{"id":1157,"date":"2018-12-31T15:57:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2018-12-31T15:57:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:57:26","slug":"12-10-17-news-briefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1157","title":{"rendered":"12.10.17 News Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Next session of Professor\u2019s Corner slated for Mon., Dec. 11 in Denton<\/h1>\n

Session title: \u201cAdapting Homer\u2019s Odyssey, or What Makes an Instant Classic?\u201d<\/h1>\n

Presenter:\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Gretchen Busl, Texas Woman\u2019s University<\/p>\n

Date and location: Monday, December 11, 2017,\u00a0 7:00-8:30 p.m. at the Denton South Branch Library<\/p>\n

This session draws inspiration from Italo Calvino\u2019s \u201cWhy Read the Classics?,\u201d in which he gives a number of striking definitions of a \u201cclassic\u201d text. The group will concentrate on one of these, the idea that \u201cclassics are those books that arrive to us carrying the traces of the readings that precede ours, and behind them bear the traces they themselves have left on the culture or cultures through which they have passed.\u201d\u00a0 The significance of these texts is not simply what lies on the page, but also what has passed into the \u201cgenerally circulated memory\u201d in relation to these texts. His definition of\u00a0 a \u201cclassic\u201d implies that a work is encoded not only with the texts which precede it, but with all the interpretations of that work that have come after it, including works which may refer to it, re-create it, or adapt it. In fact, as Calvino writes, \u201cevery first reading of a classic is in reality a rereading.\u201d Even the first reading of a text which has entered the collective cultural understanding will bring with it a sense of familiarity.<\/p>\n

Drawing from this premise, the group will use The Odyssey<\/span> and adaptations like The Penelopiad<\/span> and the Tidewater Tales<\/span> to explore how, by incorporating \u201cclassic\u201d texts through adaptation and appropriation, a novel can instantly become the kind of classic for which even the first reading is a re-reading.<\/p>\n

Dr. Gretchen Busl <\/span>earned her Ph.D. in Literature at the University of Notre Dame with a focus on adaptation and translation and a minor in Gender Studies. She is currently Assistant Professor of English at Texas Woman\u2019s University, where she teaches a variety of courses in global literature, women’s literature, literary theory, and writing.<\/p>\n

This program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The reading made available in advance by the presenter can be obtained from the series coordinator if it is not attached to this e-mail or if links are not provided above. Reading in advance is encouraged but not required.<\/p>\n

Future sessions<\/h1>\n

Jan. 8, Thornton Wilder\u2019s theatrical world (Dr. Patrick Bynane)<\/p>\n

Feb., 12, Jean Toomer\u2019s and the Harlem Renaissance (Dr. Carl Smeller)<\/p>\n

March 26, poet Paula Gunn Allen\u2019s trickster interventions (Dr. AnaLouise Keating)<\/p>\n

April 9, character contests in good dramatic scenes (Dr. Gray Scott)<\/p>\n

May 14, The Hunger Games<\/span> and dystopian adolescent fiction (Dr. Guy Litton).<\/p>\n

The purpose of this free series is to meet a public need for high quality presentations on literary topics by having local English professors talk about their special interests.\u00a0 The presentations are aimed at the general public and allow for discussion.\u00a0 Readings of modest length are usually available in advance.\u00a0 Gatherings are usually on the second Monday of specified months (new this season)\u00a0 from 7:00 p.m. to about 8:30 p.m. Monthly announcements are available by e-mail; to get on the mailing list, send a request by e-mail to the coordinator.<\/p>\n

Coordinator: Fred Kamman, Denton Public Library; Fred.Kamman@cityofdenton.com;\u00a0 940-349-8752.<\/p>\n

Producer: Dr. Stephen Souris, Texas Woman\u2019s University; SSouris@twu.edu; 940-898-2343.<\/p>\n

Denton\u2019s South Branch Library is located at 3228 Teasley, Denton, TX\u00a0 76210, just south of the Teasley & Lillian Miller intersection.<\/p>\n

Facebook and twitter:\u00a0 Please \u201clike\u201d us on Facebook (\u201cProfessor\u2019s Corner\u201d) and \u201cfollow\u201d us on twitter (@profscorner).<\/p>\n

Supporters:\u00a0 Recycled Books Records CDs, Cooper\u2019s Copies and Printing\u2014and especially the Denton Public Library.<\/p>\n

(Compiled from organization\u2019s press release)<\/span><\/p>\n

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