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...Enlightenment, serving, for example, as important sources for Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert’s seminalEncyclopédie. The contents of the letters were various, but the Jesuits’ mission being what it was, it is perhaps not surprising that religion figured prominently, with many accounts of what would one day be called Buddhism. Well into the nineteenth century, Europeans divided the population of the world into four......

...articulation of West Indian migrant experience has preoccupied Caribbean writers in the post-war period, and, as you shall see, Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners was significant in this respect, though its use of dialect was also one of the factors that led British critics to dismiss its literary credentials when it was first published. As Susheila Nasta points out in...

...le m’ ghaol gu taobh a' chaochain iomallaich, chrom i h-aodann sios ri bhruaich ‘s cha robh a thuar fhéin tuilleadh air. Rainig mi a’ chluaineag chéin a rithist liom fhéin iomadh uair, agus nuair choimhead mi ‘san t-srulaich cha rogh ach gnuis té m’ ulaidh innt’. Ach bha na glinn is iad a’ falbh is calbh nam beann gun fhuireach rium, cha robh a choltas...

...articulated, but can create shared empathy and deeper understanding for the listener when heard in the right context, often providing insight into wider stories and current debates. The installation aimed to stimulate three types of experience designed in three separate formats: The first was the ‘audio booth’ inviting participants to self-reflect through the act of...

...enchanter’s wand.” He brings to mind both a panorama and a diorama in his invocation of artifice. The new bounds of reality, visible from this suspended vantage point, were best articulated using the vocabulary of virtual reality. This article was originally published by the Public Domain Review under CC-BY-SA licence; the original includes full sources and footnotes....