These two texts must be read for the 3rd week of class:
These two texts must be read for the 2nd week of class:
Assorted Material for the Course
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James Joyce
Check out the version of Finnegan’s Wake in Guaraní: http://gogobrazil.com/guarani.html
Finnegan’s Wake in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake
Annotated version of Finnegan’s Wake: http://finwake.com/
“Oroonoko or The Royal Slave” (1688) by Aphra Behn
Click to read online or download the full book
The Literary Explorer
Quick and objective descriptions of the periods of Anglo-American literature (URL posted here courtesy of Jaqueline Bohn Donada)
“A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf
Full essay online (URL posted here courtesy of our classmate Mariana Bandarra)
Lady Byron’s comments on Pride and Prejudice
Anabella Milbanke (later Lady Byron and motehr to Augusta Ada Byron) read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and somehow sensed the new style in novel-writing which was then starting to emerge. In a letter, she wrote to
her mother:
“…a very superior work. It depends not on any of the commom resources of novel writers, no drownings, no conflagrations, nor runaway horses, nor lapdogs and parrots, nor chambermaids and milliners, nor recontres and disguises. I really think it is the “most probable” I have ever read. It is not a crying book, but the interest is very strong…I wish much to know who is the author or “ess” as I am told.”
(Source: AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Signet Classics, New York, 1996; page 6 of Margaret Drabble’s Introduction)
William Blake, painter
The following 8 pictures are illustrations made by William Blake for Dante’s Divine Commedy, posted here courtesy of our classmate Mariana Bandarra. Click to enlarge them, and pay attention to the filenames — they explain which passage of the poem is illustrated in each image.
