 BBC News | Harry Potter and the Order of the 60 Scholars gets mixed initial reviews Sydney Morning Herald Entitled A Brand of Fictional Magic: Reading Harry Potter as Literature, the conference brings together 60 scholars from around the world for a two-day event hosted by the University of St Andrews school of English. Billed as the world's first ... You can't be serious about Harry Potter! Scholars study literary merits of Harry Potter novels |
PATRICK'S PEOPLE: An English literature class creates a Jane Austen board game Pittsburg Morning Sun By NIKKI PATRICK Upper level university English literature classes aren't usually much for fun and games. Pittsburg State University English professor Paul McCallum changed that recently when he allowed students in his English 771 (Major Authors) class ... |
Welcome a new member to the City of Lit club Iowa City Press Citizen The list was expanded in 2010 to include the very deserving Dublin, Ireland, and then expanded again in 2011 to include its first non-English-speaking member: Reykjavik, Iceland. On Thursday, UNESCO announced a sixth international city of literature: ... |
English Renaissance Literature Expert Promotes Lofty Poetic Standards San Antonio Express William Guy, a specialist in English Renaissance literature, publishes his latest book of poems, Defunctive Music, to herald a new renaissance for English poetry. It is a showcase of refined literary talent at its best, showing what present-day poetry ... |
Writing in English Times of Malta Writer Immanuel Mifsud (May 11) laments the lack of Maltese literary translators. I don't blame him, he writes in his preferred language, Maltese, and apparently excels in it, having recently carried off the EU prize for literature. |
Anand Basdeo, man of many talents - teacher, tutor, singer Trinidad & Tobago Express In 1982, apart from teacher “O” Level English Language and Literature, he began teaching GCE Cambridge ”A” Level Literature, History, and General Paper. Now he teaches CAPE Literature in English and Communications Studies. |
Why the Right Hates English Inside Higher Ed Because "the field of English literature and poetry" was one in which “values are heavily involved,” he declared, the English classroom was especially prone to “value-inculcation.” (Needless to say, he didn't seem to think it inculcated good values.) ... |
 Financial Times | Chronicler of Mexico's failings Financial Times As someone who travelled constantly between developed and developing countries, and whose command of English matched that of his Spanish – when he opted for literature at 21, he confessed to being torn over which language to write in – Fuentes was a ... A Conversation With Author Carlos Fuentes Carlos Fuentes, 1928-2012: A voice of Mexico past, present and future Carlos Fuentes embraced Chicago |
No one's monkeys Livemint It is a must-read for anyone interested in literature, or for that matter, life. It is one of those little remarked aspects of publishing today: Most translation takes place from English to other languages, and not from other languages to English. |
 China Daily | Should China's University English Programs Drop Shakespeare? Business Insider Two ways to go here. First, you teach the English language, with the goal being communication/translation. Is culture, history and literature important for this type of study? Of course, but it's of limited value. You study literature in order to ... Word of advice to teachers: drop Shakespeare |
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