{"id":3855,"date":"2018-11-01T22:57:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T22:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2018-11-01T22:57:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T22:57:24","slug":"frankenreads-cc-celebrates-frankenstein-with-marathon-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2018\/11\/01\/frankenreads-cc-celebrates-frankenstein-with-marathon-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankenreads: CC Celebrates \u201cFrankenstein\u201d With Marathon Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Miriam Brown \u201921<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mary Shelley\u2019s \u201cFrankenstein\u201d turned 200 this year, and Colorado College was one of almost 700 institutions around the world to participate in its anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago, members of the Keats-Shelley Association of America created an organization called \u201cFrankenreads\u201d in anticipation of the novel\u2019s bicentennial. The central event was a Halloween marathon reading of \u201cFrankenstein\u201d at the Library of Congress; people in 44 different states and 41 different countries joined in, honoring Shelley\u2019s work with speeches, film screenings, exhibits, discussions, and even musicals.<\/p>\n<p>CC sponsored multiple events this year as a part of the international celebration. The first-year common read this year was \u201cFrankenstein,\u201d so first-year students gathered to listen and participate in discussions about the novel during New Student Orientation. Additionally, there have already been multiple on-campus screenings of various film adaptations.<\/p>\n<p>The star of the celebration was CC\u2019s own read-a-thon event, hosted Wednesday, Oct. 31, in Tutt Library starting at 10 a.m. About 40 different volunteers each read 10-minute sections of the novel aloud, until they completed it cover-to-cover later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor of English Jared Richman, who is currently teaching a course on the novel, hopes that this event taught people more about Shelley and her novel\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a novel that takes on a lot of really difficult questions about the nature of creation and power and authority,\u201d Richman says. \u201cAnd so I hope that folks will use it as a jumping-off place to discuss some very challenging questions and issues that are really still relevant to us today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Miriam Brown \u201921 Mary Shelley\u2019s \u201cFrankenstein\u201d turned 200 this year, and Colorado College was one of almost 700 institutions around the world to participate in its anniversary celebration. A couple of years ago, members of the Keats-Shelley Association of America created an organization called \u201cFrankenreads\u201d in anticipation of the novel\u2019s bicentennial. The central event &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2018\/11\/01\/frankenreads-cc-celebrates-frankenstein-with-marathon-reading\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Frankenreads: CC Celebrates \u201cFrankenstein\u201d With Marathon Reading&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":648,"featured_media":3856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-books-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/files\/2018\/11\/IMG_2920.jpg?fit=1000%2C667&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3857,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions\/3857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}