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2008-08-11 11:08 am

Linkitudes

So many links, so little time.

An English teacher's wet dream: George Orwell hath a blog. His diaries are being published in "real" time, beginning with August 9, 1938/August 9, 2008 and will go on until 2020. They are annotated, too, just to add to the delight. I keep hoping some day someone will do this with Virginia Woolf...

To publicize the reissue of Gentleman Jim, there is an interview with Raymond Briggs in the Observer. He sounds just like the characters in his books (even Fungus).

For your viewing pleasure: just a beautiful website.

And this has been sitting in my delicious links for a while: The Little Professor posts on The Practical Applications of Gothic Fiction.
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2004-09-14 08:23 am
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Serendipity of Research

I discovered this site while doing other things, and it seems have some interesting possibilities for teaching.
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/

This appears to be a kind of poetry "blog". They post a new poem every day, and include thoughtful comments about it and invite comments from visitors. It's a truly interactive site and one that really does celebrate poetry. I found it by chance when doing a Google search on Auden's "Villanelle" for my dissertation... I love the serendipity of research :)
In case you were wondering, "Villanelle" is a character in Jeanette Winterson's _The Passion_, upon which I'm writing a chapter in my dissertation on Winterson. The themes of this poem - our feeling of helplessness in the face of the passing of time, bewilderment about the instability of the world, in contrast to the permanence of art - are echoed to some extent in the novel. One of the other main characters in the novel grows roses, by the way.