{"id":160,"date":"2006-10-25T22:18:12","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T22:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:43","slug":"from-the-page-to-the-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"from the page to the screen&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nLooks like Canadian lit is going to have a fairly prominent role on Canadian television next year. Guy Vanderhaeghe&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/culture\/news\/shownews.jsp?content=e102321A\">The Englishman&#8217;s Boy<\/a> and Mordecai Richler&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/culture\/news\/shownews.jsp?content=e102555A\">St. Urbain&#8217;s Horseman<\/a> are both being turned into mini-series. It might be interesting to see if I can teach both of these books at the same time as the mini-series are being shown in Canada. We&#8217;re reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwpassages.com\/profile_book.asp?ISBN=077108692X\">The Englishman&#8217;s Boy<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/180\/\">English 180<\/a> right now, and <a href=\"http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/180\/archives\/the_englishmans_boy_the_movie.php#comments\">my students are weighing in<\/a> on what they think about turning books into movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Canadian lit is going to have a fairly prominent role on Canadian television next year. Guy Vanderhaeghe&#8217;s The Englishman&#8217;s Boy and Mordecai Richler&#8217;s St. Urbain&#8217;s Horseman are both being turned into mini-series. It might be interesting to see if I can teach both of these books at the same time as the mini-series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}