Jenny Davidson
Person on 4 sites
American literary scholar and writer; professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, writing on 18th-century literature, etiquette…
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8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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People should not be told they are resilient while they are still in the thick of a crisis. (opens korrents.com)
“don't tell people they're resilient while they're still in the thick of crisis”
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Serving as department chair is a normal responsibility for faculty who are in a position to take it on. (opens korrents.com)
“I consider it the normal responsibility of those who are in a position to undertake it”
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She cannot concentrate at home at the computer; she needs pen, lined paper and a café table to write. (opens korrents.com)
“I can never concentrate at home and at the computer, I need pen or pencil and lined paper at a cafe table!”
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People should not be told they are resilient while they are still in the thick of a crisis. (opens korrents.com)
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7 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Decameron (opens rcmnd.app)
“The Decameron captures the fact that the suspension of normal realities that happens in a tragic situation like a pandemic can, paradoxically, produce a special protected environment for storytelling and its…”
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A Journal of the Plague Year (opens rcmnd.app)
“So A Journal of the Plague Year is a historical novel, and its pretext is that this narrative is a live journal of the epidemic by somebody living through it.”
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The Plague (opens rcmnd.app)
“Albert Camus’s The Plague probably remains the best-known novel on the topic of epidemic disease.”
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The Decameron (opens rcmnd.app)