covid-19 pandemic<br><i>Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen</i>21 The weight of the shrinking world<br><i>Florian Mussgnug</i>22 A voice-mail lyric for a discipline in crisis: On Ben Lerner's 'The Media'<br><i>Matthew James Holman</i>23 20,000 leagues under confinement<br><i>Patrick Bray</i>24<i> </i>Reflections on Guixiu literary cultures in East Asia<br><i>Tzu-Yu Lin</i></p><p><b>Part V: Personal reflections</b>25 At home: Vaughan Williams' 'The Water Mill; and new meaninsg of 'quotidian'<br><i>Annika Lindskog</i>26 The habit of freedom<br><i>Naomi Siderfin</i>27 Pandemic dreaming<br><i>Adelais Mills</i>28 In pursuit of blandness: On re-reading Jullien's <i>In Praise of Blandness</i> during lockdown<br><i>Emily Furnell</i>29<i> </i>Blinded lights: going viral during the Covid-19 pandemic<br><i>Sarah Moore</i></p><p><b>Part VI: Visual responses</b>30 Morphologies of agents of the pandemic<br><i>SMRU (The Social Morphologies Research Unit : Davdi Burrows,Martin Holbraad, John Cussans, Kelly Fagan Robinson, Melanie Jackson, Dean Kenning, Inigo Minns, Lucy Sames, Hermione Spriggs, Mary Yacoob)</i>31 Wildfire<br><i>John Thomson and Alison Craighead</i>32 Poems from <i>Gospel Oak</i><br><i>Sharon Morris</i>33 I have a studio (visit) therefore I exist<br><i>Carey Young, Alice Channer, Anne Hardy and Karin Ruggaber</i>34 Inventory<br><i>Jayne Parker</i>35 After a long time or a short time<br><i>Elisabeth S. …”
CONNECT
CONNECT