Katherine Mansfield | Bobbie Ann Mason | Guy de Maupassant | Herman Melville | Yukio Mishima |
Alice Munro

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Joyce Carol Oates | Tim O'Brien | Flannery O'Connor | Frank O'Connor | Tillie Olsen

Grace Paley | Edgar Allan Poe | Katherine Anne Porter

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Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), Litlinks Fiction (Bedford/St. Martins, 1998-1999)
Short biography of Mansfield.
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/fiction/mansfield.htm

Katherine Mansfield Web Page
http://www.buffnet.net/~starmist/kmansfld/kmansfld.htm
This page includes biographical information, a chronology of Mansfield's life, and photographs.

"Reading Katherine Mansfield as 'Selective Cultural Archaeology,'" by Alice Hennessy.  Deep South (Univ. of Otago, New Zealand) 3.2 (Winter 1997).
Literary E-zine from the University of Otago, New Zealand, features this scholarly article by Alice Hennessy.
http://www.otago.ac.nz/DeepSouth/vol3no2/alice.html

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Fine, Laura.  "Going Nowhere Slow: The Post-South World of Bobbie Ann Mason."  Southern Literary Journal 32.1 (Fall 1999): 87 (11pp).  Rpt. EbscoHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 2689288.  [Full text available.]
Abstract:  "Discusses author Bobbie Ann Mason's portrayal of the Southern States in her short stories. Author's reference to her characters' southern locale and speech; Lower-middle class white heterosexuals as principal characters of the author; Portrayal of religious hypocrites."

Houston, Pam.  "A Hopeful Sign: The Making of Metonymic Meaning in Munro's 'Meneseteung.'"  Kenyon Review 14.4 (Fall 1992): 79 (14pp).  Rpt. EbscoHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 9308115219.  [Full text available.]
Abstract:  "Expresses the idea that Munro's story presents metonymy not simply as dependence and lack, but as unlimited creative possibility. Uncomplicatedness of male characters; Difference between masculine and feminine thought-processes; Metaphor and metonymy; Desire and the phallus; Brooks' concept of narrative desire; Need to narrate in `Meneseutung'."

Mason, Bobbie Ann.  "Stranger than Fiction."  Writer 112.9 (September 1999): 16 (3pp).  EbscoHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 2132401.  [Full Text available.]
Abstract:  "Relates the concerns of a memoirist. Comparison between fiction and non-fiction writing; Insight on Vladimir Nabokov's `Speak Memory.'"
From the Article:  "I AM EMERGING FROM THE MEMOIR--that dubious but ubiquitously anti-post-modern engagement--with a sheepish grin on my face. I had never intended to write one."

Mason, Bobbie Ann.  "The Three Wheeler."  Atlantic Monthly 287.6 (June 2001): 76 (5pp).  EbscoHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 4444456
Presents the full text of Mason's short story "Three Wheeler."

Pollack, Harriet.  "From 'Shiloh' to 'In Country' to 'Feather Crowns': Bobbie Ann Mason, Women's History, and Southern . . ."  Southern Literary Journal 28.2 (Spring 1996): 95 (22pp.)  Rpt. EbscoHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 9607084836.  [Full text available.]
Abstract:  "Focuses on women's history as related to the contextualization of taboos of gender behaviors, class and race relationships in Bobbie Ann Mason's novels. Transitional periods in the landscape and values of twentieth-century America; Use of alternative identities."

Thompson, Terry.  "Mason's 'Shiloh."  Explicator 54.1 (Fall 1995): 54 (5pp.).  Rpt. EbscoHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 9602141700.  [Full text available.]
Abstract:  "Presents an analysis of Bobbie Ann Mason's novel `Shiloh'. Setting of the novel; Concentration on the two characters of novel; Mason's perspective on novel."

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Maupassant, Guy de. Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library). You can also search "The Modern English Collection" of electronic texts [e.g. click "M" to access Maupassant e-text available] at: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html
....On "front matter" webpage [linked to Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life], scroll down past images and Table of Contents, to find "Guy de Maupassant," a critical preface by Paul Bourges, and "Introduction," by Robert Arnot.

Guy de Maupassant (The ACCESS INDIANA Teaching & Learning Center):
http://tlc.ai.org/demaupas.htm [Sorry, link broken as of 9/01]

"The Necklace," by Guy de Maupassant (Gary Lindquist, Classic Short Stories): E-text: http://www.bnl.com/shorts/stories/necklace.html 
[Sorry, link broken as of 9/01]

"Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant" (Project Gutenberg E-text v.#1 in series by Maupassant):
ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/etext/gutenberg/etext96/swgem10.txt
[Sorry, link broken as of 9/01]
...But try searching the Project Gutenberg site yourself:]
http://www.gutenberg.net/
Official & Original Project Gutenberg Web Site & Home Page:
http://promo.net/pg/

Allen, Glen Scott.  Rev. of Maupassant and the American Short Story: The Influence of Form at the Turn of the Century.  By Richard Fusco (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994).  Studies in Short Fiction 33.2 (Spring 1996): 307 (3pp).  Rpt. EbscoHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 758332.  [Full Text available.]
From the review:  "In this well-researched and at moments insightful book, Richard Fusco argues that Maupassant's bad rap as first and foremost the inventor and disseminator of the "trick ending" is undeserved. What Fusco feels Maupassant does deserve is recognition as perhaps the single most important influence on American short story writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, particularly Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, Henry James, and of course O. Henry."  Fusco differentiates among types of trick endings and "develops his own seven categories of stories--from the simplest (linear) to most complex (sinusoidal)--based on their varying 'placement and number of discovery points for the reader.' The first two chapters, in which Fusco limits himself to a thorough and interesting analysis of narrative structure in Maupassant, are the best of the book."

Dias, Earl J., and Guy de Maupassant.  "The Necklace"  [Drama].  Plays 56.5 (March 1997): 54(10pp).  Rpt. EbscoHost Academic Search Elite, Article No.9702093525. [Full Text Available.]
Abstract:  "Presents the play `The Necklace,' by Guy de Maupassant, adapted by Earl J. Dias. Characters; Playing time; Costumes; Properties; Setting; Lighting; Sound."

Hottell, Ruth A. "The Delusory Denouement and Other Strategies in Maupassant's Fantastic Tales."  The Romantic Review 85.4 (Nov. 1994): 573(14). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A17474735

Jobst, Jack W., and W. J. Williamson.  "Hemingway and Maupassant: More Light on 'The Light of the World.'"  Hemingway Review 13.2 (Spring 1994): 52 (10pp.)  EbscoHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 9407182851.  [Full text available.]
Abstract:  "Compares the short story `La Maison Tellier,' by Guy Maupassant and the short story `The Light of the World,' by Ernest Hemingway. Parallels in the lives of Hemingway and Maupassant; Hemingway's study of Maupassant's short stories; Strong affinities of characterization, technique and theme in the two stories; Maupassant's ironic references to religion and Hemingway's religious symbolism.

Sosnoff, Martin.  "False Values."  Forbes 3 June 1996: 180.  Rpt. EbscoHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 9605237508.  [Full Text Available.]
Abstract:  "Opinion. Reflects on how the values of the rich, as shown by the Jackie sale where $34 million were spent at auction for household goods and keepsakes by the top one percent of the population. The Guy de Maupassant short story `The Necklace,' whose moral is that coveting false values costs one dearly; Wondering if we have started another cycle of trophy investing comparable to that of the mid-to-late 1980s."

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Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street: An Interactive Version (Daniel Anderson & his American Lit survey students, Univ. of Texas) including E-text & student discussion
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/bartleby/bartleby.html

Herman Melville (1819-1891) http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/melville.html
from "Chapter 3: Early Nineteenth Century - Romanticism" (Paul P. Reuben, PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide)

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Mishima Yukio Cyber Museum
http://www.vill.yamanakako.yamanashi.jp/bungaku/mishima/index-e.html
...Mishima Yukio: Chronological History
...Mishima's Literary Works
...Mishima Yukio Museum dedicated to "Propagation and Research of Mishima Yukio's Literature."

"Mishima Yukio (1927-1970)" Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Columbia University Press, 2000.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/08553.html

Yukio Mishima, 1927-1970 (Fawaz El-Habel)
http://impact.civil.columbia.edu/~fawaz/mishima.html

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Featured Author: Alice Munro - Bibliography of "News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times," plus photo.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/01/specials/munro.html

A Conversation with Alice Munro (Reading Group Center, Vintage Books, Random House, no date) with brief biography.
http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/secrets/munro.html

"Alice Munro's The Love of a Good Woman" (Infoculture, CBC Radio, Canada, 2001)
http://www.infoculture.cbc.ca/archives/bookswr/bookswr_07122000_munro.phtml

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Celestial Timepiece: A Joyce Carol Oates Home Page (Randy Souther, reference librarian, Gleeson Library/Geschke Learning Resource Center, University of San Francisco): rich site with many resources!
http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/jco.html
...A Brief Biography from Greg Johnson's A Reader's Guide to the Recent Novels of Joyce Carol Oates:
http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/jco.bio.html
...Research/Criticism: JCO Bibliography:
http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/criticism.html
...Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? [bibliography of reviews/criticism of Oates's short story]:
http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/wgoing2.html
..."Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" [e-text: First published in Epoch, Fall 1966]:
http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/wgoing.html
...Film Adaptations [of Oates' work]: Smooth Talk (1985):
http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/smoothtalk.html
...lyrics of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," by Bob Dylan (1965):
http://orad.dent.kyushu-u.ac.jp/dylan/itsalovr.html
...Portraits [of Oates from book jacket covers]:
http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/jco.portraits1.html

See also these Eng 104 webpages: [These are being moved - Cora needs to fix!]
Smooth Talk & Film Adaptations
Film Basics: Learning to "Read" and Write about Film

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Tim O'Brien on the WWW (Marilyn Knapp Litt, illyria.com) extensive links and bibliographies:
http://www.illyria.com/tobsites.html
...Partial Bibliography - Tim O'Brien (Marilyn Knapp Litt, illyria.com, 03/29/96), including Vietnam related links
http://www.illyria.com/timbib.html
..."Retelling the Story: O'Brien's Use of Repetition for Effect," by Marilyn Knapp Litt (Conference Paper, Popular Culture Association, Las Vegas, NV, March 1996): http://www.illyria.com/tobmkl.html

"The Things He Carried: Tim O'Brien on Love, Murder, and Vietnam" [Interview & review] (Dave Edelman, rpt. from Baltimore City Paper, Feb. 1994): http://members.aol.com/dabug/obrien.htm

"Vietnam Recollections Relive the War's Surreal Horror" [Rev. of The Things They Carried] (by Mark Webster, MIT; Rpt. from The Tech 110.22 [27 Apr. 1990]: 8): http://www-tech.mit.edu/V110/N22/thing.22a.html

"Tim O'Brien: An Introduction to His Writing," (Ken Lopez - Bookseller, 1997):
http://www.lopezbooks.com/articles/obrien.html
Articles & Essays by Ken Lopez at this website also include "The Literary Legacy of the Vietnam War"(1992) : http://www.lopezbooks.com/articles/vnfirsts.html

"Plausibility of Denial: Tim O'Brien, My Lai, and America," by H. Bruce Franklin (Rutgers Univ.-Newark; article rpt. from The Progressive, December 1994] : http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~hbf/obrien.html

O'Brien, Tim (Felice Aull, New York University):
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/o.brien851-au-.html

Re: Vietnam - Stories Since the War (P.O.V./PBS) "Explores individual perspectives on the Vietnam War"
http://www.pbs.org/pov/stories/

Calloway, Catherine. "'How to Tell a True War Story': Metafiction in The Things They Carried." CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 36.4(Summer 1995): 249(9pp). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A17387115.
Abstract: "Tim O'Brien's novel about the Vietnam war presents the impossibility of knowing 'what really happened' then and there. What is clearly presented, though, is the fact that there are many ways of perceiving everything in life, even war and including the writing of fiction or metafiction. His ambiguity, both in structure and style, creates these numerous levels of perception."

Chen, Tina. "'Unraveling the Deeper Meaning': Exile and
the Embodied Poetics of Displacement in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried." Contemporary Literature 39.1(Spring 1998): 77(22pp). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A20584821.
Abstract: "Tim O'Brien's collection of short stories The Things They Carried portrays the Vietnam War as a psychic drama without the glamour typical of postmodernism. The stories emphasize the contradictions inherent in war, such as the subversion of moral code and the flexibility of truth. O'Brien uses war to address the world's complexity and lack of definitive concepts."

Coffey, Michael. "Tim O'Brien: Inventing a New Form Helps the Author Talk about War, Memory and Storytelling." [Interview] Publishers Weekly 16 Feb. 1990: 60(2pp). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A8362759. 
Winning the 1979 National Book Award brought this "modest, self-effacing writer into the limelight." The Things They Carried is "a unified narrative, with chapters that stand perfectly on their own...but which together render deeper continuities of character and thought....'My goal was to write something utterly convincing but without any rules as to what's real and what's made up.'" "'....If there is one fundamental thing....it's that I want to write stories that are good. To do that requires a sense of passion, and my passion as a human being and as a writer intersect in Vietnam....'"  "[T]he subject of storytelling itself, not only as an act but as an issue, is the thread that binds this collection [The Things They Carried]. 'If there is a theme to this whole book it has to do with the fact that stories can save lives,' says O'Brien...."

Kaplan, Steven. "The Undying Uncertainty of the Narrator in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried." CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 35.1 (Fall 1993): 43(10pp). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A14773838.
Abstract: "Tim O'Brien's novel The Things They Carried conveys the anguish of a narrator who was an American soldier in the Vietnam War. The moral ambiguity of the cause, coupled with the incomprehension of the troops, show through in the narrator's difficulty in understanding the war 20 years later. He makes a return trip to Vietnam and goes to the battle site where one of his friends and fellow soldiers was killed, and searches for meaning in the site. But the only meaning to be found is the certainty of location."

Lee, Don. "About Tim O'Brien." Ploughshares 21.4 (Winter 1995): 196(6pp). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A17788847.
Abstract: "Tim O'Brien is one of the many reluctant soldiers sent to Vietnam
who contemplated running away to Canada. The best thing for him that came out of that war, aside from surviving, was writing about it. It did take its toll: after his sixth book, In the Lake of the Woods, he announced that he was going to stop writing, distressing many of his readers. The good news is that he is now back to writing, realizing what it is for: communication."

Mort, John. "The Booklist Interview: Tim O'Brien." Booklist 22.1(August 1994): 1990(2pp). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A15816344.
Brief Summary: "O'Brien believes that evil is in everyone and surfaces a lot during war.
He is one of the most noted fiction writers on the Vietnam War, and his own experiences there give his books an autobiographical flavor. O'Brien [also] discusses his latest work, In the Lake of the Woods."

Passaro, Vince. Rev. of The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1990; Viking- Penguin, 1991). Harper's Magazine August 1999: 80(9pp). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A55266681.
The title is a misnomer: this article is less a review focused on O'Brien's collection
than a more general critical appreciation of the "innovative and rich" short fictions emerging in the 1990s, set against a critical historical survey of the American short story, its major practitioners, periods, and ups and downs in the U.S. periodical and book market. The American short story today is judged "more various, more successfully experimental, more urbane, funnier, and more bitingly ironic than that written in the Hemingway tradition. ...more idiosyncratic in its voices, less commercial, and more expansive in its approach to the requirements of art." Passaro does call O'Brien's collection "complex and beautiful Vietnam soldiers' tales," playing with "the embattled terrain of a soldier's memory, with his embellishments of memories in conscious reconstructions--stories told, then corrected--to startling and intriguing effects in narrative and language.

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A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Daniel Anderson & his American Lit survey students, Univ. of Texas):
E-text excerpts, student essays, & links
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/reader/south/good.html

Close Readings of Short Fiction (by Neil Probst, Auburn Univ.-Montgomery, Alabama): Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/3141/readings.html

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/oconnor.html
from Chapter 10: Late Twentieth Century - (Paul P. Reuben, PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide)

A South Without Myths--Alice Walker on Flannery O'Conner (Sojourners Online Magazine 23.10 [December 1994 - January 1995]: Alice Walker discusses the influence of Flannery O'Conner's works on her own.
http://www.sojourners.com/soj9412/941213.html

O'Connor, Flannery (Felice Aull, Ph.D., New York University):
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/o.connor115-au-.html
...Everything that Rises Must Converge, annotated by Felice Aull
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/o.connor86-des-.html

Bandy, Stephen C. "'One of my babies': The Misfit and the Grandmother." Studies in Short Fiction 33.1(Winter 1996): 107(11pp). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A19638483.
Abstract: "Flannery O'Connor's interpretation of her short story 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find' as one of redemption and grace is not borne out by the story. She portrays the grandmother's touch of the Misfit and her declaration that he is one of her children as a Christ-like gesture, transferring grace from a good woman to a bad man, leading eventually, outside the frame of the story, to his salvation. It is more consistent with her depicted character to view the grandmother's gesture and remakr as the ultimate selfish act, designed to save her life at any cost. She and the Misfit are fundamentally the same."

Martin, Regis. "Remembering Flannery O'Connor." National Review 19 Oct. 1984: 52(4pp). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A3480457.
On the twentieth anniversary of O'Connor's death, Regis responds to the frequently asked question: "...what manner of woman was she?" He responds as "an enraptured veteran of all the O'Connor stories." In these stories, O'Connor reveals her soul as well as her craft: "How could it be otherwise with human beings? We are creatures shaped, after all, almost entirely by our choices, which is to say, by ourselves." "We are, finally and forever, what we do...," Regis opines. O'Connor "knew the mysterious and apocalyptic cast to the human story. 'My subject in fiction,' she wrote once, 'is the action of grace in territory held largely by the devil.'" Twenty years after her death, Regis remembers O'Connor's "moral style," a product of "her character, and its extraordinary capacity to work" courageously in the devil's terrain.

Schilling, Timothy P. "Trying to See It Straight: Flannery O'Connor & the Business of Writing." Commonweal 3 Nov. 1995: 14(2pp). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A17501550.
Abstract: "Flannery O'Connor, one of the 20th century's most noteworthy Catholic American writers, spent much of her life striving to find a balance between the tenets of her Christian faith and the demands of modern fiction writing.  O'Connor's letters shed light on her approaches to realism and religion."

Sloan, Gary. "O'Connor's 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find.'" The Explicator 57.2(Winter 1999): 118(3pp). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A3480457.
Abstract: "The character of the Misfit in Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find' has been interpreted as a man of intellect. However, the story does not support this view. Rather, the Misfit is a criminal who wants to continue his career without fear of retribution from God.  In the story, he is the instrument used to transform the grandmother's skepticism of Christ to true faith. Hence, her death in the hands of the Misfit is her redemption and moment of grace."

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An Introduction to Frank O'Connor (from Frank O'Connor: New Perspectives, ed. Robert C. Evans and Richard Harp, West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1998).

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Olsen, Tillie (Felice Aull, Ph.D., New York University):
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/olsen333-au-.html
...Tell Me a Riddle, annotated by Janice L. Willms:
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/olsen419-des-.html

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Paley, Grace (Felice Aull, Ph.D., New York University):
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/paley747-au-.html
...A Conversation with My Father, annotated by Felice Aull:
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/paley1326-des-.html

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Edgar Allan Poe Museum, Richmond, VA, features "the life and career of Edgar Allan Poe by documenting his
accomplishments with pictures, relics, and verse, and focusing on his many years in Richmond":
http://www.poemuseum.org/

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) - Internet Public Library: Online Literary Criticism Collection:
http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/ref/litcrit/litcrit.out.pl?au=poe-10

Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore: biography, works, lectures, links
http://www.eapoe.org/index.htm
Abridged version: http://raven.ubalt.edu/features/poe/index.htm
...including Bits and Pieces II: short quotations about the work of Edgar Allan Poe:
http://raven.ubalt.edu/features/poe/poebtsp2.htm
...Poe Chronology (timeline): http://raven.ubalt.edu/features/poe/poechron.htm

The Poe Decoder (Christoffer Nilsson) commentary on Poe's works & links
http://www.poedecoder.com/
...including "The Cask of Amontillado," by Martha Womack*: commentary on setting, style, character, theme, & link to the E-text of this story.
...and link to Precisely Poe: Your Personal Poe Scholar (*also by Martha Womack): gravesite photo, articles, museums
http://www.poedecoder.com/PreciselyPoe/

Edgar Allan Poe: Tales, Sketches and Selected Criticism:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/POE/contents.html
and Ch. 6: Edgar Allan Poe from D.H. Lawrence: Studies in Classic American Literature
from American Studies at the Univ. of Virginia: http://xroads.virginia.edu/

Link to E-text of "The Cask of Amontillado" (inform@Virginia linking to Project Guttenberg E-text):
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/ReadingRoom/Fiction/Poe/

Edgar Allan Poe's Room (Sam Miller, Univ. of Virginia): photos of Poe museum artefacts
http://scs.student.Virginia.EDU/~ravens/poe-rm.html

Edgar A. Poe (1809-1849) http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/poe.html
from "Chapter 3: Early Nineteenth Century - Romanticism" (Paul P. Reuben, PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide)

The Works of Edgar Allen Poe
http://www.pambytes.com/poe/poe.html
This site offers complete text versions of most of Poe's poetry and short stories, as well as of his only novel The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym; an extended biographical essay on Poe's life, and a helpful resource page of links. 

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Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/porter.html
from "Chapter 7: Early Twentieth Century" (Paul P. Reuben, PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide)

Porter, Katherine Anne (Felice Aull, Ph.D., New York University):
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/porter368-au-.html
...The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, annotated by Martin Kohn
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/porter483-des-.html

Katherine Anne Porter Library
http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/RARE/797hmpgM.html
This site is maintained by the Katherine Anne Porter Library at the University of Maryland. It features a photograph of the author; photos of the Katherine Anne Porter Room; a wonderful biography of the author with details of her upbringing and early writing career, her experiences in Greenwich Village, Mexico, Paris, and her teaching career; a selected bibliography of works by and about Katherine Anne Porter; a list of honors and awards; and a catalog of the Katherine Anne Porter papers.

The Katherine Anne Porter Page
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/porter368-au-.html 
This multidisciplinary site, maintained by doctors at the New York University Medical School, features biographical information, and summaries and commentaries on "Holiday," "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," and Pale Horse, Pale Rider, a collection of novellas.
BIOGRAPHY
   "Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) was born Callie Russell Porter in Indian Creek, Texas and was educated at boarding schools and an Ursuline convent. As a child she wanted to be a writer, but it took fifteen years of serious writing before she trusted herself enough as a stylist to approach a publisher. Porter's style is not so recognizably "southern" as William Faulkner's or Flannery O'Connor's. She was a southerner by tradition and inheritance, but she had thought of herself since childhood as "always restless, always a roving spirit." She was very conscious of her own art as a storyteller, and of the art of fiction in general; she wrote personal essays on Willa Cather, Katherine Mansfield, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, and Virginia Woolf. Particularly indebted in her best stories to Mansfield, Porter attempted to dramatize a character's state of mind rather than develop a complicated plot.
   "Porter achieved acclaim with her first collection of stories, Flowering Judas and Other Stories, in 1930. Her most productive decade as a writer was the 1930s, when she published Noon Wine (1937) and Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels (1939). She supported herself with lecture tours and teaching jobs at various universities while she worked on her novel Ship of Fools (1962), which took over two decades to complete. In 1965 her Collected Stories won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award."

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Leslie Marmon Silko , 1948- (Native American Authors Project, Internet Public Library): biography, links, bibliography: http://www.ipl.org/cgi/ref/native/browse.pl/A75

A Comprehensive WWW Index: Leslie Marmon Silko (Richard Ketchel Mott, Univ. of New Mexico) offers extensive links to biographies, bibliographies, essays, interviews, classroom projects, and more!
http://serviette.unm.edu/people/ketchelx/silko/silko-home.html

An Interview with Leslie Marmon Silko - Part I (by Thomas Irmer - Alt-X Berlin/Leipzig correspondent from The Write Stuff [Interviews]): http://www.altx.com/interviews/silko.html
An Interview with Leslie Marmon Silko - Part II (by Thomas Irmer - Alt-X Berlin/Leipzig correspondent)
http://www.altx.com/interviews/silko2.html

"In the Combat Zone," Essay by Leslie Marmon Silko (Hungry Mind Review Web Page):
http://www.bookwire.com/hmr/Review/silko2.html
"Fences Against Freedom," Essay by Leslie Marmon Silko (Hungry Mind Review Web Page):
http://www.bookwire.com/hmr/Review/silko.html

Leslie Marmon Silko (Carol Miller, Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color, Univ. of Minnesota): biography, bibliography, links: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/LeslieMarmonSilko.html

Pueblo Pottery Exhibit (Internet Public Library):
http://www.ipl.org/exhibit/pottery/

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Amy Tan (b. 1952) (Ted J. Sonquist, Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color, Univ. of Minnesota): biography, bibliography, links: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/AmyTan.html

The Joy Luck Club Home Page by Ana, Lin, Chris, and Laura (students in E314 Literature and Criticism Class, 1995, Univ. of Texas) : links to reviews, suggested readings, related sites, and biography: http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~sbowen/314fall/novels/

The Salon Interview: Amy Tan - "The Spirit Within" (12 Nov. 1995):
http://www.salon1999.com/12nov1995/feature/tan.html

"Tan Welcomes the Usual" [Interview] (Associated Press. December 5, 1995):
http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1995/12-05-95/Arts/amytan.html

ZineZone site on Amy Tan, including interview, forum, and more:
http://www.zinezone.com/zones/culture/writing/fiction/tan/

Maslin, Janet. "The Joy Luck Club." [Movie Review]
Migration World Magazine 22.1 (Jan.-Feb. 1994): 37(2pp). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A15409543
Maslin praises the movie version of Tan's novel as "sweeping and intimate,
a lovely evocation of changing cultures and enduring family ties."

Shear, Walter. "Generational Differences and the Diaspora in The Joy Luck Club." CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 34.3 (Spring 1993): 193(7 pp).
Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A13977023.
Abstract: "Amy Tan's 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club provides
a feminist view of generational conflict among Chinese American mothers and daughters
Two stories in the book are from Chinese immigrant mothers who recount their lives in China before 1949. Two other stories are from daughters raised in America who do not understand their mothers since they have such different experiences and cultural backgrounds."

Simon, John. "The Joy Luck Club." [Movie Review] National Review 15 Nov. 1993: 61(1p). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A14667482.
Simon gives the movie version of Tan's novel a largely negative review.

Souris, Stephen. "'Only two kinds of daughters': Inter-Monologue Dialogicity in The Joy Luck Club." MELUS [Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US] 19.2 (Summer 1994): 99 (25pp.). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A18616697.
Abstract: "Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club tells the story of relationships between Chinese mothers and Chinese-American daughters through a series of monologues that are interconnected by themes. Daughters are presented with certain attitudes in relation to their mothers and mothers are also shown to [be] united by similar attitudes. Interpretation using Wolfgang Iser and Mikhail Bakhtin's dynamic reader models shows Tan's novel to be a rich contribution where the reader is constantly challenged to find the interconnections in a novel that has multiple, constantly changing, suggestive themes."

Yuan, Yuan. "The Semiotics of China Narratives in the Con/texts of Kingston and Tan." CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 40.3 (Spring 1999): 292 (10pp). Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP, Article A54174996.
Abstract: "Experience in China is portrayed as an act of memory, with stronger ties to the US in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club. China therefore becomes geographically irrelevant but remains a location of recollection that takes the form of fantasy, films, myth, legend, and talk-stories.
Difference helps Tan and Kingston argue for cultural construction, challenging the American nature of US identity and culture."

Format these links:

PATHFINDER: JAMES GROVER THURBER (1894-1961)
http://www.budgetweb.com/heather/thurber/Thurber.html (accessed July 2003)

JAMES (GROVER) THURBER (1894-1961)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/thurber.htm (accessed July 2003)
Suomeksi Thurberilta on julkaistu valikoima Miehiä, naisia, koiria (1965), toim. ja suom. Tuomas Anhava, Kristiina Kivivuori ja Pentti Saarikoski , 2000  

Thurber's World (and Welcome To it)!
http://home.earthlink.net/~ritter/thurber/ (accessed July 2003)

http://www.thurberhouse.org/DefaultJamesThurber.htm (accessed July 2003)

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0848645.html (accessed July 2003)

http://www.bartleby.com/65/th/Thurber.html (accessed July 2003)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/thurber.htm (accessed July 2003)

http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp?CRID=james_thurber&OFFID=se1 (accessed July 2003)

J. R. R. Tolkien & The Fellowship of the Ring, being the first part of The Lord of the Rings (Novel & Film).  Ed. Cora Agatucci (Prof. of English, Humanities Dept., Central Oregon Community College), 2003. English 104: Introduction to Literature - Fiction, Humanities Dept., Central Oregon Community College.
Tolkien Table of Contents:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/Tolkien.htm

Fellowship of the Ring Study Guides:
1. Prologue & Book One
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/fellowshipsg.htm
2. Book Two
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/fellowshipsg2.htm

Tolkien Bibliographies:
1. Print Sources by & about Tolkien
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/Tolkien.htm
2. Web Sources & Online Articles
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/Tolkien2.htm
3. Sources Recommended by ENG 104 Students
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/Tolkien3.htm

Peter Jackson's Film Adaptation: Web Sources, Film Reviews & Related Articles:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/Jackson.htm

Fall 2002 Reviews of Sources: ENG 104 Students' Critical Reviews of Sources for further study of Tolkien & The Lord of the Rings:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/Tolkienreviews.htm
Fall 2002 Critical Review of Sources assignment directions:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/criticalreview.htm
Fall 2002 Evaluation: Critical Review of Sources
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/criticalrevieweval.htm
Fall 2002 Tolkien Seminars
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/Tolkienseminars.htm

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The Tolstoy Library, including e-text The Death of Ivan Ilych and
"Tolstoy's Place in European Literature," by Edward Garnett
(From G.K. Chesterton, G. Perris, and Edward Garnett, Leo Tolstoy, New York: Pott, 1903)
Tolstoy Studies Journal, including Images of Leo Tolstoy (Janet Hyer, Univ. of Toronto)
Portrait of Lev Tolstoy by Nikolai Ge (1831-1894)
Portrait of Tolstoy by Ivan Kramskoy (1837-1887)
Portrait of Tolstoy by Leonid Pasternak (1862-1945)

http://www.geocities.com:80/Athens/Forum/9061/afro/afro.html

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Updike, John (Felice Aull, Ph.D., New York Univ.):
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/updike219-au-.html

Salon Interview: John Updike, by Dwight Garner
http://www.salon1999.com/08/features/updike.html

Creative Quotations from John Updike (Franklin C. Baer, Baertracks):
http://www.bemorecreative.com/one/232.htm

Joyce Carol Oates on John Updike (Celestial Timepiece: A Joyce Carol Oates Home Page, Randy Souther, reference librarian, Gleeson Library/Geschke Learning Resource Center, University of San Francisco):
http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/onupdike.html

John (Hoyer) Updike (1932-) (Kuusankosken kaupunginkirjasto, 1997)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/updike.htm

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Writing and Resistance: Alice Walker (Jody F. Kerr, 1999): biography, bibliography, criticism, links: http://www.public.asu.edu/~metro/aflit/walker/index.html

Alice Walker (by: Toni McNaron, Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color, Univ. of Minnesota): biography, photo, bibliography, related links: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/AliceWalker.html

Salon LitChat: Alice Walker [interview]: http://www.salon1999.com/09/departments/litchat1.html

A South Without Myths--Alice Walker on Flannery O'Conner (Sojourners Online Magazine 23.10 [December 1994 - January 1995]: Alice Walker discusses the influence of Flannery O'Conner's works on her own.
http://www.sojourners.com/soj9412/941213.html

Alice Walker (AALBC - African American Literature Book Club): photo, brief biography, list of works, related links
http://aalbc.com/alice.htm

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Eudora Welty (1909-) http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/welty.html
from Chapter 10: Late Twentieth Century (Paul P. Reuben, PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide)

The Eudora Welty Page (Roger Blackwell Bailey, San Antonio College LitWeb)
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/welty.htm

Welty, Eudora (Felice Aull, Ph.D., New York University):
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/welty132-au-.html
...A Worn Path, annotated by Jack Coulehan
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/welty102-des-.html

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William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/wcw.html
from "Chapter 7: Early Twentieth Century" (Paul P. Reuben, PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide)

Williams, William Carlos - The Use of Force (multiple annotations, Felice Aull, New York University):
http://mchip00.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/use.of.force.html

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Richard Wright: Black Boy (PBS Online: Arts), "in-depth look at an African-American writer who changed the face of American literature": http://www.pbs.org/rwbb/rwtoc.html

Richard Wright (1908-1960) http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/wright.html
from "Chapter 7: Early Twentieth Century" (Paul P. Reuben, PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide)

Writing and Resistance: Richard Wright (Jody F. Kerr, 1999): biography, bibliography, criticism, links
http://www.public.asu.edu/~metro/aflit/wright/index.html