by Talking Humanities | Mar 5, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Languages & Literature
Student Mark Pickett (MA History of the Book) wonders at the splendour created in historical literary texts by the then emerging technologies. The Latin root noun textus (meaning ‘texture, tissue, structure’) indicates the sheer craftsmanship that goes into making...
by Talking Humanities | May 8, 2018 | Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement, Republished
Professor Richard Marggraf Turley explains how ‘self-tracking’ inspired him to develop ‘The Vortex’ – a machine that analyses our reactions to sublime and Gothic works. ‘I’ve got chills, they’re multiplying,’ sang John Travolta, dancing off with Olivia Newton John at...
