Short Fiction
Literature Web Links:
1/9/12
Kate Chopin:
http://www.katechopin.org/
Read The Story of an Hour Online:
http://www.pbs.org/katechopin/library/storyofanhour.html
The Story of an Hour Read Aloud:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C7Q8N_IXo8
John Updike:
Biography:
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/upd0bio-1
Read A & P Online:
http://www.tiger-town.com/whatnot/updike/
Alice Walker
Alice Walker Interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGYCTUTXdKE
Alice Walker Profile:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJR86ncuMgE
Nathaniel Hawthorne:
Biography:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLtotbVIXuU&feature=results_video&playnext
=1&list=PL3A73EA2439CB6BE4
http://www.biography.com/people/nathaniel-hawthorne-9331923
The Birthmark Analysis:
http://www.shmoop.com/birthmark/literary-devices.html
http://gramatrudy.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/woman-in-isolation-an-analysisof-hawthornes-the-birth-mark/
Flannery O’Connor:
Biography:
http://mediaspecialist.org/
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/flannery.htm
Flannery O’Connor Studies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmFwONuCnXc
Flannery O’Connor Roundtable:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZjKG4jI2_I&feature=related
James Baldwin:
Biography:
http://www.biography.com/people/james-baldwin-9196635/videos/jamesbaldwin-mini-bio-2174106011
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/james-baldwin/about-theauthor/59/
http://www.biography.com/people/james-baldwin-9196635
Baldwin Debates William F Buckley Jr. :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbkObXxSUus
Entire Debate:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/videodir/asx2/2299.asx
Tim O’Brien:
Biography:
http://www.illyria.com/tob/tobbio.html
An Interview with Tim O’Brien:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vcmASDmEr8
Reading from The Things They Carried:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE6e0YyUIA8&feature=related
Isabelle Allende:
Interview Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiXHFk3dNcY&feature=related
Interview Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMpb-czs23I&feature=related
Interview Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc706rNWoZo&feature=related
Writing Process:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyHlcM7Yt14&feature=related
Allende at National Book Festival:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lRL2aiuLi4
Joyce Carol Oates:
Biography and analysis:
http://www.usfca.edu/jco/
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/oat0bio-1
Sherman Alexie:
http://www.fallsapart.com/index
On Native America Authors:
http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A1
Interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWolPAoDk3g
Young Adult Fiction Panel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwiQb8OQ6dY
William Faulkner:
Biography and analysis:
http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/%7Eegjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html
Kurt Vonnegut:
http://www.vonnegut.com/
Mini Biography:
http://www.biography.com/people/kurt-vonnegut-9520329/videos/kurtvonnegut-mini-bio-2174072989
Poets:
Andrew Marvell
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/andrew-marvell
Robert Browning:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-browning
“My Last Duchess” Read Aloud
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173024
W. H. Auden:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/w-h-auden
John Donne:
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/john-donne
John Milton:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/john-milton
Percy Bysshe Shelly:
http://www.biography.com/people/percy-bysshe-shelley-9481527
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175903
Edward Arlington Robinson:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/edwin-arlington-robinson
Paul Laurence Dunbar:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/paul-laurence-dunbar
Countee Cullen:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/countee-cullen
Sharon Olds:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/sharon-olds
Langston Hughes:
http://www.biography.com/people/langston-hughes-9346313
http://www.biography.com/people/langston-hughes-9346313/videos/langstonhughes-mini-bio-2174109638
Langston Hughes and his Poetry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpItYHdP8Q&feature=BFa&list=PL27684D2C
F03F0428&lf=results_main
Emily Dickinson:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/emily-dickinson
http://www.biography.com/people/emily-dickinson-9274190
Wilfred Owen:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/wilfred-owen
Dylan Thomas:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/dylan-thomas
Billy Collins:
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/278
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/billy-collins
Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/alfred-tennyson
http://www.biography.com/people/alfred-tennyson-9504013
Ulysses Read Aloud:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSbrvQ9u0C0&feature=related
T. S. Eliot
Biography:
http://www.biography.com/people/ts-eliot-9286072
Prufrock read by Anthony Hopkins:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLNsPhKlucY&feature=related
Dante:
http://www.biography.com/people/dante-9265912
Greek Myth:
Biographies of Greek characters and stories:
http://www.maicar.com/GML/
Greek Theater:
http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110tech/theater.html
http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/Theatre/
Dramatists:
Sophocles:
Biography:
http://www.theatredatabase.com/ancient/sophocles_001.html
Ralph Fiennes as Oedipus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06DUpYitquI&feature=related
Oedipus Opera directed by Julie Taymor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfb2iS4kapU&feature=related
Oedipus Read Aloud: Part 1-7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAXHRAnS4N8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3G99NFN710&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyyTE4yzBCQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsU_xnSgoJE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKAcocy_k3o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7taKqh-GQRU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_QNv214svs&feature=related
Renaissance Drama:
Globe Theater:
http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/
http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-globe-theatre.htm
William Shakespeare:
Biography
http://www.biography.com/people/william-shakespeare-9480323
Shakespeare said it first:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzz5j8pfddg&feature=related
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/
Othello:
Excerpt read by James Earl Jones:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_evRg7HuuSc&feature=related
Othello at the Globe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByLN68cgDz4
Othello Movie Trailer: (Recommended Version)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114057/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ-8ihr_VXU
Kenneth Branagh as Iago (1.3):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fItEfJhf0oc&feature=related
Othello and Iago Act 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrIc3eINXT4&feature=related
Othello Act 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q0H-V5Qvp0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THTR1IzFWS0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqB7mpaLY2Y&feature=related
Modern Versions of Othello:
O
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184791/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz1NIOjkJi0
Othello:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275577/
Hamlet
Play analysis:
http://shakespeare-online.com/plays/hamlet/hamletcharacter.html
Scenes:
Zeffirelli Trailer: (2 hour version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM5zWItpSMc
Branagh Trailer: (4 hour version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rd74Gniz-A&feature=related
Hamlet Modern Version Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjCIFBESG58&feature=related
3.1 To be or not to be…
Kenneth Branagh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JD6gOrARk4
David Tennant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzuEKkPVeBQ&feature=related
Hamlet and Ophelia analysis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJI-Szzj7p0&feature=related
Hamlet and Ophelia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBlOmXnO3o4&feature=related
The madness of Ophelia:
Helena Bonham Carter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfcsP-eKJF8&feature=related
Kate Winslet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74YTzl7vFEs&feature=related
5.1 Gravedigger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXixlEy5Gfc&feature=related
5.2 The Duel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbRnOQmmZY0&feature=related
Tennessee Williams:
Biography:
http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/williams_tennessee/index.html
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/tennessee-williams/abouttennessee-williams/737/
Henrik Ibsen:
http://www.biography.com/people/henrik-ibsen-37014
Read A Doll’s House online (slightly different translation):
http://www.classicreader.com/book/2011/
A Doll’s House Analysis:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/goldman/Writings/Drama/doll.html
Susan Glaspell:
Trifles:
http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/wohlpart/alra/glaspell.htm