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Some Finches
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Finch
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Elizabeth Finch
Affascinante senza essere manipolatoria, rigorosa ma mai dogmatica, elegante seppure austera, irriducibilmente anticonvenzionale, eternamente sfuggente: cosí è Elizabeth Finch, docente del corso di «Cultura e civiltà» al college. Il suo carisma e la forza delle sue idee sono destinati a segnare per sempre il modo di pensare dei suoi studenti. O almeno di uno di essi. Questa è la storia che lui ci racconta. Ma, come direbbe Elizabeth Finch, «travisare la propria storia è parte dell'essere una persona». «[Barnes] è sempre intelligente, spesso originale e insolitamente divertente... Elizabeth Finch... offre pane per i nostri denti... Non c'è frase che non abbia un qualche valore nut...
Lucidity
This collection of essays addresses the question of lucidity as a thematic in literature and film but also as a quality of both expression and insight in literary criticism and critical thought more generally. The essays offer treatments of lucidity in itself and in relation to its opposites, forms of obscurity and darkness. They offer attention to problems of philosophical thought and reason, to questions of literary and poetic form, and of photographic and filmic contemplation. Ranging from engagements with early modern writing through to more recent material the contributions focus in particular on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French prose and poetry, the field which has been the predominant focus of Alison Finch’s critical writing. They are written as tributes to the distinctively lucid insights of her work and to the breadth and clarity of its intellectual engagement.
Spencer Finch
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Peter Finch
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Tunnelling ’94
It is now more than twenty years since a proposal was first mooted to hold an international tunnelling symposium in Britain. At the time of the first symposium, held in London in 1976, the Channel Tunnel pro ject had just been shelved. Last weekend a charity walk was held in the finished tunnel, which will be open for business later in the year. Tunnels have figured prominently, and at times spectacularly, in the development of national and international links and it is hoped that such links gather pace in the future. It is particularly pleasing that Alastair Biggart of Storebrelt has agreed to deliver the twenty-sixth Sir Julius Wernher Memorial Lecture of the Institution of Mining and Meta...
