Related Resources:
Recommended listening or viewing: David Thorburn, Masterworks of
Twentieth-Century Fiction (The Teaching Company, 2007). Available
from the film office, 14N-428.
Joseph Conrad
http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/authors/conrad/conradov.html
--Part of "The Victorian Web": literature, history and culture in the age of
Victoria. Contains good biographical sketch, chronology, cultural context;
essays on Conrad's imagery; information on initial publication context of Heart
of Darkness.
http://www.unityspot.com/arthurs/conrad.html
--eText collection of Conrad's novels.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/congo/congo_conrad031221.html
--Part of a website about the Congo reform movement in England. This is a
letter written by Conrad in 1903 to British Consul Roger Casement, in
support of him and the cause for reform in the Congo.
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/conrad.html
--A collection of links related to Heart of Darkness.
http://members.tripod.com/~JTKNK/
--The Joseph Conrad Foundation: contains essays on Conrad and his works; list
of theses and dissertations and some abstracts.
http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/conrad/
--Joseph Conrad Society of UK, with essays on Conrad that also
appear in their society journal.
http://www.literatureclassics.com/authors/Conrad/
--Website with collection of user-submitted essays on Conrad.
http://conrad-centre.w.interia.pl/pages/home_en.html
--Joseph Conrad Study Center and Museum in Ukraine. This site contains
photographs of Conrad, his family, friends and contemporaries, and
places in his life. Good biography and chronology.
Rudyard Kipling
http://www.kipling.org.uk/
--The Kipling Society: contains good biography; pictures of Kipling's
house; a collection of his poems.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/1457/
--Full text of a few Kipling poems, analysis of selected works.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/ai/kipling/
--Resources dealing with "The White Man's Burden" such as
editorials, cartoons, essays and other material published around 1899 in
response to the poem. Also links to other Kipling topics.
http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/
--eTexts of Kipling's novels and poems.
http://www.boop.org/jan/justso/
--eText of "Just So Stories" with original illustrations done by
Kipling from the first edition of the book.
Ford Madox Ford
http://www.rialto.com/fordmadoxford_society/
--Webpage of the Ford Madox Ford Society.
William Faulkner
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html
--Excellent website with good biography, Faulkner's works, analysis, information
about his hometown, glossary of Faulkner characters and terms.
http://www.uhb.fr/faulkner/WF/index.htm
--Faulkner Foundation: webpage with pictures of Rowan Oak, Faulkner's house.
http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/faulkner/faulkner.html
--Faulkner's Nobel Prize speech.
http://www6.semo.edu/cfs/
--Center for Faulkner Studies, Southern Missouri University: contains
mostly information
on the center. 'Teaching Faulkner Archives" section has some essays on his
works.
http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/
--The Mississippi Writers Page: good biography and pictures from
Faulkner's life.
http://www.usask.ca/english/faulkner/
--Hypertext version of The Sound and the Fury. The site includes critical
articles; an innovative "chronological" option for the
non-linear Benjy's section; and graphs that show many interesting
details of Benjy's psychology. There are also intertexts alluded to, or otherwise mentioned in the novel, such as the canticle by Saint Francis that Quentin refers to when he talks
about "Little Sister Death."
Isaac Babel
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/fiction/babel.htm
--Short biography and some links.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSbabel.htm
--Short biography of Babel.
http://www.sovlit.com/rasskazy/dolgushov.html
--eText of "The Death of Dogushov."
http://www.stanford.edu/%7Egfreidin/Publications/Babel.htm
--Good biography, Babel photo album, assorted essays.
Vladimir Nabokov
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/lifetimes/nabokov.html
--Articles on Nabokov and reviews of his works. Site includes RealAudio
of Nabokov reading excepts of his works in New York, 1964.
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/nabokov/
--Random House page on Nabokov centennial. Includes brief biography, and
an essay on Lolita.
http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/nabokov/
--Downloadable audio clip of Jeremy Irons reading excerpt from Lolita.
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vermeer/287/nabokov_s_metamorphosis.htm
--Nabokov's lecture on Kafka's "The Metamorphosis." Includes
scan of first page of Nabokov's teaching copy of the book, with notes
scribbled on it.
http://www.ardisbooks.com/pub_archives_vn1.asp
--Gallery of Nabokov photos.
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/zembla.htm
--Great biography with lots of pictures of Nabokov and his home; essays;
works; and audio files of Nabokov's readings at Harvard.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/books/1999/nabokov/
--CNN.com 1999 celebration of Nabokov, including an archive of
reviews and related Time Magazine articles, and an in-depth look at Lolita.
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/epo/nabokov/
--"Nabokov Under Glass": online gallery of images based on an exhibition
drawn from the Vladimir Nabokov Archive of the Berg Collection of English
and American Literature; contains scans of manuscripts, lecture notes, and
other documents.
James Joyce
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/english/seidel/joyce/
--Created by the Joyce scholar Michael Seidel, this wonderful site
includes audio versions of many of the
songs referred to and sung in Dubliners and Ulysses.
http://www.2street.com/joyce/
--Essays, photgraphs, and audio files; maps of Joyce locations.
http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/
--Website of the James Joyce Centre, Dublin. Good biography and gallery
of Joyce pictures.
http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/portal.html
--Large collection of Joyce links, organized in categories such
as maps, pictures, multimedia, and timelines.
http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/
--Essays, images, audio, and other multimedia including
music inspired by Joyce.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/01/09/specials/joyce.html
--A collection of New York Times articles on James Joyce.
http://www.grand-teton.com/service/Persons_Places/
--An extensive glossary of people and places, real and imaginary,
associated with Joyce and his works.
Virginia Woolf
http://jollyroger.com/zz/yna3d/VirginiaWoolfhall/live/chat.cgi
--A chatroom.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CLASS/workshop97/Gribbin/frames.html
--Collection of essays on Woolf and modernism.
http://www.riverman.fsbusiness.co.uk/vw.html
--Collection of links to articles on Woolf.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/malcolmi/vwframe.htm
--"Virginia Woolf's Psychiatric History": a detailed description
of Woolf's personality, history of illnesses and
breakdowns.
Franz Kafka
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/kafka.htm
--A short biography of Kafka.
http://www.kafka.org/
--Kafka works in German.
http://members.aol.com/KatharenaE/private/Philo/Kafka/kafka.html
--Brief paragraphs on Kafka and existentialism.
http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~eckel/Kafka/kafka.html
--Gallery of Kafka images.
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vermeer/287/
--A collection of assorted essays, articles, and pictures.
http://jollyroger.com/zz/yna3d/FranzKafkahall/shakespeare1.html
--Forum/message board for Kafka topics.
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