English 5220 Electronic Texts Page Summer 1 2009 5220 home syllabus handouts updates Click here for links to online literary text archives

Links to assigned readings (click here to go to past readings):

Wednesday, June 10: Stephen Crane, "The Blue Hotel"

Wednesday, June 17: Gertrude Stein:

From The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

From Tender Buttons, selections linked individually:

Objects (titles below appear consecutively on "Objects" page)

• A Carafe, That Is a Blind Glass
• Glazed Glitter
• A Substance in a Cushion
• A Box
• A Piece of Coffee
  

Food

• Roastbeef (first selection on "Food" page)
  

Past readings:

For Wednesday, May 06:

Readings by A.B. Longstreet:

From Georgia Scenes (search page or scroll down to each selection once you're on the site):

Preface

Note by the Publishers

"The Horse Swap" 

From Stories with a Moral (search page or scroll down to the story once you're on the site):

“Darby the Politician”

For Monday, May 11:

Mark Twain, “A True Story, Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It” 

Selected poems, linked individually below:

• June Jordan, "The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones."
• Jordan,"A Poem about Intelligence for My Brothers and Sisters." (And you can listen to her read it here.)
• Langston Hughes, "The Weary Blues" and "Po Boy Blues."
• Ntozake Shange, "My Father Is a Retired Magician."

For Wednesday, May 13: 

Thomas Nelson Page,“Marse Chan: A Tale of Old Virginia"

Paul Laurence Dunbar, selected poems, linked individually below:

• A Banjo Song
• Song of Summer
• Puttin' the Baby Away
• We Wear the Mask

Joel Chandler Harris, selections from Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings, linked individually below:

• Harris's Introduction (scroll down to it)
• I. Uncle Remus initiates the Little Boy
• II. The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story
• III. Why Mr. Possum loves Peace

For Monday, May 18

Conjure stories by Charles W. Chesnutt, linked individually below:

• “Dave’s Neckliss”
• “Po’ Sandy”
• “Sis’ Becky’s Pickaninny”

For Wednesday, May 20

Selected poems by Emily Dickinson, linked individually below:

• "A spider sewed at night" 
• "This was a poet -- it is that" 
• "The day that I was crowned" 
• "We can but follow to the sun" 
• "Though I get home how late" 
• "I never felt at Home--Below--" 

For Wednesday, May 27: Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Some fun online literary text archives to explore:

The Paul Laurence Dunbar Digital Text Collection at Wright State University
Extensive archive of Dunbar's work

Project Gutenberg
More than 13,000 e-books, most of them in the public domain

Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
HUGE online archive of SGML and XML-encoded electronic texts and images

University of Virginia American Studies -- Electronic Texts for the Study of American Culture
Fiction and nonfiction texts about life in America

UNC Libraries, Documenting the American South -- Library of Southern Literature
Archive of Southern literary texts published before 1924

U of M Humanities Text Initiative -- American Verse Project
Substantial archive American poetry to 1920

The Oxford Text Archive
Electronic texts from around the world, in 25 languages (including Esperanto!)

Bartleby.com Great Books Online
Massive archive of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and reference e-texts

The Academy of American Poets
Large archive of poetry, including sound files of poems being read (in some cases, by the author)

John Labovitz's E-Zine List
Electronic 'zines from around the world

 

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