{"id":1498,"date":"2018-06-25T10:28:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T14:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2018-06-25T10:28:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T14:28:02","slug":"monday-missive-june-25-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/blog\/2018\/06\/25\/monday-missive-june-25-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive – June 25, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Visiting Winnie-the-Pooh in Atlanta<\/b>\u00a0— This past weekend my wife and I went to Atlanta in order to attend a wedding for one of her college friends.\u00a0 While we were there we visited the High Museum of Art and saw a a special traveling exhibition called “Winnie-the-Pooh: \u00a0 Exploring a Classic.” \u00a0This exhibition will remain on view at the High Museum of Art through\u00a0September 2, 2018<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 For more information about this exhibition, please click on the following link:\u00a0https:\/\/www.high.org\/exhibition\/winnie-the-pooh-exploring-a-classic\/<\/a><\/div>\n
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Organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, this exhibition features photographs, original letters, and memorabilia related to A. A. Milne’s Pooh stories, but what makes this exhibition so special to me are the dozens of original sketches and illustrations by E. H. Shepard, the illustrator of the classic versions of the Pooh stories.<\/p>\n

The exhibition provides visitors with insights into Shepard’s creative process.\u00a0 In many cases, visitors can see a series of preliminary sketches leading up to the final published illustration.\u00a0 The exhibition also includes greatly enlarged versions of some of Shepard’s illustrations, and these giant versions help visitors see some details that are hard to notice in the originals.\u00a0 I especially liked seeing the original and enlarged versions of the illustration of Pooh standing at the entrance of Owl’s home.\u00a0 I based one of my yard art projects on this particular illustration, so I felt a personal connection when I viewed these images.<\/p>\n

Visiting the exhibition reminded me that I am not the only member of our English Department who has taken an interest in the Pooh stories.\u00a0 Both Paula Connolly and Sarah Minslow have written scholarly works focusing on Milne’s Pooh stories.\u00a0 Paula wrote about the Pooh stories in her book\u00a0Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner:\u00a0 Recovering Arcadia,\u00a0<\/i>which is part of the Twayne’s Masterwork Studies Series.\u00a0 She has also published two essays related to the Pooh stories in edited collections.\u00a0 Sarah wrote an essay titled “A.A. Milne (1881-1956):\u00a0 Influencing American Childhood after World War II.”\u00a0 Her essay will be published this fall in a collection titled\u00a0Shapers of American Childhood.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

In their scholarship, both Paula and Sarah comment on the ongoing appeal of the Pooh stories.\u00a0 Observing the enthusiastic responses of the many children and adults at the Pooh exhibition this past weekend, I, too, am convinced that these books continue to resonate with countless readers of all ages on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

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Kudos<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u2014\u00a0As you know, I like to use my\u00a0Monday<\/span>\u00a0Missives<\/span>\u00a0to share news about recent accomplishments by members of the English Department.\u00a0 Here is the latest news:<\/p>\n

Balaka Basu\u00a0<\/b>recently presented a paper titled “Emily Reads: Imagined Libraries in the Novels of L.M. Montgomery” at The L.M. Montgomery Institute’s 13th Biennial Conference, “L.M. Montgomery and Reading,” which took place at the University of Prince Edward Island.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Quirky Quiz Question<\/b>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Pooh stories take place in the Hundred Acre Wood, which is based on a real forest.\u00a0\u00a0 Does anybody know the name of this forest?<\/div>\n
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Last week’s answer: Rita Moreno<\/strong><\/div>\n
The character Carmen Sandiego has appeared in several\u00a0computer\u00a0games and\u00a0television\u00a0programs.\u00a0 In one of the television\u00a0programs, her voice is provided by\u00a0one of only twelve performers to win all four of the biggest awards in show business (an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony, which is known\u00a0collectively as the EGOT).\u00a0 This performer is most famous for playing the role of Anita in\u00a0<\/span>West Side\u00a0Story. \u00a0Can you name this performer?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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