E N G L I S H   2100H honors literature & humanities resources

BAD WRITING--and WORSE VERSE
- Bad Haiku
- Bad Poetry (Western Michigan University)
- In Search of the World's Worst Writers
- James McIntyre: The Chaucer of Cheese--Canada's Worst Poet
- Julia A. Moore Bad Poetry Contest-- CONTEST WINNERS
- Re. Robert Frost and Masturbation (on "Out, Out --")
- Study: Children of Divorce Twice as Likely to Write Bad Poetry (The Onion)
- A Tragedy, by Theophilus Marzials
- William McGonagall: The World's Worst Poet
- World's Worst Analogies
- World's Worst Writing
- Worst Writing Ever: Fiction Category

COETZEE'S Disgrace
- Amazing Disgrace (Christine Wald-Hopkins)
- Background on South Africa
- Coetzee Bibliography (Univ. of Tennessee)
- Colonialism and Post-colonialism (Toronto Conference. 2002)
- A Comprehension of Life (Susan Ram)
- John Michael Coetzee (The Literary Dictionary))
- A Morality Tale with No Easy Answers (Ron Charles)
- Notes on Coetzee's Disgrace (AASU)
- Parables and Prizes (James Wood)
- Postmetaphysical Literature: Reflections on J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace
     (Prof. Michael C. Kochim, pdf)
- Quotes from Coetzee
- Reading Group Guide to Disgrace (Barnes & Noble)
- Reading Guide to Disgrace, with Discussion Questions (Penguin)
- Review of Disgrace (Salon.com)
- South Africa's Apartheid Era and the Transition to Multiracial Democracy
- South Africa's White Farmers under Siege (June 2002)

DIVERSIONS & EXCURSIONS
-American Literature Quiz
-Are You a Good Complainer?Guardian Unlimited
-Are You an Intellectual?Guardian Unlimited
-Are You a Liberal? Guardian Unlimited
-Art & Music Quiz
-Banned Books Online (The Online Books Page)
-Black Literature Quiz
-Bonehead-of-the-Day Award
-Children's Literature Quiz
-Do You Know Your Latin?Guardian Unlimited
-Do You Watch Too Much TV?Guardian Unlimited
-Dramatic Literature Quiz
-Dumb? Are You? (U.K. Cultural Quiz), Guardian Unlimited
-the edge (with The Oregonian)
-Free Books Quiz Arcade
-How Old Are You Really?Guardian Unlimited
-How Positive Is Your Mental Attitude?Guardian Unlimited
-Literary Quizzes (IntelligentsiaNetwork)
-Literature Quiz
-Shakespeare Quiz

THE DUCHESS OF MALFI, by John Webster 
-The Duchess of Malfi: A Synopsis
-The Duchess of Malfi: Integrity and Intrigue, by Dr. Carol Blessing
-The Duchess of Malfi Resource Page
-The Duchess of Malfi, text with notes and commentary (Dr. Larry A. Brown)
-Female Rulers in The Duchess of Malfi (students in Dr. Desmet's class at the U. of Georgia)
-Historical Sources
-Justin's Drama & Theatre Links on The Duchess
-Lecture Notes on The Duchess of Malfi, by Jennifer Mooney
-Life of John Webster
-Lycanthropy in The Duchess of Malfi (Dr. Christy Desmet, UGA)
-Principal Characters and Their Roles, byJenia Garaghty
-Reading Questions for The Duchess of Malfi (Prof. Boyer)
-Study Questions, by Prof. Theresa DiPasquale
-Study Questions for Webster's The Duchess of Malfi
-Questions for Reading and Review (Univ. of Illinois)

FOLK TALES                                      
-Adult Versions of Traditional Fairy Tales (Kay Vandergrift)
-African American Folk Tales (Afro-American Almanac)
-The Brothers Grimm (Pat Rice)
-Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby
-Bulfinch's Mythology, by Thomas Bulfinch (three volumes)
-The Cinderella Project (Univ. of Southern Mississippi)
-Cinderella Bibliography (Russell A. Peck)
-Cinderella Stories (Children's Literature Web Guide)
-The Death of the Seven Dwarfs (Ernst Ludwig Rochholz)
-Definitions of myths, legends, and folktales (African Odyssey)
-Encyclopedia Mythica: An Encyclopedia of Mythology, Folklore, and Legend *
-Fables of Aesop (Project Gutenberg)
-Fairy Tales *   (Project Gutenberg)
-Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, and Folklore
-Fairy Tales for Teachers (links)
-Fairy Tales and Stories, by Hans Christian Andersen (trans. by H. P. Paull, 1872)
-Folklore and Mythology: Electromic Texts*  (ed. and/or trans. by D. L. Ashliman)
-Folk Tales from around the World (FolkTale Project)
-Grimm's Fairy Tales (National Geographic, 1999)
- Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales and Stories (trans. by H. P. Paull, 1872)
-Higher Education Programs in Folklore & Folklife (Harvard)
-The Little Red Riding Hood Project   (Univ. of Southern Mississippi)
-The Moonlit Road (ghost stories and folk tales from the American South)
-Myths and Legends of the Sioux  (Marie L. McLaughlin)
-Snow White (Kay E. Vandergrift)
-Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,by Anne Sexton(1971)
-The Story of Owl (Haiti)
-South African Folk Tales (James A. Honey, 1910)
-Tales Collected by the Brothers Grimm (Trans. by Margaret Hunt, 1884)
-Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty (Margot Mifflin, Salon 1999)
-Zulu Folk Tales (Loreen McDonald)


KING LEAR (with Ran, A Thousand Acres, et al.) 
-Akira Kurosawa Home Page
-Audio Interview with Jane Smiley (with Don Swaim, 1989)
-Chronical History of King Leir and His Three Daughters
-ClassicNotes on King Lear
-Comments on the rhetoric of Shakespeare's King Lear * (Rhetoric, AASU)
-Enjoying King Lear, by Ed Friedlander
-Film Review of A Thousand Acres (James Berardinelli)
-Film Review of Ran, by Roger Ebert (1985)
- FOLK TALES related to Lear: "As Dear as Salt" (German folk tale); "Cap o' Rushes" (English folk tale);  "Salt over Gold" (Slovak folk tale). 
-Interview with Jane Smiley (with Jana Siciliano, 2000)
-"Is This the Promised End?": The Tragedy of King Lear, by Joyce Carol Oates (1974)
-Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres (essay by Scott C. Holstad)
-Jane Smiley Talks Novels, Saga, King Lear, and Horses (by Jane Smiley)
-King Lear (quarto text)
-King Lear (folio text)
-"King Lear," by Charles and Mary Lamb
-King Lear adapted by Nahum Tate (edited by Jack Lynch)
-King Lear beyond Reason: Love and Justice in the Family, by M. R. Schwehn
-King Lear texts and commentary (Dr. Larry A. Brown)
-King Lear in Art (Emory)
-King Lear in a Cornfield? (comparisons between King Lear and A Thousand Acres)
-King Lear in Its Own Time: The Difference That Death Makes, by Ben Ross Schneider
-King Lear on the Net
-King Lear/Ran (Alan Chalk)
-King Lear: Sources, Versions, Revisions (Univ. of Pennsylvania Library)
-King Lear Study Guide (absoluteShakespeare)
-Lines on Retirement, after Reading Lear pdf (poem by David Wright)
-Mr. William Shakespeare
-Observations on Shakespeare's King Lear
-Our Observations on King Lear (class page)
-Old Molester Had a Farm (film review of A Thousand Acres, Salon.com)
-Ran (Japanese Cinema Studies)
-Reading & Reflection Questions
-Reading Questions for King Lear (Prof. Boyer)*
-Searchable Edition of King Lear (The Literature Network)
-Shakespeare's Rhetoric (course page, added 9/2/02)
-Speak What We Feel: An Introduction to King Lear, by Ian Johnston
-Study Questions for King Lear
-A Thousand Acres, Touchstone Pictures (MovieWeb, 1997)

THE LIBERAL ARTS & THE HUMANITIES 
-Humanities and the Liberal Arts, by William Harris
-Liberal Arts Education in the 21st Century,*  by W. R. Connor
-Readings on a Liberal Education* (Faculty Development, AASU)

RESOURCES FOR READERS 
-AddAll (Book Search & Price Comparison)
-Banned Books Online
-Bartleby.com (Great Books Online)
-The Booksmith
-The Compulsive Reader 
-Literary Resources on the Net (Jack Lynch)
-The Modern Word
-News and Newspapers Online (UNC at Greensboro)
-Oxford English Dictionary
-Powell's City of Books
-Shakespeare Online

RHETORIC & CLASSICAL EDUCATION  
-Brief Overview of Rhetoric (Joseph Petraglia-Bahri)
-Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (Kentucky Classics)
-House of Rhetoric
-Rhetoric (AASU)
-Rhetorical Terms (AASU)
-Rhetoric Resources at Georgia Tech

SULA, by Toni Morrison   
-Classroom Issues and Strategies (Sue Houchins)
-Notes on Sula (Contemporary World Lit., AASU)
-Oprah's Books: Sula Discussion(2001)
-The Salon Interview: Toni Morrison (1998)
-Spark Notes on Sula
-Study Questions and Notes (Contemporary Lit., AASU)
-Sula Links (April MacGrotty, 2001)

WHITE NOISE, by Don DeLillo  
"It's about fear, death, and technology. A comedy, of course." -- DeLillo quoted in 1984.
-Baudrillard 's Primitivism and White Noise, by Bradley Butterfield
-ClassicNotes on White Noise
-DeLillo's Radio Interview with Ray Suarez
-Discussion of White Noise
-Don DeLillo's America (Curt Gardner)
-Don DeLillo Society
-EBF: The Ernest Becker Foundation
-Ernest Becker Links
-Excerpts from The Denial of Death, by Ernest Becker
-A Letter from DeLillo on White Noise
-PinkMonkey Notes on White Noise
-Thinking about DeLillo's White Noise* (Philipp Schweighauser)
-Why White Noise? (physics of white noise)

* Resources marked by an asterisk are considered particularly useful for students enrolled in ENGL 2100H.

English 2100H is taught by Dr. Richard Nordquist.
Armstrong Atlantic State University
University Hall 297D
11935 Abercorn Street
Savannah, Georgia 31419
912-921-5991
e-mail: nordqudi@mail.armstrong.edu          

 
27 November 2002

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