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The sheep who hatched an egg
Lola is upset when her perfect, silky wool grows back tangled and messy after all the sheep have to get haircuts. She doesn't even notice when a delicate egg gets blown into her thick wool! When it hatches, Lola learns that you don't have to be perfect to be a friend.
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“A Conspiracy of the Rich”: Dystopianizing the Real in More's Utopia
The article presents an analysis of the ways in which Europe, at first presented in Book One of More's Utopia as superior or at least comparable to the New World, is gradually turned into a dystopia as Hythloday increasingly concentrates on its faults and vices, especially when explicitly or implicitly contrasted with the ideal functioning of Utopia. This process of “dystopianizing” what for the readers constitutes the real culminates in Hythloday's concluding harangue projecting Europe as the ultimate sin-driven dystopia.
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Wally does not want a haircut
Wally the sheep doesn't want to get the haircut he really needs-- even after all the other farm animals get new hairdos--but when his shaggy wool gets him in trouble, he has no choice but to ask for a trim.
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Labor and the Literary Technologies of Mechanization in the British Cotton Industry
This article focuses on the British cotton manufacture in the second half of the eighteenth century, showing that the industry’s mechanization across this period was a literary as well as a material process. Through an analysis of British writings on the cotton trade, the article traces how this literature of mechanization called on interlinked systems of race and gender to produce a fiction of British technological and industrial mastery. When representing the Indian cotton industry, these writings contrast the supposedly masculine labor of ingenious British invention with Indian textile laborers whose work, framed as feminized, irrational, and anti-technological, was thereby rendered obsolete. The article further explores how British spinsters were crucial intermediaries in the literary and material process of mechanization. These womens’ labor, transferred from linen and wool to cotton, appropriated the work of Indian women and enabled the British textile industry to claim the power of cultivation. Narratives of mechanization that echoed those used to degrade the Indian textile industry then represented British spinsters as ineffective and unproductive when not assisted by new machineries. These narratives contributed to British women textile workers’ displacement by technologies that reproduced their labor.
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Mountain Gothic and other variants
One problem about being a little land with no history is that it also means being a little land with no mystery. The Gothic by its very name is a literary visit to a mysterious, dark, and dangerous past. A nineteenth-century settler culture has no castles, no dungeons, no old graveyards, no long-lingering ghosts. For the romance of the repellent, New Zealand had to look elsewhere. I want to sample some variants on the convention of horror that have produced powerful and distinctively New Zealand writing. They might be called mountain Gothic, battlefield Gothic, and time travel Gothic. I will locate them in two authors usually known for more intellectual concerns, Samuel Butler (1835-1902, resident in Canterbury 1860-64) and M. K. Joseph (1914-81), as well as visiting an eccentric short story that is almost certainly the first experiment in the horror genre located in New Zealand.
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20 March, 43 BCE: Ovid Is Born
Since almost nothing has been recorded about the life, exile, and death of Publius Ovidius Naso, each chapter would not only integrate details of contemporary Roman culture and history with imagined scenes, the narrative would also draw on the fragmentary autobiographical moments as they figure in the Metamorphoses, as well as in Amores and Tristia. In this piece, Middlebrook weaves together a vivid depiction of midwifery, labor, and childbirth in Ancient Rome with the equally striking thesis of her book: that Ovid the poet was born into a community of women that formed the context for the young Roman boy's early childhood.
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