1. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: How the Arts Help Us to Live 2. Fin-de-Siècle Lyric: W. B. Yeats and Jorie Graham 3. The Unweary Blues: The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes 4. The Nothing That Is: Chickamauga, by Charles Wright 5. American X-Rays: Forty Years of...
The article presents a discussion regarding the choice of history and philosophy and other forms of learning as the foundation of the group of several universities in the U.S. under the name "The Humanities," adapted from the 33rd Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities delivered by Helen Vendler....
The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar gathers two decades’ worth of Helen Vendler’s essays, book reviews, and occasional prose—including the 2004 Jefferson Lecture—in a single volume. “It’s one of [Vendler’s] finest books, an impressive summation of a long, distinguished career in ...
The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar. Offers a look at the importance of the humanities and how the study of the humanities should be encouraged. Claim that the humanities should take as their ... Vendler,Helen - 《New Republic》 被引量: 0发表: 2004年 A discussion concerning the floor...
Helena, looking from the lonely rock across the wide ocean, while great thoughts swept through his soul. Ah! what tales the Moon can tell. Human life is like a story to him. To-night I shall not see thee again, old friend. Tonight I can draw no picture of the memories of thy ...
implications on the phenology of primary producers19, ultimately impacting the total primary productivity of the Arctic20. For example, the primary production in the Arctic Ocean increased by 30% between 1998 and 201221. Clearly, these changes will deeply modify the structure and the functioning of...
The lift that animal wings generate to fly is typically considered a vertical force that supports weight, while drag is considered a horizontal force that opposes thrust. To determine how birds use lift and drag, here we report aerodynamic forces and kin
Book Summary: A successful scholar and witch, Diana Bishop, discovers a powerful and long-lost manuscript, Ashmole 782, in Oxord’s Bodleian Library. The alchemical book may include the origins of witches, vampires, and daemons. Only now, everyone is after Diana and the book – including...
1) is one of Earth’s youngest ocean basins and the type-locality to examine continental rifting and the transition to ocean spreading1,2,3. Yet, despite its geological importance, tectonic models developed for the Red Sea are highly diverse and debated (Fig. 2), making it difficult to ...
‘Ghost cities’ are a well-known phenomenon of (almost) complete vacancy of urban living space in China. Underutilization of urban living space, however, is far more common than complete vacancy. Here we propose the concept of housing utilization effici