{"id":3015,"date":"2020-05-11T16:20:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T15:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2020-05-11T16:20:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T15:20:31","slug":"jillian-cadell-on-normal-people-and-covid-19-for-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2020\/05\/11\/jillian-cadell-on-normal-people-and-covid-19-for-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"Jillian Cadell on Normal People and COVID-19 for CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/people\/2705\/caddell-jillian\">Dr Jillian Caddell<\/a>, Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\">School of English<\/a>, has written an opinion piece for <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/\">CNN<\/a> on the new adaptation of the Sally Rooney novel <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt9059760\/\">Normal People<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The piece, entitled \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2020\/05\/07\/opinions\/watching-normal-people-in-abnormal-times-spivey-caddell\/index.html\">Watching &#8216;Normal People&#8217; is irresistible in abnormal times<\/a>\u2019, explores one of the most intimate scenes of the series (spoilers ahead!).<\/p>\n<p>Jillian discusses the use of video call technology in the relationship of the protagonists, Connell and Marianne, and describes how she has found similarities in the current situation.<\/p>\n<p>Jillian says: \u2018would I care so much about the scene of Marianne distantly watching over Connell if I had seen it a few months ago? I certainly would have cared differently. &#8220;Normal People,&#8221; Rooney&#8217;s novel and the Hulu series, are pre-Covid-19 productions, but both perfectly understand the desires we place on communication technologies and the ways they nearly always come up short\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The full article can be read on CNN&#8217;s website, here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2020\/05\/07\/opinions\/watching-normal-people-in-abnormal-times-spivey-caddell\/index.html\">https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2020\/05\/07\/opinions\/watching-normal-people-in-abnormal-times-spivey-caddell\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Jillian Caddell, Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature in the School of English, has written an opinion piece for CNN on the new adaptation of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2020\/05\/11\/jillian-cadell-on-normal-people-and-covid-19-for-cnn\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":3018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167396,118135,124,9111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3017,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions\/3017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}