Littera Deusto

Modern Languages, Basque Studies and Humanities

Where are Earhart, Noolan and the “Electra”?

17 de enero, 2014 |

What happened to Amelia Earhart? It is one of the biggest mysteries of the aviation, this strange disappearance of a plane with two people that where ending his fly around the world has produce as result some hypothesis. The real facts are that Earhart and Noolan were flying around the world in a Lockheed “Electra”, […]

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Euskara ikastea zaila denaren mitoa

17 de enero, 2014 |

Kike Amonarrizek, euskal filologo eta telebista aurkezleak, ETB1eko “Tribuaren Berbak” saioan euskaltegien lana goraipatu eta euskaldun berriei omenaldia egin nahi izan die, haiek goretsiz. Saioari “Monumentu bat euskaldun berriei” izena eman diote eta bertan, hainbat euskaldun berri elkarrizketatu dituzte. Izan … Continue reading

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Synchronised swimming…only for women?

17 de enero, 2014 |

 “It’s not fair, but I still haven’t given up my dream of one day competing in an international championship.” These were the words of a boy who was not allowed to achieve his goal. Niklas Stoepel is a German swimmer who is one…

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Historical accuracy and/or authenticity?

17 de enero, 2014 |

Is it truly possible to create a historical film that´s both historicaly accurate and yet portray an authentic and compelling view of the timeline depicted?  Many a time we think that if a film contains too much detail about the period in which is set up or follows the historical events too closely it will […]

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Eman aukera bat bakeari

17 de enero, 2014 |

Urko Apaolazaren Argiako artikuluan irakur dezakegun lez “2011n ETAk jarduera armatua uzteko hartutako erabakiaren ondorioz presoen kolektiboak hausnarketa abiarazi zuen. Hainbat hilabeteren ondoren, presoek ziklo aldaketari babesa agertu zioten eta […]

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NOW IS THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE

17 de enero, 2014 |

The critic William Blackburn recognizes in Writers for Children the power of the work of Rudyard Kipling, “His unrelenting craftsmanship, …

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Doris Lessing dies aged 94

17 de enero, 2014 |

Originally posted on Ghosts of literature:Maev Kennedy,  a special writer of the Guardian newspaper, wrote last month about the dead of the famous English writer Doris Lessing. Maev writes about Lessing in a sad way due to the fact that after a long…

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Chaos for 11 days

17 de enero, 2014 |

Originally posted on Ghosts of literature:The “Queen of Crime” disappeared. No reasons were known for that tragic act. Feelings of sadness and fear were all combined. The uncertainty of what will happen next was in the minds of everyon…

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In memory of “The man who loved the girls”

17 de enero, 2014 |

Originally posted on Ghosts of literature:Thanks to an article written in the ABC webpage, in which Servando Rocha is interviewed, I came up with something that personally shocked me. As we all know, Lewis Carroll was the author of “Alicia in the …

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Theatre of Shakespeare: Modernity and Fame

17 de enero, 2014 |

Originally posted on Ghosts of literature:As we can see in Michiko Kakutani’s review of one of the latest versions of Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare and his works are not save of “actualizations” that often tend to achieve a …

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SHAKESPEARE OR FAKESPEARE?

17 de enero, 2014 |

Originally posted on Ghosts of literature:The upcoming film “Anonymous” suggests that Shakespeare did not write his internationally well-known works. However, Peter Holland, a Shakespeare expert from the University of Notre Dame, assures that it i…

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SHAKESPEARE DIXIT

17 de enero, 2014 |

Originally posted on Ghosts of literature:Christina Sterbenz has found out that we say or write several famous phrases which actually came from Shakespeare. She has given thirteen examples taken from various famous Shakespeare’s plays. Let’s see w…

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