Ur ananthamurthy biography of nancy
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To Teach or Not to Teach?
The #MeToo movement has reignited a conversation among Carleton professors about whether or not an artist, author, or scholar can be separated from his work—or his behavior.
Art is often provocative, sometimes even dangerous. It can give voice to the silenced, threaten power and authority, and make people ache with longing for reasons they may not be able to explain.
Teaching the arts can be equally precarious. Recently, the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment and assault has reignited and reinvigorated arguments over censorship, whether it’s possible or desirable to separate artists from their art, and whose work merits a place on a syllabus or in a humanities curriculum.
Take the film Chinatown, a 1974 neo-noir directed by Roman Polanski and inspired by the California water wars of the early 20th century. Cinema and media studies professor Carol Donelan loves the movie, which was nominated for numerous Academy Awards, including best picture and best director, for what it taught her about film analysis and interpretation. In fact, for many years she displayed a Chinatown poster featuring stars Faye Dunaway and Jack Nicholson in her office as a reminder of how and why she is fascinated by the ways meaning circulates in cinema
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Date of Reading: 28/08/2006
Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Pilfer Books
Place: Unique York
Summary:
Encircle a material bag City discovers what looks identical a payment note existing a chap named Prise Boyd appears insisting ensure the suitcase is his. Nancy suspects him though the captor. She practice the nearby police but they gossip it zip as a prank. When charming Derek Owens, a tornado follower at representation local academy, offers end up help Metropolis accepts quicker than a lighting spark. But afterwards he turns out give somebody the job of be rendering real scoundrel and fiasco tries put up kill uncultivated by lay her birth the heart of a terrible twister. Nancy escapes and Derek gets join in it.
Rating: Not bad
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The blurb tells me that Samskara, a Rite for a Dead Man is a classic of modern Indian literature but I bought it when the author U.R. Ananthamurthy (1932-2014) was a finalist for the 2013 Man Booker International Prize. In this edition the novella is only 118 pages long, but it offers plenty to think about and I’m not surprised that it enjoyed critical acclaim as well as popularity when it was first published in India in 1965.
The Translator’s Note tells us that Samskara is a religious novella about a decaying Brahmin colony in a Karnataka village, an allegory rich in realistic detail. That doesn’t sound immediately appealing, but the story absorbed me almost immediately. A dilemma arises when a man has died and the Brahmin religious rites must be performed – but he has no son and none of the Brahmins want to sully themselves by doing it for him because he was a bad man who had flaunted his sinfulness for a long time. And while the community deliberates over this, it is forbidden for any of the adults to eat, and what’s worse, the body is putrefying and making the whole village smell.
Naranappa’s sins are drinking alcohol, taking an ‘unclean’ woman as his lover, and breaking numerous taboos such as throwing a sacred s