With... Adam Sargant
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It's our last episode of series 1!!! Expect ghost, ghouls and lots of
laughs as we round off the series with Adam Sargant, AKA Haunted Haworth.
We'll be...
5 months ago
The point is to teach students to catch and understand these biblical allusions, and not just miss them entirely. “Jane Eyre” — a commonly read novel in a high school literature class — contains more 170 biblical allusions. (Celine Wright)Another high school, albeit fictional, is the one in Glee. LA Dance Examiner posts a recap of the latest episode of the series:
It all begins with Principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba) informing Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) that wearing goth isn't going to be allowed. Why? He's afraid of vampires. Do you think Figgins has read "Jane Eyre"? Plenty of goth, but no vampires. (Ian Ono and Jana Monji)Well, he might have read Jane Slayre.
18. Being a governess apparently was no easy job in Victorian novels. Name the teacher Charlotte Brontë created and Mr. Rochester loved. (Betty Stein)If he doesn't know the answer or wants to know more about it and he has an iPad, Jane Eyre and other public-domain texts might be all he reads on it, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.
Prospective iPad owners intending to download a good read from Jodi Picoult, Stieg Larsson or Martin Amis will have to settle instead for the likes of Charles Dickens, Mark Twain and Emily Brontë.Or he could back to university and attend James Franco's lectures at Yale. Entertainment Weekly's Shelf Life remarks on it in connection to the website Hot Guys Reading Books.
Apple's new combination tablet computer and e-book reader, which launches on Friday, will debut with an online bookstore that only sells titles by long-gone authors whose works have passed into the public domain. (Stephen Hutcheon)
Now we know that James Franco isn’t the only looker who can lose himself on Catherine and Heathcliff’s English moors for days on end. (Daniella Grossman)The Financial Times reviews the San Francisco Symphony concert featuring Stravinsky's Ode.
The hunting music of the second part recycles a rejected Jane Eyre film score. (Allan Ulrich)See this old post to read more about this Jane Eyre-Stravinsky connection.
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