The bi-centenary of the publication of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was celebrated yesterday with a 'readathon' in Bath. Fans and experts read aloud the whole novel in a 12 hour web broadcast, linking up with Jane Austen societies around the world. Have a shot at it. Societal norms have changed since, but given some people are still forced to seek marriages of convenience for economic security, have things shifted so?
Showing posts with label LITERATURE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LITERATURE. Show all posts
16 Jan 2013
SECOND LIFE CHAT "Microrrelato Hispánico" | Hotel Kafka
If You are keen on Lit and a techno geek, why don't you create an avatar and join the chat? Fun granted. Once in, go to Café Gijón and attend the 'Microrrelato Hispánico' venue. They intend to set up a whole thing on creative writing. Surf the net for similar stuff in English.
6 Nov 2012
KEATS AND SHELLEY IN PIAZZA DI SPAGNA
Piazza di Spagna has been a compulsory stop for tourists ever since the 18th century, when a number of poets and musicians stayed nearby. The small pink house at the bottom of the Spanish steps is now a Memorial House crammed with manuscripts and belongings of Keats and Shelley. If tea is your crave, try Babington's tea rooms on the Piazza. Do not miss Café Greco in via Condotti, whose clients included Casanova and King Ludwig of Bavaria.
27 Oct 2012
UK GOVERNMENT CUTS AND NEO-VICTORIAN NARRATIVE
Search for a series of brief articles under the banner 'The UK in 2017' in wich the authors imagine the effects of UK government cuts. Patrick Butler's satyrical piece on social inequalities is particularly brilliant on its comparison to Dickens' writings. Gloomy prospect.
ITALIAN FOR LIT GEEKS
Blogging about language geekery. If you are not big on it, save us both the embarrasment and stop reading this. If it is too late for you, check out the Lang-8 site. Just fell for Italian culture? Then, this could be one of your Ten Top Sites:
http://www.mixcloud.com/mezzorainitalia/
WEAR SHERLOCK
I am constantly amazing at the number of curiosities you may come across. Like this blog on the wardrobe and props of the BBC show, or The Baker Street Babes Podcast: cosplay competitions included.
NATIONAL POETRY DAY, OCTOBER, 5.
The Scottish Poetry Library produces a set of poem postcards for the National Poetry Day. You can read the poems featured on this year's cards and leave a comment. Worth visiting.
ERNEST DOWSON
The late nineteenth-century poet Ernest Dowson, led a tragic life. When I'm in your shoes, surfing the net in search of emotion, I run after links like this video: Richard Burton reading Dowson's poem 'Non solum qualiseram bonae sub regno Cynarae'
THE CRUELLEST MONTH
The cruellest month begins with A, right; but as winter crawls in, nostalgia seems to settle in for the good old days when I wouldn't know certain details about T.S. Eliot. Worth checking out at Letras Libres, Dec. 2011. Great José Emilio Pacheco focuses on treason, while recieved opinion insists that there is not such thing as treason. Hmm...
THE NY ART BOOK FAIR
If you are arty and you know it, the New York Art Book fair is the world's premier event for artists' books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals and zines presented by 283 international presses, booksellers, antiquarians, and independent publishers. So they say.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Christopher Hitchens' appreciation by Ian McEwan was particularly focused on his last weeks.'Hard living and linguistic lust', was stated at The Guardian upon his decease last December. Worth surfing.
DICKENS 2012
'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.'
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities.
Talking about 1775? 1854? 2012?
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