(a response to the paper “Oedipus and Nature’s Rage” by Dr Gabriela Dragnea Horvath) As I walk over the aged bricks here that pave my urban driveway’s looping form, I see profusion of gum tree …
— for David Most of us wouldn’t regret publishing “Flush,” VW’s biography of Barrett Browning’s cocker, but she did: “I shall be very much depressed, I think . . . They’ll say it’s charming, delicate, …
December 1937, Nanjing I ducked. With a thunderous rumble, more masonry fell into the open space backing the great city wall and Zhongshan Gate. Another Japanese shelling. White dust billowed sideways on the road where …
Michael Wyatt, editor: The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance, Cambridge University Press, 2014 Aimed “to provide a broad framework for the interdisciplinary study of the Italian Renaissance” (xvii), the volume contains 17 essays that …
Note: page numbers from Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a dog, are given in brackets, while the end notes include the other referenced texts. Truth coming only through suffering this is true, rest assured. But they …
Introduction Nothing that I can think of at the moment could seem more trivial than the association of imagination with education. As we speak, the largest nation on earth is studying the educational system that—so …
The following essay was presented at the conference: The Capacity for Renaissance: the logic and force of the imagination, Gonzaga-in-Florence, February 20-22, 2014. The title of this paper undoubtedly has little imagination. It is not …
