Literature and Art; Literature and Music

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The Assignment

Objectives: 
Students should be able to
retrieve information on selected authors using at least 2 or 3 IMC reference books and/or approved electronic databases
access IMC web page and databases from home
utilize the completed report, along with later components, in preparing a thesis statement and argument for the final draft of the senior research paper

Evaluation:

1. Each report should contain all pertinent biographical information that could affect a writer’s perception of himself, his world, and his craft. (25 points)
2. Each report should combine paraphrase and direct quotes from at least 2 or 3 approved sources. (25 points)
3. Each report should contain accurate MLA documentation. (25 points)
4. Each report should reflect accurate MLA format (margins, spacing, headings, page numbers, titles). (25 points)

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Components

* : Component One  -  Biographical Data
* : Component Two—a typed report on historical information relevant to author’s time period—will follow similar instructions.
* Component Three—a typed digest of at least 3 or 4 critical assessments of the author’s work—will also follow similar instructions and will be due . (Students should be ready at this point to develop a thesis statement relating an author’s work to biographical and/or historical influences. The thesis statement will be submitted as an addendum to the digest of critical analysis.)
* : Component Four—a correctly formatted image and discussion of a work of art (or a piece of music) that reflects in its subject matter or style the ideas inherent in a major work by the selected author.
* : Component Five—By this date, students should be able to weave together the various components to produce at least 5 pages of content which includes a strong thesis statement, ample and documented support, and discussion on a corollary work of art or music.
* : Completed Research Paper.

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Authors

World Authors
Latin American Writers Russia African
Carlos Fuentes (Mexico) Leo Tolstoy Chinua Achebe (Nigeria - Ibo)
Octavio Paz Ivan Turgenev Obi Egbuna
Isabel Allende (Chile) Fyodor Dostoyevsky Christopher Okiagbo
Ariel Dorfman Boris Pasternak Wole Soyinka (Nigeria - Yoruba)
Pablo Neruda Anton Checkhov Kole Omotoso
Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina) Alexander Solzhenitzyn Anthol Fugard (White - South Africa)
Esteban Echevaria Vladimir Nabokov Alan Paton
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Columbia) Nikolay Gogol Dan Jacobsen
Alexander Pushkin Doris Lessing (White - Zimbabwe)

Classical Spanish Italian
Homer (Greek) Miguel de Cervantes Giovanni Boccaccio
Sophocles Vicente Blasco Ibanez Dante Alighieri
Euripides Teresa of Avila Petrarch
Aeschylus Juan Ramon Jimenez Baldassare Castiglione
Aristophanes Lope de Vega Niccolo Machiavelli
Virgil (Roman) Pedro Calderon de la Barca Alberto Moravio
Ovid Frederico Garcia Lorca Ignazio Silone
Cicero Jose Ortega y Gasset Luigi Silone
Luigi Barzini
Luigi Pirandello
Giovanni Guareschi

Greek Austrian Norwegian
Nikos Kazantzakis Franz Werfel Henrik Ibsen
Arthur Koestler Sigrid Undset

Swedish Danish Czech
August Strinberg Isek Dinessen Tom Stoppard (Writes in English)
Par Lagervist Hans Christian Anderson 

French
Johann von Goethe Michele de Montaigne Francois Mauriac
Thomas Mann Simone de Beauvoir Colette
Herman Hesse Albert Camus Victor Hugo
Franz Kafka Paul Verlaine Emile Zola
Karl Marx Arthur Rimbaud Charles Huysmans
Friedrich Nietzsche Stephane Mallarme Rabelais
Jean Baptiste Racine Honore Balzac
Francois Voltaire Alexander Dumas
Albert Camus Marcel Proust
Gustav Flaubert Charles Baudelaire
Jean Paul Sarte Guy de Maupaussant
Jean Anouilh Andre Maurois

British and Irish Writers
Anglo-Saxon Period 449-1066 The Romantics 1780-1830 20th Century 1915-1999
Venerable Bede Jane Austen W. H. Auden
William Blake Elizabeth Bowen
Medieval Period 1066-1485 Charlotte Bronte Samuel Beckett
Thomas Malory Emily Bronte Sean O'Casey
Robert Burns Noel Coward
Renaissance 1500-1660 George Gordon - Lord Byron Agatha Christie
Francis Bacon Samuel Taylor Coleridge Graham Greene
John Donne John Keats William Golding
Ben Jonson Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Iris Murdoch
Richard Lovelace Percy Bysshe Shelley Tom Stoppard
Christopher Marlowe William Wordsworth Muriel Spark
Andrew Marvell Alfred Hitchcock
John Milton The Victorians 1830-1880 Oscar Wilde
Thomas More Elizabeth Barrett Browning J. R. R. Tokien
Walter Raleigh Robert Browning Siegfried Sassoon
William Shakespeare Matthew Arnold Wilfred Owen
Philip Sidney Samule Butler Frank O'Connor
Edmund Spenser Charles Dickens Evelyn Waugh
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Arthur Conan Doyle James Joyce
Thomas Wyatt George Eliot George Orwell
Lewis Carroll Dylan Thomas
Age of Reason 1600-1780 Thomas Huxley Seamus Heaney
James Boswell John Stuart Mill C. S. Lewis
Daniel Defoe Robert Louis Stevenson D. H. Lawrence
John Dryden Alfred, Lord Tennyson Virginia Woolf
Samuel Johnson T. S. Eliot
Henry Fielding New Directions 1880-1915 T. H. White
Samuel Pepys G. K. Chesterton W. Somerset Maugham
Alexander Pope Joseph Conrad Marion Zimmer Bradley
Jonathan Swift E. M. Forster Mary Renault
Thomas Hardy Mary Stewart
Gerard Manley Hopkins Antonia Fraser
A. E. Housman 
Rudyard Kipling 
G. B. Shaw 
H. G. Wells 
William Butler Yeats 

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IMC Resources

Online Databases
Gale Group's Literature Resource Center, Contemporary Authors and Discovering Collection:  Literature and Biography Resource Center
Ebsco's MagillonLiteraturePlus
Proquest's Literature Study Center
LitFinder
Contemporary Popular Writers

Internet Resources

These web pages are excellent resources for literary criticism. You can also search by your author's name, but many times the result list will be biographical and bibliographical.
ArtsEdNet - you can get pictures and critical analysis of art work. 
The Artchive - this site provides analysis of major works of art and artists
Library of Literary Criticism - from the Internet Public Library; arranged by author, chronologically and by title; this is an excellent site.
Victorian Authors - this is part of the Victorian Web; click on authors
Authors from about.com - this site provides extensive links to authors arranged by country
British Poetry - from 1780 to 1910; a hypertext archive of scholarly editions
19th Century British and Irish Authors - these are chronologically arranged
Literary Resources on the Net - this site provides links to literary criticism arranged by time period
A Celebration of Women Writers

Reference Books
Literature Magill's Survey of Contemporary Literature - - R 808.8 MAG
Masterplots - Nonfiction Series - 4 volumes - - R 808.8 MAS
Magill's Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature - 5 volumes - - R 808.8015 MAG
Cyclopedia of World Authors - 5 volumes - - R 809 MAG
1300 Critical Evaluations of Selected Novels and Plays - 4 volumes - - R 809 MAG
Major 20th Century Writers - 4 volumes - - R 809 RYA
World Literature Criticism - 6 volumes, 2 supplements - - R 809 WOR
Nobel Prize Winners in Literature - 3 volumes - - R 809.04 NOB
Critical Survey of Poetry - 8 volumes - - R 809.1 CRI
Masterplots - Poetry Series - 4 volumes - - R 809.1 MAS
Masterplots - Drama Series - 4 volumes - - R 809.204 MAS
Critical Survey of Long Fiction - 8 volumes - - R 809.3 CRI
Masterplots Short Stories Series - 10 volumes - - R 809.3 MAS
Critical Survey of Short Fiction - 7 volumes and 1 supplement - - R 809.3 MAG
Beacham's Popular World Fiction - 4 volumes - - R 809.304 BEA
Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature - 5 volumes - - R 809.308 MAS
Modern Black Authors - - R 809.8896 MOD
Masterplots - Women's Literature Series - 6 volumes - - R 809.89287 MAS
Contemporary Women Poets - - R 810.9 CON
Feminist Writers - - R 810.9 FEM
Great Women Writers - - R 810.9 MOD
Contemporary Popular Writers - - R 813.509 CON
Contemporary Novelists - R 820 CON
Great Writers of the English Language - 14 volumes - - R 820.9 GRE
The Library of Literary Criticism 8 volumes - - R 820.9 MON
Moulton's Pre 20th Century Cricism of Br. and Am. Literature - 10 volumes - R 820.9 TWE
American and British Poets - 3 volumes - - R821.009 AME
British Writers - 3 volumes- - R 820.9 SCO
Survey of Drama - 7 volumes - - R822.03 Cri
Shakespeare A to Z - - R 822.33 SHA
Hispanic Literature - 2 volumes - - R 860.9 HIS
Latin American Literature - 3 volumes - - R 860.9 LAT
Ancient WRiters - 5 volumes - - R 880.9 LUC
African Writers - 2 volumes - - R 896 AFR
Art Lives and Works in the Arts - 10 vols. - - R 700.92 LIV
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art - 5 vols.- - R 703 MCG
Encyclopedia of Art - 4 vol.s - - 703 PRA
History of Art - 4 vols. - - R 709 JAN
Book of Art - 6 vols. - - R 709 BOO
Great Artists of the Western World - 10 vols.- - R 709.2 GRE
Check online catalog for books on individual artists
Music Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians - 10 vols. - - R 780.3 GRO
Heritage of Music - arranged b y time period - 4 vols. - - R 780.9 HER
Encyclopedia of Composers - - R 780.92 CRO
Great Composers - 2 sets 5 vols. & 10 vols. - - R 780.92 GRE
CDs See CDs on Art and Music at front desk

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