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Hace 3 días · Perhaps most controversially, Harman makes the Victorian art critic and social visionary John Ruskin a central end point to his narrative through which the unity and disunity of the ‘culture of nature’ must be understood.
Hace 9 horas · Ruskin Bond, who towers over the Indian literary scene like the ancient green turrets and shamrocked spandrels of Mussoorie’s twice-born Savoy Hotel looming over the township’s gossip, is a beacon of courage in despair. His over 200 book titles and 500 stories have enjoyed tremendous popular success and critical acclaim.
Hace 2 días · The work of one of Britain’s favourite literary writers, Beatrix Potter, ... The life and works of Victorian critic and artist, John Ruskin, are celebrated at his former home, ...
Hace 4 días · I. INTRODUCTION. In a recent paper, Robert Hopkins has revived a time-honored discussion about the role that culturally specific artifacts such as architectural structures play “as repositories of cultural memory” (Hopkins 2023, 153).Taking further this question famously addressed by John Ruskin and developed by Anthony Savile, Hopkins compellingly argues that rather than merely ...
Hace 3 días · Like 19th century art critic and polymath, John Ruskin, I have also been interested in the question of whether buildings have become uglier and blander due to a loss of vitality in our Christian faith and culture. Here’s an interesting response to this question I received on YouTube from a viewer:
Hace 5 días · On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, literary legend Ruskin Bond brings to readers a heartfelt letter capturing his most cherished memories and experiences. Penning his thoughts with sincerity and grace, the writer reflects upon love, loss, friendship, frailties, solitude and companionship—the bittersweet experience of human existence.
Hace 2 días · The resulting unevenness and incompleteness of his achievement, scattered among essays, literary criticism, conversations, letters, and poetry, led him to lament in an 1884 letter to Charles Eliot Norton, his friend and publisher, “I feel my life has been mainly wasted—that I have thrown away more than most men ever had; but I have never been able to shake off the indolence (I know not ...
