London Language

repetitionalism and Ray Carver

Shoot the Projectionist - a stylistic analysis of Raymond Carver's 'Cathedral'

We've looked at work by Ray Carver in our 'Writing Techniques' module several times and may well do so in semester two of this year, particularly now that Beginners is out. This is an interesting discussion of Carver's style with reference to his fantastic story 'Cathedral', pointing out that he did not set his 'minimalism' dial permanently to 11.

B-)

Deafinitely Shorts

Why Do We Talk?

BBC2 - Why Do We Talk? 2100 GMT, BBC2 10 November 2009

This looks good. I assume it'll be on iplayer if you miss it tonight

Billy

babies with an accent

BBC — babies cry with an accent

Mmm, the sentence that leaps out for me here as maybe involving a bit of a stretch is:

'they say the babies are probably trying to form a bond with their mothers by imitating them.'

It's great that they've got an audio clip to compare the crying.

Billy