1 10 51 https://hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu/reading-marathons/files/original/7c8866b1e31794a2d2f682a1fdbb9802.jpg 92af7ebbb9a2f3ea9caa98fdb6df8133 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Books from the Reading Marathons Description An account of the resource Digitized scans of the books read and signed by those participating in the reading marathons Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Carleton College Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 26, 2026 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman<br /></em>Readers' signatures, including signatures from London. Description An account of the resource "There are some [slots] like 4 a.m. or whatever that are kind of hard to fill. Although if the London program, the off campus program is going, that's how we've done it in the past. And that's what happened this time too. So we had three or four of those slots were zoomed in from London where it was 10 o'clock in the morning or something. And so they read for that. And so that was kind of cool. We had this transatlantic connection." - Michael Kowalewski Tristram Shandy https://hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu/reading-marathons/files/original/613d6cb9c33a9788751f3934ecbffecf.jpg c36c3c7279d2d1a83420c612cb465def https://hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu/reading-marathons/files/original/c3ab4baff173e46a50a6a72cd6d685bc.jpg 7715c428001f58f48fe0e417f4bc086e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Books from the Reading Marathons Description An account of the resource Digitized scans of the books read and signed by those participating in the reading marathons Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Carleton College Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 26, 2026 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy</em> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .jpg Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Book Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014-01-29 Description An account of the resource Laurence Sterne, 1759 "I remember going and Steve Poskanzer, who's in the political science department now, but he was president then, he read early, like at 8:30 or 9:00 in the morning. And I went over to hear him, and he was just reading, you know, and . . . Sayles was basically empty. So you can hear his voice kind of echoing around, and you're looking out [at] all the snow is falling. And it was just a . . . really cool scene. So anybody that was in that marathon remembers the Shandy, we called it, the Shandy Snowstorm." -Michael Kowaleski Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Personal Stories Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anonymous Description An account of the resource The "marathon reading" commemorates the life that anthropos, the human being, has lived across the centuries with story. Before writing, there was story, of course; and before print and books such as novels, there were bards and minstrels and masters of narrative that had all the myths and all the cultural codes memorized. People came to hear those masters of story beguile the time and its hard realities. So there's nothing particularly newfangled about bingeing on narrative as we do in a "marathon reading." Keeping warm around the fire, we stare into it and watch its metamorphoses. We enter an almost hypnagogic state of loose attention and make figures in the embers we watch crush under their own weight and disperse into ash. In any case, a group of people lounging around on couches being held spellbound by the twists and turns of a story is surely one of the best ways humans ever devised for getting through winter. That's what a marathon reading is, really. Participant Quotes Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Personal Stories Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anonymous (2) Description An account of the resource As we know, due to technological affordances, contemporary anthropoi (people) are now effectively swimming in "media," nearly all of it designed for sadly private consumption. Since the Earbud, the Sony Walkman, Edison's wax cylinders for recording sound, we've all been on a long slide that, if we're not careful, will surely end in human "life" and "experience" reduced to brains in a vat wired for stimulation. Participant Quotes Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Personal Stories Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anonymous (3) Description An account of the resource The marathon reading, shall we say, taps the brakes on that larger "Netflix and chill" inevitability-- inviting contemporary anthropoi to come out of their media-soaked stupor and sit and to read a mid-19th century novel-- one written for the human voice-- together. As we saw in February with The Old Curiosity Shop reading, it's obviously retro and not at all everyone's cup of tea-- but it's also entirely radical. Like reading a novel at all, there's no world-altering reason to do it, and that space away from our quantifio-instrumental rationales for life may be its strongest suit. For the sheer seductive pleasures of the textual moment, for the gorgeous delights of inhabiting imagined other selves and other worlds, for the delicious sensualities of slowness, of imagination, and for the gradual accretion through humor, parody, and plot of moral sense-- for such things, there's nothing like a novel and nothing at all like reading it together, aloud, every word, all the way through, without stopping. Participant Quotes Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Personal Stories Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anonymous (4) Description An account of the resource I have participated in the English Department's marathon readings since they restarted in the 2000s with works like David Copperfield, Middlemarch, and Tristram Shandy. Their example inspired Medieval and Renaissance Studies to host marathon readings of sources from its time period including Beowulf, Milton's Paradise Lost, Njal's Saga, The Romances of Chrétien de Troyes, Cervantes' Don Quixote, and most recently J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. Participant Quotes Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Personal Stories Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Austin Flamm '27 Description An account of the resource The reading marathon brought me back to my childhood when my dad sat on the end of my bed and read to me as I fell asleep. Reading aloud is so fun! Participant Quotes https://hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu/reading-marathons/files/original/92cb4808ea5d971271d7ee1ece67b6c5.jpg 1e6bf4d359c9c563edb8a64c98157aa8 https://hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu/reading-marathons/files/original/4857b5cd8581a13fe396c889e5e360ed.jpg e94d615defe506c647f1bba7d8c6a45f https://hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu/reading-marathons/files/original/99d6f7332716aa69a3f3d464fedbcc05.jpg e1d29cd6ba43cbc7b4f317148c217d70 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Books from the Reading Marathons Description An account of the resource Digitized scans of the books read and signed by those participating in the reading marathons Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Carleton College Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 26, 2026 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Paper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Beowulf Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .jpg Language A language of the resource English/ Old English Type The nature or genre of the resource Book Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016-01-27 Subject The topic of the resource This marathon reading was done in Jan 27, 2016, coordinated by the MARS program and the English department. 32 participants signed the physical copy that was read, and the book included a written note by Bill North to the special collections librarians as follows: "Nat & Tom, This is the signed volume to commemorate the Marathon, Beowulf reading on Wednesday Jan 27, 2016 in the Library Athenaeum with Visiting Assistant Professors Austin Mason & Christopher Flock presiding. Sponsored by MedRen Studies & English. -Bill North" Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Heaney, Seamus. Beowulf : A New Verse Translation. Bilingual ed., W.W. Norton & Co., 2002. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available W.W. Norton & Co. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Translated by Seamus Heaney Beowulf https://hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu/reading-marathons/files/original/a55d8a434543cd0464d680d31f888817.jpg 748b882234f89f5b3e5f290b23b4ad42 https://hhfinals.dgah.sites.carleton.edu/reading-marathons/files/original/434a4948898b1a106ddc72a62096ba06.jpg 354ba71c3e53b803fc24a10fdad3a245 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Books from the Reading Marathons Description An account of the resource Digitized scans of the books read and signed by those participating in the reading marathons Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Carleton College Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 26, 2026 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Beowulf Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Unknown, ~1000 A.D. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022-09-20 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .jpg Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Book Beowulf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Books from the Reading Marathons Description An account of the resource Digitized scans of the books read and signed by those participating in the reading marathons Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Carleton College Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 26, 2026 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bleak House Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Charles Dickens, 1853 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1996 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .jpg Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Book Bleak House