Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Arts and Humanities (3)
- Creative Writing (2)
- Digital Humanities (2)
- Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2)
- Agricultural and Resource Economics (1)
-
- American Literature (1)
- American Studies (1)
- Art Practice (1)
- Art and Design (1)
- Audio Arts and Acoustics (1)
- Australian Studies (1)
- Communication (1)
- Education (1)
- English Language and Literature (1)
- Film and Media Studies (1)
- Fine Arts (1)
- Legal Studies (1)
- Linguistics (1)
- Medicine and Health Sciences (1)
- Philosophy (1)
- Political Science (1)
- Public Health (1)
- Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies (1)
- Radio (1)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (1)
- Sociology (1)
- Theatre and Performance Studies (1)
Articles 1 - 4 of 4
Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network
A Covid Calendar, In Twelve Animals, Dana Medoro
A Covid Calendar, In Twelve Animals, Dana Medoro
Animal Studies Journal
This poem reflects upon the year 2020, the death of an animal-activist in Canada, and the murderous effects of COVID-19 on non-human animals
A Great Chaos Of Sound: Alternative Practices Of Working Through Madness, Alienation, And The Aesthetics Of Catastrophe In 60s Britain, Mark Harris
Counterculture Studies
After Bomb Culture, Jeff Nuttall’s valediction to 1960s relentless anti-system experimentation, what kind of call to order were the Portsmouth Sinfonia’s commitment to community DIY practice and Veronica Forrest-Thomson’s withdrawal of language from meaning? Nuttall’s Laingian references to madness acclaim culture as symptomatic of living with the H-bomb. This essay considers alternative expressions of intimacy and apartness like Doris Lessing’s writing on women’s madness, the Caribbean Artists Movement’s understanding of schizophrenic post-colonial consciousness, and Kate Millet’s and Robert Wyatt’s eulogies to friends and partners, as marginalized by the aesthetics of catastrophe of Nuttall and his Destruction in Art Symposium …
Moving, Belonging, And Sorrow In ‘A Very Different Time’ By Phil Smith, Silvia Viñas
Moving, Belonging, And Sorrow In ‘A Very Different Time’ By Phil Smith, Silvia Viñas
RadioDoc Review
Phil Smith’s A Very Different Time weaves poetry, music, ambience and snapshots of stories in an audio piece about movement, nostalgia, change and sorrow. It includes the voices of people he met while living in Berlin: a West African refugee; a musician and academic from the United States; a Syrian refugee escaping war; an academic of Italian/German citizenship; and a German musician who moved from a small town to the city. To this stream of voices, Smith adds layers of music, different beats, street sounds, distortion, the ambience that recall the words – valleys, mountains, water and islands –and a …
Anne Sexton's Environmental Animality, Dan A. Wylie Prof
Anne Sexton's Environmental Animality, Dan A. Wylie Prof
Animal Studies Journal
What does it mean to study the intersection of environment, animals and literature, at this juncture in human history? How might it manifest at the level of an individual poet’s work, with what consequences? This paper approaches these questions through the poetry of Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, Anne Sexton. Sexton’s poetry has been exhaustively studied for its psychological dimensions and forcefulness, for her treatment of madness, suicide, and family relationships in particular. Despite a high density of animal imagery, this animal element is conventionally skimmed over. This article argues that animal presences constitute a minor but unavoidable strand amongst the …