image by Frank Edler Essays and Resources for PHL 206 (Philosophy and Literature)

Authors Primary Texts     Resources and Critical Commentary               Chinua Achebe photo by Stephen Long Things Fall Apart Sites about Things Fall Apart (Internet Public Library) Cora Agattucci's Page on Achebe Peter Peregine's Resources for Achebe's Things Fall Apart Paul Brians' Study Guide for Things Fall Apart Kingwood College Library's Resources on Things Fall Apart George P. Landow's Achebe Resources Page at Brown University Comp. Lit. Class Resources on Achebe (Univ. of Penn.) Online Resouces Related to Nigeria (African Studies at U.Penn) Mark Horsey's The Demise of Traditional Religion in African Culture. Ngugi wa Thiong'o's "The Allegory of the Cave: Language, Democracy, and a New World Order!" Chinua Achebe in Austin Carolyn Kumah's "African Women and Literature." Sharon Verba's "Feminist and Womanist Criticism of African Literature: A Bibliography." Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness (original version in Blackwood's Magazine) Secondary sources for Heart of Darkness and the film Apocalypse Now Encyclopedia.com on Joseph Conrad (check out the resources at the bottom of the page) The Joseph Conrad Society (UK) Lecture on Heart of Darkness by Mark Dintenfass "Deconstruction and Heart of Darkness" by J. Hillis Miller and Ross C. Murfin "Conrad's Image of Africa: Recovering African Voices in Heart of Darkness" by Peter Mwikisa "Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: A Journey in Quest of Self" by Maria Alvarez Exerpt from "An Image of Africa" (1900) by Chinua Achebe Resources for the Study of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness "Gender, Race and Narrative Structure: A Reappraisal of Conrad's Heart of Darkness" Student Exchanges on Heart of Darkness (English course at Clemson University; scroll down) The Joseph Conrad Foundation Interchange on Heart of Darkness "Africa and Africans in Conrad's Heart of Darkness"  by Candice Bradley "Colonialism and Its Discontents: Imagining Africa" by Emily Wiggins Our Thoughts and an Explanation of These Pages (three students explore Heart of Darkness) "The Flapping of Scolds: The Literary Establishment Desends on T. S. Eliot" by Vince Passaro Composition Conversations (threaded discussion of Achebe and Conrad) Heart of Darkness (student site) Britannica,com on Joseph Conrad Tsitsi Dangarembga Charles Dickens Nervous Conditions Hard Times            Cora Agatucci's Page on Dangarembga (Interviews, links,articles) Rebecca Grady's Biography of Dangarembga (also includes links) "Subverting Traditional Images of Women in the Postcolonial Zimbabwean Novel" by Maurice Taonezvi Vambe "Polygamy Now?" (an essay by Tsitsi Dangarembga) "Tsi Tsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions: An African Woman's Revisionist Narrative" by Mary Jane Androne "Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions" by Flora Veit-Wild Bibliography for Dangarembga Review of Nervous Conditions by Treva Broughton Two Essays on Dangarembga by Maureen Grundy Description of Everyone's Child, a film directed by Dangarembga The Norton Critical Edition (3rd ed.) of Hard Times includes essays on the novel and background materials on utilitarianism and the industrial revolution. "Dickens and Utilitarian Accounting" (essay by Ian Fraser, et al) "Deconstructing Hard Times" (essay by Stephen Connor) The Dickens Page (website by Mitsuharu Matsuoka) Dickens' Journalistic Career by James Diedrick "Charles Dickens and Victorian Education" by Leon Litvack Dickens Research Web Sites Thomas Mann Death in Venice Short Commentary on Death in Venice by Janice Williams Review of Donald Prater's book Thomas Mann: A Life. Short Biography of Thomas Mann Photos of Mann's residences after leaving Germany in 1933 Photos of Mann's parents, siblings, wife and children (slow load) "The Perceiver Perceived: Unifying Reason and Instinct in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice" by Donald P. Gagnon Biography of Mann The Thomas Mann Collection (manuscripts) Princeton Univ. Library Mann and his Rejection of Nazism The Norton Critical Edition of Death in Venice (includes text, background materials, and critical essays on Death.) Mary Shelley Frankenstein Cynthia Hamburg's Frankenstein Resources Nora Crook's "Pecksie and Elf: Did the Shelleys Couple Romantically?" Jane Hodson on the Relationship of Mary Shelley's Parents K.E. McKeeverr's "Writing and Melancholia: Saving the Self in Mary Shelley's 'The Mourner.'" D.E. White's "'The god undeified': Mary Shelley's Valperga, Italy. and the Aesthetic of Desire." O. Damyanov's "Technology and Its Dangerous Effects on Nature and Human Life in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and William Gibson's Neuromancer." Martin Levine's Resources on Frankenstein Univ. of Calgary's Internet Resources on Mary Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft. Richard Yatzeck's "Marlowe's Lie." Theories of Literature in philosophy   Writers on Literary   Theory and Lit. Crit. Social/Historical Contexts Literature as the Imitation or Representation of Reality Art as Imitation (britannica.com) Plato on Art as Imitation (Republic) Plato's The Ion Ngugi wa Thiong'o's "The Allegory of the Cave: Language, Democracy, and a New World Order" Literature as the Imitation or Representation of Reality Realism in American Literature James Murphy's "The Novel" A.M. Baldanado on "Representation" Britannica.com on realism/naturalism Dr. Olu Oguibe's "Social Realism" ArtLex's page on Realism R.A. Collins on Art as Imitation   Literature as the Expression and Communication of Emotion Art as Expression (britannica.com) Tolstoy's "What Is Art?" (exerpts) "Croce in America: Influence, Misunderstanding, and Neglect"   Literature as the Expression  and Communication of Emotion                  Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical               Ballads (online)        Major Romantic Criticism      Romanticism (britannica.com)                      Literature as Form Art as Form (britannica.com) Art as Significant Form (Clive Bell)       Literature as Form     Formalist Literary Theory and                Methodology  Barry Laga's Reading with an Eye                   on Form

 

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