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Cal Poly Univ.: Metaphysical Poetry & English Composition
A wonderful essay by Steven Marx of Cal Poly University about teaching metaphysical poetry. Gives insight to the literary style and the poets Donne, Herbert, and Marvell.
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Leaving Home: e.m. Forster and the Pursuit of Higher Values
This in-depth, insightful article from "Western Buddist Review" examines the theme of leaving home as it relates to several of Forster's works (e.g., "The Road to Colonus," "The Machine Stops," and "Howards End.")
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British Library: 20th Century Works: High Rise
"High-Rise" is the final book in a quartet of novels by J.G. Ballard. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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Bibliomania: "The Secret Agent" by Joseph Conrad, Text and Notes
Complete text of Joseph Conrad's novel "The Secret Agent."
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Heart of Darkness
Complete text of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," the inspiration for the movie "Apocalypse Now." It has been edited only to the extent that the web publisher has separated each chapter into five sections to fit his "Chapter a Day,"...
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University of Nottingham: d.h. Lawrence Bibliography
This selected bibliography lists the novels of D. H. Lawrence, including poems, short stories, plays, travel writings, fiction, translations, essays and more.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: The Deep Blue Sea
Read an overview of "The Deep Blue Sea" by Terence Rattigan and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Top Girls
Written by Caryl Churchill in 1982, "Top Girls" was one of the first plays to engage directly with Thatcherism. Read an overview of "Top Girls" and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and videos.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Read an overview of "The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories" by Angela Carter and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: The Black Album
Read an overview of "The Black Album" by Hanif Kureishi and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Nights at the Circus
Read an overview of "Nights at the Circus" by Angela Carter and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: My Beautiful Laundrette
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) was the first screenplay by Hanif Kureishi. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles and collection items.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: In Praise of Love and Children
"In Praise of Love and Children" by Beryl Gilroy is a novel that tells of the experiences of Caribbean migration and celebrates community. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher...
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British Library: 20th Century Teaching Resources: Angela Carter's Wise Children
In these activities, young scholars will focus on a wealth of drafting material and writer's notebooks to reveal how Angela Carter created her final comic novel, "Wise Children". They will closely examine fascinating source documents and...
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British Library: 20th Century: Angela Carter's the Bloody Chamber
These activities offer students a unique opportunity to examine how a writer crafts a narrative. By exploring many of Angela Carter's early drafts, students will uncover how she created her ground-breaking short story collection, "The...
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1948: Thomas Stearns Eliot
This Nobel Prize site provides hyperlinks (on the far right) to the press release announcing the award to T.S. Eliot (1888-1965 CE), a short biography of his life, the introduction of Eliot to the Academy, and Eliot's acceptance speech....
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Waiting for Godot
Read an overview of the play "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: To the Lighthouse
Read an overview of "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Wolff and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Their Lonely Betters
'Their Lonely Betters' is a short, four-stanza lyric poem by W.H. Auden. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: The Waste Land
'The Waste Land' is a long poem by the American writer T.S Eliot. Read an overview and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: 20th Century Works: Howards End
Read an overview of "Howards End" by E.M. Forster and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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British Library: Teaching Resources: Romeo and Juliet: Words, Poetry & Plagiarism
In these activities, students will conduct a close linguistic exploration of the Romeo and Juliet text, which considers the central and deadly role that words play in the lovers' fate. They will also engage in broader tasks that...
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British Library: Teaching Resources: Othello: The Challenges of Staging the Play
These activities encourage young people to join the debate about how to stage and cast Othello. They will debate the pros and cons of different productions and plan how they would stage the play if they could do so themselves. Included...
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U. Oxford: Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature
Seminars, lesson plans, publications, pictures, and poetry make this a very useful resource for language arts or social studies lessons involving World War I and its poetry.
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