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在任何季节中阅读都别有滋味,春天明媚、秋季闲适、冬日慵懒,而喝着冷饮听着蝉鸣,在午后雷阵雨的释放中感悟文字的力量,也是这个火热时节里的独特体验 阳光、雨水与蝉鸣,令人憧憬的暑假又来临了。孩子们终于可以从学业中暂时松一口气,投入各种新奇的活动体验中去。当然,如果不想出门,炎炎夏日,也正是读书的好时节,毕竟一本好书陪伴度过的夏日午后,充实与愉悦,并不会亚于外出到景点打卡游玩。 最近,各大平台纷纷推出暑期青少年儿童必读书...
Novelist Charles Dodd White: Virtual Reading & Craft Talk Community Event Thursday, February 18, 2021 - 12:00pm to Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 12:00pm A recorded talk on "Art as Political Activism" followed by a reading from the new novel HOW FIRE RUNS. (45 minutes total). Charles Dodd White is the author of four novels, including two from Ohio University Press/Swallow Press: How Fire Runs and In the House of Wilderness. He has received the Appalachian Book of the Year Award and the Chaffin Award for his fiction. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is an associate professor of Eng...
Art by Matt Chase. The law of imitative representation, aka mimesis, reigned supreme in Western art for so long that its resistors sometimes found it hard to stop battling it, even when and where it had lost its grip. Consider, for example, some responses to so-called concrete poetry on the part of advocates of so-called conceptual art. The writer and critic Lucy Lippard differentiates between concrete poetry’s naive strategies of linguistic resemblance “where the words are made to look like something, an image” and conceptualism’s more sophisticated li...