April 22, 2013 at 2:36 pm
The Core presents the original English version of an article that was published in the April 2013 issue of Hiatus, la revue. Here is an extract: Punctuation, as any dictionary will tell you, consists of the marks that dance around the letters of a text to mark clauses, sentences and inflection. What, though, is minimal punctuation? Is it in [...]
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Also posted in Core Authors, Future of the Book, Great Questions
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Tagged Ancient Greek, Beat, cut, Greek, Irish, language, Latin, punctuation, rhythm
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April 22, 2013 at 10:00 am
The Core presents an interesting feature from Times Higher Education, in which they offer their insight on what the causes, and possible consequences, of the rise of “creative writing” may be. Here is a sample: Despite the speed and apparent smoothness with which creative writing has become incorporated into English departments, or (especially in the US) as a [...]
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Tagged article, artist, author, creative, essay, feature, personal, system, THE, Times Higher Education, tool, writing
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April 10, 2013 at 1:29 pm
In view of CC202′s intellectual dabbling in Jane Austen’s works, the Core presents an article that argues Emma is in certain ways better than Persuasion. Here is an extract: Published posthumously, it [Persuasion] has an almost skeletal feel, like an outline in which only the most salient points about each character are noted, as if [...]
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Tagged better, Emma, Jane Austen, novel, Persuasion, posthumous, skeleton, structure, style, text
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April 5, 2013 at 11:45 am
Relating to CC102′s study of Dante’s Divine Comedy are illustrations made by Salvador Dali for Inferno. Here is a sample: For the full set of images, visit bit.ly/14TfLgu. To view Dali’s illustrations for Purgatorio, visit bit.ly/17H3fQT, and for Paradiso, visit bit.ly/17vAa9P.
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Also posted in Art, Core Authors, Great Ideas, Great Personalities
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Tagged book, CC102, dante, Divine Comedy, drawing, illustration, inferno, painting, picture, Salvador Dali
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April 2, 2013 at 12:51 pm
In her post for Poetry Foundation, Laura Sims discusses the strange inspiration that waiting rooms can bring, and how they can be “conducive to poetry”. Here is an extract: The speaker of Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘In the Waiting Room’ has a famously crucial moment in a doctor’s office, too. She looks around at all the adults, all the human beings [...]
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Tagged appointment, doctor, idle, inspiration, medicine, mortality, poetry, procrastinate, room, time, waiting
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April 2, 2013 at 12:06 pm
Relating to CC105′s study of astronomy is an article from The Guardian titled ‘The Cosmic Gallery – In Pictures’. It gives beautiful depictions and descriptions of some of our galaxy’s landmarks. Here is a sample: For the full article, visit bit.ly/10vKZ62.
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Also posted in Art, Curriculum, Great Ideas, Great Photograph
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Tagged astronomy, CC105, galaxy, gallery, image, nebula, picture, space, stars
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April 2, 2013 at 11:39 am
On a lighter note, let us explore pronunciation. In his article for The Spectator, Mark Mason discusses the strange but interesting book, How To Pronounce It, written by Alan S.C. Ross in 1970. Here is a sample: It took me quite a while to be sure that the book isn’t a spoof after all. ‘Gone’, we’re told, [...]
