Maybe you no longer go Trick-or-Treating on Halloween night, but no one ever outgrows the love of a good, scary story. Recently, I asked for favorite scares of a literary bent and you responded with the following suggestions. So grab a warm blanket, light a candle, and curl up with some blood-curdling good stories. 1. …
Month: October 2011
But If You Act Now! Teaching Persuasion in the Classroom
Teaching English Composition can be...tedious... at times, for both the professor and the student. No matter what book you use in your courses, teaching the same techniques every semester can become dull. A couple of terms back, I decided to try something new. For their persuasive essay, I have students compose their own infomercial and…
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Tableaux Vivants for the 21st Century
“Portrait of Sylvia Von Harden” remake by Stephan Hoffman & SoYeon Kim “Portrait of Sylvia Von Harden” by Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix Lest we think we, as "modern" people came up with performance art, here is an idea that is older than our country: the art of Tableaux Vivants. The Oxford English Dictionary defines "tableaux vivants" as…
New Film, Old Debate: Did Shakespeare Truly Pen the Works That Bear His Name?
On October 28, the new film Anonymous opens in wide release. Anonymous is a political thriller which postulates that the true author of the works we attribute to William Shakespeare was, in fact, Edward De Vere, the Earl of Oxford. The political backdrop is that of the succession of Queen Elizabeth and the Essex Rebellion…
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Top 10 Works Lost Forever
There are some things we will just never know: why do we have so many unmatched socks, and what do all those keys we carry around actually unlock? But bigger than all of these mysteries is one of the ultimate ones...the loss to humanity of some possibly important works of literature. This week, Megan Gambino,…