Bacon's Only Piece of fictional writing, in addition to the masques he wrote for a Christmas entertainment at Gray'sjnn in 1594, was published posthumously by Rawley. Most commentators assume that he wrote New Atlantis at the time he hoped to become provost of Eton in 1623. Bacon's death in 1626 meant that, apart from the last edition of the Essays in 1625, this was his last major work written in English. Many critics have discussed Bacon's stylistic methods, and several have speculated that his view and practice of linguistic representation in the 1620s had become rigorously non-metaphoric for the purpose of imparting scientific knowledge.
The articles in this edition emerged out of a conference held in May 2015 at Brighton University, Place-Based Arts: Brighton Writes. The potential of place as a trigger for academic, creative and hybrid work is commonplace. However, it remains true that how we document, re-imagine, and are provoked and nurtured by place, provides both a tangible source of inspiration and a concrete materiality in most creative work. The conference generated rich themes that whilst firmly rooted in research, were always personal, social, human.At a time when many people feel displaced, unsettled and as if they don't belong, responses to spaces and place can help to root and rejoin us, both as individuals and collectively. It is the responsibility of the artist to reflect and challenge what is happening but to also remind people of how extraordinary and uplifting the world can be. Art and writing aim to connect and reconnect us all to the planet, our shared and diverse heritages, our varying tribes and to locate us in our sense of self. Papers and subsequent discussion generated at and by the conference explored translations of places and non-places, the resonances between identity and location and how space can be used to bond and stir us. These themes can be traced through this edition of the journal and also in a second edition entitled, Place-Based Arts: Industrial Landscapes which will be published later in 2016.
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