Every Last Breath (1)
In an essay that first appeared in Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction (Spring 2011, pp. 117-118), Professor of English Joanne…
Posts by Sarah McLusky
‘With wide lungs’: smoking, wind and air in W. Somerset Maugham’s The Merry-Go-Round
Jess Farr-Cox, Project Manager (Bristol) writes: The Merry-Go-Round is not as well-known as other works by W. Somerset Maugham, such…
Breathing Space (May 2016)
Life of Breath team members and collaborators gathered in Bristol on 12 and 13 May 2016 for one of our…
Arthur’s ‘labouring of the lungs’ in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King
Elsa Hammond is a PhD candidate at the University of Bristol, working on breath and death in the poetry of…
The Philosophical Role of Illness
Philosophical methods have been used to study illness for several decades. Havi Carel reverses the relationship between the two, asking:…
Metaphysics and heavy breathing (or Tippett’s Fourth Symphony)
How can art (in this case, music) illuminate human experience? Here project collaborator Toby Young contemplates Tippett’s Symphony No. 4 (1977), a ‘birth…
Should I fear my death?
Where death is, I am no longer, where I am death is not. If life and death are mutually exclusive, then…
Metaphysics and Heavy Breathing (or Tippett’s Fourth Symphony)
Composer Toby Young writes: Tippett’s Fourth Symphony is a vast and complex tone poem, concerned with life, death and the…
British Society for Literature and Science Conference 2016
‘Breath in literature’ was the theme for a Life of Breath panel at the 2016 Annual Conference of the British…
The philosophical role of illness – and how it can teach us to live reflectively
Principle Investigator on the Life of Breath and professor of philosophy Havi Carel will be giving her inaugural lecture on ‘The…
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