Last Entry!

Dear friends:

The semester has come to an end and I know you are busy with your final projects. I am waiving the quiz for this week, and I'd like you to pick a contemporary British author and comment on him/her. Make sure that nobody else picks the same writer.

The link is HERE.

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Other comments...

1. Political Struggles
2. Mrs. Dalloway on Sparknotes.
3. James Joyce: Ulysses
4.Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984

Please number your posts!

20th C

 

Intro

Political Struggles

Anyone interested in something like THIS?


Yeats Audio Files

Virginia Woolf: A Movie 

Mrs. Dalloway on Sparknotes.

James Joyce: Ulysses


Click here to listen to Elliot's "The Burial of the Dead"


Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984

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Questions for discussion:


1. What is the significance of the image above?  (from NAEL)
2. After listening to the poems and media recreation, how do the readings make you feel?


I will post a different blog for all other comments.

Anti Christian Writers...

Jonathan Swift

Christianity

 The Lady's Dressing Room

 A Description of the Morning


 Also this week: email me your proposal as follows:

• Topic
• Kind of project (paper, acting out a play, reading of poems)
• Justification for your project
• How you plan to do it

For your final project, whatever it may be, I want to see:
1. Theme
2. Content and Philosophical Tendency
3. Relevance of Date and Place
4. Characters and Summary
5. Interpretation and aesthetics

The Restoration: Human Understanding

A Day in London

Legacy and Influence of Locke





A Serious Proposal to the Ladies



Let's talk about the London Fire, ideals and feminism.

18th Century...

If the 18th C sparked so many changes in Britain... does anyone know what was happening in El Salvador during those days? A little shift from literature (or maybe not)


Enemies of War

The Restoration

Intro

Pilgrim's Progress by Bunyan



A song by Dryden

Incantation To Oedipus By John...