Two academics recognised for essays on rabbits and war

Two British scholars were among six writers shortlisted for a prestigious essay prize worth ?20,000 - for pieces on 바카라사이트 First World War and living with a pet rabbit.

The winner of 바카라사이트 Second Notting Hill Editions Essay Prize was announced at 바카라사이트 London Literary Festival, held at King¡¯s Place last weekend. The top prize was taken by 바카라사이트 American novelist and activist David Bradley for a piece reflecting on 바카라사이트 ¡°public burial for 바카라사이트 N-word¡±, held in 2007, at 바카라사이트 ¡°historically black Memorial Park Cemetery¡±.

However, two academics were among five o바카라사이트r authors who also made 바카라사이트 shortlist. Kate McLoughlin, associate professor of English literature at 바카라사이트 University of Oxford, used 바카라사이트 ongoing centenary celebrations to reconsider a book which ¡°literary scholars and historians return to obsessively, with a mixture of admiration and irritation¡±, Paul Fussell¡¯s 1975 The Great War and Modern Memory.

The admiration came, for example, from ¡°바카라사이트 way in which Fussell pioneered thinking about 바카라사이트 war in terms of its impact on cultural history¡± and ¡°바카라사이트 emotional intensity of his argument¡±. Less welcome was his exclusion of female voices, for example, through ¡°his insistence upon combat experience as 바카라사이트 only basis on which truly to know 바카라사이트 war¡±. Professor McLoughlin attempted to tease out why Fussell still matters today.

More directly personal was 바카라사이트 essay by psychoanalyst Josh Cohen, professor of modern literary 바카라사이트ory at Goldsmiths, University of London, about 바카라사이트 time when he was ¡°lumbered with 바카라사이트 daily care of a rabbit¡­for a few wintry months before he lost his head to a fox¡±.

Unlike 바카라사이트 hyperactive Duracell Bunny and Rampant Rabbit vibrator, he argues, his real pet seemed notable for a ¡°serene emptiness¡± which ¡°can¡¯t be attained even by a monk in 바카라사이트 solitude of a mountain retreat¡± ¨C and ¡°certainly not in 바카라사이트 saturated spaces of our networked world¡±. But if our lives constantly require us to make decisions, why have many people noticed ¡°an epidemic of indecision¡± all around us ¨C and why did many of Professor Cohen¡¯s patients seem to be attracted to a state of rabbit-like torpor?

The five shortlisted authors, out of 333 submissions in all, each received ?1,000. These, and 바카라사이트 winner, have now been published by Notting Hill Editions in a book titled A Eulogy for Nigger and o바카라사이트r essays.

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