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	<title>The Core Blog &#187; books</title>
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		<title>Zachary Bos on Robert Bringhurst</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/02/25/zachary-bos-on-robert-bringhurst/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Administrative Coordinator of the Core, Zachary Bos, recently wrote a letter to the Boston Finneganers regarding Robert Bringhurst&#8217;s books: Dear Friends, and members of the Boston Finneganers: I have a great deal of appreciation for Robert Bringhurst&#8217;s books &#8211; his interest and valuation of languages, literatures, and the technical means these comes to us; his sense of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>André Alexis: Why Read?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/02/04/andre-alexis-why-read/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/02/04/andre-alexis-why-read/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The essay discusses David Shields&#8217; novel How Literature Saved My Life, and how its ideas truly relate to many aspects of existence. Here is an extract: One of the other things literature does is that it keeps the plates in the air, so to speak. Much thinking, in the humanities, has shifted from the answer-oriented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #177: Jane Austen on Reading</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/01/23/analects-of-the-core-177-jane-austen-on-reading/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/01/23/analects-of-the-core-177-jane-austen-on-reading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relating to Jane Austen&#8217;s Pride and Prejudice, which is studied this semester by CC 202, here is today&#8217;s analect: I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! &#8212; When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marginal Note #1: Sassan Tabatabai’s notes on Shakespeare’s King Lear</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/11/30/marginalia-1-tabatabais-lear/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/11/30/marginalia-1-tabatabais-lear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CAS Core Curriculum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Core students, faculty, and alumni are invited to contribute to &#8220;Marginalia.&#8221; This will be a series of images showing how readers relate to their books via underscoring, scribbles, and other forms of mark-up. This first entry in the series comes from Prof. Sassan Tabatabai&#8217;s personal copy of King Lear. Click on the image for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Core Readers Series #1</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/07/09/core-readers-series-1/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/07/09/core-readers-series-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zakbos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alumnus Michelle Kwock occupies a summer afternoon reading What&#8217;s Wrong With Democracy by Core Humanities lecturer, and chair of the Classics department, Prof. Jay Samons. Would you care to be a featured Core Reader here on the Core blog? Just send us a photo, by attachment to core@bu.edu, showing you reading a Core or Core-related [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from the May EnCore Book Club</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/05/23/notes-from-the-may-encore-book-club/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/05/23/notes-from-the-may-encore-book-club/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 20:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Core Alumni</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An emphatic discussion was held last week Wednesday the 9th at the EnCore Book Club meeting.  Professor Loren J. Samons kindly attended our discussion of his book What’s Wrong With Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American Worship (University of California Press, 2004). We discussed ancient and contemporary politics, the business of government, and the interconnectedness of social, economic, and other issues. To learn more, read on!]]></description>
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		<title>Calliope Project&#8217;s Core Book Raffle</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/12/08/calliope-projects-core-book-raffle/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/12/08/calliope-projects-core-book-raffle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CAS Core Curriculum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you a first-year student planning to take CC102 in the spring? Do you want to get all of your books for just $2? If you answered yes, you should know about The Calliope Project&#8217;s Core Book raffle! We will be selling $2 tickets this week outside of Core lectures, and in the Core office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Scroll to Screen</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/09/23/from-scroll-to-screen/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/09/23/from-scroll-to-screen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CAS Core Curriculum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Future of the Book]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bu.edu/core/?p=1337</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Books in the Core Library!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/09/19/new-books-in-the-core-library/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/09/19/new-books-in-the-core-library/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CAS Core Curriculum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prof. Stephanie Nelson has acquired a few books for the Core library. Students and alumni are invited to stop by and check them out: The Invention of Dionysus: an essay on the Birth of Tragedy by James I. Porter Applaus Fur Venus: Die 100 schonsten liebesgedichte der Antike by Niklas Holzberg Generic Enrichment in Virgil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Examined Life is Rarely Worth Living?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/02/01/the-examined-life-is-rarely-worth-living/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/02/01/the-examined-life-is-rarely-worth-living/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CAS Core Curriculum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Economist summarizes a new book by James Miller,  Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche, wherein he explores the troubled lives of some of the world&#8217;s most famous philosophers.  He proposes that the pursuit of philosophical questions, wrought with uncertainty and self-questioning, has led to similarly unfortunately troubled lives: If one wanted to compile a [...]]]></description>
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