Language and Composition: The Art of Voice (Muller and Whiting)Chapter 10:
Literature and the Arts: Why Do They Matter?Context LinksEUDORA WELTY, One Writer’s Beginnings Context Links Here is a profile of Welty in her later life. Which comment in the article do you think best sums up Welty’s character? Explain your choice.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/22/specials/welty-home.html Welty has an email program named after her. Why?
http://www.eudora.com/presskit/backgrounder.html#name
SHERMAN ALEXIE, Superman And Me Context Links Read this article about Alexie winning the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Why exactly did he receive this award? Do you know any other writers who might have won this award?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/23/AR2010032301846.html
JOHN UPDIKE, Moving Along Context Links Do a Google Image search for Roy de Forest, one of the artists Updike discusses in the essay. How would you describe his paintings? What else can you find out about the artist through Internet searches? Read more about the story that inspired the painting Baz Bahadur and Rupmati Riding by Moonlight. http://newindianexpress.com/education/student/article601399.ece
DAVID GATES, Finding Neverland Context Links This is the obituary for Michael Jackson in The Los Angeles Times. Compare it to the essay by Gates.
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-jackson-obit26-2009jun26,0,1970798.story
LANGSTON HUGHES, Theme For English B Context Links To put Hughes into a historical context, become familiar with the history of Harlem. Here is a timeline with photos of Harlem-related people and places in the early twentieth century.
http://www.bookrags.com/research/harlem-renaissance-timeline-hren-01/ To learn more about the social history of Harlem in this era, here is a tour of “Harlem After Dark" in the 1920s.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/blues/watson.html The artistic movement Hughes was most closely associated with is called the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes was sometimes called the “poet laureate of Harlem." Click here to see an overview of the Harlem Renaissance.
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/9intro.html
EDGAR ALLEN POE, The Raven and Philosophy of Composition Context Links Here is a video depiction of “The Raven.” Does this format add or detract from the suspense?
http://vimeo.com/51935996 This article in The New Yorker gives some context to Poe’s essay.
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/ 04/27/090427crat_atlarge_lepore
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