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BU Abroad: Inspired by Buenos Aires
Studying in Buenos Aires brought Argentine writer Silvina Ocampo’s stories to life in a way that Arlene Ovalle-Child (GRS’06,’11) says she couldn’t have experienced anywhere else.
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[...]http://www.bu.edu/today/node/11602
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Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture September 2010
Internationally renowned Polish poet Adam Zagajewski gives Boston University’s semiannual Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture. He is joined by David Ferry, the Sophie Chantal Hart (GRS’96), a recent graduate of BU’s Creative Writing [...]Program, for a reading and a book signing.
Zagajewski, a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, teaches at the University of Chicago. His recent books include Eternal Enemies and Without End: New and Selected Poems.
Ferry, a distinguished translator of Horace, Virgil, and The Epic of Gilgamesh, also authored the prize-winning Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems.
Duff recently published a book of poems, To the New World.
Hosted by the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Creative Writing Program on September 15, 2010.
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Rhett Talks - Letters To Your Soul - Will Waters
From Rhett Talks - September 8, 2014
A time may come when a piece of literature or art from some distant or long-past place or time might, without warning, touch your life profoundly and intimately. It’s as if this object held a message [...]meant specifically for you, sent down through ages past in search of—precisely—you. When you stumble into receiving such a message, it can feel like a reminder of a larger or deeper self that you’d forgotten you had. What may seem irrational, might just be more common than you think. This Rhett Talk will discuss the way that art or writing from distant places and eras can provoke such feelings.
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Book Historian Explains Why Some Famous Novels Have Different Titles in Britain and the US
Back in the late 1990s, when the first Harry Potter book was becoming a global phenomenon, children in Britain and the United States were actually reading two different books–okay, the content of the books was (mostly) the same, but the titles were [...]different: "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone" in the UK, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone" in the US. From Jane Austin to Agatha Christie, it turns out that this kind of thing has been happening for centuries, although not always for the same reasons. Joseph Rezek, Boston University associate professor of English and director of BU's American and New England Studies program, is both a scholar of literature and a book historian. In our video mini-explainer, Rezek breaks down the complex history behind why the same book often ends up with different titles in Britain and the United States.
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Spring 2021 CC 102, Lecture 10: Pietropaolo on Inferno
Domenico Pietropaolo lectures on Dante's Inferno for the students of CC 102 (Humanities II: "The Way - Antiquity and the Medieval World") in the Boston University Core Curriculum, on April 6, 2021.
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Fall 2020 CC 201, Lecture 7: Martin on Shakespeare and Wroth
Christopher Martin lectures on the sonnets of Shakespeare and Wroth for the students of CC 201 (Humanities III: "Renaissance, Rediscovery & Reformation") in the Boston University Core Curriculum, in October 2020.
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A Love Letter from Clifford Odets to Luise Rainer
Faculty and students from the School of Theatre read excerpts from famous love letters collected by the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. In the video above, Dylan Wack (CFA’18) reads a romantic love letter filled with longing from [...]playwright Clifford Odets to his soon-to-be wife, Oscar-winning actress Luise Rainer.
Read the full story and watch readings of other love letters on BU Today: http://www.bu.edu/today/2018/love-letters-brought-to-life/
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A Love Letter from Richard Burton to Claire Bloom
Faculty and students from the School of Theatre read excerpts from famous love letters collected by the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Listen as Jim Petosa, director of Boston University’s School of Theatre, reads a romantic love [...]letter from actor Richard Burton expressing his love for actress Claire Bloom. At the time, he was still married to his first wife, Sybill Williams.
Read the full story and watch readings of other love letters on BU Today: http://www.bu.edu/today/2018/love-letters-brought-to-life/
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A Love Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams
Faculty and students from the School of Theatre read excerpts from famous love letters collected by the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Among the correspondence is this letter from founding father and future US president John Adams to his [...]wife, Abigail, read by Josh Gluck (CFA’18).
Read the full story and watch readings of other love letters on BU Today: http://www.bu.edu/today/2018/love-letters-brought-to-life/
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