#worldlit

[worldlites]

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[bberenicce]

A few months ago, plurilinguismo made this post issuing a challenge to diversify our bookshelves by reading authors from different world countries. I already made a map back in August, but since the end of the year approaches I decided to post an updated version:

If you want to do this challenge, you can create your own map on the site https://mapchart.net/world.html Enjoy!

[aftaabmagazine]

امروز

Today

امروز

Today

قهار عاصی

Qahar Asi

روز می و روز میگساران امروز

the day of wine

and today is the day of the wine drinkers

روز طرب و روز بهاران امروز

the day of joy and

today is the day of spring

روز همه روزهای زیبای زمین

the day of all the beautiful days

on earth

امروز عروس روزگاران امروز

today is the bride of time

Imagery is a detail from a manuscript painting from the school of Herat, circa the 1500s.

[ipanoptes]

07232020

Something for the 2020-2021 World Literature semester: The Book of Job from the King James Version of the Bible contains a soliloquy on wisdom.

source: iPanoptes

[iaaaanz-blog]

Happy memories

When I had my first dog When I had my own set of knives My trip in japan Having my own gaming PC My 20th birthday

[misterjdp-blog]

First

The first time I fell in-love; it was unforgettable

The first time we kissed; it’s unbelievable

The first time I met you, the faith was uncontrollable

The first time had break up, it was unexceptionable

[luiceefer]

Sweet Hurricane

Do you remember?

The first time we met, I felt the love already

The first we made an eye onctact? My heart started beating triple times

The first time we talked, sharing our own thoughts

The first time we laughed, i miss that

The first time we smoked cigarettes together

The first time walked together going home, and talking about musics

The first time i met you and having the same interests same as mine

The first time our hands touched, it felt so good and we were just both silent that time

The first time we watched sunset together

Damn i miss that.

[jayetomas]

(Modern Poetry in Translation Magazine)

[ejdispo]

Mr. Holladay was buried yesterday after passing away one week ago. Thanks to my mom for informing me about his death & attending his memorial. You’re sorely missed, our beloved Paramount Theatre director, McMurry University professor & Cooper High teacher. Your passion for the arts was greater than the four-plus decades you served as an educator. Thank you for mentoring me & being among the 1st to find out that I’d follow in your footsteps to teach English + being a friend through all these years. #MrHolladay #HOLYday #AP #AmericanLit #BritLit #WorldLit #Talisman #yearbook #McM #NHS #CHS #Paramount #ParamontTheatre #DowntownAbilene #AbileneTexas #AbileneTX #CooperHigh #HighSchool #CooperHighSchool #AlmaMater #McMurryUniversity #DyessAFB #AdvancedPlacement #AmericanLiterature #BritishLiterature #WorldLiterature #NationalHonorSociety #movies #English #history 🎓📚📕📗📘📙📖📒📔📓📝🗞📰📇🖨💾🖥⌨️💻📸📷🎬📽🎥📼💽💿📀🎞🎫🎟🍿🖼🗺🌎🇺🇸🇦🇺🛫✈️🛩 https://www.legacy.com/amp/obituaries/reporternews/194622772 (at Historic Paramount Theatre) https://www.instagram.com/p/B54LFZ8ANGN/?igshid=f8l3scnl5t7w

[coffin-dance]

Our professor calls us the Feminist Group in class, so we wore matching shirts for our group midterm and then did a boyband photoshoot after 😂 📸 Prof Moore #WorldLit #Feminism https://www.instagram.com/ruttandtuke/p/Bu-lcJGlFTt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ca5b60css2kc

[fundforteachers]

To learn or not to learn? There is no question

Gretchen Philbrick (Norwich Free Academy - Norwich, CT) is following The Bard across Europe on her Fund for Teachers fellowship -- experiencing The Globe Theatre and Stratford-Upon-Avon in England; attending the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival and European Shakespeare Research Association convention in Poland, and exploring Romeo and Juliet's Verona in Italy -- to expand creative and performative approaches to Shakespeare that explore, curate and connect students with content.

Shakespeare lessons “test my mettle” as a teacher. For my students, who confront numerous challenges, Shakespeare makes them face their biggest fears: they struggle to understand the text, make it their own, and share it with an audience of peers.

Why do I believe Shakespeare is worth the struggle? Because reading Shakespeare in the classroom does so much more for my students than just increasing content knowledge. The embodiment of the text and the performances give students a chance to work on skills that extend beyond curriculum. They surprise themselves and inspire me each year. Shy students face their public speaking fears. Quiet students discover their voice. Outgoing and extroverted students enjoy the pride and revelry of being in their element. In their interpretations, students showcase their love of their culture, pop culture, youth culture, and gamer culture. We laugh. We celebrate. We agonize over the tragic events in the text. I always view our Shakespeare unit of study as a blank slate, as odd as that may sound. It is a place for students to project so much of themselves and their vision.

I designed my Fund for Teachers grant to pursue a path for invigorating, nurturing and strengthening how I teach Shakespeare. My pilgrimage addresses three areas:

Shakespeare’s Home Beginning in London, I attended a live theatrical performance at Sam Wannamaker’s reconstructed Globe Theatre. While I know that this portion of the grant is somewhat predictable, I think it is important to remember that many of us have never been to these landmarks. It would be a major oversight to miss these stops. I then traveled by train to Stratford-upon-Avon to tour Shakespeare’s home and visit the Church of the Holy Trinity to view Shakespeare’s baptismal and burial place. While there, I took an afternoon tour of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s “The Other Place” which provides access to production spaces where “a play makes its way from page to stage.” I am looking for a way to use the scant resources I have to maximize the classroom stagings and I walked away with new ideas regarding costuming and props.

Shakespeare’s Inspiration In Verona, I spent several days exploring both the imagined, and real landscapes, depicted in Romeo and Juliet and took in as much of Italian culture as possible. Italy was a great draw for Shakespeare and I previously wondered why Shakespeare was so fascinated with Italian culture. I think it is important to share this idea of "borrowing" as it relates to Shakespeare with my students. Shakespeare felt free crossing cultural divides and appropriating and "borrowing" from others. I think often "purists" forget that many of Shakespeare's plays were published as quartos and were drastically different from what we read today. In preparation for my fellowship, I attended the Folger Shakespeare First Folio exhibit and felt validation as I learned that adaptation was always meant to be part of the legacy of Shakespeare. I think this is something to share with students who feel Shakespeare is "stuffy" or staid.

Shakespeare’s Legacy My 18-day European tour is now culminating in 2017 European Shakespeare Research Association convention and Gdansk Shakespeare Festival in Poland. During the convention, I am attending two panels. The first is “Shakespeare and Dramaturgical Strategies in Contemporary European Performances.” This panel focuses on the unique and novel staging and appropriation of Shakespeare’s plays. From everyday, found objects (think ketchup bottles, sponges, etc.) arranged on a table top to radical “mash-ups” of Shakespeare’s war scenes broadcast as contemporary news footage, this panel discusses the new, innovative, and experimental approaches to staging Shakespeare’s work. The second panel is “Now Let Us Anatomize Shakespeare: Shakespeare-Inspired Ballets in European Ballet Companies.” This panel explores dance and music as points of entree for Shakespeare's work. I use music as a way to bridge complex literary concepts and complicated texts. I look forward to being able to explore dance as another medium for interpreting the work with my students.

Enjoy photographs from Gretchen’s fellowship here.

The bottom line is this: I ask my students to persevere and pursue challenges in the classroom every day. I ask them to put themselves in situations that make them feel uncomfortable in an effort to seek personal and academic growth. This fellowship required facing a similarly daunting task and confronting my own anxieties in the name of development. I am terrified of flying and have not traveled since my twenties. I am afraid, like a student facing Shakespeare for the first time or performing a scene in front of classmates, of not being able to master my anxiety and my fear in pursuit of something important to me professionally and personally. However, to not go, to not learn, to not model growth, was not a question.

Gretchen has been happily teaching ninth grade English at Norwich Free Academy for the last four years. She came to her own education and her teaching career later in life and this non-traditional path gave her a sincere appreciation of education's ability to shape, enrich and change lives.

[omniscribe]

Reblogging for some cross-curricular work when I teach Persepolis

The Complex Geometry of Islamic Design

In Islamic culture, geometry is everywhere. You can find it in mosques, madrasas, palaces and private homes. This tradition began in the 8th century CE during the early history of Islam, when craftsmen took preexisting motifs from Roman and Persian cultures and developed them into new forms of visual expression. 

This period of history was a golden age of Islamic culture, during which many achievements of previous civilizations were preserved and further developed, resulting in fundamental advancements in scientific study and mathematics. Accompanying this was an increasingly sophisticated use of abstraction and complex geometry in Islamic art, from intricate floral motifs adorning carpets and textiles, to patterns of tile work that seemed to repeat infinitely, inspiring wonder and contemplation of eternal order.

Despite the remarkable complexity of these designs, they can be created with just a compass to draw circles and a ruler to make lines within them, and from these simple tools emerges a kaleidoscopic multiplicity of patterns. So how does that work? Well, everything starts with a circle. The first major decision is how will you divide it up? Most patterns split the circle into four, five or six equal sections. And each division gives rise to distinctive patterns. 

There’s an easy way to determine whether any pattern is based on fourfold, fivefold, or sixfold symmetry. Most contain stars surrounded by petal shapes. Counting the number of rays on a starburst, or the number of petals around it, tells us what category the pattern falls into. A star with six rays, or surrounded by six petals, belongs in the sixfold category. One with eight petals is part of the fourfold category, and so on. 

There’s another secret ingredient in these designs: an underlying grid. Invisible, but essential to every pattern, the grid helps determine the scale of the composition before work begins, keeps the pattern accurate, and facilitates the invention of incredible new patterns. Let’s look at an example of how these elements come together. 

We’ll start with a circle within a square, and divide it into eight equal parts. We can then draw a pair of criss-crossing lines and overlay them with another two. These lines are called construction lines, and by choosing a set of their segments, we’ll form the basis of our repeating pattern. 

Many different designs are possible from the same construction lines just by picking different segments. And the full pattern finally emerges when we create a grid with many repetitions of this one tile in a process called tessellation.

By choosing a different set of construction lines, we might have created this any of the above patterns. The possibilities are virtually endless.  

We can follow the same steps to create sixfold patterns by drawing construction lines over a circle divided into six parts, and then tessellating it, we can make something like the above.

Here’s another sixfold pattern that has appeared across the centuries and all over the Islamic world, including Marrakesh, Agra, Konya and the Alhambra. 

Fourfold patterns fit in a square grid, and sixfold patterns in a hexagonal grid. 

Fivefold patterns, however, are more challenging to tessellate because pentagons don’t neatly fill a surface, so instead of just creating a pattern in a pentagon, other shapes have to be added to make something that is repeatable, resulting in patterns that may seem confoundingly complex, but are still relatively simple to create. 

This more than 1,000-year-old tradition has wielded basic geometry to produce works that are intricate, decorative and pleasing to the eye. And these craftsmen prove just how much is possible with some artistic intuition, creativity, dedication along with a great compass and ruler.

From the TED-Ed Lesson The complex geometry of Islamic design - Eric Broug

Animation by TED-Ed // Jeremiah Dickey

[cupidmarwani-archive]

A fic called “Frailty Thy Name is Woman” but it’s Connor being bitter and bitchy about the fact that when Ava dumped him, she started dating Sarah and the ironic thing is that Ava is in a much better place emotionally now that she’s accepted she’s gay and has a partner that supports her and the frail one is actually Connor because he’s a little bitch boy who can’t handle the fact that she’s happier without him and he eventually gets invited to Ava and Sarah’s wedding but doesn’t go

[jamesmadolid00]

Its me young, dumb and broke! fucking idiot of me! but alas, still alive and kicking! #presentation

[languagebylaura]

via @asymptotejournal

[misterjdp-blog]

My Banana

Hello banana

You so delicious

I can’t live without you big banana

Please don’t leave me

I felt delicious with you

I won’t go home without you