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Pamela Stevens

Diesis - Spring 2012 - Volume 2, No. 2.pdf - 0 views

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     Joseph Weidenboerner warns us in Hangers-on Heroes' Armour: Defining the Divide between Homeric and Celtic Clan Epics "never to allow the past to become as amalgamated as human memory often allows" (52) complicating our present understanding and classification of Homeric and Celtic Clan epics, cautiously urging literary critics to take note of the "essential differences between classical and clan epics," which are too often grouped together (62). 
Pamela Stevens

The American Scholar: Orson Welles on Reading Shakespeare Aloud - Paula Marantz Cohen - 0 views

  • Young minds—in high school and college—need to feel personally connected, excited, and moved by what they read. They have a thirst for beauty, and will respond to poetry and prose that speaks to the human condition. To pitch too soon into a theoretical approach risks destroying this visceral connection.
  • ascendancy of science, which has turned the study of literature into a scientific endeavor.
  • eading Shakespeare aloud is key to appreciating his work.
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