Thursday, January 7, 2010

Really useful links for English literature beings. Only two for the moment

http://www.literatureproject.com/
http://www.english.hawaii.edu/criticalink/index.html

WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE BEST-KNOWN ANCIENT GREEK COMIC DRAMATIST?

The best-known ancient Greek comic dramatist, Aristophanes

His play Lysistrata (411) is the most famous of his plays. In this play women of Greece stage a sex strike to end a war.

Nice site, gives a lot of quick look at important topics.

<http://www.english.hawaii.edu/criticalink/readguide.html>

Aristotle
Poetics
Reference: Aristotle. Poetics.
Trans. S. H. Butcher. Ed. Hazard Adams. Critical Theory since Plato.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. 48-66.

Sigmund Freud
"On Narcissism: An Introduction"
Reference: Sigmund Freud. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Ed. James Strachey. London: Hogarth.

Martin Heidegger
"The Question Concerning Technology"
Reference: Martin Heidegger. "The Question Concerning Technology."
Ed. David Farrell Krell. Trans. William Lovitt. Martin Heidegger: Basic Writings.
New York: Harper & Row, 1977. 287-317.

Jacques Lacan
"The Mirror Stage"
Reference: Jacques Lacan. "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience."
Trans. Alan Sheridan. Ecrits: A Selection.
New York: Norton, 1977. 1-7.

Plato
Phaedrus
Reference: Plato. Phaedrus. Trans. Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1995.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
"Echo"
Reference: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. "Echo."
New Literary History 24 (1993): 17-43.


 

Another site for Poetics:

NECESSARY BASICS OF ARISTOTLES POETICS, LINKS THAT CAN HELP

http://www.literatureproject.com/poetics/index.htm
http://www.english.hawaii.edu/criticalink/aristotle/terms/spectacle.html
http://www.theatredatabase.com/16th_century/italian_dramatic_criticism_of_the_renaissance.html
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=1&tbs=clue:1&q=microsoft+presentation+on+aristotle%27s+poetics&start=10&sa=N

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetics_(Aristotle)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=famous+quotes+by+aristotle+on+poetics&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

Most famous quote of Aristotle's Poetics (Question asked on answers.com,
< http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_famous_Aristotle_quote_about_the_poetics>
)

"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry
expresses the universal, and history only the particular. "
-Aristotle

YALE ENGLISH LITERATURE VIDEOS

http://oyc.yale.edu/english

Friday, January 1, 2010

BARCHESTER TOWERS - COMMENTARY ON CHAPTERS

Far more reasonable link:
http://www.trollope-apollo.com/Information/chapters.htm

USELESS - Barchester Towers Chapters Summaries And Analysis And Criticism

Barchester Trollope Summaries and Analysis:
http://litsum.com/barchester-towers/ - NOT A GOOD SITE. USELESS INFACT.

Critics:
http://www.enotes.com/nineteenth-century-criticism/trollope-anthony - ONE PARA... that's sad.

Why, I'm even bothering in posting these then, I don't know. Made an effort and want myself to remind that Yes, I made an effort that's all.