Thursday, December 18, 2008
I'm just about to leave for work so don't know whether I've ever written here or not about my love for A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I'll check that later. In the meanwo, Mitch Benn has narrated the book in five easy to digest chunks here. He does a great job of it too, and it reminds us that in these supercharged Michael-Bay-tastic attention-deficit-disorder multimedia days what simple pleasure we can get from just listening to someone read. It's worth a listen, especially if you've not actually read the story before.
Labels: Charles Dickens, Christmas, podcasts, stories/storytelling
Friday, December 14, 2007
John Clute- Fantastika In The World Storm. Up until about 1700 we did not categorize works of art according to their use of (or failure to use) material that might be deemed unreal. After that point, in English literature a fault line was drawn between mimetic work, which accorded with the rational Enlightenment values then beginning to dominate, and the great cauldron of irrational myth and story, which we now claimed to have outgrown, and which was now primarily suitable for children.
Labels: authors, stories/storytelling
