![]() ![]() Bevor er sich selbst das Leben nimmt, rächt KuUervo sich an Untamo. So ist er schuld am Tod der schönen Frau Ilmarinens, bei dem er als Hirte arbeitet, und am Freitod seiner Schwester, die er verführt hat. Der Gedanke an Rache beherrscht Kullervo von Kindheit an er taugt zu keiner sinnvollen Arbeit und bringt allen Mensehen, die in seine Nähe kommen, Unheil. Seine Sippe wurde von Untamo, dem Bruder seines Vaters erschlagen. Ein unseliges Schicksal ist Kullervo bestimmt. Seine Splitter begründen den Reichtum von Meer und Land in Kalevala. Sie unterliegen, doch der Sampo fällt ins Meer und zerbricht. ![]() Auf dem offenen Meer kommt es zum Kampf mit den Nordländern. Da beschheßen Väinämöinen und seine Gefährten Ilmarinen und Lemminkäinen, den Sampo zu rauben. Ilmarinen schmiedet den Sampo, und in kurzer Zeit wird das Nordland wohlhabend und mächtig. ![]() Väinämöinen verspricht ihr, den Schmied Ilmarinen zu senden. ![]() Louhi, die Herrin des Nordlands, will ihn nur dann wieder in die Heimat ziehen lassen, wenn er ihr den Sampo schmiedet, "daß er Mehl auf einer Seite, auf der andern Salz er mahlet, auf der dritten Geld in Fülle". 156 Seiten, Eigentumseintrag, das Buch ist in einem gutem, gebrauchten Zustand, Der weise Runensänger Väinämöinen aus dem Lande Kalevala, der »die Geschichten alter Zeiten und den Ursprung aller Dinge« singt, gerät nach Pohjola, in das Nordland. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Octavia Butler’s dystopia is surprisingly close to the reality of our time, in terms of growing precarity, inequality, the onset of the climate crisis and the radical right. “Help us to make America great again.” (Talents, 18) Hell, my parents are still living with their parents.” (Sower, 47) ![]() I won’t be able to get a job or move out of my parents’ house because no job I could get would support me and there are no safe places to move. But the crisis reveals that the current system won’t last What effect the current pandemic will have on our economic, political and Income, an idea that trusts human beings as inherently good. This crisis is actuallyĮnvironment friendly, and gets us closer to the utopian idea of universal basic Instead, the virus was moved around by privilegedīodies who have the freedom to travel across borders. ![]() People commonly think viruses move indiscriminately acrossīorders, bodies and class. Playing out differently in different parts of the world. Every day we see the news of this tragedy Will happen after this time are utopian / dystopian stories that have alreadyīeen drawn by our imagination. Reading Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents in Pandemic Times ![]() ![]() ![]() Through Marshall's research and storytelling, Ancient Skies brings the belief systems of the classical world to shining life. Illustrations and star charts carefully reconstructed from ancient sources lend a visual element and immerse the reader in the world of ancient cosmology and constellation mapping. ![]() These age- old tales have captured the human imagination from ancient times to the present, and through them we can examine the early practical astronomy, philosophical speculation on the cosmos, and fundamental moral beliefs of much of Western civilization. ![]() He is the author of Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West (Countryman Press, 2016). This non- fiction narrative presents the tales of the forty- eight classical constellations, compiled from literature spanning a thousand years from Homer (c. Marshall, PhD, is a historian and archivist on the faculty of Texas Tech University, with 34 years of experience as a researcher, instructor, professor and archivist. ![]() From anywhere on Earth, a person may view the celestial panorama simply by stepping outside at night and gazing upward. The stars and constellations are among the few remaining objects that appear to us just as they appeared to our distant ancestors. Look to the sky and see the stories in the stars ![]() ![]() ![]() My sestina, “The Subway Riders,” dedicated to San Francisco painter Nancy Buffum, appears online in the Summer-Autumn 2016 issue of Panoply, A Literary Zine. The sequel sestina, “Ida’s Song, 1945” appears in the 2016 Marin Poetry Center anthology (print). ![]() The poem gives voice to two courageous women stranded on Ano Nuevo island off the California coast. My sestina, “Whistle Keepers, 1883” is the featured poem of the week of Januat the online journal Heron Tree. I’m delighted to have four poems published in Peacock Journal in January 2017, accompanied by a beautiful Pierre Bonnard painting. I am honored to be included in the same issue as Tracy K. Smith, U.S. I am grateful to features editor Andrena Zawinski for inviting me to contribute and to publisher Mary Barnet for her ongoing support. įive poems appear in the summer 2017 issue of. The poem will also appear in print later in the summer in the Marin Poetry Center 2017 Anthology. “Manhattan Ghazal” appears online in the Summer 2017 issue of Blue Lyra Review. R who died at 114, according to her obituary” won 3rd prize for villanelles in the Fall 2017 Oregon Poetry Association contest. Thank you to judge Judith H. ![]() Smith and Marleen Roggow for producing a lovely online journal showcasing northern California writers. “Postcard from the Closed Toy Store on Solano Avenue” appears in the Spring 2018 issue of Birdland Journal, along with the work of seventeen other writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() She also used the names Andrew North and Allen Weston as pseudonyms.Īndre Norton published her first novel in 1934, and was the first woman to receive the Gandalf Grand Master Award from the World Science Fiction Society in 1977, and won the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) association in 1983. In 1934 she legally changed her name to Andre Alice. First contacts with the publishing world led her, as many other contemporary female writers targeting a male-dominated market, to choose a literary pseudonym. She started writing in her teens, inspired by a charismatic high school teacher. ![]() Alice Mary Norton always had an affinity to the humanities. ![]() ![]() Turning eight years old and entering the third grade can do that to a girl. ![]() Ramona Quimby, Age 8 Ramona feels quite grown up taking the bus by herself, helping big sister Beezus make dinner, and trying hard to be nice to pesky Willa Jean after school. Ramona the Brave Now that she's six and entering the first grade, Ramona is determined to be brave, but it's not always easy, with a scary new all-by-herself bedroom, her mother's new job, and a new teacher who just doesn't understand how hard Ramona is trying to grow up. ![]() So why does Ramona get in so much trouble? And how does Ramona manage to disrupt the whole class during rest time? Anyone who knows Ramona knows that she never tries to be a pest. She loves her teacher, Miss Binney, and she likes a little boy named Davy so much she wants to kiss him. Ramona the Pest Ramona is off to kindergarten, and it is the greatest day of her life. Sisters are supposed to love each other, but pesky little Ramona doesn't seem very lovable to Beezus right now. Sometimes Beezus doesn't like Ramona much, and that makes her feel guilty. ![]() Beezus and Ramona Beezus tries very hard to be patient with her little sister, but four-your-old Ramona has a habit of doing the most unpredictable, annoying, embarrassing things in the world. ![]() This wonderful Ramona Box Set, by Beverly Cleary, contains four books: Ramona the Brave, Ramona the Pest, Beezus and Ramona, and Ramona Quimby, Age 8. ![]() ![]() Includes the original audio book with music, read-along version, as well as The Room on the Broom Song.Ģ. Room on the Broom (Read-Along Version)Īlthough this Yoto Card is perfect for young children, children under 3 years old should only use Yoto Player or Yoto Mini under adult supervision. It's a case of the more, the merrier, but the broomstick isn't used to such a heavy load and it's not long before… snap! It breaks in two! And with a greedy dragon looking for a snack, the witch's animal pals better think fast. Luckily, they are retrieved by a dog, a bird and a frog, who are all keen for a ride on the broom. ![]() The witch and her cat fly happily over forests, rivers and mountains on their broomstick until a stormy wind blows away the witch's hat, bow and wand. ![]() ![]() Yoto Says: A happy bunch hitches a ride on the witch’s broomstick, but can they work together to scare off a dragon in search of a witch-shaped snack? How the cat purred and how the witch grinned, As they sat on their broomstick and flew through the wind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He was appointed Professor of Film Studies at King’s in 2006, and has held Visiting Professorships at Weimar, Stockholm and St Andrews amongst others. His book Stars, first published in 1979, played a crucial role in establishing the academic discipline of Star Studies, and among his subsequent works are several landmarks in their fields – in particular Now You See It: Historical Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film (1990) and White: Essays on Race and Culture (1997). Richard Dyer studied languages and Philosophy at St Andrews University, before gaining his PhD at the University of Birmingham in the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. The three-day conference includes a special screening of Professor Dyer’s ‘Desert Island Movie’, Kamal Amrohi’s timeless Pakeezah, and concludes with his keynote paper on The Persistence of Textual Analysis. Lifetime Achievement Award for Richard DyerĬongratulations to Professor Richard Dyer, who has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2014 British Academy of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) Conference. ![]() ![]() ![]() The pacing is good and there are few info dumps. There's as much action as any reader could want, varied and interesting magic, tight plotting from a good number of interesting points of view. There are plenty of emotional scenes and even though I could see the strings being pulled, I still got drawn in. I call the book fun, and it is, but that's not to diminish it in any way. who knew? I don't enjoy every popular book but I do generally find out that there's a good reason why they're popular.īrent Weeks is a great story teller and his writing is plenty strong enough to carry the load. ![]() It turns out that I tend to like what people tend to like. In any event, my expectations were not sky high. though I could be over-reading 140 characters there. even Weeks himself seemed a touch apologetic about his debut when he saw my tweet about starting it. I'd read a couple of sniffy reviews about this book and a friend was very meh about it. ![]() ![]() ![]() I didn’t have any sense of where the story would go before reading it, but I did have a sense of how it would feel. I Capture the Castle is a novel I included in my 10 Feel Good Books to Read While Social Distancing post back in April and one I’ve been looking forward to reading for far longer. By the time she pens her final entry, she has “captured the castle”– and the heart of the reader– in one of literature’s most enchanting entertainments. Her journals candidly chronicle the great changes that take place within the castle’s walls and her own first descent into love. She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills. ![]() I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. 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