218 research outputs found
The Ballad of Barnaby
This opera is based on the legend of The Juggler of Our Lady. It was composed in 1969 for performance by students at Wykeham Rise School in Washington, Connecticut. The narration in this liturgical drama was written by W. H. Auden (1907-1973), a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, primarily known for his poetry.
Cover artwork is by Edward Gorey.https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ul_rare_books/1013/thumbnail.jp
Letter from W.H. Auden, Brooklyn Heights, New York, New York, to Elizabeth Wheeler Manwaring, Wellesley, Massachusetts : typed manuscript signed, 1940 October 29
Concerning his recent visit to Wellesley.https://repository.wellesley.edu/autographletters/1122/thumbnail.jp
Letter from W.H. Auden, Brooklyn Heights, New York, New York, to Oscar Williams : autograph manuscript signed, 1940 October 30
I shall be delighted if you include the poems you mention.https://repository.wellesley.edu/autographletters/1123/thumbnail.jp
Belonging to a different landscape: repurposing nationalist affects
This is an article about the embodied, sensual experience of rural landscape as a site where racialized feelings of national belonging get produced. Largely impervious to criticism and reformation by 'thin' legal-political versions of multicultural or cosmopolitan citizenship, it is my suggestion that this racialized belonging is best confronted through the recognition and appreciation of precisely what makes it so compelling. Through an engagement with the theorization of affect in the work of Divya Praful Tolia-Kelly, I consider the resources immanent to the perception of landscapes of national belonging that might be repurposed to unravel that belonging from within. I suggest that forms of environmental consciousness can unpick the mutually reinforcing relationships between nature and nation, opening up opportunities for thinking identity and belonging in different ways, and allowing rural landscapes to become more hospitable places
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