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​Articles and Literary News



"On the exaggerated reports of a decline in British Fiction" http://www.thewhitereview.org/features/on-the-exaggerated-reports-of-a-decline-in-british-fiction/

New issue of Granta "Young British Novelists 2013": http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/21/granta-123-british-novelists-review



Articles contributed by the class: 



Incongruous book covers: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/15/incongruous-book-covers



Lecture-Related Links and Further Reading
May 13th: Introduction

David Shrigley (the artist who made several of the contemporary art pieces I showed, like the coconut saying "try to be happy"): http://www.davidshrigley.com/

David Hockney's iPad drawing in action: http://www.thamesandhudson.com/hockneyanim.html

How to Make an Indoor Cloud (the art of Berndnault Smilde): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzl0ii7kDkQ​


An excellent research guide to resources on postmodern fiction: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1001117


May 22nd: The Sense of An Ending
Julian Barnes' website: http://www.julianbarnes.com/

Dan Kavanagh: http://www.dankavanagh.com

Article on the book's cover design: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8929045/Suzanne-Dean-the-secret-to-a-good-book-cover.html

Kermode, Frank. The Sense of An Ending. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. 

Information on the "Severn Bore": http://www.severn-bore.co.uk

Tóibín, Colm. "Going Beyond the Limits" NYRB, 10 May 2012. [Insightful review: extract available online here: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/may/10/julian-barnes-going-beyond-limits/?pagination=false; full text available at the library in the periodicals reading room which has back issues of the New York Review of Books]



Barnes, Julian. Nothing to be Frightened Of. Random House Canada, 2008. [a recent non-fiction book by Barnes on mortality. Relates closely to the thematic content of The Sense of An Ending, but takes a very different approach].



The Sense of an Ending on the Man Booker Prize website: http://www.themanbookerprize.com/prize/books/449

May 27th & 29th: There But For The

Guardian Review by Nicholas Lezard: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/17/there-but-for-the-ali-smith-review

NYT Review by Charles McGrath http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/books/there-but-for-the-by-ali-smith-review.html?_r=0

Foucault "What is an Author?" (full essay downloadable as a .pdf) http://www.case.edu/affil/sce/authorship/Foucault.pdf

Roland Barthes "The Death of the Author" (full essay downloadable as a .pdf) http://www.case.edu/affil/sce/authorship/Barthes.pdf

Interview with Jeanette Winterson: http://www.jeanettewinterson.com/pages/journalism_01/journalism_01_item.asp?journalism_01ID=90

Green, Henry. Pack My Bag. London: Hogarth Press, 1940. [a reticent autobiographer whose views about authorship and identity might be compared to Smith's].

Smith, Ali. "Once Upon A Life" http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/may/29/once-upon-life-ali-smith

Smith, Ali. Artful. London: Penguin, 2012.

 

British Council entry on Ali Smith (with bibliography and list of awards): http://literature.britishcouncil.org/ali-smith

June 3rd & 5th: Black Swan Green

 

Where did it all go right? http://www.wherediditallgoright.com/

David Mitchell's home page: http://www.thousandautumns.com/

A guide to books on the Falklands War: http://www.falklandswar.org.uk/books.htm

Observer review of BSG: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/apr/16/fiction.davidmitchell

Interesting article on replacing Catcher in the Rye with Black Swan Green in school syllabi: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2012/11/schools_should_replace_catcher_in_the_rye_with_black_swan_green.html

 

David Mitchell on The King's Speech: http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/david-mitchell-stammering-kings-speech/#.Ubdy6Ov1ujI

British Newspapers

Here are some resources for the first short writing assignment, but it's also worth browsing the books and arts sections of the papers below to find useful and relevant articles throughout the course. Please feel free to bring articles you find particularly illuminating to class with you to add to our discussions!

The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/

The Times: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/

The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/

The Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Links to Regional Papers (North of England): http://www.wrx.zen.co.uk/norpress.htm

Lintks to Regional Papers (South of England): http://www.wrx.zen.co.uk/soupress.htm

Links to Papers (Scotland): http://www.wrx.zen.co.uk/scotland.htm

Literary Journals

Granta: http://www.granta.com/

​The Letters Page: http://theletterspage.tumblr.com/

Arete: http://www.aretemagazine.com/

To Hell with Publishing: http://tohellwithpublishing.com/about/

 

The White Review: http://www.thewhitereview.org/

The Manchester Review: http://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/

 

 

Other Resources (On Essays, On Literary Terms, On Writing)

Dictionaries of Literary Terms: there are many good and available dictionaries for this purpose, so if you have one you like from another course, please feel welcome to use it. Chris Baldick's Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Oxford: OUP, 2008. is available for free electronically through the U of T library catalogue.

On Close Reading and Essay Expectations: http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~dwhite/papers.htm

The Writing Centre: http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/writing-centres

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