Monday 6 October 2014

Kreatives Schreiben & Textgestalten


Sie möchten gerne kreativ schreiben und den Text auch gestalten - eventuell auf einem Tablet?


Der Kurs bietet Anregung zum Schreiben kurzer Texte (Gedichte, ganz kurze Prosa) und zeigt Möglichkeiten, diese auch zu gestalten. Dies kann mit traditionellen Mitteln geschehen, wir wollen aber auch die Möglichkeiten von Tablets (mit Apps) oder dem Computer ausprobieren.

Voraussetzungen für das kreative Schreiben gibt es keine! Tablets (iPad oder andere), Smartphones oder Laptop bringen Sie zum Kurs, falls sie diese einsetzen möchten.
Der Kurs ist auch offen für TeilnehmerInnen, die Technik nicht nutzen möchten.


Referentin:               Ellenruth Molz, M.A., Alzenau 
Teilnahmegebühr:    siehe Martinushaus Aschaffenburg, Programmheft
 Zeit:                            Mittwoch, 18.30 – 20.00 Uhr, 5x
 Termine:                    15.10./12.11./10.12./21.01.2015./25.02.2015

Anmeldung: Martinushaus Aschaffenburg

 


Monday 10 March 2014

How to be a smarter reader

There's plenty of advice out there to help you read more – but what about how to get more from what you read? 
Here's how:

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/feb/08/how-to-be-smarter-reader-do-something?CMP=fb_gu

Wednesday 19 February 2014

Classic literature in Lego – in pictures

From a bloody battle in George RR Martin to a sensual scene from Jane Austen, Waterstones has been recreating setpieces from great literature in toy bricks to coincide with the release of The LEGO Movie. Take a child's eye view of classic books here

http://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2014/feb/19/classic-literature-lego-in-pictures-dracula-romeo-and-juliet?CMP=twt_gu 

Monday 27 January 2014

Was ist Literatur — heute?

Vor 67 Jahren identifizierte Jean-Paul Sartre die Literatur mit zwei zentralen Begriffen: mit dem "Engagement" und dem "Pakt der Großzügigkeit." Ist diese Beschreibung im elektronischen Zeitalter noch plausibel? Von
1947, vor siebenundsechzig Jahren und in einer für die Jüngeren unter uns unvorstellbar anderen intellektuellen Welt, hat Jean-Paul Sartre genau die über diesem Blog stehende Frage im Titel seines Buchs “Qu’est-ce que la littérature?” gestellt und ebenso ausführlich wie bündig beantwortet. “Genau” um dieselbe Frage ging es tatsächlich, da auch Sartres Thesen spezifisch auf sein “Heute,” also die Zeit des Nachkriegs, Bezug nahmen. Und so intensiv haben sie nachgewirkt, dass ihre zentralen Begriffe immer noch – wie ein Reflex – in der Erinnerung von Lesern aufscheinen, denen aus Passion oder auch aus beruflichem Anlass an neuen Antworten gelegen ist. 

http://blogs.faz.net/digital/2014/01/24/ist-literatur-heute-469/ 

Sunday 26 January 2014

In Michael Gove's world Jane Austen, Orwell and Dickens will die out

Michael Gove is Mr M'Choakumchild and Thomas Gradgrind personified: "What I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else." In Gove's schools, whatever might seize the imagination, give pleasure and stay in the heart and mind for a lifetime longer than rote-learned facts is being rooted out.
When he has done with cleansing the curriculum, it may be the case that fewer people know who Gradgrind and M'Choakumchild are. Dickens and much of literature will be a closed book to those not lucky enough to encounter them outside their exam-crammed education. English literature is to be stripped out of the core English GCSE exam, leaving nothing but grammatical correctness and straitjacket language reduced to right and wrong answers. Literature is to become an optional extra, and probably not a highly regarded one, for fear it might let the imagination roam dangerously free. English language, maths, three sciences, a foreign language and history or geography are the core English baccalaureate subjects. The rest is silence, more or less. (But soon few may recognise that reference.) In a world of harsh exams, with the screw tightened down to factual rigour, league table tyranny will increasingly sideline optional extras.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/05/gove-austen-orwell-dickens-die-out 

Monday 20 January 2014

Can men write good heroines?

Can men write good heroines? Most of the heroines I write about in my book How to Be a Heroine are written by women. And most of the heroines I find most problematic are written by men. It's very troubling to go back to Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid and find that it's a story about a mermaid who gives up her voice for legs to get a man. And even as a girl, I was furious with Charles Dickens for letting Nancy get bludgeoned in Oliver Twist and, later, outraged that Samuel Richardson heaped pain and indignity on Clarissa and called her "an Exemplar to her sex" as though learning to suffer well made us exemplary.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/18/can-men-write-good-heroines?CMP=fb_gu 

Why don't French books sell abroad?

French authors routinely appear in the English-speaking world's lists of the best novels ever - Voltaire, Flaubert, and Proust… sometimes Dumas and Hugo too. But when it comes to post-war literature, it's a different story. Even voracious readers often struggle to name a single French author they have enjoyed.
France once had a great literary culture, and most French people would say it still does. But if so, how come their books don't sell in the English-speaking world?
Is that our fault or theirs?
And how come the French themselves read so many books that are translated from English and other languages?
These are provocative questions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25198154