February 8, 2014 at 1:58 pm
Ian Mckellen’s voice is excellent. The Odyssey is excellent. Ian Mckellen’s voice reading the Odyssey is even better! This is essentially Mckellen impersonating Homer himself. Are there any other exciting audiobooks of Core texts you have stumbled upon? Let us know!
January 29, 2014 at 12:11 pm
Do you remember a few years ago after the last Harry Potter book had long since been read and the last movie installment’s tickets long lost? The anticipation had died down, and, despite the attempts to replicate the success of the Potter series, nothing seemed to be able to renew that excitement and anticipation that […]
October 1, 2013 at 6:37 pm
Looming above many college students is the uncertainty of choosing a major. The Core does not have specific instructions on how to make this important decision… However, here we highlight some of the common opinions on the matter. Today’s topic is the English Major: In a thoughtful though rather biased article from The Chronicle Review we […]
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Also posted in Academics, Curriculum, Great Ideas, Great Questions, Uncategorized
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Tagged advantages, advice, career, choice, decision, disadvantages, english, Humanities, literature, major, path
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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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Also posted in Art, Core Authors, Great Ideas, Great Personalities, Great Questions
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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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Also posted in Academics, Core Authors, 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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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, […]
Exciting new game ‘Walden’
The Core is delighted to share that game designer Tracy Fullerton is developing a new game, Walden. Thoreau’s Walden is one of the key texts in CC202’s study of Enlightenment and Modernity, and the game simulates the experiment in living made by Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond in 1845-47. Ms. Fullerton was kind enough to […]