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Christina and Me
No full textBestselling Maine author Christina Baker Kline tells the background story of why she chose to write her novel Christina\u27s World which is based on the relationship between Maine artist, Andrew Wyeth and his muse, Christina Olson
Christina Gillis, author of Writing on Stone: Scenes from a Maine Island Life,
No full textChristina Gillis, author of Writing on Stone: Scenes from a Maine Island Life, delves into old letters written by Maine writer Ruth Moore in the 1950s. Moore was selling her family\u27s Gotts Island house to Phyllis and Richard Strauss, Gillis\u27s sister and brother-in-law
Religious intellectuals : the poetic gravity of Emily Brontë and Christina Rossetti
No full textThis thesis examines the writing of Emily Brontë and Christina Rossetti in terms of its
expression of religious culture and belief. It is my argument that Brontë and Rossetti
experienced religion as intellectuals, questioning and exploring doctrine and dogma neither
as sentimental lady Christians nor dismissive, secular critics. I contend that by close
reading their poetry, the genre both women privileged as most appropriate for the
consideration of religious matters, the reader may trace the sermons and theological works
they read. Moreover, their writing, I suggest, evinces their intellectual response to
theological, ecclesiological and ecclesiastical developments that took place in the
nineteenth century. I thus label Brontë and Rossetti 'religious intellectuals,' a phrase
suggestive of their intense understanding of, rather than their mild acquaintance with,
religious debate. Many women writing within the nineteenth century found that religion
granted them a field within which to freely read and research, but were denied the
professional title of 'theologian.' Brontë and Rossetti are thus examples of a wider
phenomenon wherein women encountered religion like scholars, one disregarded by current
criticism unable as it is to categorize a female activity simultaneously religious and
intellectual. I use Brontë and Rossetti as examples of what I call the 'religious intellectual'
because they represent different sides of this classification. Where Brontë struggled away
from her Methodist background, serving as a cultural commentator on its enthusiastic
belief-system, Rossetti forged a scholarly identity as a late member of the High Church
Oxford Movement. Both poets, I contend, wrote about religion in order to signal their
intellectual ability. I conclude that Brontë's interest in Methodism and Rossetti's
fascination with Tractarianism reveals the poets to be both independent of family pressures
and false consciousness, and fully engaged with a subject central to their age
Leonora Christina
No full textShort presentation of Danish author Leonora Christina and her main work
Beyond cost savings: The value of OER and open pedagogy for student learning
No full textThis workshop was delivered by Dr. Christina Hendricks, from the University of British Columbia, for the 2018 Open Education Week Celebration at Mount Royal. The presentation outline approaches to open education - including OER, open pedagogy, and open educational practices
Book Review on Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes
No full textThis is a brief book review of Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe. Published in April 2023, the text deals with various aspects of Black life, such as memory, trauma, and ongoing racial violence. Being an acclaimed scholar of the Black community, Christina Sharpe shares a surfeit of memories throughout her text, which is why I found this book to be an excellent addition to Black memory studies. The author argues on the functionality of museums and memorials. While many may insist on the necessity of these sites of memory, the author argues that memorial narratives fail to provide ‘reconciliation and healing’. She also asserts how language is usually manipulated by white supremacists, and hence, memory is manipulated as well. Motherhood is also a dominant topic that Sharpe explores in her book
Christina of Markyate – introduction to the “life”
No full textThis article presents information about Christina, saint, eremite and subsequent superior in Markyate, who lived in England in the 12th century. The study aims to elucidate the person of the saint, so little known in Poland. In order to encourage reading of the “Life,” the author, apart from sketching the saint’s biography, discusses the role of women during the Middle Ages as well as refers to an extraordinary friendship between Christina and an abbot from one of the most influential monasteries of the twelfth-century England - Geoffrey of Gorham – who was a cause of damnatio memoriae after his death
The Forgotten Gothic of Christina Rossetti
No full textIn this essay, the author analyzes the Gothic of Christina Rossetti in such poems as A Coast Nightmare, Shut Out, but also the well-known Goblin Market and the Prince's Progress. Interested in what the imagery of these poems convey, and intent on declaring Rossetti as a prominent example of Gothic poets, the author makes a strong case for the including of Rossetti among the great Gothics
Public Awareness and Advocacy Committee: Speaking of Pronouns: An Interview with Author/Advocate Maya Christina Gonzalez
No full textAuthor and illustrator Maya Christina Gonzalez is known for her award-winning bilingual (English/Spanish) books such as My Colors, My World and I Know the River Loves Me. But this progressive educator and independent scholar/researcher has also delved into the world of pronouns.Call Me Tree was written without any gender identifying pronouns, and she has since written substantially on the topic as well as writing and illustrating three children’s books on the topic, including They She He Me: Free to Be!, The Gender Wheel, and They, She, He Easy as ABC. I asked Gonzalez to share about the importance of pronouns
Recall this Book 10x: Polynesia, Sea of Islands: with Christina Thompson
No full textJohn and Elizabeth talk cultural renewal with Christina Thompson, author of Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, a book that both tells a part of the history of Polynesia, and tells how histories of Polynesia are constructed. The discussion also ranges to consider different moments of cultural contact between Polynesian and European thinkers and doers. Those range from the chart Tupaia drew for Captain Cook during the "first contact" era to the Hokule'a's triumphant reconstuction of ancient Polynesian wayfinding, in which the work of David Lewis, Brian Finney and the Bishop Planetarium served as invaluable background to the navigational achievements of Mau Pialug and Nainoa Thompson. The conversation then turns to Epeli Hau'ofa's influential article, "Our Sea of Islands," and the conditions that arise to separate islands�water, language, or national boundaries. Can these conditions also serve to draw islands together? The discussion turns to the much-celebrated voyage of the Hokule'a, revivals of Polynesian tattooing practice, hula dancing, and oh yes, Moana. Finally, in Recallable Books, Christina recommends Nancy D. Munn's The Fame of Gawa as a book that takes seriously the theories of value developed within Gawan community; Elizabeth recommends Sam Low's documentary text Hawaiki Rising; and John, thinking broadly and archipelagically, recommends Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea novels
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