exagminations

This site is a place to dump notes, reflections, summaries and essays. Please be warned much of the material here is unreferenced and of varying degrees of usefulness/coherence.

Some of the links will now redirect you to the academic section of my blog, eastwords.

medieval

Dante: Inferno
Malory's Prose
General Prologue: Miller's Portrait
Sir Orfeo and The Franklin's Tale
Sentence and Solace: The Franklin and The Clerk
The Knight's Tale and Le Morte D'Arthur
Sir Gawain as Sinner-Hero
The Wife of Bath and the Wife of Bertilak
Sir Gawain and the Grail Quest
Disarming Sir Orfeo

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renaissance

John Webster: Duchess of Malfi
Shakespeare: Henry V
Shakespeare: Hamlet and The Tempest

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augustans

Defoe, Fielding and a Deluge of Authors
Defoe's Dishonesty, Shelley's Passivity: Intertexuality and Originality
Sewald's Poetry: Colebrooke Dale
Jonathan Swift - Satiric Excess
Defoe & Shelley - Intertextuality & Originality

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romantics

Shelley: Frankenstein
Hemans: The Rock at Calder Idris
Robinson: The Haunted Beach

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victorians

Clare: I am
Clough: Say Not The Struggle Naught Availeth
Bronte: Jane Eyre and Villette
George Eliot and Thomas Hardy
Realism and Romance in Gaskell
Gaskell's Social Change Novels
Browning: The Grand Perhaps
Neurasthenia: The Female Buried Life

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moderns

Chronotopes in the Waste Land and Burnt Norton
Care of the Self in The Waves
Woolf: Challening Literary Tradition
Woolf: Mourning
Reed: Chard Witlow
Yeats: All Things Can Tempt Me

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postcolonialism

Language Never Fits Geography: Derek Walcott’s Poems and the Post-Colonial Predicament
Supernatural Realism and Discredited Knowledge in Toni Morrison Beloved
A Funny Kind of Englishman: Hanif Kureishi’s Black Album and the Buddha of Suburbia
Double Quarrel: Emecheta's Joys of Motherhood & Aidoo's Changes
Mixedness and Marginality in Let Them Call It Jazz & Box Seat

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reading women's writing

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Aurora Leigh
Adapting the Bildungsroman in Bronte's Jane Eyre and Villette
Austen’s Little Bit of Ivory: Mansfield Park and Persuasion
Woolf: Challenging Literary Tradition
Mourning in Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and To The Lighthouse
Supernatural Realism and Discredited Knowledge in Toni Morrison Beloved
Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Toni Morrison's Beloved
Morrison: Beloved
Carter and Byatt: Magic Realism

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the novel

Henry James: The Ambassadors and Portrait of a Lady
Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness
Postmodern Dilemmas in Auster's City of Glass and Delilo's White Noise

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modern american literature

William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury
Searching for Identity: Silko's Ceremony,and Erdrich's Love Medicine
Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Toni Morrison's Beloved

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