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It's Monday, Mrs. Jolly Bones
Mrs. Jolly Bones goes through the week, doing chores in her unique way.
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Jonah Unbound
Abstract The Hebrew Bible is a compilation of literary ‘fictions’ and poetry that evoke ‘the truth of the human condition’ (Elena Ferrante). This article retells the story of the Book of Jonah from the first-person perspective of ‘Jonah’. The fictional narrative is rooted in the language and themes of the original biblical text. Jonah is still angry with God's forgiveness of the Ninevites, and readers’ complicity in the always-recurring flight from taking responsibility to act against evil in the world. As Jonah tells his story, he regresses into a manic state that parallels chapter 2 of the biblical book. The narrative moves into reflections about humanity's lack of compassion for the natural world, and Jonah's fears about the forthcoming ‘ecocide’ of the planet.
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Time for a nap
Bunny characters take the reader through the week, recounting the activities that each day brings, and each day always leaves time for a nap.
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A Very Slow Apocalypse: Zombie TV
The phenomenal popularity of the zombie in twenty-first century cinema now positions the zombie as a central member of the canon of classic big screen monsters, alongside its undead cousin the vampire, as well as the mummy, the wolfman and Frankenstein's monster. Many of these creatures have been making a re-emergence in contemporary cinema and television, although with nowhere near the ubiquity of the zombie. Arguably, even the vampire has not had the same level of transmedial impact as the zombie. This is despite the fact that the zombie was for many years positioned in a more marginal role alongside its monstrous brethren. Regardless of this new-found popularity, little consideration has been given to the role of television within the development of the zombie genre, despite a growing number of suitable and, increasingly, long running texts to examine. More attention has been paid to vampire TV with many book- length studies devoted to Dark Shadows (1966–71), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries. In comparison, the TV zombie has, with the exception of The Walking Dead, been largely ignored. This is in part because, historically, the zombie has not played a major role within television horror, primarily as a result of its generic association with a corporeal body horror. From its earliest origins, the zombie embodied the abject corpse raised from the grave seemingly devoid of a soul, which was subsequently splattered in the 1960s and 70s by George Romero (Abbott 2015). This type of graphic material has, until recently, been unpresentable on television as it has been more strictly regulated in terms of what is considered acceptable to be screened on terrestrial television. Furthermore, the zombie, by its very nature as a corpse that has risen from the grave, lacks identity and character, features that are key components of television drama. In contrast while the vampire similarly embodies the dead returned from the grave, it is not presented as a corpse but rather as immortal and usually characterised by his/her charismatic personality and past as a human. The vampire is the undead creature who blurs the line between the living and the dead while the zombie is a graphic reminder of the corporeality of death.
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Playing with Words: Profile of Christopher Cheng
A well-known and prolific children's writer, Christopher Cheng is passionate about promoting the importance of children's literacy development and has been a National Literacy and Numeracy Week ambassador for the past three years. Through this important role, he highlights the need to build literacy skills with children, parents and educators around Australia.
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Images of the Jew Focused on in the Translated Polish Works of Tadeusz Borowski, Jerzy Andrzejewski, and Czeslaw Milosz
Historically Poles have been unable to resist writing about Jews. \"Judeophilic\" writing in Polish literature was impressive—illustrative of the often affectionate attitude toward Jews. On the other hand, the writing was often remarkable for its palpable departure from real-life situations. From the years 1530-1990 a body of work was produced that was characterized by stereotypes, distortions, paternalism, and condescension toward Jews. In this essay several works from the nineteenth century are summarized as illustrating the efforts of Polish writers to bring the Jew into the mainstream of Polish life. The essay then turns to Borowski's This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, which exemplifies the confrontation of one writer to the concentrationary experience, Andrzejewski's Holy Week, which concerns a failed attempt to save one Jewish woman during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and Milosz's poetry, which deals with the impact of history upon moral beings and the search for ways to survive spiritual ruin in today's world.
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Tasty treats for Books with Bite
The American Library Association's Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) 2008 Teen Read Week (TRW) aims to usher new readers into the library and fascinate them with the wealth of opportunities to become someone else - look through the world with new eyes and imagine themselves as a supernatural creature. The TRW theme, \"Books with Bite,\" offers a panoply of books with supernatural themes, from Darren Shan's \"Cirque de Freak\" series to Annette Curtis Klause's \"Blood and Chocolate.\" The vibrant characters and spine-tingling stories are opportunities to snare new readers. School libraries can highlight their collection, promote curricular goals, and advocate for teen literacy during their TRW celebrations. Adapted from the source document.
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The Lives of the Poets and Johnson’s (Auto)biography (1777–1781)
While Boswell in December 1780 was finding a new way to write himself out of melancholy, and then weathering a bout of depression triggered by arguments against free will, Johnson was writing theLife of Pope, completing the assignment he had accepted four years earlier and greatly expanded. He had produced critical biographies of fifty-two writers, starting with those who had died before or shortly after he was born, but soon reaching those whose lives overlapped significantly with his own, some of whom he knew well. The first set of twenty-two, includingMiltonandDryden, had been published early in
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Reconnecting (1781–1783)
When Boswell and Johnson “unexpectedly” met in Fleet Street a day after Boswell reached London, neither knew that the still remarkably healthy Johnson would die within four years. But by the end of the visit, Johnson’s health was beginning to totter; and when they next met, in March 1783, Boswell was shocked by how close to death his friend seemed. By then, their friendship had also been challenged by the deaths of others. The death of Henry Thrale in April 1781 left Johnson uncertain about his connection with the family that for years had provided a second home, and alarmed
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