![]() ![]() Secondly, she signaled to the audience that her talk would contain humor, rather than being strictly serious or preachy. Firstly, she summarised the main idea of her talk. ![]() ![]() With this introduction, the speaker achieved multiple goals that set the tone for the rest of her speech. The audience immediately understood her main argument – being a feminist is often perceived as a negative act, almost equal to terrorism. She recalled that one time, as they passionately argued, Okuloma suddenly looked at her and said: “You know, you are feminist.” “It was not a compliment.”, Adichie adds with a smile, “I could tell from his tone, the same tone that you would use to say something like ‘You are a supporter of terrorism.’” Her ironic tone and the look of genuine concern as she pronounced those last words evoked laughter. Adichie began her speech with an anecdote about a childhood friend, Okuloma. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The ever-loyal Cromwell serves a king who is obsessed with protecting the Tudor dynasty by securing his succession with a male heir to the throne. Through 6-episodes, the 2015 BBC period mini-series adapted from Mantel’s books, followed Thomas Cromwell’s (Mark Rylance, Dunkirk) rise in social hierarchy from a blacksmith’s son, to King Henry VIII’s (Damian Lewis, The Forsyte Saga) chief minister. “The Mirror and the Light” (publishing March 5th 2020), is the third book in Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning Tudor era trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, after Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. With The Mirror and the Light, Mantel traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man’s vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion, and courage. To help keep this site running: Willow and Thatch may receive a commission when you click on any of the links on our site and make a purchase after doing so. ![]() ![]() Home » Period Drama Articles » BBC Confirms ‘Wolf Hall’ Sequel BBC Confirms ‘Wolf Hall’ SequelīBC has confirmed a second series of the period drama “Wolf Hall.” The sequel will be adapted from Hilary Mantel’s upcoming historical novel, “The Mirror and the Light.” Wolf Hall, courtesy BBC ![]() ![]() ![]() Empires and Barbarians’ subject is the events occurring in Europe after the third-century crisis in the Roman Empire. This is not an easy subject to cover. There are fewer primary sources than for the imperial period and there are a lot of different and not-well-understood characters and nations entering the narrative. The Huns, Vandals, and Visigoths are well known by reputation but Heather deals with the Suevi and the Taifali as well. Peter Heather’s compendium Empires and Barbarians is an impressive work in its scope, ambition, and sheer size. At 734 pages, this is a serious academic work, yet its tone and language remain admirably accessible and engaging for the interested, if uninitiated, general audience. Reviewed by Christopher Gennari (Camden County College) New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2012. ![]() ![]() Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe. ![]() ![]() While this theory of lost sounds, subsequently called laryngeals, was admired in de Saussure’s lifetime, the absence of any direct evidence for these sounds prevented its acceptance by scholars. In the Mémoire it is boldly hypothesized that certain apparently divergent aspects of the Indo-European system of vowel alternations (the socalled ablaut system, which still survives in English in such vowel changes as the present sing, the preterite sang, the past participle sung) can be explained in accordance with the dominant regularities, if one assumes that certain sounds had formerly existed and produced certain effects before being lost. The Mémoire is a brilliant tour de force, whose basic method foreshadows the fundamental structuralist notion of language as an organized system, the central doctrine of de Saussure’s mature thought. He was awarded his doctorate at Leipzig in 1880, taught at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris from 1881 to 1891, and taught subsequently at Geneva for the remainder of his career.ĭe Saussure’s fame rests almost exclusively on two works-his earliest, the Mémoire sur le systéme primitif des voyelles dans les langues indoeuropéennes (1879), and the posthumously published Cours de linguistique générale (1916). ![]() ![]() ![]() He was born in Geneva, where he received his secondary and university education. Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), Swiss linguist, was the chief forerunner of structural linguistics. ![]() ![]() ![]() How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work.ĭrawing on the black feminist tradition, including Audre Lourde’s invitation to use the erotic as power and Toni Cade Bambara’s exhortation that we make the revolution irresistible, the contributors to this volume take up the challenge to rethink the ground rules of activism. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reggie Pepper, another bumbling aristocrat, and apparently early prototype of Bertie, is thrown into the mix, sans explanation. ![]() It’s just a collection of Wodehouse’s very early work in short story form, and not all of them are about the iconic Bertie and Wooster duo. ![]() My Man Jeeves, which I have probably read before in the far distant past, was a bit of a surprise. And so, as you must do a thing right, I started the hubby and myself at the very beginning of the series during our morning commute. One night my husband overheard me listening to a random assortment of Jeeves and Wooster and wanted to be introduced to the slapstick series of misadventures set right by the noble butler who babysits his British aristocrat with a firm hand and an admirable fashion sense. ![]() ![]() ![]() We may be appreciative of information we choose not to include in the publicly available database.We cannot include unsourced information in the database. Unless you are the author contacting us in person, it helps us if you cite the source or sources of your information. The Nebraska Authors database is based on publicly available sources.We appreciate corrections and additions to our information about authors, but please read the following guidelines and caveats carefully. ![]() Marion Marsh Brown's Ames Reading Series presentation in April 1996: Homeward the Arrow's Flight: The Story of Susan La Flesche, (Dr. 1983.Ī Bushel and a Peck: A Peck of Common Sense is Worth a Bushel of Learning. with Ruth Crone, 1980.ĭreamcatcher: The Life of John Neihardt. Only One Point of the Compass: Willa Cather in the Northeast. The Pauper Prince: A Story of Hans Christian Andersen. Stuart's Landing: A Story of Pioneer Nebraska. ![]() ![]() I have, indeed, worked on one Oz project or another, drawing or writing or both, for the entirety of my professional career. I’m fortunate to be part of this great team. ![]() Skottie Young has been the artist for all of them, and our colorist has been Jean-Francois Beaulieu and our letterer Jeff Eckleberry. Matt Jeske, you’re right that I’ve written all the current Oz comic adaptations for Marvel. ![]() There are forty books in the “official” series, but who knows at this point whether Marvel will adapt them all? The Wizard returns to Oz in the fourth Oz book, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. ![]() Dorothy takes her second trip to Oz in the third Oz book, Ozma of Oz. I prefer Books of Wonder’s.Ĭhris Duffy, The Marvelous Land of Oz was certainly a sequel, whether or not Dorothy was a featured character rather than merely being mentioned a couple times. The current edition of Road offered by the Bradford Exchange also features colored stock like the original edition, but the printing of the illustrations is muddy. Torsten, Books of Wonder’s Oz reprints are some of the best of the many editions recently in print. But those things are what readers bring, not what the author intended. Many people have thrust their own interpretations onto The Wizard of Oz and that’s fine for them if they want to play that way. ![]() Frank Baum didn’t write the Oz books as political metaphors. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a young man, he opened a bazaar, sold china door-to-door, helped manage his father’s company, and edited The Show Window, a trade journal instructing storeowners in the art of luring customers with “window dressing.” The Baum family home, an idyllic spot known as “Rose Lawn,” was bounded by a plank road that led merchants to the Erie Canal. He told his sisters he would write “a great novel that should bring me fame.”īut he also reveled in newfangled inventions like the printing press (which, as a teenager, he used to put out a literary journal) and, later, bicycles, Model Ts, and movies. ![]() A dreamy, sickly child, Baum devoured the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. ![]() Born in 1856, he grew up in the bustling canal town of Syracuse, N.Y., after his father made money in the oil fields. He was poised at the crossroads of his era-swept up in burgeoning feminism, the acceleration of new technologies, and the rise of huckster salesmanship. Schwartz’s Finding Oz and Rebecca Loncraine’s The Real Wizard of Oz-released in conjunction with the 70 th anniversary of the iconic MGM film-show that Baum was uniquely suited for this task. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The texts are complete and unabridged, and all of the illustrations, each gloriously recolored, are included. This deluxe volume brings all of the Pooh stories together in one full-color, large-format book. ![]() Winnie-the-Pooh has appeared in twenty-one languates, among them Hebrew, Afrikaans, Esperanto, and Latin. The world of Winnie-the-Pooh is as popular today as when it was first created. The artist visited Cotchford Farm, the Milne country home in Sussex, where he sketched the child, the stuffed animals, and the surrounding countryside. Shepard's brilliant illustrations were based on real toys owned by Milne's son, Christopher Robin. "Winnie-the-Pooh" was followed in 1928 by a second collection, "The House At Pooh Corner, " which continued the adventures from the Hundred Acre Wood and introduced bouncy, lovable Tigger.Įrnest H. Milne, already an acclaimed dramatist, as a major author of children's books. The enchanting tales of Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Christopher Robin, and the others were an immediate success, and firmly established A.A. In 1926, "Winnie-the-Pooh, " a collection of stories about a rather stout, somewhat confused bear, was published in England and America. ![]() |