scholarly journals Sir Thomas Browne: Boulimia Centenaria – psychiatry in history

2019 ◽  
Vol 214 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-102
Author(s):  
Greg Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Browne

Wordly Corrasions: Philology and Narrative inWorstward Ho

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-68
Author(s):  
Mark Byron
Keyword(s):  
First Principles ◽  
Alexander Pope ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Water Ice ◽  
Primary Documents ◽  
Land Farming ◽  
King James Bible ◽  
A Site ◽  
Thomas Browne ◽  
Geological Formations

Scholarly research over the last twenty years has marked a profound shift in the understanding of Beckett's sources, his methods of composition, and his attitudes towards citation and allusion in manuscript documents and published texts. Such landmark studies as James Knowlson's biography, Damned to Fame (1996), and John Pilling's edition of the Dream Notebook (1999), and the availability of primary documents such as Beckett's reading notes at Reading and Trinity libraries, opened the way for a generation of work rethinking Beckett's textual habitus. Given this profound reappraisal of Beckett's material processes of composition, this paper seeks to show that Beckett's late prose work, Worstward Ho, represents a profound mediation on writing, self-citation, and habits of allusion to the literary canon. In its epic gestures, it reorients the heavenly aspiration of Dante's Commedia earthwards, invoking instead the language of agriculture, geology and masonry in the process of creating and decreating its imaginative space. Beckett's earthy epic invokes and erodes the first principles of narrative by way of philology as well as by means of deft reference to literary texts and images preoccupied with land, farming, and geological formations. This process is described in the word corrasion, a geological term referring to the erosion of rock by various forms of water, ice, snow and moraine. Textual excursions into philology in Worstward Ho also unearth the strata comprising Beckett's corpus (in particular Imagination Dead Imagine, The Lost Ones, and Ill Seen Ill Said), as well as the rock or canon upon which his own literary production is built. A close reading of Worstward Ho turns up a number of shrewd allusions to the King James Bible and Thomas Browne, as one might expect, but also perhaps surprisingly sustained affinities with the literary sensibilities of Alexander Pope and the poetry of S. T. Coleridge. The more one digs, the more Beckett's ‘little epic’ seems to become one of earthworks, bits of pipe, and masonry, a site and record of literary sedimentation.

Sir Thomas Browne: Tom Brown

1919 ◽  
Vol s12-V (91) ◽  
pp. 110-110
Author(s):  
W. Kent
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Browne

Sir Thomas Browne: Anne Townshend

1909 ◽  
Vol s10-XI (285) ◽  
pp. 474-474
Author(s):  
G. R. Brigstocke
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Browne

Rock Paintings in the Libyan Desert

Antiquity ◽  
1936 ◽  
Vol 10 (38) ◽  
pp. 175-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. B. Kennedy Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Nile Valley ◽  
Rock Paintings ◽  
Libyan Desert ◽  
Thomas Browne

‘Time’, wrote Sir Thomas Browne, ‘which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments’. The Nile Valley is full of major monuments—pyramids, tombs and temples; each expedition which goes into the Libyan Desert learns that it is well-filled with minor ones and remarkable among these are paintings and gravings on rocks.

scholarly journals Edward Thomas Browne 1866–1937

1938 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 405-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. J. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Browne

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SIR THOMAS BROWNE.

The Lancet ◽  
1924 ◽  
Vol 204 (5268) ◽  
pp. 355
Author(s):  
H.P. Cholmeley
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Browne

BORGES, SIR THOMAS BROWNE AND THE THEME OF METEMPSYCHOSIS

1992 ◽  
Vol XXVIII (3) ◽  
pp. 268-279
Author(s):  
CYNTHIA STEPHENS
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Browne
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