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		<title>Times Higher Education &#8211; &#8220;Creative Writing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/04/22/times-higher-education-creative-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;creative writing&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Review of Eric Hobsbawm&#8217;s Posthumous Essays</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/03/28/a-review-of-eric-hobsbawms-posthumous-essays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his article for the Guardian, Richard Evans discusses the late Eric Hobsbawm&#8217;s posthumous collection of essays, and how they reflect the changes in the historian&#8217;s views over time. Here is an extract: What Hobsbawm&#8217;s Marxism also did, however, was to turn him from a lifelong optimist – while it was still possible for some to think, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Publication Opportunities for Students</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/02/25/publication-opportunities-for-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Core is pleased to present students with a fantastic opportunity to publish their work: The Agora, an on-line publication of Lynchburg College, specializing in responses to the great books of the world, has become a national journal of undergraduate academic writing. The journal, like the ancient Athenian Agora, seeks to be a marketplace for important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Essay as Reality Television</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/02/22/the-essay-as-reality-television/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adam Kirsch discusses whether or not essays are &#8220;extinct&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gilgamesh and David Ferry</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/12/03/gilgamesh-and-david-ferry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his recent work Gilgamesh: An Epic Obsession (http://bit.ly/TDl2BN), Theodore Ziolkowski takes a look at the ways in which the epic has manifested into our literature, art, music, and popular culture. The students of CC101 experienced this through David Ferry, whose translation of Gilgamesh they read this semester. David Ferry has also written: Bewilderment  (http://bit.ly/RwrwnD), which [...]]]></description>
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