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Jane Campion's The Piano is one of the most unusual love stories in
the history of cinema. The film swept the world upon its release,
winning awards for its performances, script, and direction,
including prestigious Cannes and Academy Award prizes. Rejecting
virtually every stereotype of the romance genre, it poses a wholly
new set of questions about relationships between men and women, and
marriage in particular, as well as issues related to colonialism
and property ownership. This volume examines The Piano from a
variety of critical perspectives. In six essays, specially
commissioned for this project, an international team of scholars
examine topics such as the controversial representation of the
Maori, the use of music in the film, the portrayal of the
mother-daughter relationship, and the significance of the film in
terms of international cinema, the culture of New Zealand, and the
work of Jane Campion.
It identifies a range of opportunities for developing reading
skills, and for talking about books. It also suggests ways of
developing readers' appreciation and understanding of the cultural
and social contexts of these classics of world literature.
Activities are designed to encourage engagement, strengthen
comprehension, and to support the development of more complex
skills such as inferential reading. For each activity there is an
explanation of the activity with a worked example using one of the
Real Reads texts, together with suggestions about how the activity
can be extended for the more able.
Jane Campion's The Piano is one of the most unusual love stories in
the history of cinema. The film swept the world upon its release,
winning awards for its performances, script, and direction,
including prestigious Cannes and Academy Award prizes. Rejecting
virtually every stereotype of the romance genre, it poses a wholly
new set of questions about relationships between men and women, and
marriage in particular, as well as issues related to colonialism
and property ownership. This volume examines The Piano from a
variety of critical perspectives. In six essays, specially
commissioned for this project, an international team of scholars
examine topics such as the controversial representation of the
Maori, the use of music in the film, the portrayal of the
mother-daughter relationship, and the significance of the film in
terms of international cinema, the culture of New Zealand, and the
work of Jane Campion.
One of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century ...A
journey from luminous childhood, through the dark experiences of
supposed madness, to the renewal of her life through writing
fiction. It is a heroic story, and told with such engaging tone,
humorous perspective and imaginative power' Michael Holroyd, Sunday
Times After being misdiagnosed with schizophrenia as a young woman,
Janet Frame spent several years in psychiatric institutions. She
escaped undergoing a lobotomy when it was discovered that she had
just won a national literary prize. She then went on to become New
Zealand's most acclaimed writer. As she says more than once in this
autobiography: 'My writing saved me.' This edition contains all
three volumes of Frame's autobiography: To the Is-Land, An Angel at
My Table and An Envoy from Mirror City. 'One of the most beautiful
and moving books I have ever read ...A masterpiece ...Janet's
autobiography had an enormous effect on me. She struck a blow right
to my heart' Jane Campion
So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to
Fanny Brawne is a testament to the love that inspired the passion
and creativity of one of the greatest English Romantic poets. This
Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Jane Campion,
Oscar-winning director of the film Bright Star. John Keats died
aged just twenty-five, leaving behind some of the most exquisite
and moving verse and love letters ever written, inspired by his
great love for his neighbour, Fanny Brawne. Although they knew each
other for just a few short years and spent a great deal of that
time apart - separated by Keats's worsening illness, which forced a
move abroad - Keats wrote again and again about and to his love,
right until his very last poem, called simply 'To Fanny'. She, in
turn, would wear the ring he had given her until her death. So
Bright and Delicate contains the love poems and correspondence
composed by Keats in the heat of his passion, and is a dazzling
display of a talent cruelly cut short. John Keats (1795-1821) lost
both his parents at an early age. His decision to commit himself to
poetry, rather than follow a career in medicine, was a personal
challenge, unfounded in any prior success. His first volume of
poetry, published in 1817, was a critical and commercial failure.
During his short life he received little recognition, and it was
not until the latter part of the nineteenth century that his place
in English Romanticism began to be understood, and not until this
century that it became fully appreciated. If you enjoyed So Bright
and Delicate, you might like Keats's Complete Poems, also available
in Penguin Classics.
The epic romance of one of the most celebrated poets in the English
language
Coming to theatres in September 2009 is the tragic love story of
nineteenth- century poet John Keats and the love of his life, Fanny
Brawne. Keats died at the young age of twenty-five, leaving behind
some of the most exquisite and moving verse and letters ever
written, inspired by his deep love for Fanny. "Bright Star" is a
collection of Keats' romantic poems and correspondence in the heat
of his passion, and is a dazzling display of a talent cut cruelly
short.
""O soft embalmer of the still midnight,
Shutting, with careful fingers and benign,
Our gloom-pleas'd eyes, embower'd from the light,
Enshaded in forgetfulness divine" "
John Keats, 'Ode to Sleep'
John Keats died in penury and relative obscurity in 1821, aged only
26. He is now seen as one of the greatest English poets and a
genius of the Romantic age. This collection, which contains all his
most memorable works, is a feast for the senses, displaying Keats'
gift for gorgeous imagery and sensuous language, his passionate
devotion to beauty, as well as some of the most beautiful and
moving love poetry ever written.
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