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criticism & essays
Roland Barthes: Incidents (@UC Press), A Lover's Discourse -- (see notes and outline)
Sven Birkerts: The Gutenberg Elegies
Stephen Booth: Precious Nonsense: The Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson's Epitaphs on His Children and Twelth Night (@ UC Press)
Jorge Luis Borges: A Poem by Oscar Wilde (essay)
Robert Creeley: The Collected Essays of Robert Creeley (@ UC Press)
Charles Dickens: American Notes for General Circulation
T.S. Eliot: The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays (First Series),
Richard Heinze: Virgil's Epic Technique (@ UC Press)
Thomas S. Hines: William Faulkner and the Tangible Past: The Architecture of Yoknapatawpha (@ UC Press)
Audrey Jaffe: Vanishing Points: Dickens, Narrative, and the Subject of Omniscience (@ UC Press)
Michel de Montaigne: Essays
Walter Pater: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry
Arthur Schopenhauer: The Art of Literature
Henry David Thoreau: Walden
Turk's Head Review notebooks: Notes on Antigone - Glossary of literary terms - Reading Literature: an introduction - Elements of fiction - Toni Cade Bambara - Saul Bellow - Borges - Decadence - The Minority Report (PK Dick) - Emily Dickinson - Robert Frost - John Keats - James Joyce - Joyce Carol Oates - Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus - Oscar Wilde - "Notes on Cathedral" (Raymond Carver) - Notes on Reading poetry - Notes on Elizabeth Tallent's No One's a Mystery - Notes on John Updike - Walt Whitman -
drama
Aeschylus: The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides [pdf edition]Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
Euripides: The Bacchae
Henrik Ibsen: Brand, Peer Gynt, Emperor & Galilean [pdf], A Doll's House
David Ives: Sure Thing
William Shakespeare: Hamlet - The Tempest
Sophocles: Ajax - Antigone - Oedipus at Colonus - Oedipus the King - see also Notes on Oedipus the King, Notes on Oedipus at Colonus
fiction
Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, OhioJane Austen>: Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice,
Honore de Balzac: The Human Comedy: SCENES FROM PRIVATE LIFE: At the Sign of the Cat and Racket, The Ball at Sceaux, The Purse, The Vendetta, Madame Firmiani, A Second Home, Domestic Peace, The Imaginary Mistress / Paz, A Study of Woman, Another Study of Woman, La Grande Breteche, Albert Savarus, Letters of Two Brides, A Daughter of Eve, A Woman of Thirty, The Deserted Woman, La Grenadiere, The Message, Gobseck, A Marriage Settlement / A Marriage Contract, A Start in Life, Modeste Mignon, Beatrix, Honorine, Colonel Chabert, The Atheist's Mass, The Commission in Lunacy, Pierre Grassou, SCENES FROM PROVINCIAL LIFE: Ursula, Eugenie Grandet, The Celibates: (Pierrette / The Vicar of Tours), Un Menage de Garcon (A Bachelor's Establishment / The Two Brothers / The Black Sheep), Parisians in the Country: (Gaudissart the Great / The Illustrious Gaudissart), The Muse of the Department, The Jealousies of a Country Town: (The Old Maid), (The Collection of Antiquities), (The Lily of the Valley), Lost Illusions, SCENES FROM PARISIAN LIFE: Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, Esther Happy, What Love Costs an Old Man, The End of Evil Ways, Vautrin's Last Avatar, A Prince of Bohemia, A Man of Business, Gaudissart II, (The Unconscious Humorists / The Unconscious Comedians), The Thirteen: Ferragus / The Duchesse de Langeais / The Girl with the Golden Eyes, Pere Goriot, The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau, The Firm of Nucingen, (The Secrets of a Princess / The Secrets of the Princess Cadignan), The Government Clerks / Bureaucracy, Sarrasine, Facino Cane, Poor Relations: Cousine Bette, Cousin Pons, Les Petits Bourgeois (The Middle Classes / The Lesser Bourgeoise) , SCENES FROM POLITICAL LIFE: Une Tenebreuse Affaire (The Gondreville Mystery / An Historical Mystery), An Episode Under the Terror, L'Envers de l'Histoire Contemporaine (The Seamy Side of History / The Brotherhood of Consolation): Madame de la Chanterie / Initiated / The Initiate,Z. Marcas, (The Member for Arcis / The Deputy for Arcis) , SCENES FROM MILITARY LIFE: The Chouans, A Passion in the Desert, SCENES FROM COUNTRY LIFE: The Country Doctor, Le Cure de Village (The Country Parson / The Village Rector), Les Paysans (The Peasantry / Sons of the Soil), PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES: The Magic Skin, (The Quest of the Absolute / The Alkahest), Christ in Flanders, Melmoth Reconciled, (The Unknown Masterpiece / The Hidden Masterpiece), The Hated Son, Gambara, Massimilla Doni, The Maranas/ Juana, Adieu, The Conscript / The Recruit, El Verdugo, A Seaside Tragedy / A Drama on the Seashore, The Red Inn, The Elixir of Life, Maitre Cornelius, About Catherine de' Medici: (The Calvinist Martyr) (The Ruggieri's Secret) (The Two Dreams), Louis Lambert, The Exiles, Seraphita
Jorge Luis Borges: individual works: Borges and I, The Circular Ruins, The Library of Babel,
Richard Brautigan: Brautigan.net (bibliography and archive) -
Raymond Carver:
Anton Chekhov: short stories: The Darling, The Lady with the Pet Dog,
Joseph Conrad: The Secret Sharer
Charles Dickens: The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Poor Folk
, Notes from the Underground, Crime and Punishmen, The Brothers Karamazov
George Eliot: Middlemarch, Silas Marner, The Mill on the Floss
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury (@ uask.ca)
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Frank B. Ford: Who Cares [pdf]
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper (UVA etext edition)
Nikolai Gogol: Dead Souls
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Mosses from an Old Manse [pdf edition] -
Ernest Hemingway: A Clean Well-Lighted Place
Hermann Hesse: Demian discussion group
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
Joris-Karl Huysmans: Against the Grain (A Rebours) [Havelock Ellis trans.]
James Joyce: Dubliners [pdf edition] - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Ulysses
Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis , The Judgment,
Jamaica Kincaid: "Girl"
Thomas Mann: Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain
Herman Melville: Typee - Redburn - White Jacket - Moby Dick - The Confidence Man, Billy Budd
Toni Morrison: Beloved
Joyce Carol Oates: Celestial Timepiece (Oates webpage) - stories: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Flannery O'Connor: stories: A Good Man is Hard To Find -
Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past
Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantegruel
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Emile
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Gertrude Stein: Tender Buttons
Elizabeth Tallent: stories: No One's a Mystery
Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilych, The Kreutzer Sonata, War and Peace
Anthony Trollope: The Warden
Mark Twain: The Gilded Age (w/ Charles Dudley Warner), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
John Updike:
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
film
studies & directors
Woody Allen:
Crimes and Misdemeanors, Deconstructing Harry,
Love and Death, Match Point, September, Sleeper, Stardust MemoriesMichelangelo Antonioni: L'Aventurra, La Notte, L'Eclisse, Il Deserto Rosso, Blow-Up, Zabriskie Point, The Passenger
Ingmar Bergman: The Films at Bergman Bits - Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, The Virgin Spring, Winter Light, The Silence, Shame, Fanny & Alexander
Robert Bresson: Au Hasard Balthazar
John Cassavetes: Faces, Opening Night
Federico Fellini: 8 1/2, La Strada, La Dolce Vita, Satyricon
Jean-Luc Godard: Breathless, Le Petit Soldat, Alphaville, Weekend
Alfred Hitchcock: The Birds, Frenzy, North by Northwest, Psycho, Rope, Vertigo
Hugh Kenner: Chuck Jones: A Flurry of Drawings (@ UC Press)
Mike Leigh: All or Nothing, Life is Sweet, Naked, Secrets and Lies, Topsy Turvy, Vera Drake
Louis Malle: My Dinner With Andre
folklore,
myth, & romance
Francis J. Child: Child Ballads
(@sacred-texts.com), child
ballads project (lists recordings), Brothers Grimm: Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Oxford Book of Ballads, ed. Arthur Quiller-Couch
history, politics & social sciences
Thomas Carlyle: On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in HistoryGuy Debord: Society of the Spectacle
Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence
Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto, Capital I,
Eric H. Monkkonen: America Becomes Urban: The Development of U.S. Cities & Towns 1780–1980 (@ UC Press)
Nicolo Machiavelli: The Prince
Lewis Mumford:
Thomas Paine: Common Sense
Plato: The Republic -
Robert Paul Resch: Althusser and the Renewal of Marxist Social Theory (@ UC Press)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, Discourse on Inequality
Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations
Alan Wolf (ed.): America at Century's End (UC Press)
literary magazines
AGNI: www.bu.edu/agni/index.htmlAmerican Poetry Review: www.aprweb.org/
Atlanta Review: www.atlantareview.com/
Carolina Quarterly: www.unc.edu/depts/cqonline/
Harpers: www.harpers.org
The New Yorker: newyorker.com
The Paris Review: www.theparisreview.com/
Ploughshares: www.pshares.org/index.cfm
literary magazine resources
Duotrope: writer's market research: duotrope.com
Google directory, writers' markets: directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Writers_Resources/Markets/
Poetry publishers who accept email submissions: newark.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/pbonline.html
Poets and Writers: pw.org
Zuzu's Petals: www.zuzu.com
music & song
The Beatles: Beatles page -Bob Dylan: bobdylan.com
Francis J. Child: Child Ballads (@sacred-texts.com), child ballads project (lists recordings),
Robert Johnson: Crossroad Blues -
The Oxford Book of Ballads, ed. Arthur Quiller-Couch
Brian Wilson: brianwilson.com
philosophy & religion
Aristotle: Poetics, RhetoricSaint Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica
Saint Augustine: Confessions
Alain de Botton: The Consolations of Philosophy, Status Anxiety
Rene Descartes: Discourse on Method
Soren Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling, The Sickness Unto Death
John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding -
Lao-Tzu: Tao Te Ching
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy
Blaise Pascal: Pensees -
Charles Peirce:
Plotinus: The Six Enneads -
Tom Rockmore: Cognition: An Introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (@ UC Press)
King James Bible: Genesis
Plato: Apology - Phaedo - Phaedrus - The Republic - Symposium
Arthur Schopenhauer: Counsels and Maxims - The Wisdom of Life,
poetry
Anonymous poets: BeowulfKim Addonizio: kimaddonizio.com
Charles Baudelaire: Fleurs du Mal (website)
Eavan Boland: individual poems: "The Necessity for Irony"
Elizabeth Bishop: individual poems: "The Fish" -
Billy Collins: The Best Cigarette (audio download)
Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy -- Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (Cary translation) -
William Blake: blakearchive.org
Lord Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Robert Creeley: The Collected Essays of Robert Creeley (@ UC Press)
Emily Dickinson: Complete Poems -
T.S. Eliot: Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems [1920], The Wasteland
Robert Frost: A Boy's Will - North of Boston - Mountain Interval - Misc. poems to 1920
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust Part I,
Robert Hayden: Those Winter Sundays
Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey (see also Chapman trans. @ Bartleby)
Randal Jerrell:
John Keats: Poems - individual works: Lamia
Yusef Komunyakaa: individual poems: "Facing It"
Edna St. Vincent Millay: Renascence and Other Poems -
John Milton: Paradise Lost
Linda Pastan: individual poems: To a Daughter Leaving Home,
Marge Piercy: website
Rainer Maria Rilke: individual poems: "Archaic Torso of Apollo",
William Shakespeare: Venus and Adonis, The Sonnets [see also the drama category]
Edmund Spenser: Epithalamion -
Wallace Stevens:
Virgil: The Aeneid
William Wordsworth:
William Butler Yeats: The Wind Among the Reeds, Responsibilities and Other Poems, The Wild Swans at Coole
Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass -
science & technology
Albert Einstein: Relativity: The Special and General TheoryO'Reilly Open Books project: out of print and outdated tech. books for free