Breath in the technoscientific imaginary
Here, Durham researcher Arthur Rose explores breath as a theme, metaphor and plot device in Science Fiction. Whether used to convey a sense of…
literature
‘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…
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…
Beckett’s Breathing Rhythms: Worstward Ho (1983) and Stirrings Still (1989)
As part of a seminar on the Rhythm of Prose at the American Comparative Literature Association 2016 conference, Arthur Rose…
Affective Reading: Chaucer, Women, and Romance
Understanding how thoughts and feelings can affect the body is a key strand of our research. Here, team member Corinne Saunders explores how the interaction…
Making the invisible visible (2)
Rebecca Oxley, post-doctoral research fellow on the Life of Breath project, writes about the recent project launch in Durham (see…
‘All his heart was cold’
In honour of the Glastonbury Festival, Jess Farr-Cox, Project Manager (Bristol) writes a post with an Arthurian flavour (see also ‘Arthur’s…
Way up high
Jess Farr-Cox (Project Manager, Bristol) writes: Our recent official launch of the project was in many ways a model of…
Air and climate: an historical introduction
Mike Emanuel, Research Associate at Oxford Brookes University, Department of History, Philosophy and Religion, writes: In the fifth century BC, Hippocrates, in ‘On…
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