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Continued from page 17.
The Bruno Walter Legacy: the great
German conductor in a 1955 recording of
Mozart's Symphony 38 ("Prague"),
Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll, and Brahms'
Symphony 2. 3 p.m., WUNC.
Heywood Hale Broun discusses The
Great Detectives, a collection of essays by
mystery writers about their famous
characters. 6 p.m., WUNC.
An Evening With... Anna Russell,
British comedienne extraordinaire,
expounding on such topics of musicology
as "Contemporary Music for Tone-Deaf
Singers," as well as her unrivalled analysis
of Wagner's 'The Ring of the Nibelungs."
7 p.m., WUNC.
Monday
In Focus J.J. Cale, Janis Ian. 6-11 p.m.,
WDBS.
Cleveland Orchestra performs
Mozart's Violin Concerto 4 and Brahms'
Symphony 1. 9 p.m., WUNC.
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Philadelphia Orchestra in a program of
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Wednesday
In Focus Van Morrison, New Riders
of the Purple Sage. 6-11 pm., WDBS.
Alec Wilder and the American Popular
Song features Vernon Duke standards
like "April in Paris" and "I Can't Get
Started." 7 p.m., WUNC. .
Boston Symphony in a program of
Brahms and Mozart. 9 p.m., WUNC.
Jazz Show with Tim Stith. 9 p.m. till
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Annotated Frankenstein
by Barbara Hornick-Lockard
Tar Heel Contributor
Although Mary Godwin Shelley's
Frankenstein has had many adaptations,
reading the original work is a fascinating
diversion. The story, skewed by B
movies, is put into perspective in the
Annotated Frankenstein (Clarkson N. Potter,
356pp.), edited by Leonard Wolf. Recently
acquired by the Undergraduate Library,
the book is a smorgasbord of illustrations,
photographs, maps, and a facsimile text.
Annotated Frankenstein is the latest in a
series of annotated editions of popular
classics, published by Potter. The success
of the Annotated Alice in Wonderland
prompted similarly designed editions of
Mother Goose. Walden. and, in 1075, the
Annotated Dracula. also edited by Leonard
Wolf.
As in the Annotated Dracula, Frankenstein is
loaded with extended, usually trivial
annotations. Little is needed to inspire an
annotation. In the Dracula. for instant. e,
mention in the text of paprika chicken
provokes insertion of a recipe for the very
thing, while a reader of Frankenstein is
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provided with a recipe for oaten cake, a
Scottish staple. This is one of the more
interesting examples of the normally
distracting trivializations. But for all of
the dressing, the edition is worth reading
for the text.
Although it is only a minor work of
literature, the circumstances which
surrounded the writing of Frankenstein are
singular. Frankenstein was begun in 1816
when Mary Godwin was 18 years old. At
the time, she was living with Percy Bysshe
Shelley at Lord Byron's in Switzerland.
The work was conceived with the
encouragement of Byron who suggested
that each of his guests write a ghost story.
Mary Godwin Shelley was the only one
who took up his offer, completing and
publishing the story in 1818
The story of Frankenstein is full of
inconsistencies. One discrepancy, which
is usually overlooked by film makers, is
the improbable construction of the eight
foot monster from the decayed parts of
corpses which, one may assume were well
under six feet. Also, the creature's
acquisition of language is prodigious. His
talent is comparable, according to the
editor, to that other hero of popular
literature, Taran, who "taught himself
to read and write by deciphering the
meaning of twenty-six bugs he found
crawling across the pages of a child's
primer." Frankenstein's monster
apparently learned osmotically.
Mary Godwin Shelley removed many
of the blatant contradictions from the
original work in her widely-read 1831
edition. The 1818 text, however, with all
of its flaws, is presented here. It is the
Frankenstein legend unadulterated, and
despite an overly zealous editor, is a
delight.
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