Return to the home page of the National Humanities Center Web site. Ideas, Vol 5, No. 2, 1998, from the National Humanities Center


Contents

The Director's Desk
W. Robert Connor



Pre-Raphaelite Arts: Aesthetic and Social Experiment in the 1860s
Elizabeth Helsinger



Private and Social Reading
Patricia Meyer Spacks



Poems
Mary Baine Campbell



Recollections
John N. Morris



From the African Loom to the American Quilt
Gladys-Marie Fry



The Practice of Reading
Denis Donoghue
This is an archived issue of Ideas.
Selections from
Volume 5, Number 2, 1998
The Director's Desk The Director's Desk

This issue of Ideas is dedicated to the memory of Archie K. Davis, whose efforts were crucial in bringing the National Humanities Center to North Carolina.


Pre-Raphaelite Arts
by Elizabeth Helsinger

In the nineteenth century, the desire to own visible, material forms of art escalated into a popular passion. No one understood the power of such objects better than the Pre-Raphaelites.		 Pre-Raphaelite Arts by Elizabeth Helsinger


Private and Social Reading by Patricia Meyer Spacks Private and Social Reading
 by Patricia Meyer Spacks

In our assumption that novel-reading belongs to the sphere of privacy, we may forget that reading also happens in history and is informed by it, . . . If reading takes us "far away," . . . it also returns us to important connections.


Poems
by Mary Baine Campbell

In the spring of 1998, Mary Baine Campbell read a number of her poems to a gathering at the National Humanities Center. 		Poems by Mary Baine Campbell


Recollections by John N. Morris Recollections
by John N. Morris

"Why should I suppose that my recollections of childhood . . . deserve attention? Perhaps no one's time in the world is entirely unremarkable."


From the African Loom to the American Quilt
by Gladys-Marie Fry

In Spring 1998, the National Humanities Center's white walls were transformed by a colorful collection of African-American quilts. Gladys-Marie Fry comments on several of the pieces the Center displayed.
From the African Loom to the American Quilt by Gladys-Marie Fry


The Practice of Reading by Denis Donoghue The Practice of Reading
by Denis Donoghue

I propose to consider three ways of reading and to delineate the different assumptions that govern each of them. . . . I call the three Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde.

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