new schedule

NOV

21 holiday

28 Death of a Salesman

DEC

5 test (with The American Dream, by Albee) + results

(no tennessee williams)

pronunciation of "the seagull" characters' names

Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina: 

 Ee-ree ́-na  Nee-kah-lah ́-yuhv-nuh  Ahr-kah ́-dee-nuh 

  (ee rhymes with the English word seem; uh rhymes with the word putt) 

Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplev: 

 Kuhn-stahn-teen ́  Gahv-ree ́-luh-veech  Tryep ́-lyihf  (Kost ́-yuh) 

Pyotr Nikolayevich Sorin (Petrusha): 

 Pyo ́-tur  Nee-kah-lah ́-yuh-veech  So ́-reen  (Pee-troo ́-shuh) 

  (oo rhymes with the word soon) 

Nina Mikhailovna Zarechnaya: 

 Nee ́-nuh  Mee-khai ́-luhv-nuh  Zah-ryech ́-nuh-yuh 

  (kh is a hard h sound, akin to Hebrew; khai rhymes with the word why) 

Ilya Afanasyevich Shamrayev: 

 Eel-yah ́  Uh-fah-nah ́-syih-veech  Shahm-rah ́-yihf 

Paulina Andreyevna:  (Note: This is the Anglicized spelling—in Russian, it’s “Polina”) 

 Pah-lee ́-nuh  Ahn-drey ́-yihf-nuh 

Masha (Marya Ilyinichna) (Mashenka): 

 Mah ́-shuh  (Mah ́-ryuh Eel-yeen ́-eech-nuh)  (Mah ́-sheen-kuh) 

Boris Alexeyevich Trigorin: 

 Bah-rees ́  (NOT Bor ́-is)  Ah-leek-syey ́-yee-veech  Tree-go ́-reen 

Yevgeny Sergeyevich (Sergeich) Dorn: 

 Yeev-ge ́-nee  Syer-gey ́-ee-veech  (Syer-gey ́-eech)  Dorn 

Semyon Semyonovich Medvedenko: 

 See-myon ́ See-myon ́-uh-veech Myeed-vyee-dyen ́-ko 

Yakov: 

 Yah ́-kuhf 

Other Russian Names Appearing in the Chekhov's The Seagull: 

Chadin, Pavel Semyonich (Pashka): 

 Chah ́-deen, Pah ́-veel See-myon ́-eech (Pahsh ́-kuh) 

Gogol: Go ́-guhl 

Grokholsky: Grah-hol ́-skee 

Izmailov: Eez-mai ́-luhf   

Harkov: Khar ́-kuhf 

Mama: Mah ́-muh 

Matryona: Mah-tryo ́-nuh 

Molchanovka: Mahl-chah ́-nuhf-kuh 

Nekrasov: Nee-krah ́-suhf 

Papa: Pah ́-puh 

Poltava: Pahl-tah ́-vuh 

Rasplyuyev: Rahs-plyoo ́-yihf 

Rusalka: Roo-sahl ́-kuh 

Sadovsky: Sah-dof ́-skee 

Slavyansky: Slah-vyahn ́-skee 

Suzdaltsev: Sooz ́-duhl-tsihf 

Trezor: Tree-zor ́ 

Turgenev: Toor-ge ́-nyihf 

Yelets: Yee-lyets ́ 

Yelisavetgrad: Yee-lee-suh-veet-graht ́ 

Everyman - full text

here.

(careful not to open this with your volume too high)

I found some kind of study guide for Medea online, so I decided to share the link w/ u:

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/medea/fullsumm.html

It is kinda long but I promise it's a cool text. At the bottom of the page, there are some links to related topics, which u may find interesting (there's even a quiz!)

I'll be talking about some cool stuff I read there in class!

Alessandro ('putão')

cool play

a falta que nos move seems to be interesting...

mila.

another article

well, since victor posted his work, im posting mine as well hehehehe

if u go to the 11th edition of www.pequenamorte.com - in the "ensaios" session - u may read an article i wrote about lygia fagundes telles´ ciranda de pedra (the novel, which has NOTHING to do with the soap opera, ok!)

mila.

Greek tragedy - article

Well, being totally snobbish and obnoxious, I’m sending an article I wrote for a class I took in college about art in Ancient times. The main focus of the article is the tragedy Electra by Sophocles, but I compare it to other plays with the same subject and, what’s more important, present some important and recurrent characteristics of the Greek tragedy. I’m only doing this because I thought that it might help on the discussions about Euripides’ Medea and also because the professor complimented the work a lot and told me to get it published (I’m not bragging, but, well, I should be :P) – which I’m kind of doing, but the online magazine, Universos da História, will only be available in a couple of months, so I’m sending via megaupload.com my first draft of the paper (in order to fit the demands of the magazine I had to add some stuff, but I actually prefer the original version that is the one I used in college and the one I’m sending).

The link is: http://www.megaupload.com/pt/?d=88TRNBXF

Hope someone reads it and enjoys it!

Victor