The Birth of Winnie-the-Pooh's Canadian Connection
Winnie-the-Pooh has a surprising Canadian origin! In 1914, Canadian Lieutenant Harry Colebourn purchased a bear cub at White River, Ontario, naming her Winnipeg after his hometown. "Winnie" traveled with him to England and later lived at the London Zoo, where she became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's beloved children's character. 
#Canada #WinnieThePooh #LiteraryHistory
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/winnie-the-pooh
Evelyn Waugh's Decadent Redemption
https://libertiesjournal.com/online-articles/evelyn-waughs-decadent-redemption/
Magical Finds & Jade Treasures: Auction Insights from Harry Potter to White Jade – WorthPoint Reveals All!
...#WorthPointInsights #AuctionTrends #Collectibles #HarryPotterFirstEdition #LiteraryHistory #ChineseSnuffBottles #AntiqueCollecting #IvoryCarving #ArtAuctions #eBayFinds #RareBooks #CollectibleTreasures #WorthPointCEO #AuctionsUncovered #DiscoverValuePreserve Will Seippel, CEO of WorthPoint, recently shared his insights on some standout auction sales from the…
A GLORIOUS MEDITATION ON BLUE, and on the blues, and on the centrality of the color, the mood, and the music to all of African and diaspora life, but particularly to Black life in the US. Elegant, eloquent, erudite, yet profoundly direct. SOLID A
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/black-in-blues-imani-perry/1145525940?ean=9780062977397
7.2: Ariel & Christina Discuss: Why Must Utopia Be Cruel?
In this episode, Ariel and Christina try to get to the bottom of why our fictional visions of utopia are so negative. They often involve mindless acquiescence to an authoritarian nanny state, the oppression and labor of an underclass, or both. It’s as if we can’t imagine a situation in which we all voluntarily treat each other (reasonably) decently and life can be good for everyone. We discuss the literary origins of utopia, how it has evolved (or not) as a concept, and Ariel gives a few examples of sci-fi futures that are about as close to her style of solarpunk utopia as can be. Ultimately, the topic of utopia raises more questions than answers.
https://youtu.be/WR8yg2cOcMk?si=AwMMgH2MNFHmO8Ct
#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #Season7 #Episode #PodcastEpisode #YouTube #utopia #SirThomasMore #SaintThomasMore #ThomasMore #Dystopia #Protopia #WakandaForever #BlackPanther #Indigenous Futurisms #Afrofuturism #Utopias #Anti-Utopia #LiteraryHistory #Cruelty #Despair #Hope #UntopiaParadox #Omelas #TheOnesWhoStayAndFight #TheOnesWhoWalkAwayFromOmelas
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My first book will be coming out with Cornell University Press next year. It's titled "Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China." There's finally a webpage for it, so it feels "real" enough to announce.
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773839/poet-monks/#bookTabs=1
#PoetMonks combines #CloseReading, #DigitalHumanities, and #Manuscript studies to re-examine the role of #Buddhism in #Medieval #Chinese #poetry and rethink #literaryhistory.
Cover art (and much more!) to come soon.
Hooray for pandemic co-authoring fun stuff via Zoom! Here's an article on the TV series Dickinson that I wrote with Maria Sulimma @marsul for a special issue of Arts, called New Perspectives on Pop Culture, co-edited by Daniel Stein and Niels Werber. This piece has been taking shape for a while, but it came together despite how busy and/or ill we've been, and now it's up online and open access.
#TelevisionStudies #TV #Television #PopCulture #CulturalStudies #Commodon #MediaStudies #Remix #Intermediality #Multimodal #Poetry #LiteraryHistory #Biopic #Dickinson #AppleTV+
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