Monthly Archives: August 2013
Gustave Courbet
Visitors to the exclusive exhibition, “Courbet: Mapping Realism” which opens this weekend at BC’s McMullen Museum of Art, can gain additional insights into its subject–realist movement leader Gustave Courbet, one of France’s most prolific and innovative painters–via an accompanying volume … Continue reading
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Tagged art, artist, Fine Arts Department, France, McMullen Museum of Art
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The Scholar and the Housewife
In her newly published memoir The Scholar and The Housewife, Boston College alumna Susan (Marren) Whelan recounts the people and events that informed her choices and strengthened her beliefs. Set against the backdrop of Wall Street in the 1980s and … Continue reading
Dante’s Divine Comedy
In 2000, the Italian section of Boston College Romance Languages and Literatures Department launched the ambitious “Lectura Dantis” series: public readings of Dante’s epic poem, Divine Comedy. Considered one of the world’s great works of literature, the 14th-century narrative poem … Continue reading
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Tagged Dante, Italian', poem, poetry, Romance Languages Dept
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Dream bigger
Members of the Class of 2017 have been asked to read Make the Impossible Possible: One Man’s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary (Broadway Books). The book recounts the story and vision of Manchester Bidwell … Continue reading
One of the best: Ingrid Hillinger
A new book published this month by Harvard University Press takes a look at the strategies and personal traits of 26 of the best law school professors across the country, the culmination of a four-year study that identified extraordinary law … Continue reading
The Late Parade
Boston College alumnus Adam Fitzgerald’s new collection of poetry titled The Late Parade (W.W. Norton/Liveright, 2013) was the recipient of a rave review in the New York Times. “Fitzgerald’s voice is a new and welcome sound in the aviary of … Continue reading
A look at a medieval “bestseller”
The Book of Hours was the most commonly produced and owned book in medieval and early modern Europe. In her book French Books of Hours: Making an Archive of Prayer, c. 1400-1600 (Cambridge University Press), Boston College Associate Professor of … Continue reading
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Tagged European history, History Department, prayer
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Beach read
Boston College alumna and best-selling author Barbara Delinsky has a new book out this summer titled Sweet Salt Air (St. Martin’s Press), which has already made it to the New York Times Best Sellers List and been named a Best … Continue reading
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