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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (BBC Documentary) by Simon Armitage

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Poet Simon Armitage goes on the trail of one of the jewels in the crown of British poetry, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, written about 600 years ago by an unknown author.

The poem has got just about everything – it is an action-packed adventure, a ghost story, a steamy romance, a morality tale and the world’s first eco-poem.

Armitage follows in the footsteps of the poem’s hero, Gawain, through some of Britain’s most beautiful and mystical landscapes and reveals why an absurd tale of a knight beheading a green giant is as relevant and compelling today as when it was written. ( hot documentaries).

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Poetry vs propaganda

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A poetic glance at one week in March 2003 that defined the struggle of a nation at war abroad and with its people. It follows Youth Poetry Slam Team Coach, Bill Nevins’ firing as a teacher, and the silencing of his outspoken Rio Rancho High School Poetry Team. Days later, hundreds of peaceful protesters demonstrating nearby were brutally assaulted by police. Free Speech Zones were enforced at gunpoint. The fabric of the Constitution was crumbling. Yet out of this fire, across the country, arose a diverse community of musicians and poets. Dubbed Poetic Justice, it modeled free speech and supported Nevins and was a testament to our creative spirit, representing a path toward transformation and hope. Written by Eric Sirotkin
with Adan Baca, Socorro Romo, Demetria Martinez, Tony Santiago, Erin Ambrose, Jazz, The Ruffians, Carlos Contreras, Priscilla Baca y Candelaria, Manuel Gonzales, Danny Solis and Kenn Rodriguez.

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David Lodge. A Reader. Parallel Texts (Online Publication)

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Online Publication

Contemporary Literature Press,
under The University of Bucharest, in conjunction with The British Council, and The Romanian Cultural Institute,

Announces the publication of

David Lodge. A Reader.
Parallel Texts. 159pp.

edited by Lidia Vianu.
Selection by Brândușa Răileanu.

(ISBN 978-606-8366-26-5)


Contemporary Literature Press is publishing the first David Lodge Reader, as well as the first online book authored by Lodge. It includes fragments from ten of his novels, in both English and their Romanian translation.

The aim of this Lodge Reader is, on the one hand, to whet the readers’ appetite. On the other hand, since the book is published as parallel texts, it is meant to help those who are trying to improve their knowledge of the English language.

David Lodge (born in 1935) began as an academic, and is now a well-established literary critic and novelist. The Chronology of his works at the end of the Reader offers ample information as to his whole work. The major feature of his criticism and fiction is his balanced attitude versus tradition and innovation. Lodge is undoubtedly a novelist of the present, but with a solid knowledge of the past. Continuă lectura David Lodge. A Reader. Parallel Texts (Online Publication) →

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Lexicon Volume Ten. UnEnglish English in Finnegans Wake: The Last Two Hundred Pages.

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Lexicon Volume Ten.
UnEnglish English in
Finnegans Wake:

The Last Two Hundred Pages.
Parts Three and Four of Finnegans Wake.
From FW page 403 to FW page 628. 563pp.

edited by C. George Sandulescu.
(ISBN 978-606-8366-26-5)


The present book is Volume Ten in a sequence of specialized dictionaries. This FW Lexicons Series is the first systematic attempt ever to put together, and begin to coordinate the research done over many years on the languages in Finnegans Wake. And when we say ‘languages’, we do include English.

For James Joyce is a very peculiar language user, and had been so from his earliest years. When he speaks of himself as a child, it is clear that he was giving the child Joyce the rare ability to see the magic of words. The child Joyce wonders, wide-eyed, at how magical a single word, standing all alone, can be! That is why, the teen-ager Joyce was reading dictionaries „by the hour”. The mature Joyce takes a huge Gulliver step forward, and proceeds to teach us all — his readers — that the only Magic worth the notice in this wide world of ours is neither the Sun, nor God, nor Einstein. but it is indeed Language. All Language. Continuă lectura Lexicon Volume Ten. UnEnglish English in Finnegans Wake: The Last Two Hundred Pages. →