#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.

[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

[christophpaulauthorposts]

Bookstore buys #books📚 #bookstagram #bookporn #worldlit