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Shelly's BlogShelly's Blogmostly about movies and books, and lots of good discussion Articles
Hamletmachine
2008-06-01 01:19:00 Finally. I finally got to see a live performance of a Heiner Müller play last night, right here in Singapore. Hameltmachine was produced by the TTRP Theatre Lab, directed by Uichiro Fueda, and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Titus Anatomy Fall of Rome
2008-05-22 16:08:00 Heiner Müller is not a playwright for the faint of heart. His work can be difficult, and it is always provocative. That?s why I was very intrigued to hear that his Titus Anatomy Fall of Rome : A... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
One Summer, a Thousand Days
2008-05-18 01:36:00 One Summer , a Thousand Days . It?s a great title for an excellent collection of poetry. I found Charles Albano?s haiku collection when I was searching online specifically for collections of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Purpose of Life
2008-05-14 00:56:00 Last week while I was in Shanghai, a friend told me one day that she received news at her office that someone had committed suicide by jumping from the highest floor of a shopping center near my... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Life , Purpose
The Meru Project and Anna Wierzbicka
2008-05-06 04:12:00 It has been several years ? at least 6 or 7 ? since I attended a lecture by Australian-based linguist Anna Wierzbicka. It turned out to be a very useful lecture at the time, as I was preparing some... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Project
An Agenda
2008-04-30 12:46:00 I am currently spending several months in China doing some language studies. Everywhere you go, the talk is the Olympics. I was asked to write a short essay for class about the Olympics, I hear... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Agenda
Intersections in Reading
2008-04-22 08:33:00 I usually read several books at a time, and I always love it when the various books I am reading intersect in my experiences with them. Those intersections in my mind are rarely as interesting as... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Reading
Technical Difficulties...
2008-04-17 17:42:00 Dear Reader, You aren?t being ignored, any of you who might have stopped in to read or comment here in the past few days. But, I am having trouble getting in to view my blog myself, weird as that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Technical
Review: TNT Britain?s Hamlet (Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, April 2008)
2008-04-13 05:56:00 Last night?s performance of Hamlet by TNT Britain at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center was the last of this run. It was wonderfully performed, with an excellent use of of sound, music, and dance. ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: April , Review
Knowledge, Learning, and Wisdom
2008-04-09 04:39:00 About 10 days ago in my Chinese class, my teacher asked me to describe the difference between three words: ?? ?? ?? zhi shi xue wen zhi... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Wisdom , Knowledge , Learning
Three Gems Found Via Blogrush
2008-04-04 05:15:00 I first came across Blogrush (see widget to the right) at Pinhole?s site, and I signed up there as a way to try to generate a little traffic to my blog. It?s been moderately successful in driving a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Gems
I?ve Been Deceived
2008-03-30 17:27:00 From my recent posts, it?s probably obvious that the theatre has been on my mind a lot lately. You might call it feeding an obsession, but I have also attended several plays in recent weeks, and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Gender Reversal
2008-03-25 13:38:00 Out he walked, dressed in silk scarves, a skirt, and with a very thick layer of makeup. His voice, when he spoke, was in an affected falsetto, with a matching girlish giggle. He shook his hips,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Gender
On Oedipus and Hamlet
2008-03-20 15:29:00 It has become rather commonplace to read Hamlet as, at least in part, a tale of a boy with an Oedipus complex. There have been many versions of the play that use this reading as a foundation for the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Are You Fluent in the Language if You Don?t Know What a Plunger is Called?
2008-03-17 11:20:00 Language learning and translation have long been of interest to me, especially since I have spent all of my adult life trying to learn Chinese. It?s particularly in the forefront of my mind right... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Language
The Text
2008-03-11 06:13:00 In my previous post, I talked about how one might approach a poem, using W. H. Auden?s ?Spain? as a sample for reading. Malcolm Campbell raised a question in his comments about how I go about, in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Text
Reading Spain
2008-03-06 02:20:00 One of the things that my students consistently get stressed out over is reading poetry. It seems that poetry intimidates many students, and I?ve found that avoidance is a common response to this... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Reading , Spain
Poetry and Politics
2008-03-02 15:21:00 W. H. Auden wrote poetry at a very exciting time in the history of English literature. Modernism was sweeping through the arts, demanding that art be made for its own sake, and not merely to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Politics , Poetry
My Life in Six Words
2008-02-28 14:38:00 I was tagged by two of my favorite bloggers, Pinhole and silken, for a meme. It?s a six word memoir, inspired by Hemingway, who once bet ten dollars that he could sum up his life in six words. He... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Life , My Life , Words
A Curiously In-between Existence (The Man Who Walked Through Time, Part 3)
2008-02-25 10:08:00 Colin Fletcher?s The Man Who Walked Through Time moves from the earth, to the animals, and finally to humans. In his walk through the Grand Canyon in the 1960s, this is how Flecther made sense of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Part , Part 3 , Existence
Dynamic Rhythms (The Man Who Walked Through Time, Part 2)
2008-02-20 03:22:00 Colin Fletcher?s The Man Who Walks Through Time begins with a long consideration of the rhythm of the rocks. He discovers, on his trip afoot through the Grand Canyon, that the earth isn?t a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Part , Dynamic
Dynamic Rhythms (The Man Who Walked Through Time, Part 2)
2008-02-19 11:19:00 Colin Fletcher?s The Man Who Walks Through Time begins with a long consideration of the rhythm of the rocks. He discovers, on his trip afoot through the Grand Canyon, that the earth isn?t a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Part , Dynamic
Vast Expanses of Space and Time
(The Man Who Walked Through Time, Part 1)
2008-02-15 00:56:00 Colin Fletcher?s The Man Who Walked Through Time is structured around a series of recognitions about the world around him on his journey afoot through the Grand Canyon. These realizations are... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Space , Part , Vast
Book Club Discussion to Begin This Week
2008-02-10 15:15:00 Our book has been chosen. By now, most have probably finished or nearly finished reading (except for one or two who have mentioned that they received their books late). I hope that most of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Book , Week , Club , Book Club , Discussion
Refined Speech and Coarse Talk
2008-02-06 07:55:00 In Great Expectations, speech becomes a means of separating the well-bred and the low-born. As so often happens, language serves, in the novel, not only as a marker to denote who holds some power... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Talk , Speech
The Robot and the Android
2008-02-05 07:26:00 The android or robot is a close relative to the cyborg or bionic human. It seems to me that the two come to a similar point, but that they come at it from opposite directions. A cyborg or bionic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Robot , Android
The Cyborg and the Bionic Man
2008-01-29 16:12:00 The cyborg, or cybernetic organism, is ?a person whose physiological functioning is aided by or dependent upon an electrical or mechanical device.? In one sense, that sounds like everyone on this... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Cyborg , Bionic
Answering an UnMeme
2008-01-26 00:53:00 Not long ago, Terry Heath started a meme that I have answered in an earlier post. It was a really good meme, designed to make us bloggers think a little about what we hope to get out of the blogs we... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Why Am I Me?
2008-01-24 16:36:00 In an earlier entry, I discussed the issue of complex family relationships in the novel Frankenstein from the perspective of Victor Frankenstein, viewing him as a "truant father." But the book gives... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Shaking a Fist at the Maker
More articles from this author:2008-01-23 01:58:00 In an earlier post, I mentioned that the novel Frankenstein seems to begin with the assumption that God is Dead, rather than picturing Frankenstein as a rebel shaking his fist at God, intentionally... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Maker 1, 2, 3 |
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