{"id":5458,"date":"2017-04-07T11:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T15:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=5458"},"modified":"2017-04-06T21:47:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T01:47:27","slug":"weekly-round-up-4-7-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2017\/04\/07\/weekly-round-up-4-7-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Round-Up, 4-7-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why hello there, scholars. Fancy meeting you here, on the longest-running weekly series of posts on the Core Blog. What&#8217;s that? This is the<em>only<\/em> weekly series on the Core Blog? &#8230;Ignore us, then. Read on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jean-Jacques Rousseau <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2017\/01\/02\/jean-jacques-rousseau-not-a-nut-not-a-leftist-and-not-an-irresponsible-intellectual\/\">is misunderstood<\/a>, says Nelson Lund, guest blogger for the Washington Post. His book, <em>Rousseaus Rejuvenation of Political Philosophy: A New Introduction<\/em>, hopes to expound upon Rousseau&#8217;s theories for an American audience.<\/li>\n<li>The New Orleans Opera Associations staging of Charles Gounod&#8217;s <em>Faust<\/em> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theadvocate.com\/new_orleans\/entertainment_life\/music\/article_2014d7be-101e-11e7-9407-fb3ab35cdfb0.html\">&#8220;devilishly good,&#8221;<\/a> according to the <em>New Orleans Advocate<\/em>. The three-hour show features a dapper Mephistopheles who is nothing short of a businessman as well as a particularly moving Valentin, Marguerite&#8217;s brother.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 408px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/theadvocate.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/3\/0d\/30d00c10-1715-11e7-9565-cb9b085c5901\/58e005bfd74ea.image.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"306\" alt=\"Paul Groves as Faust.  (Photograph by Tom Grosscup)\" class=\"\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Groves as Faust. (Photograph by Tom Grosscup)<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Amid controversy over a &#8220;tired-looking bust&#8221; of Virginia Woolf in Bloomsbury, London, that contrasts sharply with a &#8220;jaunty and full-bodied&#8221; sculpture of James Joyce in Dublin, the charity Aurora Metro Arts and Media hopes to commission <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelondoneconomic.com\/entertainment\/whos-afraid-new-virginia-woolf\/31\/03\/\">a new full-size statue of Woolf<\/a> that treats her with due respect. (Unfortunately, no image was included of the original bust, so we can&#8217;t judge for ourselves.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Make Italy Great Again:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/petrarch-the-man\/\">Two translated volumes of Petrarch&#8217;s letters<\/a>(translated by Elaine Fantham)reveal a strangely familiar goal, albeit one achieved more academically (to restore that greatness, he set about copying Roman texts by Cicero, Seneca, and Julius Caesar, to name a few). Fun fact: His <em>Canzoniere<\/em> was originally titled &#8220;Bits of Stuff in the Vulgar Tongue&#8221; (<em>Fragment rerum vulgarim<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li>Actress Noma Dumezweni (whom you may know as Hermione from the West End version of <em>Harry Potter and the Cursed Child<\/em>) performs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-39325952\">an exquisite rendition of William Wordsworth&#8217;s &#8220;Daffodils,&#8221;<\/a> or &#8220;I wandered lonely as a cloud.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-39325952\/embed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for this week! Come back next Friday for another edition of the Weekly Round-Up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why hello there, scholars. Fancy meeting you here, on the longest-running weekly series of posts on the Core Blog. What&#8217;s that? 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