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...Press to let her rewrite One Thousand and One Arabian Nights for young readers. Since then, McCaughrean has spent much of her career recrafting the classics - Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Melville - for new generations. Her just-published version of Cyrano de Bergerac, mines Edmond Rostand's fin de siècle romcom for what it has to say about the power of language to transcend life's banalities, rather than for big-nose jokes. McCaughrean hopes that teenage lovers, raised on a diet of "wall-to-wall sex, violence and misery," will buy Cyrano for Valentine's Day. "But everybody...
...like,” or “God.” They replenish my table with roasted meats and fine wine. Then, they create a feudal system in which I deny all capitalist bourgeois ascendancy and reinstall the fin de siècle leisure class. Your parents love you, assumedly. After all, you go to Harvard. When they remind others of your greatness, it is an act of love. By denying them, you’re displaying winner’s or victor’s guilt. You’ve succeeded in name-branding yourself as intellectual...
Ongoing through June 12. Crises of Representation: The Decorative and the Feminine in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna. Busch-Reisinger Museum. Open Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m-5 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m. Admission $6.50; students and seniors $5. Free with Harvard...
Ongoing. Crises of Representation: The Decorative and the Feminine in Fin-de-siècle Vienna. Busch-Reisinger Museum. Open Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m. Admittance $6.50; $5 students and seniors; free with Harvard...
Ongoing. Crises of Representation: The Decorative and the Feminine in Fin-de-siècle Vienna. Busch-Reisinger Museum. Open Mon.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m. Admittance $6.50; $5 students and seniors; free with Harvard...