Friday Links, September 10, 2021
+ Second Announcement: online seminar on Sigrid Undset’s Vows.
+ Podcast roundup about Anthony Santella, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Joshua Hren.
+ Comic book classics online.
+ Cluny Press interview.
Between Two Laws: Sigrid Undset’s Olav Audunssøn: Vows
You may have already seen in last week’s Friday Links that Collegium Institute and Dappled Things are presenting a joint online seminar this October on Sigrid Undset's Olav Audunsson: Vows.
Vows is the first volume of three in a new translation by Tiina Nunnally, which you may know from when the entire work was previously published in translation in four volumes under the title, Master of Hestviken.
Dates & Time: 7:00pm–8:30pm ET on the following Mondays: October 4, 11, 18, and 25
Early Bird Registration (ends September 21 at 11:59 PM): $65. Registrants receive a print copy of the book.
Regular Registration (ends October 1 at 11:59 PM): $75.
You can register here. To get a 15% discount, make sure to use our promo code: Dappled2021.
“Our third session will be led by Helena M. Tomko, professor of literature in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University. Her current research is in inner-emigration studies and the influence of Catholic thought on early twentieth-century German literature and culture. Her scholarship and teaching contributes to the field of religion and literature more broadly. Sacramental realism is a key theological and literary concept in her workIn the seminar, she'll be exploring Undset's integral realism and her distinct approach to sacramental realism.”—Terrence Sweeney, Collegium Institute Theologian-in-Residence
Podcast Round-up
Katy Carl writes: “So much good podcast content out this week . . . maybe a recent podcast roundup could be fun for Friday links this week or next?”
200 Comic Book Adaptations of Classic Novels Created (1941-1971): Frankenstein, Moby Dick, Hamlet & More
“Superman debuted in 1938, Batman in 1939, and in 1941, the first issue of Classics Illustrated appeared — an adaptation of The Three Musketeers, followed by Ivanhoe and The Count of Monte Cristo. The series was founded by Russian-born publisher Albert Kanter, who immediately seized on the potential of comic books as educational tools during what is now known as the Golden Age of Comics.”
Sharing the treasures of the Catholic intellectual tradition: The story of Cluny Media
Katy Carl shared this link. After listing a series of classics published by Cluny Press that that have brought him joy and other that he looks forward to reading—such as Edwin O’Connor’s All in the Family, François Mauriac’s The Eucharist: The Mystery of Holy Thursday, Gabriel Marcel’s Under the Sun of Satan, and Romano Guardini’s The Last Things, Conor Dugan at Catholic World Report interviews John Emmet Clarke, Cluny’s editor-in-chief, Leo Clarke, his father and one of the co-founders of the press, and Scott Thompson, CFO and COO of Cluny Media. One interesting quote from the interview:
“We have never believed that the Church should have factions—ut unum sint. Plus, there were already plenty of publishers that served particular groups within the American Church. We saw a need to publish books for those people who followed the example and inspiration of John Paul II and Benedict XVI to open their minds as well as their hearts to God. It was immensely important, too, that we make available those books which tell the story of the Church and Catholic culture in the twentieth century before Vatican II, because that Council did not just appear from another galaxy.”—Scott Thompson
