![]() ![]() ![]() This new Salomé is calculated to bring both readers and playgoers into close, disturbing confrontation with one of the most erotic and bloodiest sequences of testamentary lore. Donohue’s lucid vernacular transformation of Douglas’s safe, thee-and-thou faux-biblical language has the quality of a startling modern-dress remounting of an overly familiar classic play. And yet Douglas’s stilted, inaccurate version has somehow retained a long-standing place on the stage and in the study. The play was first translated into English in 1894 by Wilde’s young friend Lord Alfred Douglas, but Wilde was far from pleased with the outcome. Presenting a colloquial and spare American English version of Wilde’s consciously stylized French, Donohue’s approach gives full value to the Irish author’s dark ruminations on evil and perversity in a world on the brink of a new, unsettling Christian dispensation. Joseph Donohue’s new translation of the horrific New Testament story has recast Wilde’s shockingly radical drama in the natural idiomatic language of our own day. Unique among his works, Oscar Wilde’s play Salomé (1893) was written originally in French. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() And he was awarded an Artist Research Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington in 2007. He has been the recipient of a number of different fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright, and a Getty Fellowship for painting. Recent projects across his career, multimedia projects, have included works themed to inner city violence, graffiti, social and political issues, travel, prisons, Islam, surfing, and skateboarding. He's a Los Angeles based artist, originally a graduate of the Otis Parsons Institute, whose work deals with contemporary life. He's been with us over the past couple of days, and we've really been enjoying his presence, including a recent screening of his film, about which he'll talk a little bit when he comes to the podium. And it's my great pleasure to introduce one of my favorite artists who has a major presence in the Visions of Dante exhibition, Sandow Burke. ![]() I'm the Askin Curator of Earlier European and American art here at the Johnson Museum. ![]() ![]() ![]() They use the same methods against both of them. In the first phase of this insurrectional period, the home governments are the slaves of the settlers, and these settlers seek to intimidate the natives and their home governments at one and the same time. The development of violence among the colonized people will be proportionate to the violence exercised by the threatened colonial regime. This reign of violence will be the more terrible in proportion to the size of the implantation from the mother country. The violence of the colonial regime and the counter-violence of the native balance each other and respond to each other in an extraordinary reciprocal homogeneity. Every statue, whether of Faidherbe or of Lyautey, of Bugeaud or of Sergeant Blandan-all these conquistadors perched on colonial soil do not cease from proclaiming one and the same thing: "We are here by the force of bayonets." The colonial regime owes its legitimacy to force and at no time tries to hide this aspect of things. ![]() The argument the native chooses has been furnished by the settler, and by an ironic turning of the tables it is the native who now affirms that the colonialist understands nothing but force. ![]() In fact, as always, the settler has shown him the way he should take if he is to become free. He of whom they have never stopped saying that the only language he understands is that of force, decides to give utterance by force. The existence of an armed struggle shows that the people are decided to trust to violent methods only. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. ) (less)Ī place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. ![]() I can't wait for everyone to visit the Legendborn world, which is not too far off from our own. I was also inspired by the legend of King Arthur, of course, but in particular the way that Susan Cooper extended the legend for her own contemporary fantasy series, the classic "The Dark is Rising Sequence." There are lots of unexplained, magical experiences in my family history, specifically around the women in my family, and I folded these events together with inspiration from African-American folk magic to create Legendborn's #BlackGirlMagic mythology. First and foremost, I was inspired by my own grief journey after the passing of my mother - we often look for stories in loss, and Legendborn is part of the story I told myself. First and foremost, I was insp …more Hi! Thank you for asking! Legendborn is the result of a handful of personal inspirations colliding in the best of ways. Tracy Deonn Hi! Thank you for asking! Legendborn is the result of a handful of personal inspirations colliding in the best of ways. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the book, Valenti discusses a variety of societal elements that promote chastity and discourage pre-marital sexual activity in women and teenage girls. A DVD tie-in titled The Purity Myth: The Virginity Movement's War Against Women was released in 2011. Valenti argues that there is a prevalent false notion promoted within the United States that a woman's worth is predicated upon whether or not she is sexually active, implying that the loss of virginity can negatively affect her. The book was first released onto hardback on March 24, 2009, through Seal Press. The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women (2009) is a book about virginity by feminist author Jessica Valenti. 2009 book by Jessica Valenti The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women ![]() ![]() ![]() We’ve seen many versions of the kind of hyper-outback kind of caricature. ![]() It’s incredibly iconically Australian but it’s different from the vision of Australia that’s usually presented in cinema. ![]() Was it exciting to shine a light on a different part of Australia? The film was shot in the Wimmera Mallee region and unfolds in a rural town, but it’s very different from the outback that we typically see depicted in movies. Shall we do it together?’ So I basically cast myself in the film. And then some time later my dear friend, Robert Connolly, we share an office and he came in one day and said he was considering doing an adaptation of ‘The Dry.’ And I just jumped and said, ‘I just read the book and I love it. Like many of the projects I’m involved with, it started with my wife handing me a book over my pillow and saying, ‘You should read this.’ I read the book and loved it. Bana spoke with Variety about his passion for the project, his early days in comedy and why he’s done with the Hulk, multiverses be damned. “The Dry” is based on the best-selling novel by Jane Harper and is being released by IFC in theaters and on-demand on Friday. ![]() ![]() ![]() She promises to help him find the key to destroying all of sirenkind for good-But can he trust her? And just how many deals will Elian have to barter to eliminate mankind's greatest enemy? Alexandra Christo's debut is a dark and richly imagined take on The Little Mermaid that will leave readers breathless. ![]() When he rescues a drowning woman in the ocean, she's more than what she appears. Hunting sirens is more than an unsavory hobby-it's his calling. The ocean is the only place Prince Elian calls home, even though he is heir to the most powerful kingdom in the world. Robbed of her song, Lira has until the winter solstice to deliver Prince Elian's heart to the Sea Queen and or remain a human forever. ![]() To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen transforms Lira into the one thing they loathe most-a human. Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Lira, a famous siren, must prove herself by stealing the heart of the man, a prince, threatening their race in this dark and action-packed debut. ![]() ![]() We cannot always get all we want all at once, and sometimes we must settle for an incremental approach. And without doubt our political process demands certain compromises. And individual perceptions and judgments vary. As Leeman and Naselli illustrate, we might all agree on the obligation to protect children and those who legitimately seek asylum, but there is some distance between affirming these values and defining public policy. One major thrust is that many political issues must be left to individual judgment. The title assumes the Christian obligation to love one another, and the booklet applies that obligation to Christians who disagree on various political issues. ![]() That’s why Jonathan Leeman and Andy Naselli have written this little booklet. You can cheer for the opposing baseball team and be my friend, but if you vote the other way in November friendship will be a challenge! And because politics is so important, few topics arouse anger more quickly. And in recent and foreseeable elections much is at stake. ![]() The political scene shapes society and culture, and it affects our lives in countless ways. That may sound like an overstatement, but it is certainly the case. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wolff’s work resonate well beyond the scope of his subject, and while it may seem off-topic to begin with a discussion of this wider context, his perspective and achievement will come into much clearer focus if we look briefly at some of these other issues first. Wolff has taken a great risk, one which ultimately pays off handsomely, leaving the thoughtful reader both enlightened and, more importantly, able to listen to some of Western civilization’s greatest music with fresh ears. He frankly admits in his preface that a thorough discussion of Bach’s evolution as a composer and a detailed consideration of the music itself lie outside the scope of what he modestly terms a “biographical essay.” Nonetheless, in emphasizing the “learned” aspects of his subject Dr. ![]() ![]() True, there are a few moments when Wolff seems to find the need to write for a general audience slightly inhibiting. ![]() His compendious knowledge, not just of his subject, but also of Bach’s political, artistic, intellectual, and geographical environment allows him to demystify and explain crucial aspects of the great composer’s life and art without “dumbing down” or oversimplifying. Harvard professor and eminent Bach scholar Christoph Wolff’s new book Bach: The Learned Musician belongs in the library of anyone who enjoys reading musical biography. ![]() ![]() we had the house but there was no electriticy and no television. ![]() I grew up mostly in London, so to spend the summer in this wilderness. As I got older, my dad had a house built on the island, so we then spent the whole summer out there. It was a very unusual experience for a child. At that age, we were camping, cooking on an open fire outside. We didn't have a boat or a way of contacting the outside world at all. It was so small that when you stood on top of it, you could only see sea, all around you, maybe a mile across. ![]() ![]() We would be dropped off on the island by fishermen and picked up two weeks later. Can you talk a bit more about that experience and how the stories your father told you led into writing How to Train Your Dragon?Ĭressida Cowell: Well, it really inspired the books because it was a very unusual experience, to have as a child. I read about the island you spent so much time on when you were a child and I was really intrigued by that. ![]() |