Episode 130: "The Enchanted April" Film Adaptations
Our Literary Life podcast hosts are back this week, along with Atlee Northmore, to wrap up their discussion of The Enchanted April with some thoughts on the various film adaptations of this enchanting book. After expanding on their commonplace quotes, Angelina, Cindy, Thomas and Atlee start the film talk with the \u201cdreadful\u201d 1935 RKO version. Then they move on to dig in to how Enchanted April was and brought to the big screen in 1991 and why it worked so well as an adaptation of the novel.
Our next book will be The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham, starting May 17th, so be sure to join us for that as well!
Cindy\u2019s 2022 Morning Time for Moms Summer Discipleship group is now open for registration. The theme this year is \u201cLaughter and Lament.\u201d Head over to morningtimeformoms.com to find out more and sign up!
Thomas will be teaching an introductory course on Russian Literature in July 2022. Learn more and register at houseofhumaneletters.com.
Commonplace Quotes:No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that; and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself. It seems to be very difficult for many people to understand the reality and intensity of literary experience.
Northrop Frye
Education is always an individual endeavor. In terms of a future renewal, much of it will depend on a commitment to individualism, something that has been much maligned in recent years. We hear so much trendy, tedious talk about how bad individualism is and how we need to think in terms of \u201cthe group.\u201d The problem is that the group usually offers conformity, not genuine community.
Morris Berman
And yet, we are still being taught that fairy tales and myths are to be discarded as soon as we are old enough to understand \u201creality.\u201d I received a disturbed and angry letter from a young mother who told me that a friend of hers with young children gave them only instructive books. She wasn\u2019t going to allow their minds to be polluted with fairy tales. They were going to be taught the \u201creal world.\u201d This attitude is a victory for the powers of this world. A friend of mine, a fine storyteller, remarked to me, \u201cJesus was not a theologian. He was a God Who told stories.\u201d Yes, God Who told stories.
Madeleine L\u2019Engle
To ItalyThe general fate of sects is to obtain a high reputation for sanctity while they are oppressed, and to lose it as soon as they become powerful.
Thomas Macaulay
by Percy Shelley
As the sunrise to the night, As the north wind to the clouds, As the earthquake's fiery flight, Ruining mountain solitudes, Everlasting Italy, Be those hopes and fears on thee.Book List:
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
The Educated Imagination by Northrop Frye
The Twilight of American Culture by Morris Berman
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
Walking on Water by Madeleine L\u2019Engle
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L\u2019Engle
The History of England by Thomas Macaulay
Tea with the Dames documentary
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
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