Heidi grandit johanna spyri5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() También conviene decir que, a pesar del éxito editorial de Heidi, no existe en Portugal, que sepamos, ni un solo estudio científico, ya sea en forma de libro o de artículo, sobre esta obra de Johanna Spyri. ![]() En Portugal y en otros países, tal como ya ocurrió en la década de los años 70 del siglo pasado, los públicos infantil, juvenil y adulto conocen actualmente a la pequeña Heidi más por las películas y por las series de dibujos animados que por la novela Heidi. ![]() Especialmente, procuraremos mostrar que el atractivo de esta obra de la literatura infantil y juvenil procede de su construcción como un texto cuyos temas esenciales (la infancia, la naturaleza, la casa y la familia) le garantizan, junto a la calidad de la escritura y de las opciones narrativas, un alcance universal. En este artículo proponemos una lectura de la novela Heidi, de Johanna Spyri, a partir de una célebre edición portuguesa de 1960 continuamente reeditada, tanto porque le reconocemos valor literario como porque vemos en ella mensajes de gran profundidad humana o social. ![]()
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Antigone Rising by Helen Morales5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Helen Morales in her book book Antigone Rising, ‘ and whether it is used to uphold or subvert brutality depends on us.’ Morales work is a really insightful and engaging look at the ways ‘ Greek and Roman myths have become embedded in, and an influential part of, our culture’ and the ways that shapes social norms that can be used to oppress-particularly against women-or be a touchstone inspiring resistance and activism. ‘ The past subverts the present,’ writes Dr. Through these stories, whether it's Antigone's courageous stand against tyranny or the indestructible Caeneus, who inspires trans and gender queer people today, Morales uncovers hidden truths about solidarity, empowerment, and catharsis.Īntigone Rising offers a fresh understanding of the stories we take for granted, showing how we can reclaim them to challenge the status quo, spark resistance, and rail against unjust regimes. Many of today's harmful practices, like school dress codes, exploitation of the environment, and rape culture, have their roots in the ancient world.īut in Antigone Rising, classicist Helen Morales reminds us that the myths have subversive power because they are told - and read - in different ways. ![]() The picture of classical antiquity most of us learned in school is framed in certain ways - glossing over misogyny while omitting the seeds of feminist resistance. ![]() A witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical imagery of Beyoncé. ![]() Nora roberts montana sky full movie5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, 27 years later, the program came to an abrupt halt when President Nixon declared that ''the United States will renounce the use of any form of deadly biological weapons that either kill or incapacitate.'' What happened in those intervening years?Ī new ''American Experience'' documentary, ''The Living Weapon,'' offers a look at more than two decades of closed-door meetings, secret tests, determined scientists and human subjects that attempted to turn some of the world's most potent germs into some of the world's most effective weapons. down a path to develop a new weapon of mass destruction. ![]() In 1942, the United States began a highly classified program to research and develop bioweapons, its first in a series of steps that took the U.S.Shades of ''Dreamgirls'' and ''Ray''! In the grand tradition of backstage musicals and show-biz biopics, cable's G4 network presents ''X-Play: The Musical.''īilled as the most expensive musical about video games in the history of mass entertainment, this cast-of-dozens extravaganza offers a fresh twist on the network's ''X-Play,'' which for three years has reviewed and explored video games through the eyes of co-hosts Morgan Webb and Adam Sessler.įor their musical edition, Webb and Sessler count down the best video-game soundtracks of all time - while joined by the X-Play Dancers in performances of five original songs, including ''The Devil Went Down to X-Play'' and ''A Game is Born.''. ![]() ![]() It's no secret, but we are judged by our bookshelves. The panels range from gently clever to surprisingly profound to laugh-out-loud." - Publishers Weekly "A prescient book for these times." - NewsaramaĪ look at the culture and fanaticism of book lovers, from the beloved New York Times illustrator and creator of Incidental Comics. "This playful, self-aware collection of strips and gags on the joys and frustrations of reading and writing is equal parts lighthearted and sincere . . . ![]() I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf is the perfect gift for bookworms of all ages. ![]() In this lighthearted collection of one- and two-page comics, writer-artist Grant Snider explores bookishness in all its forms, and the love of writing and reading, building on the beloved literary comics featured on his website, Incidental Comics. We collect them, decorate with them, are inspired by them, and treat our books as sacred objects. But some of us surround ourselves with books. We learn to read at an early age, and as we grow older we shed our beloved books for new ones. A look at the culture and fanaticism of book lovers, from the beloved New York Times illustrator and creator of Incidental Comics. ![]() ![]() ![]() Volume 01 - Volume 02 - Volume 03 - Volume 04 - Volume 05 - Volume 06 - Volume 07 - Volume 08 - Volume 09 - Volume 10 - Volume 11 - Volume 12 - Volume 13 - Volume 14 - Volume 15 - Volume 16 - Volume 17 - Volume 18 - Volume 19 - Volume 20 - Volume 21 - Volume 22 - Volume 23 - Volume 24 - Volume 25 - Volume 26 - Volume 27 - Volume 28 - Volume 29 GGO 01 - GGO 02 - GGO 03 - GGO 04 - GGO 05 - GGO 06 - GGO 07 - GGO 08 - GGO 09 - GGO 10Ĭlover's Regret Volume 1 - Clover's Regret Volume 2 - Clover's Regret Volume 3 Progressive 01 - Progressive 02 - Progressive 03 - Progressive 04 - Progressive 05 - Progressive 06 - Progressive 07 - Progressive 08 ![]() Volume 01 - Volume 02 - Volume 03 - Volume 04 - Volume 05 - Volume 06 - Volume 07 - Volume 08 - Volume 09 - Volume 10 - Volume 11 - Volume 12 - Volume 13 - Volume 14 - Volume 15 - Volume 16 - Volume 17 - Volume 18 - Volume 19 - Volume 20 - Volume 21 - Volume 22 - Volume 23 - Volume 24 - Volume 25 - Volume 26 - Volume 27 Sword Art Online Publication Navigation Bar ![]() The cursed bunny5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() The opening tale is titled “The Head” - an example of translator Anton Hur’s dexterity - a double entendre for the toilet and the “thing that looked vaguely like a head” that pops out of it, calling the female main character “mother.” At first, she manages to flush it away. In the first two stories, women inadvertently create life and must suffer the consequences. Adding to the archetypal aura, the characters are nameless, designated with titles like “the man,” “the youth,” and “the daughter.” The family is a microcosm of a culture, and in many of the stories, home is a scene of horror populated by spirits, monsters (both human and not), and other entities that hover on the border of the living and the spectral. debut, the short-story collection Cursed Bunny, presents vivid, bizarre, and often gruesome fractured fairytales that reflect a broken society. Fairytales come from the preliterate traditions of our forebears, repeated around the tribal hearth for generations, exposing the deepest fears, fissures, and moral convictions of a culture. ![]() Hymns for the Drowning by Nammalvar5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Jointly edited by AKR’s son, Krishna, and scholar, Guillermo Rodriguez, this compilation of diaries from over five decades will interest poets, researchers and AKR aficionados. ![]() Would this mean wading through reams of leaden prose - or what modern-day lingo so succinctly terms TMI? Which made me approach his recently published diaries ( Hymns for the Drowning would probably rank among my top five volumes of mystical poetry in the world.Īlthough he died prematurely at the age of 64 in 1993, AKR’s work endures. Ramanujan (AKR) infuses living sap into Nammalvar. ![]() It takes an extraordinary poet to make a thousand years seem a mere heartbeat away. It takes an accomplished poet to make a long-dead poet relevant in translation. There’s more.”īut it was when revisiting his translations of the mystic, Nammalvar, that my admiration turned to awe. “Look,” his work seems to say, “There’s more. Always a step ahead of his reader, his essays, translations and poems continue to point to a tantalising spectrum of traditions, approaches, possibilities. Culturally sophisticated, intellectually exploratory, never doctrinaire, he is both pathfinder and trailblazer. Ramanujan’s presence in Indian letters is canonical. ![]() Annie jacobsen paperclip5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Erich Traub, sent on a mission by Heinrich Himmler, smuggled into Germany a strain of rinderpest virus, so potent its storage was banned across Europe.Īfter the war, Jacobsen's book says, he smuggled vials with potent animal diseases from East Germany into West Germany and then arranged to sell some of his dastardly potions. ![]() ![]() Some of the brightest and most famous of these scientists were earlier involved in organizing slave labour, running medical tests they knew would kill prisoners, and developing weapons of mass destruction, including horrific poisons and diseases.įor example, Wernher von Braun, lauded as a brilliant space engineer and a man who helped the Americans land a man on the moon, was a Nazi who was decorated personally by Adolf Hitler, chancellor of Germany, for running a rocket-production factory manned by prisoners from concentration camps.ĭr. author Annie Jacobsen explains, that's because the Americans invited about 600 scientists who had toiled on behalf of the Nazis into their own defence-department research and development programs after the war. Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America, by Annie Jacobsen, (Little, Brown, 575 pages, hardcover, $33 hardcover, $14.99 Kobo/Kindle) - Sixty years after Second World War, the Nazi mass murders committed by scientists remain secrets hidden in U.S. ![]() Etta and otto5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Hooper reveals more of Etta and Otto in letters exchanged during World War II, where Otto by turns is terrified, sickened and enthralled. You could have if you wanted to enough"-the novel's thematic heart. Russell disappears into flashbacks. Russell, shy lifelong bachelor and Etta’s wartime lover, follows her, finds her, only to hear her urge him to seek his own quest "because you want to and you’re allowed to and you can. Soon Otto becomes obsessed with constructing a menagerie of papier-mâché wildlife. With Etta absent, Otto begins baking from her recipes, his companion a guinea pig, always silent. To a Cormac McCarthy–like narrative-sans quotation marks, featuring crisp, concise conversations-Hooper adds magical realism: Etta’s joined by a talking coyote she names James, who serves as guide and sounding board. She carries a bit of food, a rifle, and a note of her identity and home. As Hooper’s shifting narrative opens, now-83-year-old Etta awakens, intending to walk to Canada’s east coast, leaving a brief note for her husband, Otto. Russell, broken leg improperly mended, could not. One of the teachers was Etta, no older than Otto and Russell. The Great Depression burned on, crops failed, and schooling was casual. When Otto Vogel was still a child, half-orphaned Russell joined the brood. On Saskatchewan’s Great Plains grew 15 Vogel children. Hooper’s debut is a novel of memory and longing and desires too long denied. ![]() Inland by Téa Obreht5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() On the face of it the book begins conventionally enough, with the story of an outlaw, Lurie, who is on the run. Magic realism served Obreht well in her fable about Yugoslavia’s baroque divisions, and it’s no less effective in shaping this alternative foundation myth about the American west. The fictional territory of Inland is as vivid and as violent: Arizona in the second half of the 19th century, populated by “cowpokes and prospectors”, gunslingers and cattle kings – and, yes, cameleers. Her 2011 Orange prize-winning debut, The Tiger’s Wife, mapped the aftermath of civil conflict in an unnamed “Balkan country still scarred by war”, which was based on her native Serbia (born in Belgrade in 1985, Obreht moved to the US at the age of 12). ![]() Sometimes the wounds are so grievous, there’s no coming through them at all.” Obreht is superb at tracing such inescapable wounds, both personal and national. “Sometimes people come through their wounds, but time does not. “T here are wounds of time and there are wounds of person,” cautions a camel driver in the extraordinary second novel by Téa Obreht. ![]() |