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Teaching 'The Great Gatsby' With The New York Times Update | April 25, 2013 We now have an all-new version of this post, updated for the new movie with teaching ideas as well as both the resources below and many new ones. Find it here. A few years ago, Adam Cohen noted on the Opinion page that Jay Gatsby was at the top of a list of the 100 best fictional characters since 1900. He went on to discuss how and why Gatsby – the “cynical idealist, who embodies America in all its messy glory” – is still relevant, perhaps more than ever. Do your students still relate to Gatsby? We offer these resources on, and related to, F. Lesson Plans Student Crossword Puzzles Times Topics Resources From NYTimes.com From the Archives: Scott Fitzgerald Looks Into Middle Age Original 1925 Times review of “The Great Gatsby” (PDF).Scott Fitzgerald, Author, Dies at 44 The Times’s obituary on F. On Class and Wealth: What Happens to the American Dream in a Recession? On “Gatsby” Characters: On the Novel’s Setting: On the Fitzgeralds: On Adaptations:
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American Writers | Series About this Writer As a member of the Separatist movement within Puritanism, Bradford migrated to Holland in 1609 in search of religious freedom and lived 11 years in Leiden. In 1620 he helped organize the Mayflower's expedition to the New World. To bind the group into a political body, Bradford helped draft the important Mayflower Compact en route to America. Once on land, he helped select the site for the new colony. In 1621, after the colony's first, disastrous winter, he was unanimously elected governor, and he served in that position for some 30 years between 1621 and 1656. Though lacking in formal education, Bradford possessed native literary ability. Featured Works Mourt's Relation Of Plymouth Plantation A Dialog Between Some Young Men & Sundry Ancient Men Featured Place Plimoth Plantation Plymouth, MA Plimoth Plantation is the living history museum of seventeenth century Plymouth Colony.
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Literary Resources -- American (Lynch) This page is part of the Literary Resources collection maintained by Jack Lynch of Rutgers – Newark. Comments and suggestions are welcome. American Literature See also the Ethnicities and Nationalities page. Calls for Papers From Penn's list. Voice of the Shuttle — American Literature The best set of links. ALB1876: American Libraries before 1876 Nearly ten thousand records on early American libraries. American Authors (Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya Univ., Japan) Very extensive list of links to hundreds of Americanist sites. American Literature (Daniel Anderson, Texas) Hypertext editions of Crane, Faulkner, Gilman, Hansberry, Hawthorne, Hughes, Hurston, Irving, Jewett, Melville, Norris, and others. American Literature on the Web (Akihito Ishikawa, Nagasaki College of Foreign Languages) A usefully organized set of links to Americanist sites, with chronologies. American Studies at the University of Virginia American Studies Electronic Crossroads (Georgetown) Excerpts from the 19th-c. women's magazine. Drama
10 of the best books set in London | Travel Colin MacInnes, Absolute Beginners, 1959 It evocatively celebrates a time and a place – 1958, Notting Hill – where youthful rebellion and multiculturalism are stirring out of London's post-war slumber. "Cool, this is London, not some hick city in the provinces! This is London, man, a capital, a great big city where every kind of race has lived ever since the Romans." • Notting Hill Helen Simpson, Title story from Constitutional, 2005 A teacher makes the most of her lunch-hour on Hampstead Heath, enjoying the views and the snippets of conversation. "From that hill up there to my left it's possible to see for miles, and on a clear day I can pinpoint my road in Dalston. Monica Ali, Brick Lane, 2003 In Monica Ali's novel, Chanu and his family discover a rich and varied London, including the delights of the East End's Brick Lane. "Nazneen walked a step behind her husband down Brick Lane. Sukhdhev Sandhu, Night Haunts, 2006 "The streets of London are made from gold. "Implacable November weather.
Introduction - Language of the Land | Exhibitions America always! . . . . Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities, travelers, Kanada, the snows; Always these compact lands — lands tied at the hips with the belt stringing the huge oval lakes; Always the West, with strong native persons All sights, South, North, East — all deeds, promiscuously done at all times, All characters, movements, growths. . . . Walt Whitman, American Vistas From Robert Frost's New England farms to John Steinbeck's California valleys to Eudora Welty's Mississippi Delta, American authors have shaped our view of America's regional landscapes in all their astonishing variety. Given the country's history as a nation of immigrants, it is not surprising that a major theme of American literature is exploration, the need to see what is over the horizon. The exhibit's four regional sections feature the voices of writers deeply rooted in a particular place. This exhibition was made possible by a generous grant from the Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Fund.
‘Shame and Wonder,’ by David Searcy Photo “When people talk about style they are always a little astonished at the newness of it,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, “because they think that it is only style that they are talking about.” But uncommon literary style is always integrative, both the mother and the daughter of invention, wrought from a writer’s desperation “to express a new idea with such force that it will have the originality of the thought.” Astonishment is a quality central to David Searcy’s “Shame and Wonder,” a nonfiction collection from a writer best known for two horror-inflected novels, “Ordinary Horror” and “Last Things.” Continue reading the main story Searcy is drawn instinctively to moments, the way parcels of time expand and contract in memory, conjuring from ordinary experience a hidden sense of all that is extraordinary in the world, in being alive. “The religious and the modernist impulse seem to spring from the same engulfing moment of self-consciousness and doubt. Essays By David Searcy
American Studies @ The University of Virginia E-texts of Fiction and Poetry On-line Journals E-Texts of Fiction and Poetry Introduction: Presently, a variety of different organizations, ranging from large publishing houses to universities, maintain on-line libraries. Large, On-line Compendiums of E-text Sites: Digital Book Index Digital Book Index is connected to a number of the largest on-line archives, thereby allowing its users to access over 80,000 e-texts by noted American and foreign writers. The Online Books Page Maintained by the University of Pennsylvania. Other Important E-text Sites: American Hypertexts Collection Maintained by the University of Virginia. Bartleby Like other on-line libraries, Bartleby contains a large collection of literature and poetry that can be accessed via the Web. Documenting the American South Maintained by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Electronic Text Center Maintained by the University of Virginia. Ibiblio Library Electronic Text Resource Service Maintained by Indiana University. HarpWeek