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Seeking a Balance: Discussion Strategies That Foster Reading With Authorial Empathy
This study investigates the extent to which students' use of different discussion strategies fosters a balance between attending to the technical elements of authored texts and responding empathetically. Because small‐group discussion is a common approach to literary study, the analysis focuses on two small‐group discussions of “Charlie Howard's Descent,” Mark Doty's poem about the murder of a young gay man by other young men in his community. The two discussions were parsed into episodes that were scored according to the extent that they displayed balance. Then, each student turn was analyzed in terms of the discussion strategies employed. The analysis suggests that the strategies of searching for meaning, contextualizing, and interpreting contribute to the most balanced readings. Noting author's craft can lead to overly technical readings, although it has the potential to be paired with other strategies to facilitate a more balanced discussion.
Journal Article
No other world : a novel
A \"debut novel about an Indian American boy's struggle to fit into a society where his race and sexuality are outside the norm and to find a sense of belonging, identity, and hope\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Jacob's Room
JACOB'S ROOM, Virginia Woolf's third novel, marks her first foray into Modernist experimentation. The narrative traces Jacob's childhood in Cornwall and his education at Cambridge, culminating in an evocative portrait of his adult life in London and abroad. Jacob is romantically torn between the artistic Florinda, the upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the beautiful, but married, Sandra Wentworth Williams. This tissue of romance, though, is torn apart by the cataclysmic events of the First World War. JACOB' S ROOM, Virginia Woolf' s third novel, marks her first foray into Modernist experimentation. The narrative traces Jacob' s childhood in Cornwall and his education at Cambridge, culminating in an evocative portrait of his adult life in London and abroad. Jacob is romantically torn between the artistic Florinda, the upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the beautiful, but married, Sandra Wentworth Williams. This tissue of romance, though, is torn apart by the cataclysmic events of the First World War. Woolf poignantly depicts the life of Jacob through a sequence of alternating perspectives that combine letters, fragments of dialogue and the ephemeral impressions of those nearest to him. Jacob's voice becomes the absent centre of one of Modernism's first great novels. Woolf poignantly depicts the life of Jacob through a sequence of alternating perspectives that combine letters, fragments of dialogue and the ephemeral impressions of those nearest to him. Jacob' s voice becomes the absent centre of one of Modernism' s first great novels.
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Bizarre
An eccentric, unconventional fable, Brooklyn Bizarre follows Maurice, an 18-year-old boy from France with a dark past. Having just arrived in Brooklyn, New York, he has no friends and no place to stay. On a chance encounter, he is taken in by two beautiful girls, Kim and Betty. Maurice is given room and board and a job at their famous underground cabaret club, the Bizarre, where he begins to form a whole new family. In this ephemeral refuge of fantasy and freedom, he begins a disturbing relationship with a bartender, Luka, who becomes obsessed with Maurice, and also harbors some secrets of his own. But Maurice's past catches up to him, and the liberating world he has become a part of begins to fall apart. As a mysterious older man shows up one evening at the club, it becomes clear that Maurice needs to disappear ... at all costs!
Streaming Video
Food of love
Based on David Leavitt's novel The Page Turner, this sensual film explores the passage of a young pianist into adulthood and his first romance. When 18-year-old Paul (Kevin Bishop) becomes a page turner for his hero, world-famous pianist Richard Kennington (Paul Rhys, From Hell), his feelings for the artist grow stronger. The two begin a passionate affair and Paul feels love for the first time. Their relationship is complicated by Richard's agent Joseph (Allan Corduner, The Grey Zone, Moonlight Mile) and Paul's recently divorced, highly neurotic mother played by British actress Juliet Stevenson (Truly, Madly, Deeply and Bend It Like Beckham), whose performance the Village Voice called \"fiercely committed\". A gorgeous blending of emotional drama and classical artistry, Food of Love makes beautiful music.
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Fun down there : (a week in the life.)
One of the first gay features released after the arrival of the AIDS epidemic, Fun Down There offers a refreshingly uncomplicated view of coming out and coming of age. Roger Stigliano's early gem of new queer cinema chronicles a single week in the life of Buddy, a young gay man living with his family in rural upstate New York. The morning after his sister discovers his copy of Playgirl, Buddy sneaks away to New York City. Shortly after his arrival, he experiences his first sexual encounter. His partner, Joseph, takes Buddy under his wing and provides him with the Big City essentials: a hotel room, a subway map and a lecture about safe sex. In a wry, offhand style, Fun Down There skillfully captures the ordinary day-to-day events that make life extraordinary. With humor that is more Jim Jarmusch than John Waters, the film's sex scenes have an innocent and refreshingly casual quality even today. Plus, there's something that's always welcomed in queer cinema: a happy ending.
Streaming Video
Chicago Tribune Dawn M. Turner column
Aug. 31--When I finished speaking with Richard Spencer on Sunday afternoon, I better understood why he vehemently opposes immigration, feels the white race will soon be a \"hated minority\" in America, and supports Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump even though he never imagined he would. (The institute's publishing division, which Spencer oversees, however, has published work on racial differences in intellect and behavior.) Spencer also doesn't want to be called a \"white nationalist,\" because \"nationalism is about chauvinism.\"
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The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn., John Beifuss column
In theory, the painstaking process of stop-motion animation -- in which puppetry figures are positioned and photographed, frame by frame, again and again, to create an illusion of movement -- is ideal for a story about an experiment intended to reanimate the dead.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer On Movies column
Beginning with a dopily upbeat but still impossibly charming sing-along called \"Life's a Happy Song\" (it starts as a simple duet and ends with all of Smalltown, USA, kicking up their heels), The Muppets treats its titular heroes with affection and respect, even as Fozzie Bear shows off his \"fart shoes\" and toilet humor abounds.
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