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Carregando... It's a Don's Life (2009)de Mary Beard
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A collection of posts from classicist Beard's blog. Entries range in topics from current events, academic life, and classics misconceptions, new finds, and so on. Entertaining and enlightening. ( ) This is a collection of blog posts written by Professor Mary Beard on her Times Online blog "It's a Don's Life". As you might expect, most of the posts discuss university life, the classics, and how aspects of Roman times can be applied to the modern world. It's a good book to read on the bus because the posts are fairly short. Some are on the repetitive side, if only because there are certain university issues that crop up on an annual basis: for example, freshers' week, the terror-inducing Oxbridge interview, and whether exams are getting too easy. On the blog itself there would be a much greater length of time between these posts. Another interesting aspect is the inclusion of some of the comments (reprinted with permission). They provide a taste of what regular blog readers are like, and also illustrate reactions to her more controversial posts. She herself also provides editorial comments and context for some remarks. Overall a good book if you're interested in the subject matter. I had never heard of Mary Beard or her blog before picking up this book – my loss indeed: for those similarly ignorant, I heartily recommend ‘It’s a Don’s Life’. Cambridge classicist Professor Mary Beard, fellow of the all-female Newnham College, is the classics editor of the Times Literary supplement who, in 2006, asked her to blog for them: hers has become one of the most popular sites on the blogosphere. You need not have studied classics or even been to University to find her meditations completely enthralling, whether she is discoursing on tampons for Africa or racism or the ancient world. Definitely a Summa cum Laude
Sometimes the blogosphere is as trivial and mean-spirited as the mainstream media that bloggers criticize. At its best, as this lively and deeply intelligent book shows, it fosters vital new communities and conversations.
Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we live. Her central themes are the classics, universities and teaching - and much else besides. What are academics for? Who was the first African Roman emperor? Looting - ancient and modern. Are modern exams easier? Keep lesbos for the lesbians. Did St Valentine exist? What made the Romans laugh? That is just a small taste of this selection (and some of the choicer responses) which will Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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