Etiqueta: Literatura

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  Domínio público: Florbela Espanca, “Ser poeta”

  Domínio público: páginas literárias de todo o mundo que pertencem a todos nós. Soneto "Ser poeta", de Florbela Espanca (1894-1930).

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  Domínio público: Florbela Espanca, “Se tu viesses ver-me”

  Domínio público: páginas literárias de todo o mundo que pertencem a todos nós. Soneto "Se tu viesses ver-me", de Florbela Espanca (1894-1930).

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  HAMLET IN A NUTSHELL

  The Word Depot presents a new challenge: Hamlet in a nutshell. Our guests Rosa del Río ( singing Ophelia), Marcial Muñoz, Begoña Varela, Mila Prol, Cándido Pintos, and Manuel Gómez have picked up the gauntlet of summarising the play in 50 words… Drama, intertextuality, an account of the events of the plot, words that stand like monoliths in the retelling ...all here. Do not miss it!

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  INVISIBLE INK: GRAHAM GREENE’S “THE HEART OF THE MATTER”

   The Word Depot presents the untold stories of Graham Greene’s “The Heart of the Matter” (1948). Many of the characters around which the narrative evolves never confront each other and never articulate their feelings. The factual account of the events masquerades inner emotions that remain untold. The Word Depot members, Marián Machado, Begoña Varela Rodríguez, Cándido Pintos, Marcial Múñoz, Manuel Gómez Otero and Margarida Pereira have written as well as interpreted in this podcast the stories that have never happened,the ones that Aimee Liu, author and essayist, may describe as written in  “invisible ink”.

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  Reading for pleasure 3

  This is an episode for advanced students of English. In it students talk about two books they have enjoyed reading: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, a moving story of Afghan friendship and the famous thriller The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

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  Reading for pleasure 2

  This is an episode for advanced students of English. In it students talk about two books they have enjoyed reading:The Slap by Australian writer Christos Tsiolkas and Man-Eaters of Kumao written by naturalist Jim Corbett after his adventures in India.

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  Reading for pleasure 1 forum

  This is an episode for advanced students of English. In it students contemplate which of the three books they read in "Reading for Pleasure 1" (Animal Farm by George Orwell, Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier and The Children Act by Ian McEwan) they would like to read next and why.

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  Reading for pleasure 1

  This is an episode for advanced students of English. In it students talk about three books they have enjoyed reading: Animal Farm by George Orwell, Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier and The Children Act by Ian McEwan.

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  Frankenstein (Part 2)_ The Word Depot

  Next on Frankenstein: Marcial Muñoz, María Angeles Machado and Servando participate with their comments and readings on Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein,” accompanied by piano music,  “Le Lac de Come” by G.Galos,  interpreted by Rosana Ojea  and crowned by Servando’s own music composition while reading a passage from the novel. Some of the insights dealt with evolve around Mary Shelley’s youth when writing the novel, the threading of the plot, thoughts on the human condition of the creature.

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  Frankenstein (1)_ The Word Depot

  Mila Prol, Begoña Varela y Cándido Pintos give their impressions on Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein (1818): unexpected reactions surge as they elaborate on Frankenstein being a novel about friendship, love, a coalescence of contraries (fire and ice), a story within story narrative that spins from Mary Shelley’s time to our own.