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Poems on the Underground archive arrives at Cambridge 探花直播 Library

sjr81 — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 14:29:41 +0000

Beloved poetry project archive contains letters from Nobel Prize winners and Poet Laureates

World's oldest Korean Bibles at Cambridge 探花直播 Library

sjr81 — Wed, 22 May 2019 23:25:49 +0000

探花直播library is home to one of the most significant collections of early Korean bibles anywhere in the world.

Cambridge 探花直播 Library stages first public play in its 600-year history

sjr81 — Wed, 01 May 2019 14:45:53 +0000

Performance marked the launch of digital edition of Arthur Schnitzler's works and archive.

State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin

sjr81 — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 08:02:57 +0000

Towards the end of the 1960s, rumours began to spread that nonconformist citizens of the USSR were being diagnosed with mental illnesses and confined to psychiatric hospitals.

Arthur Schnitzler Digital Edition

sjr81 — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 10:15:45 +0000

Arthur Schnitzler聽digital:聽Digital Critical Edition (Works from 1905 to 1931

探花直播Lost Words: inspiring children to love and protect nature

lw355 — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 09:23:58 +0000

探花直播Lost Words聽is a book by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris that summons the magic of nature to help children find, love and protect the natural world.

Cambridge ceremony reveals the winners of BBC Short Story and Young Writers鈥� Awards

sjr81 — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 18:45:20 +0000

Announced this evening during a live broadcast of 聽BBC Radio 4鈥檚鈥楩ront Row鈥� from the 探花直播鈥檚 West Road Concert Hall, Persaud was presented with the 拢15,000 prize for a work described by judge and previous winner of the award, K J Orr as 鈥渢ender and ebullient, heartbreaking and full of humour鈥�.

Meanwhile, the winner of the 2018 BBC Young Writers鈥� Award with First Story and Cambridge 探花直播 was also revealed, before a reception for all the winning and shortlisted writers at Cambridge 探花直播 Library.

Davina Bacon from Cambridgeshire won with 鈥楿nder a Deep Blue Sky鈥�, a raw and emotionally powerful short story about a young African poacher and the brutal murder of a mother and baby elephant.

Chair of the National Short Story award judges and Editor of the TLS, Stig Abell said of Persaud鈥檚 work: 鈥� 探花直播judges were unanimous in their praise for a story which keeps a consistency of voice without smoothing over the reality of genuine conflict. 探花直播relationship between Victor and Reggie, estranged father and son, who find solace in chocolate, is an utterly convincing and memorable one, a clever inversion of normal parental process.鈥�

Dr Sarah Dillon, 探花直播 Lecturer in Cambridge鈥檚 Faculty of English said: 鈥淢any congratulations to Ingrid Persaud on winning, and with such a beautiful story. It was a pleasure to host the award ceremony at the 探花直播 and to celebrate all the shortlisted writers amongst the stacks in the 探花直播 Library.

鈥淲e hope that this is the beginning of an ongoing relationship between the writers and our students, especially those honing their craft at the 探花直播's Centre for Creative Writing."

Davina鈥檚 winning story was inspired by her early life living in Africa and her passion for the environment, Her story was praised by author and judge William Sutcliffe as a 鈥榮uperlative piece of writing by any measure, regardless of the age of the writer鈥� and by fellow judge and actress Carrie Hope Fletcher, for its 鈥榗ompassion and intelligence鈥�.

Citing Michael Morpurgo as an influence on her writing style and having recently read a lot of post-colonial literature including Chinua Achebe鈥檚 Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah, Davina Bacon鈥檚 winning story is inspired by her earlier years spent living in Malawi.

She said: 鈥淢y story is based on Kasunga National Park where they have issues with poachers crossing the border from Zambia to kill elephants. 探花直播population has decreased rapidly and this is very worrying.鈥�

鈥楿nder a Deep Blue Sky鈥� available to read and listen to on the Radio 1 website, read by Don Gilet of the BBC Radio Drama Company. An interview with Davina will be available on the Life Hacks podcast from Sunday 7 October. Davina will also receive a personalised mentoring session with an author to enhance and further develop her writing skills.

Meanwhile, 鈥� 探花直播Sweet Sop鈥� is available to listen to at www.bbc.co.uk/nssa, read by Leemore Marrett Junior.

Added Dr Dillon: 鈥淐ongratulations to Davina Bacon on winning the 2018 BBC Young Writers' Award with First Story and Cambridge 探花直播. To capture in just 1,000 words a character's present, past, and perilous future is a feat for any writer, let alone one 17 years of age. Stories like this show just how powerful this form can be - hitting you hard and fast, haunting you for long after.鈥�

This is the fourth year of the BBC Young Writers鈥� Award which invites 14 鈥� 18 year olds to submit stories of up to 1,000 words. 探花直播award was launched as part of the tenth anniversary celebrations of the BBC National Short Story Award and aims to inspire and encourage the next generation of writers.

All five shortlisted writers spent the day of the award ceremony at Cambridge 探花直播 where they met Young Writers鈥� Award judge and fifth聽laureate聽na n脫g (Ireland's laureate聽for children's literature) Sarah Crossan for a writing workshop in Cambridge 探花直播 Library.

They were also given a private tour of 鈥榁irginia Woolf: An exhibition inspired by her writings鈥� at the Fitzwilliam Museum before attending the live award ceremony.

Trinidadian writer Ingrid Persaud, has won the thirteenth BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge 探花直播 for 鈥� 探花直播Sweet Sop鈥�, her first short story about a young Trinidadian man reunited with his absent father via the power of chocolate.

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Blood and bodies: the messy meanings of a life-giving substance

amb206 — Thu, 03 May 2018 12:00:00 +0000

What is blood? Today we understand this precious fluid as essential to life. In medieval and early modern Europe, definitions of blood were almost too numerous to locate. Blood was simultaneously the red fluid in human veins, a humour governing temperament, a waste product, a cause of corruption, a source of life and a medical cure.

In 1628, William Harvey, physician to James I and alumnus of Gonville & Caius College, made a discovery that changed the course of medicine and science. As the result of careful observation, he deduced that blood circulated around the body. Harvey鈥檚 discovery not only changed the way blood was thought to relate to the heart but revolutionised early science by demanding that human physiology be examined through empirical observation rather than philosophical discourse.

This turning point, and its profound repercussions for ideas about blood, is one of many strands explored in Blood Matters: Studies of European Literature and Thought,. A collection of essays, edited by Bonnie Lander Johnson (English Faculty, Cambridge 探花直播) and Eleanor Decamp, it examines blood from a variety of literary, historical and philosophical perspectives.

鈥� 探花直播strength of the collection is that, in a series of themed headings, it brings together scholarship on blood to bridge the conventional boundaries between disciplines,鈥� says Lander Johnson. 鈥� 探花直播volume includes historical perspectives on practical uses of blood such as phlebotomy, butchery, alchemy and birth. Through literary approaches, it also examines metaphoric understandings of blood as wine, social class, sexual identity, family, and the self.鈥�

Contributors include several Cambridge academics. Hester Lees-Jeffries (English Faculty) writes about bloodstains in Shakespeare (most notable, of course, in Macbeth) and early modern textile culture. Heather Webb (Modern and Medieval Languages) looks at medieval understandings of blood as a spirit that existed outside the body, binding people and communities together. Joe Moshenska (English Faculty) examines the classical literary trope of trees that bleed when their branches are broken.

鈥� 探花直播idea for the book came from my previous聽聽work on chastity. I was struck that early modern writing about the body is all about fluids, especially blood. Blood was perceived as the vehicle for humours, the essence of being and the spirit 鈥� and something that could flow between people,鈥� says Lander Johnson.

鈥淚 became fascinated by the fact that we use this word all the time but we have no real sense of what we mean. Our predecessors used it even more frequently and yet there was no scholarship that could help me to begin to understand how many things blood meant for them. A conference at Oxford in 2014 brought together a group of people working in related fields. 探花直播book reflects the excitement of those three days.鈥�

Definitions of blood in Western European medical writing during the period covered by the book are changeable and conflicting. 鈥� 探花直播period鈥檚 many figurative uses of 鈥榖lood鈥� are even more difficult to pin down. 探花直播term appeared in almost every sphere of life and thought and ran through discourses as significant as divine right theory, doctrinal and liturgical controversy, political reform, and family and institutional organisation,鈥� says Lander Johnson.

鈥淏lood, of course, was at the centre of the religious schism that split 16th-century society. 聽探花直播doctrinal dispute over transubstantiation caused ongoing disagreements over the degree to which the bread and wine taken during Mass were materially altered into the body and blood of Christ or merely symbolic.鈥�

探花直播role of blood in sex and reproduction meant that it was routinely described as a force capable of both generation and corruption. Menstrual blood is a case in point. Menstruation was seen as a vital and purifying process, part of a natural cycle essential to human life. But menstrual blood and menstruating women were also thought to be corrupting.

In Shakespeare鈥檚 plays, blood makes many appearances, both spoken and staged, from bleeding wounds to the rebellious 鈥榟igh鈥� blood of youth. Lander Johnson examines Romeo and Juliet鈥檚 love affair in the light of early modern beliefs about weaning and sexual appetites.

鈥淲riting about birth and infancy reveals that early moderns were as anxious about their children鈥檚 health as we are but for them the pressing questions were: should I breastfeed my baby myself or give it to a wet nurse? How and when should I wean it to food? What sort of food?鈥� she says.

鈥� 探花直播wrong decision at this early stage of life could have a fatal outcome and was thought to not only form the child鈥檚 blood in either a healthy or corrupted state but also to shape the child鈥檚 moral appetites for the rest of their lives.鈥�

Blood is synonymous with family and, in elite circles, with dynasty. Contributor Katharine Craik (Oxford Brookes 探花直播) explores character and social class through references to blood in Shakespeare鈥檚 Henry IV and Henry V. In these plays about warfare and the relationships between royalty and common men, blood is often a substance that eliminates the differences between soldiers who die together in arms, their blood mingling in the dirt of the battlefield.

鈥淔requently these same descriptions turn into assertions of an essential difference between aristocratic and vulgar bloods,鈥� says Lander Johnson. 鈥淪hakespeare is particularly inventive at building character through distinctions of this kind.鈥�

In contrast, Ben Parsons (Leicester 探花直播) looks at blood and adolescence in the context of the medieval classroom where 鈥榯oo much blood鈥� was understood to cause wild and unruly behaviour. Medieval pedagogues were concerned about how the 鈥榝ull blood鈥� of students ought to be managed through the kind of material they were asked to read and when, the sort of food they ate while learning, and the style of punishment administered to those who were inattentive.

Blood Matters makes a valuable contribution to the history of the body and its place in literature and popular thought. It draws together scholarship that offers insight into both theory and practice during a period that saw the beginnings of empiricism and an overturning of the folklore that governed early medicine.

Today's scientists understand blood as a liquid comprising components essential to good health. But English remains a language peppered with references to blood that hint at our conflicted relationship with a liquid vital to human life.

A collection of essays explores understandings of a vital bodily fluid in the period 1400-1700. Its contributors offer insight into both theory and practice during a period that saw the start of empiricism and an overturning of the folklore that governed early medicine.

探花直播book brings together scholarship on blood to bridge the conventional boundaries between disciplines.

Bonnie Lander Johnson

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Detail from William Harvey's De motu cordis (experiment confirming direction of blood flow)

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