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 •  English 150 - Anglo Irish Literature
 •  English 193 - Detective Fiction
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Topical and Other Categories
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Authors/Artists
John Agard
John Agard, "Mek Four" (1990) and "Pan Recipe" 
Louise Bennett
Louise Bennett, "Dear Departed Federation"  
Charles Bernstein
"You" (1983) [course login required]
Valerie Bloom
Valerie Bloom, "Language Barrier" (1983) 
Thomas Carlyle
The French Revolution, A History (Chap. 1.5.VI ) (1837)
David Carson
The End of Print (sample images) [course login required]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"To the River Otter" (1796)
T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land (concluding verses) 
William Faulkner
"The Bear" (1942), excerpts on the relinquishment of technology  
F. S. Flint
"Fragment" 
William Gibson
"Agrippa (A Book for the Dead" (1992) (with line numbers)
Letter from Kevin Begos, Jr., to Alan Liu (Oct. 26, 2002) (on the original idea and evolution of William Gibson and Dennis Ashbaugh's 1992 Agrippa (A Book of the Dead)
Andy Goldsworthy
Study Gallery (sample Goldsworthy works, study portfolios on Goldsworthy's art and its contexts, and samplings of other "land artists" and their traditions) [course login required]
April Greiman
Sample Typographical Designs [course login required]
Jodi
Wrong Browser Project
Screenshot 1 
Screenshot 2 
Richard Payne Knight
The Landscape, a Didactic Poem" (2d ed., 1795) (selections
Longinus
Peri Hypsous (Section 7) (1st century A.D.)
Archibald McLeish
"Ars Poetica" (1926)
John Milton
Paradise Lost (1674)
Book 12, lines 285-314 
Ezra Pound
"In a Station of the Metro" & "Gentildonna" 
Joseph A. Schumpeter
Excerpts from Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy on "Creative Destruction" (1942)
Claude Shannon
The Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948)
from "Introduction" to Mathematical Theory of Communication 
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Excerpts on "Scientific Management" (1911-12)
James Thomson
"Celadon and Amelia" Episode from "Summer" in The Seasons (1727) 
William Wordsworth
Poetry
"Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" (1802/1803)
The Prelude, Book 10, lines 1-82 (1805)
"Tintern Abbey" ("Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of teh Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798")
Prose
Essays Upon Epitaphs (excerpts) (1810)
Letters on Kendal and Windermere Railway (excerpts) (1844)
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English 101 - English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650
Primary Materials
Teaching Tools
Echoes of Faustus (classroom group exercise for Marlowe's Dr. Faustus)[instructor password required]
Kris McAbee (Univ of California, Santa Barbara) Handout for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (Study questions for Romeo and Juliet) [instructor password required]
Kris McAbee (Univ of California, Santa Barbara) Handout for Shakespeare's Sonnets (Groups discussion section questions for the Sonnets) [instructor password required]
Jeen Yu (Univ of California, Santa Barbara) Section Syllabus (Syllabus for discussion section) [instructor password required]
Kris McAbee (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) Section Syllabus (syllabus for discussion section) [instructor password required]
Jeen Yu (Univ of California, Santa Barbara) Reading Spenser (an exercise for reading Spenser's complicated language) [instructor password required]
Jeen Yu (Univ of California, Santa Barbara) Synopsis of Spenser's Fairie Queene (Synopsis of Book I, cantos 1-2 and Book 3, cantos 1-2) [instructor password required]
Jeen Yu (Univ of California, Santa Barbara) Helpful Suggestions for the Second Paper (Guidelines for writing) [instructor password required]
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English 102 - English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789
Kris McAbee (Univ of California, Santa Barbara) Essay Checklist (guidelines for essay writing) [instructor password required]
Kris McAbee (Univ of California, Santa Barbara) Final Review (Review for the final exam) [instructor password required]
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English 105A: Shakespeare-Poems and Early Plays
Primary Materials
The Plays of William Shakespeare Online Full texts of the tragedies, comedies, and histories. [Jeremy Hylton, MIT]
Teaching Tools
Index of English 105A Teaching Tools A collection of classroom materials useful in teaching Shakespeare. Includes close reading and writing exercises. Undergraduate.
Texts and Historical Contexts An exercise to help students read a work in its historical context.
Responding to Critical Articles Assignment  A writing exercise designed to engage students with critical material.
Close Reading Shakespeare A writing exercise that develops close reading skills.
The Globe Database Information on Shakespearean performance in original conditions. Information on costuming, stagecraft, and cultural context. Links to images of 16th century illustrations as well as photos of modern performances of Renaissance plays. [University of Reading, UK]
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English 124 - Readings in the Modern Short Story
Sarah McLemore Guidelines for the First Paper (guidelines for essay assignment) [instructor password required]
Sarah McLemore (Univ of California, Santa Barbara) Midterm Guide (study guide for the midterm) [instructor password required]
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English 15 - Introduction to Shakespeare
Jeen Yu (Univ of California, Paper Assignment [instructor password required]
Kris McAbee (Univ of California, Santa Barbara) Section Syllabus (syllabus for discussion section) [instructor password required]
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English 150 - Anglo Irish Literature
Sarah McLemore (Univ of California, Santa Barbara) Final Essay Guidelines (guidelines for final essay assignment) [instructor password required]
Sarah McLemore (Univ of California, Santa Barbara) Final Exam Study Guide (study guide for final exam) [instructor password required]
Sarah McLemore (Univ of California, Santa Barbara) Midterm Study Guide (study guide for midterm exam) [instructor password required]
Sarah McLemore (Univ of California, Santa Barbara) Presentation Guidelines (guidelines for section presentation) [instructor password required]
Sarah McLemore (Univ of California, Santa Barbara) Sample Section Presentation (a sample presentation) [instructor password required]
Sarah McLemore (Univ of California, Santa Barbara) Section Syllabus (syllabus for discussion section) [instructor password required]
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English 193 - Detective Fiction
Sarah McLemore (Univ of California, Santa Barbara) First Paper Guidelines (guidelines for paper assignment) [instructor password required]


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