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Whitman Weekly - a discussion series led by Kghia Gherardi
Tuesdays at 4pm SLT
Caledon Library, on the Hub in Victoria City
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Victoria%20City/160/117/23
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is one of the works at the foundations of American poetry. Its expansive attempt to capture the spirit and landscape of the 19th century United States has had great cultural influence, and its rich language continues to inspire readers today just as it has for the century and a half of its existence.
Whitman Weekly will provide an opportunity to look closely at this beloved work. Each week we'll spend an hour discussing its context and examining the poetry of the the 1855 first edition.
The series will also give those who love Leaves of Grass, and those who would like to learn more, an opportunity to explore Whitman's vigorous and heartfelt poetry together.
Schedule for April
April 7 - Overview of Whitman & Leaves of Grass
April 14 - Preface (http://tinyurl.com/log-preface )
April 21 - no discussion
April 28 - Song of Myself (http://tinyurl.com/songofmyself )
Tuesdays at 4pm SLT
Caledon Library, on the Hub in Victoria City
http://slurl.com/secondlife/
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is one of the works at the foundations of American poetry. Its expansive attempt to capture the spirit and landscape of the 19th century United States has had great cultural influence, and its rich language continues to inspire readers today just as it has for the century and a half of its existence.
Whitman Weekly will provide an opportunity to look closely at this beloved work. Each week we'll spend an hour discussing its context and examining the poetry of the the 1855 first edition.
The series will also give those who love Leaves of Grass, and those who would like to learn more, an opportunity to explore Whitman's vigorous and heartfelt poetry together.
Schedule for April
April 7 - Overview of Whitman & Leaves of Grass
April 14 - Preface (http://tinyurl.com/log-
April 21 - no discussion
April 28 - Song of Myself (http://tinyurl.com/
The Awakening (1899) - Kate Chopin
Tue, March 10, 6pm - 7pm
Caledon Library & Welcome Centre, Caledon Victoria City http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Victoria%20City/160/117/23
In the final work of this Series, we consider The Awakening, a novel that critics have found both elating and sobering. Chopin's contemporaries both condemned it for its boldness of theme, and praised it for its literary excellence. Sometimes hailed as a fore-runner of feminist novels of self discovery, the story of Edna Pontellier's rebellion against the roles and presumptions that confine her is a finely-drawn depiction of the dilemmas and tension facing the individual at the very end of the 19th century.
The Sense of Self in 19th century literature - a discussion series at the Caledon Library, led by Kghia Gherardi
Tuesdays, once a month, 6-7 pm SLT
As exploration, industrialization and colonization expanded during the nineteenth century, the way the individual viewed his and her role within this world also altered. This literature series will look at how the individual defines himself or herself, how societies react to these changes, and how the evolving sense of self succeeds and fails. The readings will included essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, poetry by Walt Whitman, and fiction by Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, and Kate Chopin.
Full Schedule
November 11 2008
"Self-Reliance" and "Circles" (1841) - Ralph Waldo Emerson
December 02 2008
Leaves of Grass (1855) - Walt Whitman
January 20 2009
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1886) - Robert Louis Stevenson
February 10 2009
The Picture of Dorian Grey (1890) - Oscar Wilde
March 10 2009
The Awakening (1899) - Kate Chopin
gentlebeings, your servant
JJ Drinkwater
Tue, March 10, 6pm - 7pm
Caledon Library & Welcome Centre, Caledon Victoria City http://slurl.com/secondlife/
In the final work of this Series, we consider The Awakening, a novel that critics have found both elating and sobering. Chopin's contemporaries both condemned it for its boldness of theme, and praised it for its literary excellence. Sometimes hailed as a fore-runner of feminist novels of self discovery, the story of Edna Pontellier's rebellion against the roles and presumptions that confine her is a finely-drawn depiction of the dilemmas and tension facing the individual at the very end of the 19th century.
The Sense of Self in 19th century literature - a discussion series at the Caledon Library, led by Kghia Gherardi
Tuesdays, once a month, 6-7 pm SLT
As exploration, industrialization and colonization expanded during the nineteenth century, the way the individual viewed his and her role within this world also altered. This literature series will look at how the individual defines himself or herself, how societies react to these changes, and how the evolving sense of self succeeds and fails. The readings will included essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, poetry by Walt Whitman, and fiction by Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, and Kate Chopin.
Full Schedule
November 11 2008
"Self-Reliance" and "Circles" (1841) - Ralph Waldo Emerson
December 02 2008
Leaves of Grass (1855) - Walt Whitman
January 20 2009
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1886) - Robert Louis Stevenson
February 10 2009
The Picture of Dorian Grey (1890) - Oscar Wilde
March 10 2009
The Awakening (1899) - Kate Chopin
gentlebeings, your servant
JJ Drinkwater
Caledon Library Story Session at the Falling Anvil - Love's First Blush
Monday, Feb 9 5-8pm slt
The Falling Anvil Public House , Caledon Tamrannoch
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Tamrannoch/230/108/22
"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity" (Tom Broadbent, in John Bull's Other Island.) In the play that was his first theatrical success, George Bernard Shaw put this maxim is the mouth of a character he described as "a successful muddler-through in business and love"
In love, of course, we are *all* more or less successful muddlers through...and thereby hangs a tale! This month's session is dedicated to First Loves and the glories and follies that come with them. All True Lovers, Hopeful Puppies, Bumbling Innocents, Dazed Infatuates, and High Hearts (whether present or former) are invited to share their stories. We welcome tales from SL and RL, so come tell us about your youthful yearnings, elusive glimpses, first times ....well, perhaps not *that* first time...and all the wonder and drollery of Cupid's first call.
Sponsored by the Caledon Library & the Clan of Seafarers and Storytellers, hosted by master storyteller Aldo Stern
Book Discussion - The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) by Oscar Wilde
The Sense of Self in 19th century literature - a discussion series led by Kghia Gherardi
Tuesday February 10 6-7 pm SLT
Caledon Library & Welcome Centre, Caledon Victoria City
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Victoria%20City/160/117/23
As exploration, industrialization and colonization expanded during the nineteenth century, the way the individual viewed his and her role within this world also altered. This literature series will look at how the individual defines himself or herself, how societies react to these changes, and how the evolving sense of self succeeds and fails.
In The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde explores the union, and the disjunction, of the social, or worldly, self, and the private self...and gives us an portrait of vanity and hypocrisy that lingers in the mind long after the last page is turned.
Those wishing to prepare for the discussion can find an excellent online version here....or listen to this reading from Librivox using the embedded player below (Courtesy of the Internet Archive)
Monday, Feb 9 5-8pm slt
The Falling Anvil Public House , Caledon Tamrannoch
http://slurl.com/secondlife/
"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity" (Tom Broadbent, in John Bull's Other Island.) In the play that was his first theatrical success, George Bernard Shaw put this maxim is the mouth of a character he described as "a successful muddler-through in business and love"
In love, of course, we are *all* more or less successful muddlers through...and thereby hangs a tale! This month's session is dedicated to First Loves and the glories and follies that come with them. All True Lovers, Hopeful Puppies, Bumbling Innocents, Dazed Infatuates, and High Hearts (whether present or former) are invited to share their stories. We welcome tales from SL and RL, so come tell us about your youthful yearnings, elusive glimpses, first times ....well, perhaps not *that* first time...and all the wonder and drollery of Cupid's first call.
Sponsored by the Caledon Library & the Clan of Seafarers and Storytellers, hosted by master storyteller Aldo Stern
Book Discussion - The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) by Oscar Wilde
The Sense of Self in 19th century literature - a discussion series led by Kghia Gherardi
Tuesday February 10 6-7 pm SLT
Caledon Library & Welcome Centre, Caledon Victoria City
http://slurl.com/secondlife/
As exploration, industrialization and colonization expanded during the nineteenth century, the way the individual viewed his and her role within this world also altered. This literature series will look at how the individual defines himself or herself, how societies react to these changes, and how the evolving sense of self succeeds and fails.
In The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde explores the union, and the disjunction, of the social, or worldly, self, and the private self...and gives us an portrait of vanity and hypocrisy that lingers in the mind long after the last page is turned.
Those wishing to prepare for the discussion can find an excellent online version here....or listen to this reading from Librivox using the embedded player below (Courtesy of the Internet Archive)
"Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" (1886) - Robert Louis Stevenson
Tuesday, January 20, 6pm - 7pm
Caledon Library and Welcome Centre, Caledon Victoria City
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Victoria%20City/160/117/23
From the final confession of Dr. Jekyll
Stevenson's novel has become a byword for transformations and hidden selves. Many critics see it as a commentary on the straitlaced propriety enforced by standards of the day. Other writers have used the metaphor of the proper and respectable Dr. Jekyll and the dreadful Mr. Hyde to explore the Victorian debate about "demon rum", or to comment on the hidden darkness in every human character -- and of course it is a common image in discussions of the clinical phenomenon of split personalities.
But what is really in the novel? Dame Kghia Gherardi will take us through an examination of Stevenson's skillful depictions of character, personality, and its vagaries. All readers, and their Alts (see the above), are welcome
The Sense of Self in 19th century literature - a discussion series at the Caledon Library, led by Kghia Gherardi
Tuesdays, once a month, 6-7 pm SLT
As exploration, industrialization and colonization expanded during the nineteenth century, the way the individual viewed his and her role within this world also altered. This literature series will look at how the individual defines himself or herself, how societies react to these changes, and how the evolving sense of self succeeds and fails. The readings will included essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, poetry by Walt Whitman, and fiction by Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, and Kate Chopin.
Full Schedule
November 11 2008
"Self-Reliance" and "Circles" (1841) - Ralph Waldo Emerson
December 02 2008
Leaves of Grass (1855) - Walt Whitman
January 20 2009
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1886) - Robert Louis Stevenson
February 10 2009
The Picture of Dorian Grey (1890) - Oscar Wilde
March 10 2009
The Awakening (1899) - Kate Chopi
Tuesday, January 20, 6pm - 7pm
Caledon Library and Welcome Centre, Caledon Victoria City
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Victoria%20City/160/117/23
From the final confession of Dr. Jekyll
"With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two, because the state of my own knowledge does not pass beyond that point. Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent denizens".
Stevenson's novel has become a byword for transformations and hidden selves. Many critics see it as a commentary on the straitlaced propriety enforced by standards of the day. Other writers have used the metaphor of the proper and respectable Dr. Jekyll and the dreadful Mr. Hyde to explore the Victorian debate about "demon rum", or to comment on the hidden darkness in every human character -- and of course it is a common image in discussions of the clinical phenomenon of split personalities.
But what is really in the novel? Dame Kghia Gherardi will take us through an examination of Stevenson's skillful depictions of character, personality, and its vagaries. All readers, and their Alts (see the above), are welcome
The Sense of Self in 19th century literature - a discussion series at the Caledon Library, led by Kghia Gherardi
Tuesdays, once a month, 6-7 pm SLT
As exploration, industrialization and colonization expanded during the nineteenth century, the way the individual viewed his and her role within this world also altered. This literature series will look at how the individual defines himself or herself, how societies react to these changes, and how the evolving sense of self succeeds and fails. The readings will included essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, poetry by Walt Whitman, and fiction by Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, and Kate Chopin.
Full Schedule
November 11 2008
"Self-Reliance" and "Circles" (1841) - Ralph Waldo Emerson
December 02 2008
Leaves of Grass (1855) - Walt Whitman
January 20 2009
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1886) - Robert Louis Stevenson
February 10 2009
The Picture of Dorian Grey (1890) - Oscar Wilde
March 10 2009
The Awakening (1899) - Kate Chopi
"I Loaf and Invite my Soul"
Identity & Selfhood in Virtual Worlds
A Conversation with Tom Bukowski
Wednesday, October 15th
6-7 pm SLT
Caledon Primverness
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Primverness/184/243/25
We're our secret selves, we're more than ourselves, we meet ourselves (or at least our alts) coming and going...in virtual worlds like Second Life, that's just the beginning. As the saying goes, It's Complicated. But then, so are we.
Join ethnologist Tom Bukowski, author of Coming of Age in Second Life for a conversation about the faceted nature of the self, and what virtual worlds have to teach us about what we've always been.
This event is sponsored by the Alexandrian Free Library, and produced by Radio Riel. If you can't join us in world, tune in at http://music2.radioriel.org
This event serves as an introduction to our new discussion series about the sense of self as it evolved in 19th century literature - particularly in poetry and fiction. Dame Kghia Gherardi will lead a discussion of a different work each month, through March 2009.
Discussions are 6-7 pm SLT. Location to be announced
Identity & Selfhood in Virtual Worlds
A Conversation with Tom Bukowski
Wednesday, October 15th
6-7 pm SLT
Caledon Primverness
http://slurl.co
We're our secret selves, we're more than ourselves, we meet ourselves (or at least our alts) coming and going...in virtual worlds like Second Life, that's just the beginning. As the saying goes, It's Complicated. But then, so are we.
Join ethnologist Tom Bukowski, author of Coming of Age in Second Life for a conversation about the faceted nature of the self, and what virtual worlds have to teach us about what we've always been.
This event is sponsored by the Alexandrian Free Library, and produced by Radio Riel. If you can't join us in world, tune in at http://music2.radioriel.org
This event serves as an introduction to our new discussion series about the sense of self as it evolved in 19th century literature - particularly in poetry and fiction. Dame Kghia Gherardi will lead a discussion of a different work each month, through March 2009.
Discussions are 6-7 pm SLT. Location to be announced
- "Self-Reliance" and "Circles" (1841) - Ralph Waldo Emerson - November 11 2008
- Leaves of Grass (1855) - Walt Whitman - December 02 2008
- Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1886) - Robert Louis Stevenson - January 20 2009
- Portrait of Dorian Grey (1890) - Oscar Wilde - February 10 2009
- The Awakening (1899) - Kate Chopin - March 10 2009
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