https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/jul/29/journeys-in-literature-heart-of-darkness-by-joseph-conrad
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/03/movies/critic-s-notebook-aching-heart-of-darkness.html
https://teachers.yale.edu/curriculum/viewer/initiative_13.02.01_u
https://thegemsbok.com/art-reviews-and-articles/book-reviews-tuesday-tome-heart-of-darkness-joseph-conrad/
Eng 215 Fall 2019 Online
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
The Metamorphosis
Here is a link about Kafka’s private life:
http://www.peterdsmith.com/archives/2008/08/11/the-private-lives-of-franz-k/
This link provides a number of pages that are related to Kafka:
http://www.kafka-online.info/kafka-links.htm
Here is a link to a google book that discusses The Metamorphosis as a fairytale. It mentions Kafka on page 117.
http://books.google.com/books?id=i3v5SLVvqb4C&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=the+metamorphosis+as+fairytale&source=bl&ots=tRLDvYw1mF&sig=XVozW9EbAgiiITDQ14XtTMc9HV4&hl=en&ei=S8h4TuflFYjq0gGEwLT_Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=the%20metamorphosis%20as%20fairytale&f=false
Link about the graphic novel:
http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/metamorphosis/
A rhyming book review:
http://therhymingmedstudent.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/review-the-metamorphosis-franz-kafka/
Here is a link to a video from a show called Home Movies from Adult Swim. It is called Franz Kafka Rock Opera:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_dFpKZo54w&feature=related
Here is another link about some people working on a film about the story. They have added some twists to the story:
http://www.openculture.com/2011/07/coming_soon_kafkas_imetamorphosisi_the_new_movie.html
Here is a picture from The Simpsons comic:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/metamorphsimpsons/simpsonsguy21/nightmare.jpg?o=1
Kafkaesque:
The New Yorker describes the word Kafkaesque “marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of impending danger: Kafkaesque fantasies of the impassive interrogation, the false trial, the confiscated passport… haunt his innocence”. Whereas Dictionary.com refers to the same as “marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity: Kafkaesque bureaucracies”. In The New Yorker, John Updikes says “Self-loathing and self-distrust lurk in his work with somatic unease; he is the forbear of modern man’s sense of dread”.
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
A Raisin in the Sun
Link to "Harlem" poem:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46548/harlem
Below are links that would function as strong outside sources:
http://www.umich.edu/~eng217/student_projects/araisininthesun/historicalcontext.html
http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/literary-criticism/36902365/somewhat-like-war-aesthetics-segregation-black-liberation-and-raisin-sunhttp://lifeofannekathrin.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/race-in-a-raisin-in-the-sun.pdf
http://www.iasj.net/iasj?func=fulltext&aId=45950
http://www.iasj.net/iasj?func=fulltext&aId=62331
You can look through these links to see if any may be useful for your paper:
https://www.google.com/#q=a+raisin+in+the+sun+scholarly+articles
this link will explain how to quote and cite a play in your paper:
http://libguides.pstcc.edu/content.php?pid=24540&sid=1751573
American Dream:
https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/raisin-sun-quest-american-dream
https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/articles/A-Raisin-in-the-Sun/A-Dream-Realized-Hansberrys-iA-Raisin-In-The-Suni/
http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/dealbook/2014/12/10/many-feel-the-american-dream-is-out-of-reach-poll-shows/?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=aut&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000&_r=0&referrer
Women in the play:
http://www.academypublication.com/issues/past/tpls/vol01/10/04.pdf
http://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1159&context=undergrad_rev
Some Important Quotes from the play:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/blog/eight-haunting-quotes-raisin-sun/
Background Info on the play:
http://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/article/lorraine-hansberrys-a-raisin-in-the-sun
https://theundefeated.com/features/new-documentary-lorraine-hansberry-of-a-raisin-in-the-sun-one-tough-minded-woman/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1959/05/09/playwright
https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/lorraine-hansberry-review-superb-portrait-of-important-playwright-activist-1.16239285
Hansberry on Writing the Play:
https://nj.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/hans17-ela-writing/lorraine-hansberry-a-raisin-in-the-sun-hansberrys-writing-process/#.WoGoha6nG70
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46548/harlem
Below are links that would function as strong outside sources:
http://www.umich.edu/~eng217/student_projects/araisininthesun/historicalcontext.html
http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/literary-criticism/36902365/somewhat-like-war-aesthetics-segregation-black-liberation-and-raisin-sunhttp://lifeofannekathrin.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/race-in-a-raisin-in-the-sun.pdf
http://www.iasj.net/iasj?func=fulltext&aId=45950
http://www.iasj.net/iasj?func=fulltext&aId=62331
You can look through these links to see if any may be useful for your paper:
https://www.google.com/#q=a+raisin+in+the+sun+scholarly+articles
this link will explain how to quote and cite a play in your paper:
http://libguides.pstcc.edu/content.php?pid=24540&sid=1751573
American Dream:
https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/raisin-sun-quest-american-dream
https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/articles/A-Raisin-in-the-Sun/A-Dream-Realized-Hansberrys-iA-Raisin-In-The-Suni/
http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/dealbook/2014/12/10/many-feel-the-american-dream-is-out-of-reach-poll-shows/?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=aut&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000&_r=0&referrer
Women in the play:
http://www.academypublication.com/issues/past/tpls/vol01/10/04.pdf
http://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1159&context=undergrad_rev
Some Important Quotes from the play:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/blog/eight-haunting-quotes-raisin-sun/
Background Info on the play:
http://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/article/lorraine-hansberrys-a-raisin-in-the-sun
https://theundefeated.com/features/new-documentary-lorraine-hansberry-of-a-raisin-in-the-sun-one-tough-minded-woman/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1959/05/09/playwright
https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/lorraine-hansberry-review-superb-portrait-of-important-playwright-activist-1.16239285
Hansberry on Writing the Play:
https://nj.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/hans17-ela-writing/lorraine-hansberry-a-raisin-in-the-sun-hansberrys-writing-process/#.WoGoha6nG70
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
The Great Gatsby
More On The Great Gatsby
This links provide many articles and resources for The Great Gatsby:
Some more helpful links:
The Great Gatsby
Taking a few mintues to read some background information on the author will enhance your understanding of the text.
Here are a few quotes to also think about from the text:
“ Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had” (1).
“”a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock” (22).
”He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced–or seemed to face–the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself” (48).
“Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known” (60).
Article from class today on the green light:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/education/17gatsby.html?referrer=&_r=1
and one on the American Dream:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-usa-land-of-limitations.html?referrer=&_r=1
This article is about Jay Gatsby as a dreamer:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/books/review/jesmyn-ward-great-gatsby.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below
This link discusses some random facts about the novel and the writer:
http://gothamist.com/2013/05/07/gatsby_facts.php
The Wire breaks down The Great Gatsby (There is some strong language here):
http://www.openculture.com/2012/08/ithe_wirei_breaks_down_ithe_great_gatsbyi_f_scott_fitzgeralds_classic_criticism_of_america_nsfw.html
Footage of Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda:
http://www.openculture.com/2012/11/rare_footage_of_scott_and_zelda_fitzgerald_from_the_1920s.html
http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection®ion=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=Homepage#/THE GREAT GATSBY
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=the%20great%20gatsby
Race and The Great Gatsby:
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/rise-of-the-colored-empires/276844/
https://www.uscupstate.edu/uploadedFiles/Academics/Undergraduate_Research/Reseach_Journal/006_ARTICLE5_2009.pdf
http://flavorwire.com/391193/the-complicated-and-troubling-role-of-race-and-class-in-baz-luhrmanns-Gatsby
https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/why-i-believe-that-jay-gatsby-was-black/153166.article
Outside Sources for "Babylon Revisited"
Outside Sources for "Babylon Revisited"
Link to the story:
http://gutenberg.net.au/fsf/BABYLON-REVISITED.html
Outside Sources:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00144940.1990.9934031
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-007-0773-3_8?LI=true
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8289335/Babylon-Revisited-When-the-money-runs-out.html
http://iws2.collin.edu/mtolleson/2328online/2328notesbabylon.htm
http://www.jeffersonflanders.com/2006/07/f-scott-fitzgeralds-babylon-revisited-and-the-lost-decade-damaged-men-and-fractured-pasts/
https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/bruce.brogdon/engl1301/oral-reports/short-story-criticism/babylon-revisited-a-story-of-the-exiles-return/view
http://kb.gcsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1080&context=thecorinthian
http://libguides.fau.edu/c.php?g=325462&p=2181967
Themes found in the story:
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tdlarson/fsf/babylon/chap_3.htm
In the next two weeks we will discuss The Great Gatsby which “Babylon Revisited” shares many themes and issues with. Here is a short description of how they are similar:
“Babylon Revisited”: Similarity to The Great Gatsby
In both works, the main character is trying to create a new identity. In the case of Jay Gatsby, he has reinvented himself by a name change and by becoming rich through criminal acts to win Daisy. In Charlie’s instance, he has made a serious effort to reform to gain custody of Honoria.
http://gutenberg.net.au/fsf/BABYLON-REVISITED.html
Outside Sources:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00144940.1990.9934031
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-007-0773-3_8?LI=true
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8289335/Babylon-Revisited-When-the-money-runs-out.html
http://iws2.collin.edu/mtolleson/2328online/2328notesbabylon.htm
http://www.jeffersonflanders.com/2006/07/f-scott-fitzgeralds-babylon-revisited-and-the-lost-decade-damaged-men-and-fractured-pasts/
https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/bruce.brogdon/engl1301/oral-reports/short-story-criticism/babylon-revisited-a-story-of-the-exiles-return/view
http://kb.gcsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1080&context=thecorinthian
http://libguides.fau.edu/c.php?g=325462&p=2181967
Themes found in the story:
- Facing the consequences of one’s actions
- The struggle to change
- Honoria’s doll
- Snow
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tdlarson/fsf/babylon/chap_3.htm
In the next two weeks we will discuss The Great Gatsby which “Babylon Revisited” shares many themes and issues with. Here is a short description of how they are similar:
“Babylon Revisited”: Similarity to The Great Gatsby
In both works, the main character is trying to create a new identity. In the case of Jay Gatsby, he has reinvented himself by a name change and by becoming rich through criminal acts to win Daisy. In Charlie’s instance, he has made a serious effort to reform to gain custody of Honoria.
Both The Great Gatsby and “Babylon Revisited” are also statements about the twenties, the pursuit of wealth and careless living of that generation. Gatsby’s pursuit of wealth, hoping it will bring him happiness and fulfillment, is the embodiment of the American Dream gone wrong. “Babylon Revisited” makes a statement not only about Charlie’s his personal dilemma but the irresponsible seeking of pleasure that was characteristic of the post-war Roaring Twenties generation.
From: http://vickie-britton.suite101.com/babylon-revisited-summary-and-analysis-a204727
From: http://vickie-britton.suite101.com/babylon-revisited-summary-and-analysis-a204727
NYTimes article:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/24/specials/fitzgerald-taps.html
America and Second Chances:
http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2009/09/19/history/post-perspective/f-scott-fitzgerald.html
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/07/13/president-obama-announces-46-commutations-video-address-america-nation-second-chance
http://billmoyers.com/2014/10/31/america-really-believe-second-chances/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-second-chances-for-elites-only-perspec-1196-20141105-story.html
America and Second Chances:
http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2009/09/19/history/post-perspective/f-scott-fitzgerald.html
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/07/13/president-obama-announces-46-commutations-video-address-america-nation-second-chance
http://billmoyers.com/2014/10/31/america-really-believe-second-chances/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-second-chances-for-elites-only-perspec-1196-20141105-story.html
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