Bye, bye

The crisis affects us all. No Am Lit course this year. Maybe the next...

Brand New Slices of Life!

Check out the new Slices of Life! We'll talk about them on May 20, our last session.
And we'll go for a beer and some "tapas" after class...

Audio Literature Odissey

Several audio podcasts with stories and poems ("The Turn of the Screw", Emily Dickinson's poems) read aloud:
http://podcast.nikolledoolin.com/alo.html

Lecture on "The Bluest Eye"

This is an interesting lecture on "The Bluest Eye" by a Yale University teacher that I have actually met!
http://academicearth.org/lectures/toni-morrison-the-bluest-eye

If you like it, there are plenty of other academic lectures about lots of topics.

A Rose for Emily

Remember! The deadline for "A Rose for Emily" is April 20.
A good place to start is this:

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/litweb05/workshops/fiction/faulkner1.asp

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Fall of the House of Usher
A couple of links for "The Fall of the House of Usher". Here, you have the text with hyperlinks:
http://poestories.com/text.php?file=houseofusher

And here, a very complete Study Guide:
http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/usher/

And, of course, you can allways look up the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_of_the_House_of_Usher

An extract of Roger Corman's movie with Vincent Price:
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=-9G_BRk-K4o

And Tim Burton's short movie about Vincent:
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH3R5ntFK3c

Health Care in the USA

A few links about Health Care:
- http://www.barackobama.com/issues/healthcare/

- http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/obama/2009/03/09/experts-predict-an-intense-battle-over-obamas-healthcare-reform.html

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/salud/derecho/negocio/vez/elpepisoc/20090309elpepisoc_1/Tes