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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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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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, […]
The Core presents an article from The Economist, which discusses enjambment’s popularity and origins. Here is an extract: In “The Force of Poetry”, Christopher Ricks, formerly the Oxford Professor of Poetry who is now at Boston University, writes elegantly of the way enjambment can make language seem elastic: Lineation in verse creates units which may […]
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Tagged Christopher Ricks, enjambment, iambic, John Milton, method, news, Paradise Lost, pentameter, poetry, The Economist, tool
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Relating to CC202’s study of Blake’s work, here is an image from ‘The Tyger’
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Tagged CC202, Enlightenment, Humanities, image, Modernism, photo, William Blake
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March 27, 2013 at 1:54 pm
In his article titled ‘An A from Nabokov’, Edward Jay Epstein recounts his experience from Lit 311 at Cornell University, where he studied many of the works that the Core explores in CC202. Here is an extract: The professor was Vladimir Nabokov, an émigré from tsarist Russia. About six feet tall and balding, he stood, with […]
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Tagged CC202, class, Enlightenment, funny, modern, Modernism, strict, teacher, Vladimir Nabokov
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