April 24, 2013 at 9:46 am
Here is where these great writers get their zest for reading: “Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant, and interesting.” Aldous Huxley “Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring [...]
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Angela Carter, book, drama, Franz Kafka, interest, motivation, reading, W Somerset Maugham
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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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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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March 28, 2013 at 2:13 pm
In his article for the Guardian, Richard Evans discusses the late Eric Hobsbawm’s posthumous collection of essays, and how they reflect the changes in the historian’s views over time. Here is an extract: What Hobsbawm’s Marxism also did, however, was to turn him from a lifelong optimist – while it was still possible for some to think, [...]
February 22, 2013 at 10:05 am
Adam Kirsch discusses whether or not essays are “extinct” as a form of writing, and references Michel e Montaigne, whose work is studied in CC201. Here is a sample: The essay, traditionally, was defined by its freedom and its empiricism—qualities that it inherited from its modern inventor, Montaigne. “What do I know?” Montaigne asked, and [...]
September 23, 2011 at 11:24 am
From scrolls, to the codex, to e-books, like the Amazon Kindle, the format of the book is changing in our new technological age. A recent New York Times article describes this ever-changing phenomenon and what we should expect to sacrifice in giving up the good-ole paperback. In the classical world, the scroll was the book [...]
November 30, 2010 at 5:29 pm
You can’t become a good writer by watching YouTube, texting and e-mailing a bunch of abbreviations. – Marcia Blondel, a teacher of English at Woodside High School in California, as quoted in “Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction,” one in a series of articles The New York Times is publishing in order to explore how [...]
November 9, 2010 at 11:50 am
What is the future of the book? In the Core Curriculum, we treasure the experience of opening a text and transporting ourselves into a long-lost world and savoring the words of thinkers whose ideas are as alive today as they were hundreds of years ago. How much of this experience depends on the artifact of [...]
