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Star Trek and the Greeks
History & The Arts

Star Trek and the Greeks

...fiction series, Star Trek in all its incarnations has drawn upon human history...This content is associated with The Open University's History courses and qualifications. [Apollo] The Greek god, Apollo The original series of Star Trek (1966 to 1969) was particularly obvious in drawing upon human history, with the crew of the USS Enterprise encountering the planet where...
Book, comic and animation - What is the fear collection?
Science, Maths & Technology

Book, comic and animation - What is the fear collection?

...learn more about my learning journey. Of course you may do it the other way around. It’s up to you. At whatever point you decide to begin and end your journey I wish you insights on the way. The ancient Greeks understood that by making up stories – fictions, by the personification of forces which affect our lives we have a chance to gain control over these forces....
Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic
OpenLearn Ireland

Spectres, Monsters, Fairies and Vampires: An introduction to the Irish Gothic

...fiction and art create the genre’s characteristic atmosphere of danger, fear, threat and decline, and reflect the genre’s preoccupation with once-thriving worlds beset by decline and decay. Common Gothic themes include revenge, murder, dark sexuality and the supernatural. The genre’s narrative style can often be complex, incorporating shifting narrators, time frames...
When two worlds collide: achieving wisdom in online groups
Science, Maths & Technology

When two worlds collide: achieving wisdom in online groups

...learn? Transcript If somebody starts telling a story, everybody goes silent and they listen. Storytelling has this affect where it commands attention. What kinds of stories work well? Transcript Open-ended stories are much more interesting, because then the audience has to sit down and do some work. How do stories translate to graphic novels? Transcript I gave you the...
What do literary agents do?
History & The Arts

What do literary agents do?

...fiction? JONNY GELLER: Well, a literary agent primarily is there to discover new talent and exploit the rights derived from the copyright in that work. So we go out and find, we sift through the thousands that are sent to us and of course we also manage the careers of writers throughout their life, but really, it’s half business and it’s half creative, editorial,...
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...fiction is often considered difficult. Selected extracts from her essays on writing help to clarify some of these perceived difficulties, illuminating complex patterning and structure in this fictional account of an English village, on a day in June in 1939...This free course introduces Virginia Woolf’s last novel, Between the Acts (1941), with the aim of understanding...
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: read and understand the classic novel Great Expectations, based on the genre of the book study literature at a higher level...Approaching literature: Reading Great Expectations: 1.1 The novel's opening - One important way of approaching the novel as a genre is to think about what expectations this kind...
Writing what you know
History & The Arts

Writing what you know

...learn how authors use their own personal histories to form the basis of their work...Do you want to improve your descriptive writing? This free course, Writing what you know, will help you to develop your perception of the world about you and enable you to see the familiar things in everyday life in a new light. You will also learn how authors use their own personal...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs