Hi, everyone -
I can't post this on the blog, but perhaps Dr. Parrish can copy and paste this into a blog entry, so that its all together neat and tidy.
As we work on CP Snow's work this weekend, I want to forward on some items that might prove helpful.
1 - Please read the book in the following order: The Rede Lecture, A Second Look, and finally, the Introduction by Stefan Collini (as near as I can tell, Collini's Introduction was written in 2012). I think reading it with eyes as the world saw it as they came about will be insightful as you develop your opinions on the works.
2 - While Collini's Introduction very ably summarizes Snow's life and place in academia, if you would like another, unofficial resource for learning more about Snow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
3 - This article was written 45 years after Snow's first lecture: Barash, David P. "C.P. Snow: Bridging the Two-Cultures Divide" The Cronicle of Higher Education. November 25, 2005 . If that link fails, try this: go to JMU Libraries homepage, select the "Background Information" icon in the center of the screen, enter CP Snow in "get background information about people", and the article should be one of the first to show up under "academic journals".
4 - And finally, as I finished Collini's Introduction, I was reminded of an essay by Wendell Berry, "Why I am not going to buy a computer". I haven't fully crystallized why I thought of it, but maybe we'll talk about it on Thursday.
Right, that's all for now. Gwen
FYI, I added the class as authors, so you can have a little more control over this course space. Please feel free, when you are leading discussion, to post any resources you deem appropriate.
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