Resources

General

Outline of American Literature – from the beginnings to contemporary writings
USA Literature in Brief – concise overview of major topics and representative authors
Modern American Poetry – biography, bibliography, and criticism
Timeline of American Literature – up to the 1940s
The 1930s – the decade on film, in print, on diplay, on the air + a timeline

Authors

H. Adams: The Education of Henry Adams
Entry at Heath Anthology – with Saint-Gauden's statue of General Sherman
Hypertext version of The Education ... with image of President Grant and Dom Pedro starting the Corliss Engine
Exposition Universelle de 1900

W. Cather
Entry at Heath Anthology
At PBS's American Masters series – With an excellent timeline

R. Frost
Entry at Heath Anthology
Frost reads his poems
Watch and listen Robert Pinsky read "Mending Wall"
The Xenophobic School: Misreading Poetry – Jay Keyser says the poem is a parable of human history.

S. Glaspell: Trifles
Entry at the Heath Anthology
A hypertext version of the play and other useful information
Susan Glaspell's Analysis of the Midwestern Character – by Marcia Noe

e. e. cummings: "in Just"
Listen to the poem

E. St. V. Millay: "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed"
Listen to the poem
Millay at Modern American Poetry – on her life and works and the sonnet

W. Faulkner
William Faulkner on the Web – incomplete but with information about the Yoknapatawpha county

K. A. Porter
Porter at PAL: Perspectives in American Literature

E. Wharton
Entry at Heath Anthology
Edith Wharton's World: Portraits of Peoples and Places – an exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery

J. Thurber
A 1953 cartoon version of "The Unicorn in the Garden"

R. Ellison
News and Reviews from the archives of The New York Times

Adrienne Rich
Rich at the Modern American Poetry site

S. Bellow
Alfred Kazin reviews Seize the Day for The New York Times

D. Hwang
Renata Tebaldi sings "Un bel dì, vedremo", from Madama Butterfly, by Puccini
Madama Butterfly libretto in Italian and English
Cristina Gallardo-Dormas sings "Un bel dì, vedremo" – with English subtitles
Gallimard (John Lithgow) first meets Song (BD Wong)
Gallimard (Jeremy Irons) in the final scene
Seppuku, hara-kiri, and jigai – Japanese death rituals

T. Laviera
Race and Pedagogy Project on T. Laviera
Spanish-American Voices in American Poetry

D. Leavitt
Featured Author at The New York Times

Ai [Florence Anthony]
Rodney G. King – the incident that triggered the L.A. riots
The beating (1:16 video)
Norton Poets Online
Modern American Poetry
Ai's biography
Magic Johnson versus Michael Jordan – video
Michael Jordan flies in a Nike ad
"Ain't Nobobdy's Business If I Do" (lyrics) - sung by Billie Holiday, Beverly White, Ella Fitzgerald, and Eric Clapton

A. Proulx
The short story as it was first published in The New Yorker
Annie Proulx tells the story behind "Brokeback Mountain" – Advocate interview
"Brokeback Mountain" at Wikipedia
The movie website
Why Brokeback Mountain fails as a movie: "It suffers from a lack of bears with lasers shooting from their eyes."
The movie reviews
The parodies
Proulx's biography

Updated November 10, 2007

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