Recently, a film director has used my memoir as a resource for a new film. Bertrand Tessier interviewed me in NYC about my writing. We discussed my work in the area of research about Katharine Hepburn for his upcoming film about her. In May 2016, I talked with Bertrand Tessier who was born in Nantes (France).…

American Women Writers: Second Wave Feminism, Poetics, and Domestic Abuse is the theme of a new book which will be published in 2016. The Nature of Gender Study Investigates Pedagogical Practices in American Women’s Literature Rooted in the Foundation of Feminine Myth. My book appeals to those who have experienced abuse and who wish to…

Maryann will present a paper about her new ebook on Amazon kindle at the Northeast Modern Language Association Convention 2016  “Blog and Wiki Journaling about Themes of Nature and Place Memory Engage Student Voices” Maryann DiEdwardo University of Maryland-University College From her new ebook: Title: Teaching Writing Based on Journaling Concepts of Thoreau Thesis: Information…

Film Maryann DiEdwardo  Claim/reason The Visitor, 2007, which was nominated for multiple awards, and one academy award. The film may captivate us with characters embodying the human condition of suffering by illegal immigrants and plot about fundamental issues concerning illegal immigration in the United States, because the aesthetic of film, as a multimodal media model, may…

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 290 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the…

By Maryann I encourage all to attend!! I will present 2 papers and a panel for the 2016 Northeast Modern Language Association Convention in Hartford, Conn.  At a Roundtable:  My students create E- journals in blogs and wikis in open access digital classroom as primary sources for essays. Writing based on keen observation and self…

   2015 10-7 By Maryann DiEdwardo  Novel and Film through Dytopian Architecture
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http://youtu.be/0qJqFZJkRW8         Applied to an alarmingly unpleasant world, usually of the projected future, dystopian writing is exemplified in Ready Player One (2011) by Ernie Cline. Pathos of the dystopian novel relies on dystopian framed visual context which moves the viewer as…

    As a blogger since 2000, I have kept a series of writings about my love of nature. If you go to my site at http://maryannwriting.blogspot.com/ you will helpful articles on writing about your activities style called life story writing. The light breaks across the afternoon to reveal a place of wonder. America on…

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