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Paula Gunn Allen (1939-  )
As Long As the Rivers Flow : The Stories of Nine Native Americans
"Dear World"
Hozho: Walking in Beauty Native American Stories of Inspiration, Humor, and Life
Native American Authors Project
Paula Gunn Allen's Home Page;   Voice of the Turtle Anthology
The Sacred Hoop : Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions : With a New Preface by Paula Gunn Allen
Women Writers of Color

Gloria Anzaldua (1942-  )
La frontera / Borderlands
Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras : Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color
Review of Borderlands = La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Review of Making Face, Making Soul

Michael Arlen
Living Room War (Television Series)
Passage to Ararat (Hungry Mind Find)
Story of Christianity: A Celebration of 2,000 Years of Faith
The View from Highway 1 : Essays on Television.

Matthew Arnold (1822?1888
The Apostles Creed
Biography
Culture and Anarchy and Other Writings
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time.

Kenneth Clark (1903-83)
Biography
Leonardo Da Vinci
The Nude

Samuel Taylor Colerdige (1772-1834)
 Archives
Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience
Donne's poetry - a poetic comment, and exerpted from the Biographia Literaria
Eloquence, accuracy, and bad writing
Exerpts from the Biographia Literaria, 1817
Exerpts from The Friend, 1818 edition
Good poetry - two criteria
Johnson's prose style
Lecture on Prose Style, 1818
On literature as a career
The poet, described in ideal perfection
Short sentences.
Use of first person pronoun
Biographia Literaria

Arlene Croce
Comments on "Discussing the Undiscussable", An Essay by Arlene Croce, The New Yorker, 12- 26-94
Chapter ONE:  Writing in the Dark, Dancing in the New Yorker
Review of Writing in the Dark.
Writing in the Dark, Dancing in the New Yorker

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
English Traits
Literary Ethics: An Oration Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838
Ralph Waldo Emerson : Essays and Lectures

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (1950-  )
The Signifying Monkey : A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
West Africa Review

William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
Liber Amoris: or, The New Pygmalion
Offspring of Thought in Solitude
On A Sun-Dial
On The Want Of Money
On The Pleasure Of Hating
On The Fear Of Death
On Genius and Common Sense
On Living To One's Self
On Great and Little Things
Project For A New Theory Of Civil And Criminal Legislation
The Indian Jugglers
On Prejudice
On Disagreeable People
The Fight
On The Qualifications Necessary To Success In Life
On William Godwin
On Going a Journey
The Plain Speaker : The Key Essays
Selected Writings
The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt : The Plain Speaker : The Key Essays

bell hooks (1952-  )
Ain't I A Woman : Black Women and Feminism
All About Love : New Visions
Art on My Mind : Visual Politics
Feminism Is for Everybody : Passionate Politics
Postmodern Blackness
Teaching to Transgress : Education As the Practice of Freedom
Where We Stand : Class Matters

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Review of Jonas Hanway's Journal of Eight Days' Journey
Review of Soame Jenyns
Samuel Johnson Quotes
Samuel Johnson : The Major Works

Pauline Kael (1919-  )
5001 Nights at the Movies : Expanded for the 90s
Conversations With Pauline Kael
Creative Quotations from . . .Pauline Kael
Criticism as an Art
Going Steady : Film Writings 1968-1969
Pauline Kael on the Fun of Writing Disrespectfully (National Book Critics Circle Awards Speech)
A Review of Pauline Kael
She Lost It At The Movies
Women's Voices: Quotations from Women

Joyce Carol Oates (1938-  )
Celestial Timepiece, A Joyce Carol Oates Home Page
Above the Line: Conversations about the Movies
The Best American Essays of the Century
Reviews and Articles From the Archives of The New York Times
Sacred and Profane Iris Murdoch

Walter Pater (1839-1894)
The Renaissance
The Child in the House: An Imaginary Portrait
Gaston De Latour : The Revised Text (1880-1920)

Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Technopoly : The Surrender of Culture to Technology
The Disappearance of Childhood
Building a Bridge to the 18th Century : How the Past Can Improve Our Future
Conscientious Objections : Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology, and Education
The End of Education : Redefining the Value of School
How to Watch TV News
Audible.com: Technopoly
The Disappearance of Childhood (Cassette)
Technopoly
Television and the Teaching of English
Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk : How We Defeat Ourselves by the Way We Talk and What to Do About It
Language in America;    Linguistics : A Revolution in Teaching
School Book

John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Bibliography
The Bible of Amiens, Valle Crucis, The Art of Enland, The Pleasurers of England (The Complete Works o John Ruskin - Volume 33)

George Santayana (1863-1952)
Bibliography
The Birth of Reason & Other Essays

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Bernard Shaw on Cinema
The Random George Bernard Shaw Quotes Page
A Treatise on Parents and Children.

Susan Sontag (1933-  )
Antonin  Artaud
Against Interpretation, and Other Essays
Biography
On Photography

Cornel West (1953-  )
The African-American Century : How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country
Common Courage Press
The Cornel West Reader
Race Matters

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde : Stories, Plays, Poems and Essays
Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
Essays and Lectures

Edmund Wilson
Patriotic Gore : Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest
The American Earthquake
Apologies to the Iroquois
Axel's Castle : A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
The Bit Between My Teeth: A Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965
Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties
The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest
The Devils and Canon Barham: Ten Essays on Poets, Novelists and Monsters
The Duke of Palermo: And Other Plays, with an Open Letter to Mike Nichols
The Edmund Wilson Reader
The Fifties : From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period
The Forties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period
From the Uncollected Edmund Wilson
The Higher Jazz
Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
 
 


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