Probes

Poet and Son: Hartley Coleridge (1)

By John Harris | June 5, 2013

John Harris’s “Poet and Son” series looks at Hartley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in the first part of an extended essay on the Coleridges and their literary friends.

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Marriage Proposal

By Vivien Lougheed | May 29, 2013

Vivien Lougheed goes on the road and finds a trail mate..

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Poet and Son: Hamnet Shakespeare

By John Harris | May 29, 2013

John Harris’s series Poet and Son looks at William and Hamnet Shakespeare.

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Poet and Son: Wat Raleigh

By John Harris | May 22, 2013

John Harris’s “Poet and Son” series tells the tale of Walter and Wat Raleigh.

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Poet and Son: William Gascoigne

By John Harris | May 15, 2013

The second of John Harris’s series “Poet and Son” is about George and William Gascoigne.

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Poet and Son: Lewis Chaucer

By John Harris | May 7, 2013

The first of John Harris’s series-in-progress, “Poet and Son,” is about Geoffrey and Lewis Chaucer.

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Thinking Television: Tales of Media and Communication

By Norbert Ruebsaat | May 5, 2013

Norbert Ruebsaat’s media students from around the world tell him how they watch television.

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It’s the End of the Semester… as we know it

By Stan Persky | April 18, 2013

Stan Persky looks at the 2012-13 teaching season. Everything from “real education” to MOOCs and the Virtual U.

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Somebody’s Horse

By George Bowering | April 17, 2013

George Bowering, as a kid, encountering death and poetry in the Southern Okanagan Valley..

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Iraq in the Mirror of Media: 10 Years Later

By Stan Persky | April 4, 2013

The U.S.-led war in Iraq marks its tenth anniversary. How does what the media said about it then stand up today? Dooney’s takes The Orwell Test.

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