'How do you sleep at night knowing all this?': climate breakdown, sleep, and extractive capitalism in contemporary literature and culture [0.03%]
“你何以入眠？——当代文学与文化中的气候破坏、睡眠和榨取资本主义》
Diletta De Cristofaro
Diletta De Cristofaro
Contributing to the emerging field of critical sleep studies, and developing an intervention situated at the intersection of the environmental and the medical humanities, this article considers a range of contemporary texts: Jenny Offill's ...
Laura Salisbury
Laura Salisbury
This article analyses 'doomscrolling', or the compulsive reading of anxiety-inducing online content during the COVID-19 pandemic, against the common idea that it is simply an addictive social practice that impedes mental flourishing. Instea...
William Rees
William Rees
I examine the paradoxical place of narcissism in contemporary culture, and within the work of Freud. Paying close attention to the repeated moments of equivocation and contradiction within Freud's descriptions of primary and secondary narci...
Love, wind eggs, and mere conceptions: non-generation in William Harvey's De conceptione [0.03%]
论威廉·哈维的《论生成》中的不生成理论
Isabel Davis
Isabel Davis
This essay offers a new reading of William Harvey's De conceptione, considering for the first time its interest in non-generative conception. Further, it considers the way that Harvey entangles observations about erotic and maternal love in...
Illness and femininity in Hilary Mantel's Giving Up the Ghost (2003) [0.03%]
hilary mantel《告别幽灵》中的疾病与女性形象分析
Neil Vickers
Neil Vickers
This paper offers a reading of Hilary Mantel's memoir, Giving Up The Ghost (2003). The interest of the memoir derives from the fact that it provides an exceptionally rich picture of the impact of family life on a child's attitudes towards h...
Illness and femininity in Hilary Mantel's Giving Up the Ghost (2003) [0.03%]
希尔凯·曼特尔《放弃鬼魂（2003）》中的疾病与女性特质研究
Neil Vickers
Neil Vickers
This paper offers a reading of Hilary Mantel's memoir, Giving Up The Ghost (2003). The interest of the memoir derives from the fact that it provides an exceptionally rich picture of the impact of family life on a child's attitudes towards h...
Muriel Spark's 'informed air': the auditory imagination and the voices of fiction [0.03%]
关于蒙塞尔·斯帕克的《作品》：“有内容的腔调”、听觉想象与小说中的声音问题
Patricia Waugh
Patricia Waugh
'Events occur in my mind', Spark has written, 'and I record them'. What does it mean to hear something that isn't there? Hearing inner speech or sounds, not as silent thoughts but as quasi-perceptual events in the world, confounds settled d...
Neil Vickers
Neil Vickers
This paper focuses on the presentation of the body in Martin Amis's memoir Experience (2000) and compares Amis's account of the growth of his mind and body with ideas put forward by writers in the phenomenological and psychoanalytic traditi...
L Jordanova
L Jordanova