Thursday, January 7, 2010
Really useful links for English literature beings. Only two for the moment
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.
NECESSARY BASICS OF ARISTOTLES POETICS, LINKS THAT CAN HELP
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>
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"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry
expresses the universal, and history only the particular. "
-Aristotle