Recently added articles from Queen's Quarterly:
Last days of the Lion King.(From the Editor)(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2009 ... IN this issue, devoted to images of the past, David Day's collection of "Lost Animals" is particularly poignant. In every culture, childhood is full of animal stories. Teddy bears and Lion Kings are the constant companions of children, as they are also the keepers of their dreams--where ...
People of the Grid: Passion and Reason in Modern Design: the grid is the site where reason and order struggle for supremacy with passion and disorder. It represents the collision of two sensibilities that are forever forced to live side by side within the same society and often within the same personality. Even as we struggle to impose order on our economic and private lives, something within us yearns for an element of chaos.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... PANIC ATTACKS and heart palpitations afflicted Samuel Beckett in 1933, when he was 27. He retreated in misery from his family and spent all day in bed with his face to the wall, refusing to talk or eat. Eventually he decided on psychotherapy and left Dublin for treatment with Wilfred Bion ...
Hollywood Sells Heritage: England's great historic houses are starting to flaunt their use in the production of motion pictures. Is this changing the way the public views them? Is this undermining heritage? Or is it a deliberate strategy to win new devotees and enlarge a sense of public history?(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... AMONG Britain's host of stately houses that evoke national pride, Chatsworth remains pre-eminent. The magnificent seat of the Duke of Devonshire was built in the seventeenth century in a more restrained English version of the flamboyant baroque style that was then in vogue in Europe ....
The Dawn of the Colour Photograph: Albert Kahn's Archives of the Planet.(Photograph)
Jun 22, 2009; ... In 1909, French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn launched a monumentally ambitious project, the creation of a "world memory" through images. He called it the Archives of the Planet, in a clear reference to the spirit of the eighteenth-century encyclopedia. Kahn wanted this great ...
Lost Animals: A Book of Hours.(introduction and excerpt)(Excerpt)(Collection)
Jun 22, 2009; ... We celebrate the legacy of Charles Darwin, who pioneered the idea of natural selection, the survival of the fittest species over the millennia. We would do well, however, to recall our own species' role in eliminating countless fellow-travellers during our short period at the top of this ...