How to Literature Like a Professor
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nx74defiantI liked some points -
The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.
That's pretty much what a vampire does, after all. He wakes up in the morning - actually the evening, now that I think about it - and says something like, "In order to remain undead, I must steal the life force of someone whose fate matters less to me than my own."
Why writer turn to Shakespeare
It makes them sound smarter?
Smarter than what?
Than quoting Rocky and Bullwinkle, for instance.
Reading List
W.H. Auden Musee de beaux Arts
In Praise of Limestone
James Baldwin Sonny's Blues
Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot
Unknown Beowulf
T.Coraghessan Boyle Water Music
The Overcoat II
World's End
Anita Brookner Hotel du Lac
Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass
Angela Carter The Bloody Chamber
Nights at the Circus
Wise Children
Raymond Carver Cathedral
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim
Robert Coover The Gingerbread House
Hart Crane The Bridge
Colin Dexter The Remorseful Day
Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop
A Christmas Carol
David Copperfield
Bleak House
Great Expectations
E.L. Doctorow Ragtime
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
T.S. Eliot The Song of J Alfred Prufrock
The Waste Land
Louise Erdrich Love Medicine
William Faulkner The Sound and The Fury
As I Lay Dying
Absalom, Absalom!
Helen Fielding Bridget Jone's Diary
Henry Fielding Tom Jones
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Babylon Revisited
Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier
E.M. Forster A Room with a View
Howards End
A Passage to India
John Fowles The Magus
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Robert Frost After Apple Picking
The Woodpile
Out, Out --
Mowing
William H. Glass The Pedersen Kid
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Henry Green Blindness
Living
Party Going
Loving
Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon
Thomas Hardy The Three Strangers
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Nathaniel Hawthorne Young Goodman Brown
The Man of Adamant
The Scarlett Letter
The House of Seven Gables`
Seamus Heaney Bogland
Clearances
North
Ernest Hemingway In Our Time
The Sun Also Rises
Hills Like White Elephants
A Farewell to Arms
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
The Old Man and the Sea
Homer The Iliad
The Odyssey
Henry James The Turn of the Screw
James Joyce Dublinders
Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis
A Hunger Artiest
The Trial
Barbara Kingsolver The Bean Trees
Pigs in Heaven
The Poisonwood Bible
D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers
Women in Love
The Horse Dealer's Daughter
The Fox
Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Virgin and the Gypsy
The Rocking-Horse Winner
Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte Darthur
Iris Murdoch A Severed Head
The Unicorn
The Sea, the Sea
The Green Knight
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
Tim O'Brien Going After Cacciato
The Things They Carried
Edgar Allen Poe The Fall of the House of Usher
The Mystery of Rue Morgue
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Raven
The Cask of Amontillado
Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49
The Far Field
William Shakespeare Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
King Lear
Henry V
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
The Tempest
A Winter's Tale
As You Like It
Twelfth Night
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Unknown Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Sophocles Oedipus Rex
Oedipus at Colnous
Antigone
Edmund Spenser The Farie Queen
Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Master of Ballantrae
Bram Stoker Dracula
Dylan Thomas Fern Hill
Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Anne Tyler Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
The Accidental Tourist
John Updike A&P
Derek Walcott Omeros
Fay Weldon The Hearts and Lives of Men
Virginia Wolff To the Lighthouse
Mrs. Dalloway
William Butler Yeats The Lake Ide of Innisfree
Easter 1916
The Wild Swans at Coole
Fairy Tales We Can't Live Without
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White
Hansel and Gretel
Rupunzel
Rumplestiltskin
later uses by Angela Carter and Robert Coover
Movies to Read
Citizen Kane
The Gold Rush
Modern Times
Notorious
North by Northwest
Psycho
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Pale Rider
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Shane
Stagecoach
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Tom Jones
Master Class
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
James Joyce Ulysses
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
Tone Morrison Song of Solomon
The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.
That's pretty much what a vampire does, after all. He wakes up in the morning - actually the evening, now that I think about it - and says something like, "In order to remain undead, I must steal the life force of someone whose fate matters less to me than my own."
Why writer turn to Shakespeare
It makes them sound smarter?
Smarter than what?
Than quoting Rocky and Bullwinkle, for instance.
Reading List
W.H. Auden Musee de beaux Arts
In Praise of Limestone
James Baldwin Sonny's Blues
Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot
Unknown Beowulf
T.Coraghessan Boyle Water Music
The Overcoat II
World's End
Anita Brookner Hotel du Lac
Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass
Angela Carter The Bloody Chamber
Nights at the Circus
Wise Children
Raymond Carver Cathedral
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim
Robert Coover The Gingerbread House
Hart Crane The Bridge
Colin Dexter The Remorseful Day
Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop
A Christmas Carol
David Copperfield
Bleak House
Great Expectations
E.L. Doctorow Ragtime
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
T.S. Eliot The Song of J Alfred Prufrock
The Waste Land
Louise Erdrich Love Medicine
William Faulkner The Sound and The Fury
As I Lay Dying
Absalom, Absalom!
Helen Fielding Bridget Jone's Diary
Henry Fielding Tom Jones
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Babylon Revisited
Ford Madox Ford The Good Soldier
E.M. Forster A Room with a View
Howards End
A Passage to India
John Fowles The Magus
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Robert Frost After Apple Picking
The Woodpile
Out, Out --
Mowing
William H. Glass The Pedersen Kid
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Henry Green Blindness
Living
Party Going
Loving
Dashiell Hammett The Maltese Falcon
Thomas Hardy The Three Strangers
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Nathaniel Hawthorne Young Goodman Brown
The Man of Adamant
The Scarlett Letter
The House of Seven Gables`
Seamus Heaney Bogland
Clearances
North
Ernest Hemingway In Our Time
The Sun Also Rises
Hills Like White Elephants
A Farewell to Arms
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
The Old Man and the Sea
Homer The Iliad
The Odyssey
Henry James The Turn of the Screw
James Joyce Dublinders
Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis
A Hunger Artiest
The Trial
Barbara Kingsolver The Bean Trees
Pigs in Heaven
The Poisonwood Bible
D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers
Women in Love
The Horse Dealer's Daughter
The Fox
Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Virgin and the Gypsy
The Rocking-Horse Winner
Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte Darthur
Iris Murdoch A Severed Head
The Unicorn
The Sea, the Sea
The Green Knight
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
Tim O'Brien Going After Cacciato
The Things They Carried
Edgar Allen Poe The Fall of the House of Usher
The Mystery of Rue Morgue
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Raven
The Cask of Amontillado
Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49
The Far Field
William Shakespeare Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
King Lear
Henry V
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
The Tempest
A Winter's Tale
As You Like It
Twelfth Night
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Unknown Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Sophocles Oedipus Rex
Oedipus at Colnous
Antigone
Edmund Spenser The Farie Queen
Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Master of Ballantrae
Bram Stoker Dracula
Dylan Thomas Fern Hill
Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Anne Tyler Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
The Accidental Tourist
John Updike A&P
Derek Walcott Omeros
Fay Weldon The Hearts and Lives of Men
Virginia Wolff To the Lighthouse
Mrs. Dalloway
William Butler Yeats The Lake Ide of Innisfree
Easter 1916
The Wild Swans at Coole
Fairy Tales We Can't Live Without
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White
Hansel and Gretel
Rupunzel
Rumplestiltskin
later uses by Angela Carter and Robert Coover
Movies to Read
Citizen Kane
The Gold Rush
Modern Times
Notorious
North by Northwest
Psycho
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Pale Rider
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Shane
Stagecoach
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Tom Jones
Master Class
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
James Joyce Ulysses
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
Tone Morrison Song of Solomon
