English 2112- World Literature II A "sleeper agent" at work.

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Unit One:  The Essay

Unit Two:  The 18th Century/Islam

Lecture notes and Podcasts for the time I am gone to Daytona, June 9 -18, 2007
The Essay as Literature  (Then pick 4 from below) Coleridge, Samuel T.  Kubla Khan
Fadwa Tuqan  Song of Becoming		 Signification
Vonnegut's "Last Words for a Century" Excerpts (not the entire reading) from
The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan		      Podcast:  Signification  (1 of 3)    (direct link to file)
Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
podcast:  Audiobook version of "Modest Proposal" (Librivox.com)

Naguib Mahfouz's acceptance speech upon winning the 1988 Nobel prize for literature.  Mahfouz is the author of Zaalabawai (3) 797-811.

"Islam"
"Christianity and Islam"		      Podcast:  Signification  (2 of 3)    (direct link to file)
          "This I Believe" by Frank Miller
King's "Letter From a Birmingham Jail"   The Narrative Structures of Literature
     Podcast:  Narrative Structures (1 of 3) (direct link to file)
Sagan's "Crop Circles and Aliens"        Narrative Structures part 2
     Podcast:  Narrative Structures (2 0f 3)  (direct link to file)
       Podcast:  Narrative Structures  (3 of 3)  (direct link to file)
       Choose your Own Adventure Information
      An Online version of the CYOA genre
      Better CYOA examples from PBS online
     podcast:  Characters  (direct link to file)
Feynman's "Invitation to a new look at Physics"
     		    Setting
      podcast:  Setting  (direct link to file)
        From Theme to Genre 
      podcast:  Theme and Genre (part 1)  (direct link to file)
        podcast:  Generic Expectations (pt. 2)   (direct link to file)
        podcast:  Genre  (direct link to file)
      video:  TruthSeekerTV
      video:  Preview for "Jesus Camp" documentary
      video:  Revising History:  9/11
      video:  Unnecessary censorship
    The Gifts of the Greeks
       podcast:  Dramatic Gifts of the Greeks  (direct link to file)
        The Elements and Order of Drama
    First Take Home Examination
 Podcast:  Successfully Completing Take-Home Exams  (direct link to file)
Unit Three:  Science and Literature Unit Four:  Views of Slavery Unit Five:  America
Rene Descartes' Discourse on Method (2) pages 346 - 352  (link takes you to full text of essay) Oroonoko pages 88 - 140 The Declaration of Independence pages 556 -563
Descartes -lecture notes
 Rene Descartes  (direct link to file)  - podcast of lecture
Descartes on wiki

MP3 audiobook of Descartes' Discourse on Method from Librivox.org

 The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano pages 400-469 The Bill of Rights
Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man (2) pages 372 - 379  Link is to entire book online. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (2) pages 754 - 802 On Liberty (2) pages 834 - 839
Charles Darwin

MP3 audiobook of Darwin's Origin of Species from Librivox.Org

 The Souls of Black Folk (3) pages 860 - 872. The Communist Manifesto
Heart of Darkness (3) pages 30 - 96

Podcast:  Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Libivox)

  
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (2) pages 393 -396 Entire book online    
Frankenstein

MP3 audiobook of Frankenstein from Librivox.org

    
     
     

Unit Six:  Feminism

    
Feminist Criticism    
     podcast:  audiobook versions of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Librivox.com); or try the  Online text (free) at Gutenberg

or try the  Online text (free) at Gutenberg

      Consciousness
article:  Is there room for the soul?
wiki sez:  Consciousness
wiki sez:  mind/body problem
online etext:  Kant's, The Critique of Pure Reason.
article:  Neurobiotics:  The future of Thinking?

  

   

Online Versions of Texts Used in Class

 
Podcast:  Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Libivox)r  
podcast:  audiobook versions of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Librivox.com); or try the  Online text (free) at Gutenberg

or try the  Online text (free) at Gutenberg

 		  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

        General or Course related information

Writing Primer
Readings Assignments
A Writing Primer Reading Assignment 1
Questions of Fact, Value, or Policy Assignment 2:  Analyzing and Dividing
Beginning the Writing ...  
Attention Getting Devices  
Preview  
Body Paragraphs Podcast:  Research Primer  (direct link to file)
Concrete Examples  
Linking Statements  
Review, Restate, Tieback  
Argumentative Essays  
Sample of a B- C+ Essay  

Vividness and Clarity
Podcast: Vividness and Clarity   (direct link to file)

 Assignment 3:  Vividness and clarity
Sample Essay Topics More Sample Essay Topics
Common Critical Marks and What They Mean Assignment 4:  Puttin' it all together
  Reading Assignment 2

 

 

 
Great Books of the Western World
Etexts of many of the classics from the Great Books series. Includes Shakespeare's plays.

Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet
A worldwide collection covering every age.

The Otis Index
Online books index and publications index--and more.

The On-line Books Page
Searchable by author and title. Browsing also available.

The Etext Archives
Etexts of all kinds: books, magazines, and even sections on religion and law.

Two secrets for success in college

The importance of a liberal arts education
 


I'm in this comics panel as a character.  Pretty cool, huh?
 Atlas (#2 or 3), (written and Drawn By the remarkable, hyper-talented, Bruce Zick) ©Dark Horse Comics.

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