The Cows in the Dark Night
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9686405 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H S Harris (0009-0005-1594-1254, York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 627-644 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217300018217 |
| OpenAlex | W1983188364 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
In the far-off days before the first World War, the British journal Mind was full of articles by writers who thought of themselves as “Neoidealists”. So when the enfant terrible of the groves of Academic Oxford in that generation—a “pragmatic Humanist” by the name of Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller—played his most notorious practical joke upon his colleagues by publishing a mock-issue of the journal (under the title Mind! ) he offered as a frontispiece “A portrait of the Absolute in the pink of condition”. Beneath a pale-pink semi-transparent tissue (which, except for its colour, was quite normal for the photographic plates in Victorian memoirs) one found a printed frame that embraced a perfectly blank white sheet of paper
Art · Art history · Blank · Humanism · Joke · Literature · Memoir · Portrait · Publishing · Theology · White (mutation) · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History of Science and Natural History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 1987 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |