Kay Cunningham's List: Literature

'The befuddled tramps in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot are a poetic personification of paralysis. But new research suggests the act of watching them actually does get us somewhere.'

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Website devoted to African American Women writers

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"Perhaps more surprisingly, many Ph.D. candidates who were notspecializing in Shakespeare said that they were nonetheless betting on the Bard. One young woman said that although her dissertation bore only a nominal relationship to Shakespeare, her committee had advised her to "play it safe" in job interviews by spinning that connection to the best of her ability. They believed, she added, that the economic circumstances made it imperative for her to sell herself as someone who could teach Shakespeare, regardless of her personal \ninterests."

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The British Library's tool for comparing different Shakespeare texts

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"Shakespeare’s work, in her opinion, is so constantly mutable that it always exists in the present, whatever that present might be. The ways in which Shakespeare is interpreted in different eras say as much about those time periods as they do about the wr

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A guide to using Google Books to research Shakespeare.

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"These authors were culled from the list in favor of those writers who are trying to carry on a conversation with their followers and present information they might find valuable, whether it directly benefits them or not."

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The 2000 list. Includes 1997, 1998, 1999 lists as well.

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"Litterbox Magazine is the result of a facebook status conversation between two graduate student friends living on opposite sides of the country. In such a world ripe with technology, the idea was immediate: to create an online receptacle for bold, fresh voices in the literary world."

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"a short chronology of events in American history and literature. It is linked to course pages and bibliographies as well as to a set of more general linked resources: pages on American authors, literary movements, and American literature sites."

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By Quintard Taylor. online reference guide to African-American history.

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"a collection of about 21,000 public domain and open access documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy."

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"While many community colleges teach classic works of literature, full programs and online programs in the field are uncommon."

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Search for plays by author, title, and source

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"Presto! We have a correlation between books and dumbitude (smartitude too)!
Books <=> Colleges <=> Average SAT Scores"

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"The Folger is a world-renowned research center on Shakespeare and on the early modern age in the West. Its conservation lab is a leading innovator in the preservation of rare materials."

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"fun with NPR host Peter Sagal's idea of coming up with Twitter versions of classic novels"

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"The pertinent question is, Do humanities courses change lives and start movements? Does one teach with that purpose, and if one did could it be realized?

If the answers to these questions are (as I contend) “no” – one teaches the subject matter and any

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