The Risk is Part of the Rhythm
This artifice of the colloquial, the collision of tradition-drenched formality with streetwise argot, plays as large a part in Denby’s poetry as it did in his conversation, providing what Cal Revely-Calder calls the “fussiness native to Denby’s style.”
Authenticity in Historical Film
The Romans’ pop-cultural presence in cinema produced such classics as Ben Hur, Cleopatra, Life of Brian, Spartacus, I, Claudius, and even the first Gladiator, along with a plethora of other movies, musicals, and television shows.
A Music of Hautboys: Plutarch, Shakespeare, Cavafy, Eliot
Plutarch’s “marvellous sweet harmony” (as North would have it) has travelled north, west and south again, over the centuries, and been transposed for ghostly oboe, then become “exquisite” music in Alexandria, “defunctive” music in Eliot’s Venice, and been heard throughout the Magna Grecia, from the Nile and then far beyond to the Avon and the Thames.
Riding the Wave: Contemplative Studies Goes Mainstream
We see contemplative study and practice as offering students and teachers alike a set of tools to critically reflect upon and, even, to resist instrumentalism and commodification, while helping enhance the classroom environment.
Kazuya Sakai in Texas
How did an Argentine artist, critic, translator, jazz expert, radio host, graphic designer, professor, and pioneer of geometric abstraction in Mexico come to retire in Richardson, Texas?
Concerning Confederate Monuments
In the context of Oldenburg’s third place, these statues should not exist in the public realm specifically because of their lack of neutrality and inclusiveness.
Classicism by Decree
Greenberg dwells on the current function of “kitsch,” which he defines as “academicized simulacra of genuine culture,” and “vicarious experience and faked sensations.”
Nowhere at Home: Albert Einstein, the ‘Gypsy’ Who Became a Citizen of the World
Towards each and every one of these countries in which he lived or travelled, he felt an ambivalence. With the possible exception of Switzerland, Einstein felt nowhere at home throughout his life.
The Man Who Insulted Shakespeare
The old system of aristocratic literary patronage was on the wane; Greene and his friends still sought patronage by attaching fulsome dedications to their works, but with slender or no results.
My Detroit, My Afghanistan
Despite enforced school segregation, my father became a diligent and helpful high school teacher at all-black Miller High, where he taught kids like jazz great Kenny Burrell.
Dispatches From the Emotional Rollercoaster
Two decades of concentrated empirical research into the history of emotions has armed historians with broad knowledge claims about what emotions are, how they work, and upon what they are contingent.
From the Outside In: A Foreigner’s Education in American History
As I’ve grown more familiar with the colonists’ habits and beliefs, however, I’ve become increasingly skeptical of the Americanization thesis.
#MeToo Books: Entry Points for Men’s Understanding a Women’s Movement
More than any of the other books above, Speak enables a reader (female or male) to immerse in the experience of having been assaulted—and the traumatic aftermath.
The Incursion of Administrative Language into the Education of Artists
In effect we teach strategies of disunity in the place of the Aristotelian unities, and our students practice making disunified works as soon as they become aware of the possibility.
Geology of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex: A Primer
One reason that population and economic activity in north central Texas focused on the Metroplex is because the Trinity River is short and does not flow over the salt deposits to the west.
What Does Charlie Hebdo Have To Do With U.S. Campuses?
Charlie’s total emancipation from civilized society’s hang-ups, our complexes, the sheer and wanton self-expression of its cartoonists, had stood—briefly—as a universal banner uniting all “free” people, countered by cold and calculated murder with military-style weapons perpetrated in the name of a religion that the attackers claimed to be defending.
