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Rash Reading: Rethinking Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill (2019)
Journal Article
Pett, S. (2019). Rash Reading: Rethinking Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill. Literature and Medicine, 37(1), 26-66. https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2019.0001

This article responds to recent criticism of the medical humanities, concentrating on anxieties about the discipline’s failure to take seriously the principles and practices of humanities disciplines such as history and literary studies. Specifically... Read More about Rash Reading: Rethinking Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill.

“Ink-play”: Walter Benjamin’s Chinese Curios. (2016)
Journal Article
Kang, J. (2016). “Ink-play”: Walter Benjamin’s Chinese Curios. Sociétés (Paris), 131(1), 119-130. https://doi.org/10.3917/soc.131.0119

In this paper, we explore two interconnected aspects of Walter Benjamin’s work which have hitherto received scant attention from scholars; the figure of the Chinese painter as an exemplary exponent of traditional art; and, Benjamin’s reflections on C... Read More about “Ink-play”: Walter Benjamin’s Chinese Curios..