tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83437755597017817272011-11-27T15:45:16.783-08:00<img src="http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:6POhx7Li7bQXYM:http://www.artsjournal.com/bookdaddy/Home_Photo_books.jpg">Christinenoreply@blogger.comBlogger731100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-41179465578563615792011-04-25T15:26:00.001-07:002011-04-25T15:26:29.025-07:00<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-size: 85%;">*ARTICLE UPDATES ARE ON A TEMPORARY HOLD DUE TO LACK OF STAFF.<br />ENJOY THE AVAILABLE ARTICLES IN THE MEANTIME!*</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-size: 85%;">-HHZ Commentator <span class="messageBody">♥</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-4117946557856361579?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-74603290240951396772010-04-02T14:45:00.000-07:002010-04-02T14:47:57.451-07:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20100329-NEWS-3290339"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Is literature relevant?</span></a></span><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20100329-NEWS-3290339"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 174px; height: 116px;" src="http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=SO&amp;Date=20100329&amp;Category=NEWS&amp;ArtNo=3290339&amp;Ref=AR&amp;maxH=230&amp;maxW=370&amp;border=0&amp;Q=80" alt="" border="0" /></a>New York Times best selling author David Shields' latest novel attempts to deliver a message to authors and readers alike: In order for literature to progress into the 21st century, it is necessary to rethink traditional forms, genres and styles by essentially blurring the line between fiction and nonfiction.<p class="articleGraf">"In the highly simulated society that we live in, we have an insatiable hunger for reality, and that's not being met in these old and desiccated forms of literature," Shields said. "As creative artists trying to stay alive in this century, the answer isn't to retreat into a 19th century form of writing, but rather to strive to adapt and progress."</p><p class="articleGraf">In order for that progression to occur, Shields suggests re-examining current ideas of plagiarism, citation and appropriation.</p><p class="articleGraf">"If art is going to stay alive in the 21st century, artists have to have the freedoms they've had for centuries," he said. "The history of art has to do with artists endlessly remaking others' works to achieve greater levels of discovery and meaning," he said.</p><p class="articleGraf">Artists of all forms — from composers to authors — have been reworking the ideas and works of those that have come before them, Shields said.</p><p class="articleGraf"><a href="http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20100329-NEWS-3290339"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-7460329024095139677?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-45241847331588705972010-03-20T18:02:00.000-07:002010-03-20T18:08:56.175-07:00<a href="http://www.elpasotimes.com/opinion/ci_14464395?source=rss"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Literature Or Standardized Tests?</span></span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.elpasotimes.com/opinion/ci_14464395?source=rss"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 110px; height: 110px;" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:mKV4vn-oP4mhOM:http://static.family.go.com/images/cms/education/featured/test-pencil-240-g-3642457.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Many students attending schools in America will enroll in their freshman year of high school without ever having heard of Chekhov, Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy. <div id="articleBody" class="articleBody"><p>It is likely they will not be able to meaningfully enter into any conversation about "Oliver Twist," "Animal Farm," or "Around The World In Eighty Days." </p><p>The names of Cervantes and Octavio Paz will probably elicit nothing more than a cursory shrug of non-recognition. </p><p>This is a tragedy of significant proportion, for which our education system bears the full onus of blame. </p><p>Instead of introducing children to great works of literature in their original or competently abridged form, and thus inculcating in them a love and passion for books, many teachers, under the gun of an out-of-control accountability system, are engaged in the quotidian task of training their students to pass state-mandated reading tests. </p><p><a href="http://www.elpasotimes.com/opinion/ci_14464395?source=rss"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-4524184733158870597?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-76315435746107788002010-03-13T22:40:00.000-08:002010-03-13T22:46:41.201-08:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2776244/ghosts_in_literature.html?cat=38"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ghosts in Literature</span></a></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2776244/ghosts_in_literature.html?cat=38"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 136px; height: 105px;" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:VFsv70bTbp9S-M:http://www.open-bks.com/library/classics/dickens_charles_carol/A_Christmas_Carol_frontpiece.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>From <a class="link interlink" rel="&amp;content_type=topic&amp;content_type_id=27603" href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/topic/27603/the_odyssey.html" title="The Odyssey">The Odyssey</a> to the <a class="link interlink" rel="&amp;content_type=theme&amp;content_type_id=1283" href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/theme/1283/harry_potter_mania_contest_winners.html" title="Harry Potter">Harry Potter</a> books, the shades of people who used to live on the earth have haunted our stories. Sometimes these opaque creatures are quite real in stories, other times they are figments of the imagination, and other times it's never quite clear. But in this list of novels enlivened, so to speak, by visitations from the dead, I won't say which is which.<br /><br />...3: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.<br /><br />This may be Dickens' best loved work. A deceased business associate and three more ghosts appear to the sour and miserly Ebenezer Scrooge to show him Christmas past, present and future, sights that change him forever.<br /><br />...5: Hamlet by William Shakespeare.<br /><br />The dead father of Hamlet, the prince of Denmark, appears to his son and accuses Hamlet's uncle Claudius (now on the throne) of having murdered him. Hamlet declines into a state of paralysis as he decides whether or not to avenge his father.<br /><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2776244/ghosts_in_literature.html?cat=38"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-7631543574610778800?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-82433012275544116682010-03-08T22:44:00.000-08:002010-03-08T22:59:03.328-08:00<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7345039/Oldest-example-of-written-English-discovered-in-church.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Oldest example of written English discovered in church</span></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br />What is believed to be the first ever example of English in a British church has been discovered.<br /></span><p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7345039/Oldest-example-of-written-English-discovered-in-church.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 218px; height: 136px;" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01588/english_1588083c.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>It was written half a millennia ago and its message was serious enough to be painted carefully on the wall of England's finest cathedral. </p> <p> But now it seems no one can quite decipher exactly what the inscription on the wall of Salisbury Cathedral in Wiltshire actually says. </p><!-- BEFORE ACI --> <p> It was hidden for 350 years behind a monument to a local aristocrat who was 'martyred' in the English Civil War for his support of King Charles I but rediscovered in January by astonished conservators. </p> <p> And baffled experts have resorted to asking members of the public with a keen eye for deciphering puzzles to have a look at the text, and a computer-enhanced version, to see if they can help out. </p> <p> Tim Tatton Brown, the cathedral's consultant archaeologist, explained: "The Cathedral's conservators quite unexpectedly found some beautifully written English text behind the Henry Hyde Monument on the cathedral's south aisle wall when the monument was temporarily removed as part of the on-going schedule of work.<br /></p><p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7345039/Oldest-example-of-written-English-discovered-in-church.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a></p><p><img src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-048.gif" alt="Tuzki Bunny Emoticon" border="0" /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Emotional Bunny Says: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Alrighty, let me just pull out my Handy Dandy Notebook</span></span><span style="font-size:78%;">®</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">...."</span></span><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-8243301227554411668?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-49836914718337030802010-02-19T16:17:00.000-08:002010-02-19T16:25:02.589-08:00<a href="http://www.theyorker.co.uk/news/culture/4259"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Top 10: Classics you feel you should have read, but haven't</span></a><h2 class="Headline"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.theyorker.co.uk/photos/medium/422"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 147px; height: 120px;" src="http://www.theyorker.co.uk/photos/medium/422" alt="" border="0" /></a></h2><span style="font-size:78%;">Written by David Pocock</span><br /><ul><li><strong>10. <em>The Catcher in The Rye</em> (J D Salinger)</strong> </li></ul> <p style="text-align: left;">Salinger’s controversial 1951 novel sneaks in at number ten quite simply because it’s my favourite book of all time and I make it my life mission to force it upon as many people as possible. I’ve read it at least 10 times, and each time I have done so (ALERT: CLICHE TO FOLLOW) I have found something new within its pages. An absolutely enthralling read which I thoroughly recommend to anyone.</p> <ul><li><strong>9. <em>The Hobbit</em> (JRR Tolkien)</strong> </li></ul> <p>Since the release of the 2001 Hollywood blockbuster <em>Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship if the Ring</em>, Tolkien’s novels featuring the fantasy world of Middle Earth and main protagonists Frodo and Bilbo Baggins have become perhaps the most phenomenal success story in movie-adaptation history. And the reason why this epic piece of literature only makes number nine on the list is simple: A lot of people have read it. The original novel was released to great critical acclaim in 1937 by Oxford professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, becoming an overnight sensation. It has been in print ever since with the exception of World War Two’s paper shortage and has been translated into hundreds of languages.</p> <ul><li><strong>8. <em>Wuthering Heights</em> (Emily Brontë)</strong> </li></ul> <p>I studied this delightful piece of literature at GCSE. I found it boring. Very boring. Painfully boring in fact. The only thing that tempted me away from gouging my eyes out were the pretty illustrations of the setting which were included in the edition we shared between two at school....<br /></p><p><a href="http://www.theyorker.co.uk/news/culture/4259"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more (#1-#8)....</span></a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-4983691471833703080?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-85148051160865532652010-02-03T18:22:00.000-08:002010-02-03T18:26:45.376-08:00<a href="http://www.onfiction.ca/2010/02/fiction-and-human-rights.html"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fiction and Human Rights</span></span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.onfiction.ca/2010/02/fiction-and-human-rights.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 167px; height: 117px;" src="http://wiki.provisionslibrary.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/human_rights_first.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>In a scathing article, Jerome Stolnitz (1991) argued that art has only short term effects. Greek drama is regarded as powerful but, says Stolnitz: “There is no evidence that Aristophanes shortened the Peloponnesian War by so much as a day” (p. 200). Stolnitz asserts that effects of art simply do not appear in history.<br /><br />Except that—as Frank Hakemulder has pointed out to me—they do. They appear in the history of human rights. As historian Lynn Hunt (2007) has shown, the establishment of human rights has been strongly affected by literary art.<br /><br />We now think of human rights as universal, but Hunt shows that 300 years ago even the idea of human rights was not present in European society. It had to be invented. By the end of the eighteenth century a change was accomplished.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.onfiction.ca/2010/02/fiction-and-human-rights.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">(Article credit: onfiction.ca; Image credit: </span><cite style="font-style: italic;">wiki.provisionslibrary.org)</cite></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-8514805116086553265?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-53176660511147195872010-01-14T20:42:00.000-08:002010-01-14T20:47:52.034-08:00<a href="http://studentpulse.com/articles/119/perceptions-of-heroes-and-villains-in-european-literature"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Perceptions of Heroes and Villains in European Literature</span></span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://studentpulse.com/articles/119/perceptions-of-heroes-and-villains-in-european-literature"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 115px; height: 147px;" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:X-GOhp7y4vWsYM%3Ahttp://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01131/arts-graphics-2008_1131863a.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>It is tempting to classify literary, cinematic, and historical characters into groups. The trouble of course, is that such labels can be misleading at best, and severely subjective and variable. When using terms such as hero, villain, anti-hero, anti-villain, or adventurer, it is important to remember how vague and movable the borders really are, and to ask why a certain label is or should be placed on a specific character. It is never enough to simply classify a character or a person. One must take into consideration what the creator of this character had in mind, what circumstances affected this person’s actions, what culture or society this person came from, what his or her own beliefs or intentions may be, and finally, how our own principles, prejudices, and associations may influence our perceptions.<br /><br />What makes a person a hero or a villain? How much comes from inner predisposition, from personal destiny, from mere interpretation? Is someone obliged to become a hero or villain by virtue of their existence, or are heroes and villains molded over time with an outcome that could potentially have gone either way? How much of it is voluntary, and how many of these people truly anticipate (and care) how they will be interpreted by others?<br /><br /><a href="http://studentpulse.com/articles/119/perceptions-of-heroes-and-villains-in-european-literature"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-5317666051114719587?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-26010087681949280082009-12-20T21:26:00.000-08:002009-12-20T21:29:25.476-08:00<a href="http://www.salon.com/books/historical_fiction/index.html?story=/books/laura_miller/2009/12/15/victoria"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Why Is Queen Victoria Missing From Literature?</span></span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.salon.com/books/historical_fiction/index.html?story=/books/laura_miller/2009/12/15/victoria"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 209px; height: 138px;" src="http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2009/12/15/victoria/md_horiz.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The opening of the film "The Young Victoria" this week comes as a reminder that books in which the queen plays a leading role are few and far between. <p>This is all the more surprising when you consider that virtually every other British queen or princess has been celebrated in multiple historical novels and narrative histories. My neighborhood Barnes &amp; Noble has an entire display table permanently devoted to such titles. The Tudors are, hands down, the great favorites of the genre; Phillipa Gregory has produced a string of bestselling novels about the wives, daughters and other assorted noblewomen surrounding Henry VIII, most notably the twice-filmed <a href="http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/02/29/boleyn/index.html">"The Other Boleyn Girl."</a> Historians like <a href="http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/06/16/summer_reads4/index.html">Alison Weir</a> have moved successfully between fiction and nonfiction in writing about female royals ranging from the ever-popular Ann Boleyn to the relatively obscure Isabella of France, who was married to the 13th-century King Edward II. And let's not even get started on Princess Di.</p><p>But Victoria? She can't get arrested in this section of the bookstore. Lady Jane Grey -- who wore the English crown for a mere nine days before her enemies ordered the head underneath it chopped off -- has had more novels based on her life than the woman who gave the Victorian era its name.</p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/books/historical_fiction/index.html?story=/books/laura_miller/2009/12/15/victoria"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-2601008768194928008?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-6706347706426072012009-12-20T21:20:00.000-08:002009-12-20T21:24:47.857-08:00<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/dec/14/you-can-t-speed-read-literature"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Speed-Reading and Literature Just Don't Mix</span></a><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br />Speed-reading might be useful for commercial documents, but when it comes to serious writing, it blurs out all the really interesting parts.<br /></span><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/dec/14/you-can-t-speed-read-literature"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 222px; height: 133px;" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/pictures/2009/12/14/1260802165944/Blurred-text-001.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The celebrated academic Harold Bloom is <a href="http://www.radioopensource.org/at-home-with-harold-bloom-2-on-the-humanities/">a lightning fast reader</a>; blink and he's probably turned the page – twice. In his prime he could churn through 1,000 pages an hour, which means he could have digested Jane Eyre during his lunch break and still had time to chew through half of Ulysses before returning to classes. I don't know about you, but that makes me feel like a slow, slack-jawed simian struggling in the frontal-lobe department. </p>The average reader snails through prose at a rate of about 250-300 words per minute, which roughly equates to about one page per minute. Bloom is surely cut from a rare cloth of reading comprehension because he whips through more than 16 pages per minute and still remembers almost everything he reads. For the rest of us, it's not so easy. In the World Championship Speed Reading Competition the top contestants typically read around 1,000 to 2,000 words per minute, but only manage about 50% comprehension.<br />That's just not good enough for literature.<br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/dec/14/you-can-t-speed-read-literature"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-670634770642607201?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-16618543594224947652009-12-09T20:17:00.000-08:002009-12-09T20:22:46.057-08:00<a href="http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2009/12/09/tawil-uncovers-unique-voice-american-literature"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">American Exceptionalism in Literature</span></span>: <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2009/12/09/tawil-uncovers-unique-voice-american-literature"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">A Genre Of Its Own?</span></span></span></a><br /><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2009/12/09/tawil-uncovers-unique-voice-american-literature"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 196px; height: 162px;" src="http://www.english-e-corner.com/americanliterature/frameset/..%5Cposter.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>What exactly is American exceptionalism? </p> <p>American exceptionalism is the idea that American literature has a voice separate from that of other Anglophone and European literature, literature professor Ezra Tawil explained. Tawil, with help from his colleagues Andrew Delbanco, the director of Columbia’s American studies department, and Ross Posnock, a fellow English professor, delivered an engaging and intriguing discussion and explanation of the topic at hand. American literature is, as Tawil said, “not merely different, but unique.” It has a different tone, a different set of rules to follow, and a different goal.<br /></p><p><a href="http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2009/12/09/tawil-uncovers-unique-voice-american-literature"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more<span style="font-style: italic;">....</span></span></a></p><p style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(Image credit: </span><cite style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic;">english</span>-<span style="font-style: italic;">e-corner.com)</span></cite></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-1661854359422494765?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-6421188363316655442009-12-09T20:05:00.001-08:002009-12-09T20:05:49.323-08:00<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/2009/12/09/2009-12-09_jk_rowling_is_working_on_a_new_book_but_no_more_harry_potter_author_says.html"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">J.K Rowling Working on "Political Fairy Tale" For Children</span></span></a><br /><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="J.K%20Rowling%20Working%20on%20%22Political%20Fairy%20Tale%22%20For%20Children%20%20J.K.%20Rowling%20is%20penning%20a%20new%20book%20%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%94%20but%20this%20time%20it%27s%20not%20about%20wizards.%20%20The%20author%20of%20the%20%22Harry%20Potter%22%20franchise%20says%20that%20she%27s%20writing%20%22a%20political%20fairy%20tale%22%20for%20%22slightly%20younger%20children,%22%20reports%20the%20Kansas%20City%20Star,%20based%20on%20extras%20in%20the%20newly%20released%20DVD%20of%20%22Harry%20Potter%20and%20the%20Half%20Blood%20Prince.%22%20She%20added%20that%20she%27s%20in%20no%20hurry%20to%20finish%20up%20quickly,%20and%20is%20learning%20to%20enjoy%20life%20without%20the%20crunch%20of%20deadlines.%20Meanwhile,%20work%20is%20underway%20for%20a%20$200%20million%20Harry%20Potter%20theme%20park.%20%22The%20Wizarding%20World%20of%20Harry%20Potter%22%20will%20include%20two%20roller%20coasters,%20a%20Hogwarts%20Castle,%20and%20even%20shops%20that%20are%20straight%20from%20Diagon%20Alley,%20like%20Olivander%27s%20wand%20shop,%20Honeydukes%20sweet%20shop%20and%20Zonko%27s%20Joke%20Shop."><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 204px; height: 155px;" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/12/10/alg_rowling.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>J.K. Rowling is penning a new book — but this time it's not about wizards.</p><p>The author of the "Harry Potter" franchise says that she's writing "a political fairy tale" for "slightly younger children," reports the Kansas City Star, based on extras in the newly released DVD of "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince." She added that she's in no hurry to finish up quickly, and is learning to enjoy life without the crunch of deadlines.</p>Meanwhile, work is underway for a $200 million Harry Potter theme park.<span style="font-style: italic;"> "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter</span>" will include two roller coasters, a Hogwarts Castle, and even shops that are straight from Diagon Alley, like Olivander's wand shop, Honeydukes sweet shop and Zonko's Joke Shop.<br /><a href="J.K%20Rowling%20Working%20on%20%22Political%20Fairy%20Tale%22%20For%20Children%20%20J.K.%20Rowling%20is%20penning%20a%20new%20book%20%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%94%20but%20this%20time%20it%27s%20not%20about%20wizards.%20%20The%20author%20of%20the%20%22Harry%20Potter%22%20franchise%20says%20that%20she%27s%20writing%20%22a%20political%20fairy%20tale%22%20for%20%22slightly%20younger%20children,%22%20reports%20the%20Kansas%20City%20Star,%20based%20on%20extras%20in%20the%20newly%20released%20DVD%20of%20%22Harry%20Potter%20and%20the%20Half%20Blood%20Prince.%22%20She%20added%20that%20she%27s%20in%20no%20hurry%20to%20finish%20up%20quickly,%20and%20is%20learning%20to%20enjoy%20life%20without%20the%20crunch%20of%20deadlines.%20Meanwhile,%20work%20is%20underway%20for%20a%20$200%20million%20Harry%20Potter%20theme%20park.%20%22The%20Wizarding%20World%20of%20Harry%20Potter%22%20will%20include%20two%20roller%20coasters,%20a%20Hogwarts%20Castle,%20and%20even%20shops%20that%20are%20straight%20from%20Diagon%20Alley,%20like%20Olivander%27s%20wand%20shop,%20Honeydukes%20sweet%20shop%20and%20Zonko%27s%20Joke%20Shop."><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-642118836331665544?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-78982715621445527652009-12-06T16:33:00.000-08:002009-12-06T16:37:11.911-08:00<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/12/02/jane.austen.death/index.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >What really killed Jane Austen?</span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/12/02/jane.austen.death/index.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 204px; height: 115px;" src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/12/02/jane.austen.death/story.austen.afp.gi.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>London, England (CNN) -- It is a truth universally acknowledged -- or nearly so -- that Jane Austen, the author of "Pride and Prejudice," died of a rare illness called Addison's disease, which robs the body of the ability to make critical hormones.<br /><br />Katherine White doesn't believe it.<br /><br />White, herself a sufferer of Addison's disease, has studied Austen's own letters and those of her family and friends, and concluded that key symptoms just don't match what's known about the illness.<br /><br />...Patients also tend to have difficulty remembering words, and suffer from slurred speech, sleepiness and confusion.<br /><br />Austen, by contrast, dictated a 24-line comic poem to her sister less than 48 hours before she died.<br /><br />White is not the first to dispute the theory that Addison's disease killed Austen. British biographer Claire Tomalin suggested in a 1997 book that lymphoma was the culprit.<br /><br />White finds that, too, unlikely.<br /><br />She suspects the answer is much simpler: tuberculosis.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/12/02/jane.austen.death/index.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-7898271562144552765?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-81324022984769126942009-11-25T22:51:00.000-08:002009-11-25T22:53:10.609-08:00<a href="http://russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-11-06/newborns-cry-native-tongue.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Newborns cry in their native tongue</span></a><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-11-06/newborns-cry-native-tongue.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 158px; height: 122px;" src="http://russiatoday.com/s/obj/2009-11-06/cry2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The melodies of the cries newborn babies produce differ depending on their native language, a new study says. Apparently humans start to practice language skills right in the first days of their lives.</p> <!-- bookmarks start --> <p>Babies learn about speech even earlier. Some three months before birth a fetus’ ear is developed enough to hear sounds, including mother’s voice, which probably explains why infants as young as one month seem to prefer being talked to in their native language.</p> <p>However, developing speaking skills of their own takes some time outside of the womb. Some 4 months after birth, babies start babbling in their parents’ language or languages.</p><p><a href="http://russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-11-06/newborns-cry-native-tongue.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-8132402298476912694?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-90141281908515592242009-11-12T11:52:00.000-08:002009-11-12T11:54:31.376-08:00<a href="http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2009/11/09/keep-shakespeare-in-our-schools.htm?nl=1"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Keep Shakespeare in Our Schools!</span></a><p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2009/11/09/keep-shakespeare-in-our-schools.htm?nl=1"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 135px; height: 181px;" src="http://z.about.com/d/shakespeare/1/0/U/-/-/-/Shakespeareart.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Last week, the UK government <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8343229.stm">barred state schools</a> from offering a new IGCSE qualification because it would allow students to opt out of studying Shakespeare. </p> <p> I think that the very idea that an entire generation of students could leave school without being exposed to Shakespeare at all is terrifying. The study of Shakespeare forges a link with our culture, our history, our heritage and our language - factors that will give the adults of tomorrow a solid grounding in life.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2009/11/09/keep-shakespeare-in-our-schools.htm?nl=1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-9014128190851559224?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-25012626878481198982009-11-10T14:44:00.000-08:002009-11-10T14:50:13.320-08:00<a href="http://www.newschief.com/article/20091108/NEWS/911085029"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Modern children's literature has come a long way from fairy tale classics</span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.newschief.com/article/20091108/NEWS/911085029"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 143px; height: 201px;" src="http://www.newschief.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=WN&amp;Date=20091108&amp;Category=NEWS&amp;ArtNo=911085029&amp;Ref=V1&amp;MaxW=250&amp;border=0" alt="" border="0" /></a>Children and books have a long history together, from summer days spent with a stack of page-turners in a backyard hammock, to reading on school nights with a flashlight under the covers. However, in today's world, books face competition for children's attention with video games, the Internet, television and other pastimes.<br /><p>Because of these distractions, children's book authors, parents, librarians and teachers are having to incorporate different methods to encourage children to read.</p><p>One of the steps authors are taking is changing the subject matter of children's literature.</p><p>Many adults recall growing up reading tales of princesses, knights in shining armor and evil witches. However, current children's books have taken a step away from fairy tales and are gravitating toward solving the trials of real life.</p><p><a href="http://www.newschief.com/article/20091108/NEWS/911085029"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Related Contrasting Article:</span></span></p><p><a href="http://hhz-english.blogspot.com/search?q=gritty+realism"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Anne Fine deplores 'gritty realism' of modern children's books </span></span></a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-2501262687848119898?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-59896830962048069942009-11-08T13:24:00.000-08:002009-11-08T13:47:28.870-08:00<a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/11/06/library"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >Bookless Libraries? </span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/11/06/library"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 160px;" src="http://www.ncad.ie/library/images/newlibrary3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>DENVER — When does a library cease to be a library?<br /><br />What started as a debate over whether brick-and-mortar libraries would survive much further into the 21st century turned into an existential discussion on the definition of libraries, as a gathering of technologists here at the 2009 Educause Conference pondered the evolution of one of higher education’s oldest institutions.<br /><br />“Let’s face it: the library, as a place, is dead,” said Suzanne E. Thorin, dean of libraries at Syracuse University. “Kaput. Finito. And we need to move on to a new concept of what the academic library is.”<br /><br />her argument tapped into <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/09/24/libraries" target="_blank">theories about the obsolescence of libraries</a> — traditionally defined — that have grown along with the emergence of Web-based reference tools, e-books, digitized and born-digital content, and other technologies that some see as changing essential library functions.<br /><br />Certain major research universities, she noted, have even begun moving their books to off-campus storage facilities due to space issues and a diminishing need for on-site hard copies. Libraries everywhere are eliminating pricey subscriptions to printed academic journals, often opting for less expensive digital versions.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/11/06/library">Read more....</a><br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-048.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 60px; height: 48px;" src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-048.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Emotional Bunny Says: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Last night's Google search was, unfortunately, "free online books", and even more unfortunately, I found some."<br /><br /><br /></span></span><span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:78%;" >(Image credit: </span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:78%;" ><cite style="font-style: normal;">ncad.ie</cite></span><span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:78%;" >)</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-5989683096204806994?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-70624000188748696862009-10-26T09:01:00.000-07:002009-10-26T09:05:07.490-07:00<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/6436825/Twitters-take-on-great-works-of-literature.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Twitter's take on great works of literature</span></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />Two US students have condensed the plot lines of some of the world's greatest books in to 140-character Twitter messages.</span><br /></span><p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/6436825/Twitters-take-on-great-works-of-literature.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 133px;" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01499/william_1499809c.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Dante's <i>Inferno</i> is boiled down to: "I'm having a midlife crisis. Lost in the woods. Should a bought my iPhone." </p><!-- BEFORE ACI --> <p> Sophocles' <i>Oedipus the King</i> is shortened to: "PARTY IN THEBES!!! Nobody cares I killed that old dude, plus this woman is all over me."<br /></p><p>The compendium of tweets will be published next month by Penguin. <i>Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter</i>, is written by Emmett Rensin, an English and philosophy student at the University of Chicago, and his university friend Alexander Aciman, who is studying comparative literature. </p> <p> The books also covers Homer's <i>The Odyssey</i>, and the work of Milton, Kafka and Shakespeare. </p> <p> "It's funny if you've read the books," said Rensin. </p> <p> "There were some lines in the book where we're sitting on a couch and we're writing it, and we'd both laugh and say 'there's no way they're going to let us write that,'" Aciman said.<br /></p><p>"I'm not going to say it's high art. There is some value to it, I feel, aside from the fact we're making available the idea behind great works of art."<br /></p><p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/6436825/Twitters-take-on-great-works-of-literature.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-7062400018874869686?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-50940054477665199622009-10-22T10:09:00.000-07:002009-10-22T10:10:58.626-07:00<a href="http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1930971,00.html?xid=rss-topstories"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Plagiarism Software Finds a New Shakespeare Play</span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1930971,00.html?xid=rss-topstories"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 218px; height: 122px;" src="http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2009/0910/shakespeare_1019.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Plagiarism-detection software was created with lazy, sneaky college students in mind — not the likes of William Shakespeare. Yet the software may have settled a centuries-old mystery over the authorship of an unattributed play from the late 1500s called <i>The Reign of Edward III</i>. Literature scholars have long debated whether the play was written by Shakespeare — some bits are incredibly Bard-like, but others don't resemble his style at all. The verdict, according to one expert: the play is likely a collaboration between Shakespeare and Thomas Kyd, another popular playwright of his time.<br /><br />Sir Brian Vickers, a literature professor at the University of London, came to his conclusion after using plagiarism-detection software — as well as his own expertise — to compare writing patterns between <i>Edward III</i> and Shakespeare's body of work.<br /><a href="http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1930971,00.html?xid=rss-topstories"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-5094005447766519962?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-43920014614241546272009-10-15T19:02:00.000-07:002009-10-15T19:06:41.490-07:00<a href="http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/4682361.Charlotte_s_Rochester_is_literature_s__greatest_romantic_/?ref=rss"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Charlotte Bronte's Rochester is literature's 'greatest romantic'</span></span></a><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/4682361.Charlotte_s_Rochester_is_literature_s__greatest_romantic_/?ref=rss"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 172px; height: 172px;" src="http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/resources/images/1068917/?type=display" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">The Telegraph &amp; Argus - </span>He may be prone to moodiness and lacking in good looks but Mr Rochester, the Byronic hero of Charlotte Bronte’s classic novel, Jane Eyre, has been named the most romantic literary character in history. <p> Rochester, the novel’s lead male character, who employs the orphaned Jane as a governess for his young ward, came top in the Mills &amp; Boon poll, followed by Bernard Cornwell’s Richard Sharpe and Fitzwilliam Darcy from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. </p> <p> Rochester, whose appearance is described as being “more remarkable for character than beauty”, proposes to Jane despite her lower social rank but their relationship ends when she discovers he is already married at their wedding ceremony.<br /></p><p><a href="http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/4682361.Charlotte_s_Rochester_is_literature_s__greatest_romantic_/?ref=rss"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-4392001461424154627?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-34205797733175155592009-10-13T08:31:00.000-07:002009-10-13T08:35:53.531-07:00<a href="http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Haiku - </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">What it is and how to write it</span></span><br /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 107px; height: 120px;" src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:NI05eUK8-ya1bM:http://biobreak.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/haiku-plaque-01-s.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;"><big>What is Haiku?</big> </span><p> <span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;">Haiku is one of the most important form of traditional Japanese </span><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;">poetry. Haiku is, today, a 17-syllable verse form consis</span><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;">ting of three metrical units of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. Since early days, there has been confusion </span><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;">between the three related terms <i>Haiku, Hokku</i> and <i>Haikai.</i> The term <i>hokku</i> literally means "starting verse", and was the </span><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;">first starting link of a much longer chain of verses known as <i>haika.</i> </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 99px; height: 112px;" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ojaYYZaPA_muIM:http://100musicalfootsteps.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/master-your-haiku1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;">Because the <i>hokku</i> set the tone for the rest of the poetic chain, it </span><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;">enjoyed a privileged </span><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;">position in <i>haikai</i> poetry, and it was not uncommon for a poet to compose a <i>hokku</i> by itself without following up with the rest of the chain.</span></p><p><a href="http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/"><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></span></a></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(Image credits: </span><cite style="font-style: italic;">biobreak.wordpress.com, </cite><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">100musicalfootsteps.files.wordpress.com)</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-3420579773317515559?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-76230135882550539172009-10-09T10:02:00.000-07:002009-10-09T10:10:49.499-07:00<a href="http://www.chinatravel.com/facts/chinese-arts/chinese-literature.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >Chinese Literature</span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.chinatravel.com/facts/chinese-arts/chinese-literature.htm"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 114px; height: 170px;" src="http://www.chinatravel.com/album/userupload/lavender0108/20080511204600151-m.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />The history of ancient Chinese literature is comprised of eight periods, each of which has it's own predominant literature types. These are:<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><ul><li>Ancient times: <span style="font-weight: bold;">fables and legends</span></li><li>Early Qin Dynasty: <span style="font-weight: bold;">prose on history or masters</span></li><li>Eastern and Western Dynasties: <span style="font-weight: bold;">verses, ditties, Yuefu songs, and historical prose</span></li><li>Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties: <span style="font-weight: bold;">poetry and others</span></li><li>Tang Dynasty:<span style="font-weight: bold;"> poetry</span></li><li>Song Dynasty:<span style="font-weight: bold;"> lyrics</span></li><li>Yuan Dynasty: <span style="font-weight: bold;">poetic drama</span></li><li>Ming and Qing Dynasties:<span style="font-weight: bold;"> fiction</span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><a href="http://www.chinatravel.com/facts/chinese-arts/chinese-literature.htm">Read more....</a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-7623013588255053917?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-75862115473094499792009-10-07T23:44:00.000-07:002009-10-07T23:48:23.271-07:00<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2009/09/30/bars_on_books_jar_harvard_students/?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed3"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >Bars on books jar Harvard students</span></a><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2009/09/30/bars_on_books_jar_harvard_students/?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed3"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 207px; height: 135px;" src="http://cache.boston.com/resize/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2009/09/29/1254278482_0890/539w.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>For nearly a century, the ornate library with the chandelier, fireplace, and wood-paneled walls has drawn students to its prized collection of classics, thousands of dust-covered tomes from Cicero to Twain.</p><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>The students who have long cherished the small library inside Dunster House, Harvard’s oldest dormitory, discovered a new feature there this week: two brass bars stretching across nearly every shelf, making the books impossible to peruse.</p><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>...“It seemed very peculiar that anyone at the university would want to actively prevent students from handling books,’’ said Jacob Sider Jost, a fifth-year PhD student. “There’s a very negative response to how this was done. There was no warning and . . . worse than being locked, the books are actually permanently fixed on the shelves, from which they cannot be removed.’’</p></div><div class="articlePluckHidden"><p>Dunster officials have since apologized to concerned students and have explained that the bars were needed as a temporary way to protect the books - some of them highly valuable volumes or irreplaceable first editions signed by authors - after it appeared that several works had been stolen.</p><p><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2009/09/30/bars_on_books_jar_harvard_students/?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed3"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-7586211547309449979?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-5321626257930339742009-10-07T16:37:00.000-07:002009-10-07T16:40:45.537-07:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="fn"><a href="http://shakespeare.about.com/od/interviews/a/performing_shax.htm?nl=1"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Performing Shakespeare</span></span></a><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://shakespeare.about.com/od/interviews/a/performing_shax.htm?nl=1"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 137px; height: 81px;" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:sHsSc_GfhaDXNM:http://www.cornellcollege.edu/theatre/images/theimages/shrew.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><b>About.com: Is performing Shakespeare difficult?<br /><br /></b><b>Ben Crystal: </b> Well, yes ... and so it should be! These plays are over 400 years old. They contain <a href="http://shakespeare.about.com/od/shakespeareslegacy/a/Common_Phrases.htm">cultural gags and references that are completely obscure to us</a>. But they’re also hard to perform because Shakespeare was so darned good at tapping into the human heart – so, as an actor you can’t allow yourself to hold back. If you can’t go to the depths of your soul, explore the extremes of yourself, go to the bad place as Othello or Macbeth, then you shouldn’t be on the stage.<br /><br />....<b>About.com: How important is it to understand iambic pentameter before performing? </b> <p> <b>Ben Crystal: </b> That depends on how much you respect the writer you’re working with. Most of Shakespeare’s plays are written in that particular rhythmical style, so to ignore it would be foolish. <a href="http://shakespeare.about.com/od/shakespeareslanguage/a/i_pentameter.htm">Iambic pentameter is the rhythm of our English language </a> and of our bodies – a line of that poetry has the same rhythm as our heartbeat. A line of iambic pentameter fills the human lung perfectly, so it’s the rhythm of speech. One could say that it’s a very human sounding rhythm and Shakespeare used it to explore what it is to be human.<a href="http://shakespeare.about.com/od/interviews/a/performing_shax.htm?nl=1"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://shakespeare.about.com/od/interviews/a/performing_shax.htm?nl=1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-532162625793033974?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-72224469936968642402009-10-05T09:05:00.000-07:002009-10-05T09:13:16.213-07:00<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/makenna-goodman/the-future-of-publishing_b_308784.html"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Future of Publishing: Publishing is not a dying business; it's a </span><em style="font-weight: bold;">changing</em></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" > business</span></a><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/makenna-goodman/the-future-of-publishing_b_308784.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 123px;" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:OGVIH9QRYrrH0M:http://www.writerbookie.com/images/self_publishing_pages.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">The Huffington Post - </span>One year ago, I did what many New Yorkers only dream about. During the most historic presidential inauguration and election of my lifetime, in the throes of the worst economic recession since the Great Depression, at the emotional precipice of my mid-twenties, from the mean streets of New York City -- a Greenwich Village apartment, a job in publishing, and mounting debt -- I left it all to become a farmer.<br /><br />...On my way out of the building, the President of this agency (a nice guy) took me aside and told me, wagging his guacamole'd chip: "Get out of publishing, Makenna. It's a dying business." <p>But turns out, those folks were wrong about several things.</p> <ol><li>1. Publishing is not a dying business; it's a <em>changing</em> business. It's a business going through literary puberty, fiscal adolescence, and management hell. It's a business that needs to grow up, in other words.</li></ol><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/makenna-goodman/the-future-of-publishing_b_308784.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(Image credits: </span><cite style="font-style: italic;">newsblog2you.wordpress.com)</cite></span><div style="position: fixed;"><div id="new_selection_block0.6444699392360751" style="border: medium none ; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/makenna-goodman/the-future-of-publishing_b_308784.html" target="_blank_"><br /></a></div></div><div style="position: fixed;"><div id="new_selection_block0.43174025731740373" style="border: medium none ; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/makenna-goodman/the-future-of-publishing_b_308784.html" target="_blank_"></a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-7222446993696864240?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-71296379133247290902009-10-05T08:42:00.000-07:002009-10-05T08:46:33.640-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/10/05/11304281-sun.html">'Mockingbird' faces chop at Toronto schools </a></span><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/10/05/11304281-sun.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 137px; height: 220px;" src="http://upsenglish.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/harper-lee.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>TORONTO -- To Kill A Mockingbird could be on the curriculum chopping block for all Toronto public schools. </p><p> A parent of a Malvern Collegiate student has asked the Toronto District School Board to remove the classic American novel from Canada's largest school board, the Sun has learned.<br /></p><p> In August, a Brampton principal scrapped the book from a Grade 10 English course after a parent complained. Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board officials said the parent had objected to the use of the N-word in the book. </p><p> Matlow said parents may object to some of the words used in Mockingbird or some of the experiences the book's characters endure, Matlow said. </p><p> "But I don't think we should dilute the severity of what people went through in our history just to be politically correct," he said.<br /></p><p><a href="http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/10/05/11304281-sun.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-7129637913324729090?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-48421220550283457662009-10-01T13:20:00.000-07:002009-10-01T13:24:36.663-07:00<a href="http://www.lsjournal.com/100/story/37448.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >Literature and censorship</span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.lsjournal.com/100/story/37448.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 108px; height: 119px;" src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ZQX5pygajh87pM:http://eesiem.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/bannedbooks.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>There is a book in the library that, according to some, “glorifies Satan, suicide, cannibalism and encourages children to be disobedient.”<p> This particular book has probably been read to every elementary student at some point or another and its writings have been used in homework assignments, debate speeches and even as a basis for other books.</p><p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.lsjournal.com/100/story/37448.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 106px; height: 78px;" src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:bO8ZXCovng7AkM:http://education-portal.com/cimages/multimages/16/banned_books.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>What is this terrible book? Shel Silverstein’s “A Light in the Attic,” the children’s book of silly poems. </p> <p> This week, Sept. 28 through Oct. 3, marks Banned Books Week, an annual event where libraries, book stores and book lovers celebrate the books that have been banned over the years. At Lee’s Summit High School, media specialists Sandy Stuart-Bayer and Michael Russell, encouraged students to take a closer look at some of the banned books.</p><p><a href="http://www.lsjournal.com/100/story/37448.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a></p><p style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><cite style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(Image credits: education-portal.com, </span></cite><cite style="font-style: italic;">percececil.wordpress.com)</cite></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-4842122055028345766?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-37410311689358524292009-09-29T13:53:00.000-07:002009-09-29T13:54:45.694-07:00<a href="http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4741332,00.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >World literature expands its horizons in Germany </span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4741332,00.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 177px; height: 130px;" src="http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,1350576_1,00.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Many Germans associate the term "world literature" with US-American and European literature. To help broaden that rather narrow view, the House of World Cultures in Berlin - Germany's national center for contemporary non-European art - and the Elementarteilchen Foundation in Hamburg, a non-profit organization that supports cultural projects, have introduced the International Literature Award. It is to be presented for the first time on September 30 in Berlin, distinguishing international works of prose fiction in German translation. The aim is to attract attention to Asian, African and Latin American writers and expand the common definition of world literature.<br /><a href="http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4741332,00.html"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-3741031168935852429?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-41606531791311142972009-09-27T18:16:00.000-07:002009-09-27T18:24:08.242-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><a href="http://www.useless-facts.net/Literature.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">More Fun Random Facts About Literature</span></a> </span><br /><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.useless-facts.net/Literature.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 171px; height: 110px;" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:_75Ki82Jk23q0M:http://informationage.co.nz/images/content.png" alt="" border="0" /></a>-Emily Dickinson wrote more than nine hundred poems, only four of which were published during her lifetime.</p> <p>-Gibbon spent twenty years writing The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Noah Webster spent thirty-six years writing his dictionary.</p><p>-There is no living descendant of William Shakespeare.</p> <p>-Voltaire considered Shakespeare's works so deplorable that he referred to the Bard as “that drunken fool.”</p> <p>-All the proceeds earned from James M. Barrie's book Peter Pan were bequeathed to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London.</p><p><a href="http://www.useless-facts.net/Literature.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(Image credit: </span><cite style="font-style: italic;">informationage.co.nz)</cite></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-4160653179131114297?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-80788257949230852822009-09-25T18:54:00.000-07:002009-09-25T19:08:33.531-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.physorg.com/news173112935.html">How would Einstein use e-mail? </a></span><br /><h2><span style="font-weight: normal; font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Before computers, letter writers had same correspondence patterns as e-mail users</span></h2><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.physorg.com/news173112935.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 94px;" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:wB9kYXxy4wU6CM:http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/4681440/letters_Full.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>A new Northwestern University study of human behavior has determined that those who wrote letters using pen and paper -- long before electronic mail existed -- did so in a pattern similar to the way people use e-mail today.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.physorg.com/news173112935.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 126px; height: 83px;" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:fHTKkjGMo_YlnM:http://sunnylam.net/SLA/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/email-large.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>....The researchers examined extensive letter correspondence records of 16 famous writers, performers, politicians and scientists, including Einstein, Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and Ernest Hemingway, and found that the 16 individuals sent letters randomly but in cycles.<br /><br />The same <a href="http://www.physorg.com/tags/mathematical+model/" rel="tag" class="textTag">mathematical model</a> the Northwestern team used in a previous study to explain e-mail behavior now has been shown to apply to the letter writers. This refutes the rational model, which says that people are driven foremost by responding to others.<br /><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news173112935.html"> </a><br /><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news173112935.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(Image credits: </span><cite style="font-style: italic;">ehow.com<span style="font-weight: bold;">,</span> </cite><cite style="font-style: italic;">sunnylam.net, respectively)</cite></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-8078825794923085282?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-5018973622333414972009-09-24T12:45:00.001-07:002009-09-24T16:05:09.117-07:00<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8272473.stm"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >A short history of long speeches</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:78%;" >This is a <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;">Linked!</span> article - relevant content for both <a href="http://hhz-history.blogspot.com">HHZ-History</a> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">HHZ-English</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8272473.stm"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 99px; height: 160px;" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:Wu-sDBU3ErzwaM:http://www.myloc.gov/_assets/Exhibitions/lincoln/rise/TheRunforPresident/ElectionCelebrationAndTrepidation/Assets/al0082p1_enlarge.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>For 96 long minutes, Colonel Gaddafi spoke to UN delegates about Somali pirates, the death of JFK, jet lag and his conspiracy theories about swine flu. Call that a long speech? It's but a tiddler.<br /><br />After an hour and a half of Mr Gaddafi speaking in person, it is not known how many of those listening logged on for more.<br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span></span>Four hours and 29 minutes is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest speech in front of the General Assembly, given in September 1960 by Fidel Castro. The former Cuban leader is known for his interminable speeches - his longest on record in Cuba clocking up seven hours and 10 minutes at the 1986 Communist Party Congress.<br /><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8272473.stm"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(Image credit: myloc.gov)</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-501897362233341497?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-35014703120606651642009-09-22T21:23:00.000-07:002009-09-22T21:24:52.144-07:00<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/2009/09/21/2009-09-21_comics_meet_literature_in_the_work_of_r_sikoryak.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >Comics meet literature</span></a><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/2009/09/21/2009-09-21_comics_meet_literature_in_the_work_of_r_sikoryak.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 123px; height: 167px;" src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/09/20/amd_headsot_comic-artist_r-sikoryak.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>At first glance you might think R. Sikoryak’s comics are simple gag strips poking fun at western literature, but you would be dead wrong.</p> <p>Sikoryak combines iconic American comics with complimentary literary classics, creating a new identity for both works that is entertaining and thought-provoking. His comics are an example of how much the genre has grown up, and how far it's come as a serious form of art.</p> <p>“Mastrepiece Comics” collects 20 years of parodies that originally appeared in a host of anthologies including Drawn &amp; Quarterly, Raw, New York Press and Hotwire amongst others.<br /></p><p><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/2009/09/21/2009-09-21_comics_meet_literature_in_the_work_of_r_sikoryak.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-3501470312060665164?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-10135185930317556552009-09-22T21:16:00.000-07:002009-09-22T21:19:11.885-07:00<a href="http://classiclit.about.com/c/ec/2.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >The Literary Overview</span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://classiclit.about.com/c/ec/2.htm"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 79px;" src="http://z.about.com/d/classiclit/1/6/V/o/2/iStock_000001636238XSmall_reading_Nicholas_Sutcliffe.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Not news, but this is a really cool daily newsletter to sign up for; you'll receive little digestible bits of literature from around the world in your inbox every day!<br /><br /><a href="http://classiclit.about.com/c/ec/2.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more and sign up.....</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-1013518593031755655?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-61502112251128915942009-09-20T20:09:00.000-07:002009-09-20T20:11:15.863-07:00<span style="font-size:180%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://classiclit.about.com/od/bannedliteratur1/a/aa_whatisban.htm"><span class="fn">What is a Banned Book?</span></a></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://classiclit.about.com/od/bannedliteratur1/a/aa_whatisban.htm"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 194px; height: 128px;" src="http://z.about.com/d/classiclit/1/4/w/p/2/iStock_000008506443XSmall.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>A banned book is one that has been removed from the shelves of a library, bookstore, or classroom because of its controversial content. In some cases, banned books of the past have been burned and/or refused publication. Possession of banned books has at times been regarded as an act of treason or heresy, which was punishable by death, torture, prison time, or other acts of retribution.<br /><br />A book may be challenged or banned on political, religious, sexual, or social grounds. We take the acts of banning or challenging a book as a serious matter, because these are forms of censorship--striking at the very core of our freedom to read.<br /><br /><b>The History of Banned Books<br /><br /></b>A book may be considered a banned book if the work has been banned in the past. We still discuss these books and the censorship surrounding them not only because it gives us insight into the time in which the book was banned, but it also gives us some perspective on books that are banned and challenged today.<br /><a href="http://classiclit.about.com/od/bannedliteratur1/a/aa_whatisban.htm"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-6150211225112891594?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-42155819393593590902009-09-20T09:40:00.000-07:002009-09-20T09:45:26.232-07:00<p style="font-size:13pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span>Norse Poetry</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);font-size:13pt;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0); font-style: italic;">Not a news article, but interesting anyway!</span><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(102, 102, 0);font-size:13pt;"><span style="font-size:78%;">— Doom of Odin,<br />from the <a href="http://www.timelessmyths.com/heroes/verses.php" target="_blank">Book of Heroes</a>. </span></p><p style="font-style: italic;font-size:13pt;"><span style="font-size:78%;">"I find no comfort in the shade<br />Under the branch of the Great Ash.<br />I remember the mist<br />of our ancient past.<br />As I speak to you in the present,<br />My ancient eyes<br />see the terrible future. </span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;font-size:13pt;"><span style="font-size:78%;"> "Do you not see what I see?<br />Do you not hear<br />death approaching? </span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;font-size:13pt;"><span style="font-size:78%;"> "The mournful cry of Giallr-horn<br />shall shatter the peace<br />And shake the foundation of heaven. </span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;font-size:13pt;"><span style="font-size:78%;"> "Raise up your banner<br />And gather your noble company<br />from your great hall,<br />Father of the Slains.<br />For you shall go to your destiny. </span></p> <p style="font-style: italic;font-size:13pt;"><span style="font-size:78%;"> "No knowledge can save you,<br />And no magic will save you.<br />For you will end up in Fenrir's belly,<br />While heaven and earth will burn<br />in Surt's unholy fire." </span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-4215581939359359090?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-33274392047827361962009-09-19T14:14:00.000-07:002009-09-19T14:25:24.375-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 153, 51);font-size:180%;" >Old English</span><br /><br /><b>Old English</b> (<i>Englisc</i>), also called <b>Anglo-Saxon</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English#cite_note-0"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup> is an early form of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English language</a> that was spoken and written in parts of what are now <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> and south-eastern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a> between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century. What survives through writing represents primarily the literary register of Anglo-Saxon. It is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germanic_language" title="West Germanic language" class="mw-redirect">West Germanic language</a> and is closely related to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Frisian" title="Old Frisian">Old Frisian</a>. It also experienced heavy influence from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse_language" title="Old Norse language" class="mw-redirect">Old Norse</a>, a member of the related <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Germanic_languages" title="North Germanic languages">North Germanic</a> group of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language" title="Language">languages</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English#Beowulf"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Eald Englisc</span></span><br /><br />Here is the Wikipedia page that's written entirely in Old English (also known as Eald Englisc). Now, mind you, this is very different from modern english, and to understand it you'd need to study it like another language.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C4%93afods%C4%ABde">Eald Enlisc Wicipaedia</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-3327439204782736196?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-44189801314745711752009-09-18T19:48:00.000-07:002009-09-18T19:53:27.711-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><a href="http://classiclit.about.com/od/forbeginners/a/aa_whatisclass.htm">What are Classics?</a></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:zyweZ5YXNiZweM:http://www.tempe.gov/library/events/images/books.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 150px;" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:zyweZ5YXNiZweM:http://www.tempe.gov/library/events/images/books.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The definition of a "classic" can be a hotly debated topic. Depending on what you read, or the experience of the person you question on the topic, you may receive a wide range of answers. So, what is a "classic"--in the context of books and literature? <ul><li>A classic usually expresses some artistic quality--an expression of life, truth, and beauty.</li><li>A classic stands the test of time. The work is usually considered to be a representation of the period in which it was written; and the work merits lasting recognition. In other words, if the book was published in the recent past, the work is not a classic.</li><li>A classic has a certain universal appeal. Great works of literature touch us to our very core beings--partly because they integrate themes that are understood by readers from a wide range of backgrounds and levels of experience. Themes of love, hate, death, life, and faith touch upon some of our most basic emotional responses.</li></ul><a href="http://classiclit.about.com/od/forbeginners/a/aa_whatisclass.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-4418980131474571175?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-27446207480974691302009-09-16T05:41:00.000-07:002009-09-16T05:43:11.775-07:00<a href="http://classiclit.about.com/od/howtoread/ht/aa_howtoremembr.htm"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Remembering What You Read</span></span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://z.about.com/d/classiclit/1/4/u/p/2/iStock_000003479799XSmall_sansara.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 194px; height: 140px;" src="http://z.about.com/d/classiclit/1/4/u/p/2/iStock_000003479799XSmall_sansara.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Reading is important. But, the next step is making sure that you remember what you've read! Memory is sometimes a tricky thing. You may have just read the text, and the concepts and ideas of the poem or novel may not "catch" on... The images may just fly right out of your head. Here are are a few tricks for remembering what you read.<br /><br /><ol><li><b>What's your motivation?</b><br />Do you want to read the poem or book, or are you only reading it because it's assigned. Even if your reading is required, you may discover something about the author or text that will interest you. What do you know about the text? If you have a choice between texts to read, perhaps another work of literature will offer more of an enticement, and will be of more interest to you.<br /><br /></li></ol><a href="http://classiclit.about.com/od/howtoread/ht/aa_howtoremembr.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-2744620748097469130?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-3369192260837615162009-09-15T11:38:00.000-07:002009-09-15T11:43:27.089-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><a href="http://www.bestfunfacts.com/literature.html">Literature Fun Facts</a><br /></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Authors are alphabetized by last name. </span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Jane Austen:</span></span> Jealousy <p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bestfunfacts.com/PhotosLiterature/FFJane_Austen.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 97px; height: 133px;" src="http://www.bestfunfacts.com/PhotosLiterature/FFJane_Austen.png" alt="" border="0" /></a>July 1814, when Sir Walter Scott’s first novel <i>Waverly</i> was published, Jane Austen was a bit jealous. She wrote the following in a letter to her niece:</p> <p> “Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones.—It is not fair.—He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people’s mouths.—I do not like him, and do not mean to like <i>Waverly</i> if I can help it—but fear I must.” </p> <p>Ironically, today Jane Austen is a much more popular author than her contemporary Sir Walter Scott.</p><p><br /></p> <h2><span style="font-size:100%;">Daniel Defoe (Foe): </span></h2><h2><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bestfunfacts.com/PhotosLiterature/FFDaniel_Defoe.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 108px; height: 107px;" src="http://www.bestfunfacts.com/PhotosLiterature/FFDaniel_Defoe.png" alt="" border="0" /></a></h2> <h2><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The famous author of <i style="font-weight: normal;">Robinson Crusoe</i></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:85%;" > changed his name in 1703 from Foe to Defoe. He believed that Defoe is “more socially and upward sounding” than Foe is. </span></h2><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.bestfunfacts.com/literature.html"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-336919226083761516?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-51361261220469383062009-09-13T14:17:00.001-07:002009-09-13T14:19:33.293-07:00<h1 class="content_title"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2154049/exploration_of_the_english_renaissance.html">Exploration of the English Renaissance in Literature</a></span></h1><span style="font-style: italic;">A massive transformation in literature took place during the Renaissance, especially in England. Here we will explore the changes of the 16th century and how these changes continue to influence works of literature today.</span><br /><br />"....The 16^th century also saw the beginnings of English journalism in the topical pamphlets of Robert Green and Thomas Nash. The first formal literary criticism in English appeared in the writings of Sir Philip Sidney ("The Defence of Poesie"), Ben Jonson, and others. The prose romances of Sidney, Nash, Greene, and John Lyly (whose <i>Euphues </i>started a new prose style) were the forerunners of the English novel."<a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2154049/exploration_of_the_english_renaissance.html"><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-5136126122046938306?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-69221817931406804772009-09-11T09:44:00.000-07:002009-09-11T09:46:03.760-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/10/revive-another-authors-characters">Reviving another author's characters</a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br />Alison Flood follows up the authors joining the booming trend in sequels to other people's workAlison Flood follows up the authors joining the booming trend in sequels to other people's work<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/pictures/2009/9/10/1252578344250/Eoin-Colfer-left-and-Doug-001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 217px; height: 130px;" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/pictures/2009/9/10/1252578344250/Eoin-Colfer-left-and-Doug-001.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>This autumn, eight years after <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/douglasadams">Douglas Adams</a> died, Arthur Dent and friends will be hitching across the galaxy once again, Bram Stoker's Dracula will be stalking the pages of a book for the first time in more than a century, and Winnie the Pooh will be returning to the Hundred Acre Wood in the first official sequel to AA Milne's much-loved children's books. Such continuations of the work of popular authors, who have inconveniently interrupted their output by dying, are big business for the literary world these days. Authors are being roped in left, right and centre to continue or complete legacies, whether it's Sebastian Faulks taking on James Bond in Devil May Care last year, or the bucketloads of Virginia Andrews novels she has "written" since her death more than 20 years ago.<br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/10/revive-another-authors-characters"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Read more....</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-6922181793140680477?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-13964516355560952602009-09-11T09:39:00.000-07:002009-09-11T09:42:10.116-07:00<span><span style="color: rgb(236, 76, 36);"><a href="http://www.canoe.ca/Travel/News/2009/09/09/10800616-ap.html?cid=rsstravelnews"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b>Canadian coastal community provides a sense of wonder for booklovers </b></span><br /></a> <br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 113, 169);font-size:0;" ><b>By Steve Quinn, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS </b></span><br /><p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.canoe.ca/Travel/News/2009/09/09/u090909A.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 188px;" src="http://www.canoe.ca/Travel/News/2009/09/09/u090909A.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>SIDNEY, B.C. - Here, in this coastal B.C. town, it's all about the books - thousands of them scattered throughout 12 stores. </p><p> New books and rare books. Paperbacks and hardbacks. Children's books, classics and mysteries. Cookbooks, gardening books, even comic books. </p><p> For two days, I was in literature bliss, not knowing where to start, losing track of time, and eventually being asked to leave one store because it was closing time - almost like a bartender cutting me off.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.canoe.ca/Travel/News/2009/09/09/10800616-ap.html?cid=rsstravelnews">Read more....</a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-1396451635556095260?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-24319493455356974202009-09-09T15:27:00.000-07:002009-09-09T15:30:12.763-07:00<h1><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.thenorthwestern.com/article/20090909/OSH04/90908056">Actress creates short one-minute movies about classic books</a></span></h1>Kids, remember this name: Jenny Sawyer. She may soon be American education’s next “It” girl. Actually, make that its first and only “It” girl.<br /><br />Only 24 and barely out of college, Sawyer has undertaken an audacious task: writing and shooting, with the help of a small band of filmmakers, <span style="font-weight: bold;">more than 1,000 free, one-minute videos that help students understand and enjoy commonly assigned classic works of literature.</span><p>It’ll take two years, thousands of hours on a <a itxtdid="12212410" target="_blank" href="http://www.thenorthwestern.com/article/20090909/OSH04/90908056#" style="border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; font-size: 100% ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; padding-bottom: 1px ! important; color: darkgreen ! important; background-color: transparent ! important; background-image: none; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt;" classname="iAs" class="iAs">Boston</a> soundstage and countless outfit changes for Sawyer, the only person appearing on camera.</p><p><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thenorthwestern.com/article/20090909/OSH04/90908056">Read more....</a><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-2431949345535697420?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-26583335347486967362009-09-07T22:19:00.000-07:002009-09-07T22:20:29.264-07:00<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><a href="http://www.skygaze.com/content/facts/literature.shtml">Interesting Facts - Literature</a><br /><br /></span><div class="title">[- <b>Fairy Tales</b> -]</div> In downtown Lima, Peru, there is a large brass statue dedicated to Winnie the Pooh.<hr size="1"> <div class="title">[- <b>Fairy Tales</b> -]</div> The brothers Grimm (Jacob and Wilhelm), collectors of the famous Grimm's Fairy Tales, were not storytellers, nor were they simple lovers of fairy tales. The Grimms were language scholars, the greatest of their time by most accounts, and the stories were collected and codified in the early nineteenth century as an exercise in comparative German philology and grammar.<hr size="1"> <div class="title">[- <b>Novels</b> -]</div> For several decades the well-known Belgian mystery writer Georges Simenon wrote, on the average, one Novel every eleven days. Besides the more than 230 Novels he penned under his own name, Simenon wrote 300 other books under a pseudonym.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.skygaze.com/content/facts/literature.shtml">Read more facts....</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-2658333534748696736?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-79113236428154052662009-09-06T08:12:00.000-07:002009-09-06T08:32:31.855-07:00<nyt_headline style="font-weight: bold;" version="1.0" type=" "><span style="font-size:180%;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/nyregion/06reading.html?_r=1">Reading Underground</a><br /><br /></span></nyt_headline><span style="font-size:78%;"><nyt_byline version="1.0" type=" "> </nyt_byline></span><div class="byline"><span style="font-size:78%;">By ALEXIS MAINLAND</span></div> <span style="font-size:78%;">Published: September 3, 2009 </span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/09/06/nyregion/06READING1.span.ready.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 189px; height: 113px;" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/09/06/nyregion/06READING1.span.ready.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Reading on the subway is a New York ritual, for the masters of the intricately folded newspaper like Ms. Kornhaber, who lives in Park Slope and works on the Upper East Side, as well as for teenage girls thumbing through magazines, aspiring actors memorizing lines, office workers devouring self-help inspiration, immigrants newly minted — or not — taking comfort in paragraphs in a familiar tongue. These days, among the tattered covers may be the occasional <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/technology/24kindle.html" title="Times article about e-books">Kindle</a>, but since most trains are still devoid of Internet access and cellphone reception, the subway ride remains a rare low-tech interlude in a city of inveterate multitasking workaholics. And so, we read.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/nyregion/06reading.html?_r=1">Read more....</a><br /><br /><img src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-029.gif" alt="Tuzki Bunny Emoticon" border="0" /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Emotional Bunny would like to share a small confession, about her time spent living in NYC.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;">Once upon a time, there was a little Emotional Bunny who rode the subway often, and usually went to the great big libraries in Queens, Brooklyn, etc., with Little Sister Bunny.</span><br /></span><img src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-038.gif" alt="Tuzki Bunny Emoticon" border="0" /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><img src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-016.gif" alt="Tuzki Bunny Emoticon" border="0" /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;">They would take along the big rolling carts that alot of people use their, since there's no parking anywhere and one has to walk far, but they didn't use them for groceries as is the norm. Oh no. They packed them full of as many books as possible...</span><br /></span><img src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-052.gif" alt="Tuzki Bunny Emoticon" border="0" /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">....until one day a kindly librarian reminded them of their limit of 30 books each, since they were still using children's cards. The Bunny sisters remedied this, however, and begged Mommy Bunny to let them borrow her card for the remaining books. </span><br /></span><img src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-037.gif" alt="Tuzki Bunny Emoticon" border="0" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">Going home on the subway after each trip, they would pour over the descriptions of each book, listing the order in which to read them. They would then drag the carts over the doorway at their stop, tugging them through before the doors closed. </span><br /></span><img src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-050.gif" alt="Tuzki Bunny Emoticon" border="0" /><img src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-048.gif" alt="Tuzki Bunny Emoticon" border="0" /><img src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-039.gif" alt="Tuzki Bunny Emoticon" border="0" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:courier new;" >These afternoon trips left lasting impressions on them, and from what I hear, they still read very often, but their reading of choice tends to be more digital, like news articles online....... </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:courier new;" >THE END</span></span>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-7911323642815405266?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-84681858477242831122009-09-03T23:55:00.000-07:002009-09-03T23:57:30.573-07:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/sep/03/dorian-gray-oscar-wilde-british-library-classics">Classic literature can take whatever we throw at it</a></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2009/9/3/1251985109886/Dorian-Gray-001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 117px; height: 70px;" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2009/9/3/1251985109886/Dorian-Gray-001.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Set Hamlet in space or turn Dorian Gray into a horror movie – it doesn't matter, because the classics are strong enough to bounce back.<br /><br />I saw a bus, in front of the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/british-library">British Library</a>, with an <a href="http://www.ecranlarge.com/upload/movies/images/movie13082/large_408217.jpg">advert</a> for the forthcoming <a href="http://www.momentum.co.uk/dorian%5Fgray">Dorian Gray</a> film plastered all over it. I'm not necessarily saying it will be bad, but the horror movie look of the poster, with Dorian Gray written in dramatic silver typeface, suggests this adaptation of <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/oscar-wilde">Oscar Wilde</a>'s novel <a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jlo209806AwC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=dorian+gray&amp;source">The Picture of Dorian Gray</a> will have the same hyperbolic qualities as the film adaptation of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0442933/">Beowulf</a>.<br /><br />".....The British Library, of course, holds the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/classics">classics</a> – but just what gives a work the gold-standard seal? Without getting too tangled up, let's look back at the bus on the street outside. Dorian Gray, the film it advertises, may be a monstrosity or a masterpiece. But the fact remains that a 19th century novel is being adapted into a 21st century film; even if it's terrible, the status of the original novel won't be harmed....."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/sep/03/dorian-gray-oscar-wilde-british-library-classics">Read more....</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-8468185847724283112?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-993115447605060682009-09-02T08:43:00.000-07:002009-09-02T08:47:07.083-07:00<a href="http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2009/09/02/is-hamlet-really-that-popular.htm?nl=1"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Is Hamlet Really That Popular?</span></a><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Wednesday September 2, 2009</span></p> <p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://z.about.com/d/shakespeare/1/0/c/-/-/-/hamlet_skull.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 110px; height: 134px;" src="http://z.about.com/d/shakespeare/1/0/c/-/-/-/hamlet_skull.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>I recently visited <a href="http://shakespeare.about.com/od/shakespeareslegacy/a/Birthplace.htm">Shakespeare's Birthplace</a> in Stratford-upon-Avon. Before you enter the house itself, you pass through an exhibition and get bombarded with information.</p> <p>A little fact stood out about <a href="http://shakespeare.about.com/od/shakespearebasics/tp/popular.htm">Shakespeare's popularity</a>. "While you have been watching this presentation," said the presenter of the short film, "a production of <em>Hamlet</em> will be underway somewhere in the world."</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2009/09/02/is-hamlet-really-that-popular.htm?nl=1">Read more</a>....</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-99311544760506068?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-82943409740416326092009-08-31T06:20:00.001-07:002009-08-31T06:22:03.219-07:00<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/books/30reading.html?_r=1&amp;partner=TOPIXNEWS&amp;ei=5099"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >A New Assignment: Pick Books You Like</span></a><br /><br /><div class="timestamp"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/08/30/books/reading-600.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 186px; height: 108px;" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/08/30/books/reading-600.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Published: August 29, 2009 </div> JONESBORO, Ga. — For years Lorrie McNeill loved teaching “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/harper_lee/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Harper Lee.">Harper Lee</a> classic that many Americans regard as a literary rite of passage.<br /><br />But last fall, for the first time in 15 years, Ms. McNeill, 42, did not assign “Mockingbird” — or any novel. Instead she turned over all the decisions about which books to read to the students in her seventh- and eighth-grade English classes at Jonesboro Middle School in this south Atlanta suburb.<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/books/30reading.html?_r=1&amp;partner=TOPIXNEWS&amp;ei=5099"><br />Read more</a>....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-8294340974041632609?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-23665285214817130782009-08-28T19:44:00.001-07:002009-11-10T14:49:47.187-08:00<a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/specials/edinburgh/article6808533.ece"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Anne Fine deplores 'gritty realism' of modern children's books </span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00605/fine_385x185_605179a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 165px; height: 79px;" src="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00605/fine_385x185_605179a.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span class="byline"></span><span style="font-size:85%;">Former Children's Laureate Anne Fine said that modern stories offered little hope for their protagonists</span><br /><br /><span class="byline"><span style="font-size:78%;">Jack Malvern </span></span><br /><br /><p> Once upon a time, in the spiffing 1950s, characters in children’s books enjoyed wonderful adventures after which they all lived happily ever after. By contrast, reality weighs heavily on today’s young readers, a former children’s laureate has warned. </p> <p> Anne Fine said that cosy tales in which children’s characters looked forward to future adventures had been replaced by gritty stories that offered no hope for their weary protagonists.Contemporary literature is dauntingly bleak, with depressing endings that do little to inspire.<br /></p><p><a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/specials/edinburgh/article6808533.ece">Read more</a>....<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-2366528521481713078?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-5774781809480350072009-08-27T20:57:00.000-07:002009-09-02T22:39:24.580-07:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://shakespeare.about.com/od/shakespeareslife/a/Biography.htm?r=et"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A Short Biography of William Shakespear</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br />The life and times of the world’s most famous playwright</span>'<br /><br />Amazingly, we know very little about Shakespeare’s life. Even though he is the world’s most famous playwright, historians have had to fill in the gaps between the handful of surviving records from Elizabethan times.<br /><br />Some interesting points:<br /><br /><ul><li>Born April 23, 1564 - but this is just an educated guess, because the only record is of his baptism three days later.</li><li>Died April 23, 1616 - but this is also an educated guess, because the only record is of his burial two days later.</li><li>He had three children, the oldest conceived out of wedlock, and a set of twins, one of whom died at age 11.</li></ul><ul><li>His wife's name was Anne Hathaway (like the actress! She must have been named after his wife....)</li></ul><a href="http://shakespeare.about.com/od/shakespeareslife/a/Biography.htm?r=et">Read more</a>....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-577478180948035007?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-75986496737678512992009-08-26T16:45:00.000-07:002009-08-26T16:49:30.524-07:00<h1 style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://shakespeare.about.com/od/shakespeareslanguage/a/i_pentameter.htm?r=et">Introducing Iambic Pentameter</a></span></h1>By <a href="http://shakespeare.about.com/bio/Lee-Jamieson-52657.htm" zt="18/1YF/Zf">Lee Jamieson</a>, About.com<br /><br />Iambic pentameter is meter that Shakespeare nearly always used when writing in verse. Most of his plays were written in iambic pentameter, except for lower-class characters <a href="http://shakespeare.about.com/od/shakespeareslanguage/a/prose.htm" onclick="zT(this, '1/XJ')">who speak in prose</a>.<br /><h3 style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 0);">What is Iambic Pentameter?</h3> <p>Iambic Pentameter has:</p> <ul><li>Ten syllables in each line</li><li>Five pairs of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables </li><li>The rhythm in each line sounds like:<br />ba-<b>BUM</b> / ba-<b>BUM</b> / ba-<b>BUM</b> / ba-<b>BUM</b> / ba-<b>BUM</b></li></ul><a href="http://shakespeare.about.com/od/shakespeareslanguage/a/i_pentameter.htm?r=et">Read more</a>....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-7598649673767851299?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-55649191564346264312009-08-25T17:07:00.000-07:002009-08-25T17:10:57.988-07:00<h1><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://shakespeare.about.com/od/shakespeareslegacy/a/Common_Phrases.htm?r=et">Common Phrases Invented by Shakespeare</a></span></h1>By <a href="http://shakespeare.about.com/bio/Lee-Jamieson-52657.htm" zt="18/1YF/Zf">Lee Jamieson</a>, About.com<br /><br />Shakespeare has had a huge influence on the English language. Some people today reading Shakespeare for the first time complain that the <a href="http://shakespeare.about.com/od/shakespeareinperformance/a/Read_Aloud.htm">language</a> is difficult to read and understand, yet we are still using hundreds of words and phrases coined by him in our everyday conversation.<br /><br /><a href="http://shakespeare.about.com/od/shakespeareslegacy/a/Common_Phrases.htm?r=et">Read more</a>....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-5564919156434626431?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-29602819789976602812009-08-25T16:29:00.000-07:002009-08-25T16:31:10.698-07:00<h1 style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/nov/15/news">Top 10 literary hoaxes</a></span></h1>Bestselling author Tom Carew may have been somewhat economical with the truth in his colourful account of his adventures in Afghanistan - according to the Ministry of Defence, he never served in the SAS. However, Carew's stunt is just the latest in a long line of literary hoaxes, from Shakespearean 'discoveries' to flying saucer frauds.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/nov/15/news">Read more</a>....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-2960281978997660281?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-547017594865813242009-08-25T15:26:00.000-07:002009-08-25T15:28:37.451-07:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/alowell/bl-alowell-poetry.htm"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Poetry, Imagination, and Education</span></b></a></span><br /><p> <span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" >Perhaps there never was a time when education received so much general attention as it does today. The world is deluged with books, pamphlets, and reviews on the subject, new systems are continually jostling the old out of place, new methods are constantly being applied, the very end and aim of education itself seems to change from time to time.</span> </p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" >That the object of education should be to fit the child for life is such a trite and well-worn saying that people smile at its commonplaceness even while they agree with its obvious common sense. But the many ways of fitting the child, and the very various and diverse lives that have to be fitted for, are so perplexing that it is small wonder that curriculums multiply and still, multiply their subjects in order to keep up with the complexity of modern existence.</span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/alowell/bl-alowell-poetry.htm">Read more</a>....</span><br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-54701759486581324?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-59423244584497666252009-08-24T16:18:00.000-07:002009-08-24T16:21:51.470-07:00<h1><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.canada.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=b38f3730-e189-4231-8bc7-e5fda9868319">Follow your obsessions (for books, that is!)</a></span><br /></h1><p>Is making a book recommendation slightly dangerous? If you're brash enough to distill all your advice about how to face life's stages, blows and transitions to four volumes of literature, should you be surprised if you're met with a few raised eyebrows, maybe some subtly averted glances?</p><p>Is it worth revealing all the classics you'd suggest throwing aside in favour of a couple Jon Krakauer books about climbing mountains? Worth admitting you were more moved by Salinger's neurotic Franny and Zooey than Shakespeare's elegant Romeo and Juliet?</p><p><a href="http://www.canada.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=b38f3730-e189-4231-8bc7-e5fda9868319">Read more</a>....<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-5942324458449766625?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-81175813168730265362009-08-24T16:17:00.000-07:002009-08-24T16:18:05.284-07:00<h1 style="font-family: times new roman;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/technology/internet/24iht-books.html"><span style="font-size:100%;">Europe Divided on Google Book Deal</span></a></h1><nyt_byline version="1.0" type=" "> <div class="byline">By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN and ERIC PFANNER</div> </nyt_byline> <div class="timestamp">Published: August 23, 2009 </div> <p>BERLIN — The proposed U.S. legal settlement giving Google the right to sell digital copies of millions of books is dividing publishers and authors in Europe, which has struggled to develop viable alternatives to Google’s ambitious book digitization project. </p> <p> Some big European publishers, like Oxford University Press, and Bertelsmann and Holtzbrinck, which own Random House and Macmillan respectively, support the agreement, which remains subject to approval by a U.S. judge. They see the pact as greatly expanding the visibility of their archives for online purchase. But opposition to the deal, which would allow U.S. consumers to buy online access to millions of books by European authors whose works were scanned at U.S. libraries, is mounting.</p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/technology/internet/24iht-books.html">Read more</a>....<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-8117581316873026536?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-68623066036200871362009-08-21T19:32:00.000-07:002009-08-21T19:34:42.811-07:00<span style="font-size:100%;color:#000000;"><b>Twitter Valued Around $500 Million<br /><br /></b></span>The <i>San Francisco Business Journal</i> <a href="http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/07/27/daily55.html">reports</a> that a research firm named <a href="http://www.sharespost.com/">Sharespost.com</a> has put on a value on Twitter between $441 million and $589 million. <span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />Twitter has a value of $441 million to $589 million, according to a new report by an independent research firm co-founded by financial world celebrity Michael Moe.<br /><br />Read more....<br /><br /></span></span><img src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-024.gif" alt="Tuzki Bunny Emoticon" border="0" /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Emotional Bunny says: <span style="font-style: italic;">"$500 million to cut out vowels from the English language to make it more digestible....."</span><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-6862306603620087136?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-27449626700392966722009-08-20T19:37:00.000-07:002009-08-20T19:40:29.250-07:00<h1 style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/20/book-library-lexington-overdue">Book returned to library 145 years overdue</a></span></h1><span style="font-size:85%;">$52,000 fine waived after book stolen during Civil War is given back to Virginia university<br /></span><p>A book looted from a US library during the American civil war has finally been returned, almost 145 years overdue.</p><p><img src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-048.gif" alt="Tuzki Bunny Emoticon" border="0" /></p><p>The only stipulation of the Illinois handball coach who returned the title – the first in WFP Napier's four-volume <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/history">History</a> of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France – was that he didn't have to pay the $52,858 (£36,000) fine.</p><p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/20/book-library-lexington-overdue">Read more</a>....<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-2744962670039296672?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-54719200738745860262009-08-18T07:36:00.000-07:002009-08-18T07:39:21.993-07:00<h3 class="post-title"><span style="font-size:180%;"><a href="http://www.gailgauthier.com/2009/08/do-kids-books-need-kid-characters.htm">Do Kids' Books Need Kid Characters?</a></span></h3><span style="font-size:78%;">Wednesday, August 12, 2009<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" >Author Gail Gauthier's Reflections On Children's Books, Writing, And The Kidlit World</span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span>"Last spring, a few of us here at <strong>Original Content</strong> got into one of our lengthier discussions on the subject of <a href="http://www.gailgauthier.com/2009/04/pondering-adult-characters-in-childrens_24.htm">adult characters in children's books</a>. At that time, I said I thought adult characters could work in children's books, but I thought "that happens when the adult characters are outsiders of some type. Think <a href="http://www.gailgauthier.com/2008/01/fantasy-for-readers-who-dont-care-for.htm">Skullduggery Pleasant</a>, for instance, who, as a skeleton, can't be said to fit into society very easily. Or at all. Our social order is run by adults, making children outsiders. Outsider child readers can connect with outsider adult characters."<br /><a href="http://www.gailgauthier.com/2009/08/do-kids-books-need-kid-characters.htm"><br />Read more</a>....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-5471920073874586026?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-69176378845545115352009-08-17T09:48:00.000-07:002009-08-17T09:52:38.763-07:00<a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/albert_einstein.html"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Quotes by Einstein</span></span></a><br /><br />Not exactly news, but here are 183 famous quotes by Albert Einstein! :)<br /><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/albert_einstein.html"><br />Read more</a>....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-6917637884554511535?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-35557181887351848212009-08-14T20:22:00.000-07:002009-08-14T20:24:26.205-07:00<h2><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news155311912.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">Researchers mine millions of metaphors through computer-based techniques</span></a></h2><small>March 3rd, 2009 By Lisa M. Krieger</small> <!-- Main --> <!-- <div id="news-main"> --> <span style="font-weight: bold;" class="newsimg"> </span> <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="clear-left"> <strong>Metaphors cannot be taught, asserted the great philosopher Aristotle. "It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others." But a computer scientist and literary historian say he's wrong.<br /></strong></p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="clear-left"><strong>"...</strong>This approach to studying literature was inconceivable back around 330 BCE, when Aristotle wrote that "the greatest thing by far is to be a master of the metaphor," language that compares seemingly unrelated subjects - a "winged thought," for instance..."</p><p style="font-weight: bold;" class="clear-left"><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news155311912.html">Read more</a>....<br /> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-3555718188735184821?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-12711841554102328832009-08-13T17:40:00.000-07:002009-08-13T17:43:24.685-07:00<h2><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news167288681.html"><span style="font-size:85%;">Study calls for new approach to teaching English as a lingua franca</span></a></h2><small>July 20th, 2009 </small> <!-- Main --> <!-- <div id="news-main"> --> <span class="newsimg"> </span> <!-- google_ad_section_start --> <p class="clear-left"> <strong>A study at the University of Leicester highlights the need for a new approach to the teaching of English pronunciation given that English is now a lingua franca (</strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">a language systematically used to communicate between persons not sharing a mother tongue)</span><strong>, with more non-native speakers in the world than native speakers.</strong></p><p class="clear-left"><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news167288681.html">Read more</a>....<br /><strong></strong></p><p class="clear-left"><strong><br /></strong> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-1271184155410232883?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-21496550602501364892009-08-12T16:00:00.000-07:002009-08-12T16:02:55.100-07:00<h1><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/books/it-was-the-worst-of-times--penguin-gets-into-twitterature/2009/06/25/1245522936737.html">It was the worst of times - Penguin gets into Twitterature</a></span></h1><span style="font-size:78%;"><byline>Ed Pilkington</byline><br /></span><date><span style="font-size:78%;">June 26, 2009</span><br /><br /></date>IS THERE no end to Twittermania? Chat room, news feed, celebrity watch, rebel intercom: for such a young technology, Twitter has already generated an improbable array of uses, not to mention a couple of potentially very rich founders. <p>But now, the microblogging site is about to become a tool to aid the digestion of great literature.</p> <p>Fans of the classics will be delighted or appalled to learn that the New York branch of Penguin books has commissioned a volume that will put great works through the Twitter mangle. The volume has a working title that will make the nerve ends of purists jangle: Twitterature.</p><p><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/books/it-was-the-worst-of-times--penguin-gets-into-twitterature/2009/06/25/1245522936737.html">Read more</a>....<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-2149655060250136489?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-12675442206367322172009-08-12T15:31:00.000-07:002009-08-12T15:33:59.913-07:00<h2 class="posttitle"><a href="http://blog.sina.com.cn/wangmomo"><img style="width: 49px; height: 39px;" src="http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-041.gif" alt="Tuzki Bunny Emoticon" border="0" /></a><a href="http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/113387.html"><span style="font-size:100%;">Man claims Bronte portrait find (UK)</span></a></h2>An art collector claims he has uncovered a rare portrait of the Bronte sisters painted by one of Britain's most famous Victorian artists.<br /><br />James Gorin von Grozny, from Devon, paid £150 for the work which he believes was painted by Sir Edwin Landseer in 1838.<br /><a href="http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/113387.html"><br />Read more</a>....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-1267544220636732217?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-39618122776688188702009-08-11T08:36:00.000-07:002009-08-11T08:40:22.219-07:00<h1><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.buzzle.com/articles/the-written-word-can-be-a-dangerous-thing.html">The Written Word can be a Dangerous Thing</a></span></h1><span style="font-size:78%;">By <a class="cap" href="http://www.buzzle.com/authors.asp?author=31900">Lyndell Miller</a><br />Published: 8/8/2009</span><br /><br />The written word. It has become so much a part of our everyday lives that we English-speaking peoples take it for granted. But, have you ever wondered if the words you were writing were conveying the message you had in mind?<br /><br />"....Speaking to one of our local University English professors the other day (yes I live in a college town), I was asking him how I could make people understand what I was trying to write? He said, "You can't! Because the English language is the only language in the world that relies as much on tone and inflection for the meaning as it does the written words. That's why good writers add a lot of colorful and graphic language to try to paint a mental image in the readers mind. "<br /><br /><a href="http://www.buzzle.com/articles/the-written-word-can-be-a-dangerous-thing.html">Read more</a>....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-3961812277668818870?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-67869103119398582632009-08-09T11:21:00.000-07:002009-08-09T11:29:05.149-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40857000/jpg/_40857294_books203.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 203px; height: 152px;" src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40857000/jpg/_40857294_books203.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4295312.stm"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Literary greats 'key to English' </span></span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><b>Classic English literature should remain central to the teaching of English, a study suggests.</b> </span><p> <span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">A survey of thousands of teachers, pupils, parents, writers and advisers found great support for the classics.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4295312.stm">Read more</a>....</span></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >BUT HERE IS A CONTRADICTING ARTICLE FROM THE SAME SITE!</span><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4103762.stm"><span style="font-size:130%;">Media studies grows in schools</span></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="byl">By Angela Harrison </span> <br /> <span class="byd"> BBC News education reporter </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><b>Increasing numbers of teenagers are opting to do media studies - with some dropping English literature to do so, a report from an exams watchdog suggests.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4103762.stm">Read more</a>....</span><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-6786910311939858263?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-44683284943547247912009-08-07T15:37:00.000-07:002009-08-07T15:38:29.999-07:00<h1><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.newser.com/story/47939/psychologists-victorian-novels-helped-us-evolve.html">Psychologists: Victorian Novels Helped Us Evolve</a></span></h1><span class="source">Newser Summary) </span> – Victorian novels didn't just tout moralistic values of 19th-century British society, they helped altruistic genes flourish, a study claims. Evolutionary psychologists say classic characters such as Mr. Darcy and Count Dracula helped instill and promote a sense of right and wrong in society, the <em>Guardian</em> reports, specifically the notion that cooperation trumps individual power.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.newser.com/story/47939/psychologists-victorian-novels-helped-us-evolve.html">Read more</a>....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-4468328494354724791?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-19027750522150586982009-08-07T13:04:00.000-07:002009-08-07T13:06:47.962-07:00<span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090226--dying-languages-india-missions.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">What Happens When a Language Dies?</span></a></span><br /><br /><a href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_india.html">India</a> is extraordinary for its linguistic and cultural diversity. According to official estimates, the country is home to at least 400 distinct tongues, but many experts believe the actual number is probably around 700.<br /><br />But, in a scenario replicated around the globe, many of India's languages are at risk of dying out.<br /><br /><a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090226--dying-languages-india-missions.html">Read more</a>....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-1902775052215058698?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-32324335208383274872009-08-05T19:46:00.000-07:002009-08-05T19:48:33.653-07:00<a href="http://www.thebraziltimes.com/blogs/1236/entry/29122/"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Whatever happened to the classics?</span></a><br /><br />"One of my favorite childhood memories is going to a dozen or so yard sales with my grandparents and my grandpa always buying me copies of the classics.....<br /><br />"......So you can imagine my amazement when browsing the shelves at an area-shopping outlet, I stumbled across a rewrite of the most beloved book of my grandfather and myself. At first I believed there was something wrong with the cover, however, my eyes were not playing tricks on me. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, there is now a book titled Pride and Prejudice and Zombies."<br /><a href="http://www.thebraziltimes.com/blogs/1236/entry/29122/"><br />Read more</a>....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-3232433520838327487?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-84633122447921544582009-08-04T19:21:00.000-07:002009-08-04T19:22:39.539-07:00<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7060533.stm"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Why heroines die in classic fiction</span></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span class="byl">By Vivienne Parry </span> <br /> <span class="byd"> Presenter, A Nasty Case Of The Vapours </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><b>To read classic fiction is to know that if the heroine gets wet, a swift descent into brain fever and death bed scenes is assured within a chapter or so. </b> </span><p> <span style="font-size:100%;">But, dear reader, have you ever wondered what was actually wrong with these swooning creatures? </span></p><p> <span style="font-size:100%;">For, I confess, part of me has always longed to grab them and say: "You only got your slippers wet. For heaven's sake, girl, just get a grip!" </span></p><p> <span style="font-size:100%;">So what does modern medicine have to say about these malingering madams' ailments?<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7060533.stm">Read more</a>....</span><br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-8463312244792154458?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-36789491230893279232009-08-03T08:31:00.000-07:002009-08-03T08:33:42.649-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.darkskymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/printing_press.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 193px;" src="http://www.darkskymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/printing_press.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.darkskymagazine.com/2009/08/01/saturdays-derision-2/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Print is Dead. Print is Not Dead.</span></a></span><br /><br />In terms of publishing it’s cliche, an unoriginal thought, a blind call for alarm. Print is not dead. Print is changing. Using the Internet to announce the end is neigh is like using your horn to break up gridlock traffic. Acting on an impulse only exacerbates the situation. <p>Let’s distinguish between newspaper and literature publishing...</p><p><a href="http://www.darkskymagazine.com/2009/08/01/saturdays-derision-2/">Read more</a>....<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-3678949123089327923?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-70379469001714784382009-08-01T11:09:00.000-07:002009-08-01T11:26:14.092-07:00<h1><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=skeptics-take-on-the-life"><span style="font-size:78%;">Skeptic's Take on the Life and Argued Works of Shakespeare</span></a></h1><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><h2><span style="font-size:85%;">The anti-Stratfordian skeptics are back, and this time they have a Supreme Court justice on their side</span></h2> <p> By <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/author.cfm?id=597">Michael Shermer</a> <br /></p><p>"......Stevens's argument retreads a well-worn syllogism: Shakespeare's plays are so culturally rich that they could only have been written by a noble or scholar of great learning. The historical William Shakespeare was a commoner with no more than a grammar school education. Ergo, Shakespeare could not have written Shakespeare. For example, Stevens asks, "Where are the books? You can't be a scholar of that depth and not have any books in your home. He never had any correspondence with his contemporaries, he never was shown to be present at any major event—the coronation of James or any of that stuff. I think the evidence that he was not the author is beyond a reasonable doubt."....</p><p><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=skeptics-take-on-the-life">Read more</a>...<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-7037946900171478438?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343775559701781727.post-15659698747533323692009-07-31T16:39:00.000-07:002009-07-31T18:25:18.016-07:00<h1 id="article_capsule_headline"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features/profiles/b/emily-bronte.html">Happy Birthday, Emily Brontë, Author of Wuthering Heights</a></span></h1>July 30, 2009 <div style="text-align: left;" id="article_capsule_byline">by Rachel Balik<br /> </div><br /><div class="lede"> "Emily Bront wrote so little in her short life that it is difficult to appraise her work ... One point is generally agreed upon: that in both her prose and poetry there is ... a rare power," said British poetry scholar Paul Lieder.<br /><a href="http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features/profiles/b/emily-bronte.html">Read more....</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343775559701781727-1565969874753332369?l=hhz-english.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christinenoreply@blogger.com0