In “CANNON FODDER: DENOUNCING THE CLASSICS”, Sam Sacks invokes, inter alia, Alexis de Tocqueville, T.S. Eliot, Saint-Beuve and Joyce Carol Oates, a contributor to Issue 7 of Interlitq

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates, the U.S. author who contributed prose to Issue 7 of Interlitq, has been cited in “CANON FODDER: DENOUNCING THE CLASSICS” (Sam Sacks, The New Yorker, 23.05.13): “The truth, with all due deference to Joyce Carol Oates, is that we don’t read classics as though they’re monuments like the Grand Canyon. (Speaking as someone who has joyfully expectorated into it on numerous occasions, we don’t even treat the Grand Canyon like the Grand Canyon.) It’s not the way of egalitarian societies. And that willingness to subject legends to the same hazing as any eager tyro fresh from a writing program is what gives the criticism of our age its vulgarity but also its vitality.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

T.S. Eliot

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Sam Sacks

 

 

 

Vasco Graça Moura, um editor de consultoria do Interlitq, defende que latim e grego deveriam continuar nos currículos

Vasco Graça Moura

Em um vídeo recente, Vasco Graça Moura, o poeta, tradutor e ensaísta português que é Presidente do Centro Cultural de Belém e um editor de consultoria do Interlitq, defende que latim e grego deveriam continuar nos currículos.

 

Writing in The Independent (“Greek crisis imperils a nation’s heritage”, June 11th, 2012), Ruth Padel, a contributor to Issue 9 of Interlitq, writes that: “Greek problems are our problems too. We have our own Sinis, Procrustes and violence. And as our education system increasingly fails less-advantaged pupils, our society has increasingly come to see Greece only as a place for cheap holidays. This is our loss as well as theirs. Homer and Greek tragedy gave us the poetry of balance, of seeing both sides of a controversy, Greek and Trojan, and provided the West’s first insight into the divided self”

Writing in The Independent (“Greek crisis imperils a nation’s heritage”, June 11th, 2012), Ruth Padel, a contributor to Issue 9 of Interlitq, writes that: “Greek problems are our problems too. We have our own Sinis, Procrustes and violence. And as our education system increasingly fails less-advantaged pupils, our society has increasingly come to see Greece only as a place for cheap holidays. This is our loss as well as theirs. Homer and Greek tragedy gave us the poetry of balance, of seeing both sides of a controversy, Greek and Trojan, and provided the West’s first insight into the divided self.”

Writing in The Guardian (11.05. 2012), in her article “All in a Don’s Day by Mary Beard-review”, Frances Spalding, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, finds that in Beard’s blog the “line of thought unfolds at an easy pace. The informality of the blog, and its brevity, acts like a mental ‘bonne bouche’: pungent and easy to consume. The appeal, as in Beard’s TV programmes, lies in listening to a mind uncaged and engaged, provocative but not polemical”

Writing in The Guardian (11.05. 2012), in her article “All in a Don’s Day by Mary Beard-review”, Frances Spalding, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, finds that in Beard’s blog the ”line of thought unfolds at an easy pace. The informality of the blog, and its brevity, acts like a mental bonne bouche: pungent and easy to consume. The appeal, as in Beard’s TV programmes, lies in listening to a mind uncaged and engaged, provocative but not polemical.”

Stephen Greenblatt, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, awarded (PRI, 17.04.12) the Pulitzer Prize for excellence in nonfiction for his book “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern”, which narrates the story of the ancient Roman poet Lucretius and how Lucretius’ poems helped catalyze Renaissance thinking

Stephen Greenblatt, the literary critic, theorist and scholar who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, has been awarded (PRI, 17.04.12) the Pulitzer Prize for excellence in nonfiction for his book The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which narrates the story of the ancient Roman poet Lucretius and how Lucretius’ poems helped catalyze Renaissance thinking.