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Monday, March 20, 2017
Inspire- Spring
Happy Spring! Inspirations lately...
"Our greatest joy is when we seek to do good for others" - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
The Portland Home and Garden show, Orchid Society
"There are always flowers for those who want to see them" -Henri Matisse
In the studio...
More inspiration minis coming! (This series of small originals are created in acrylic and mixed media on wood panel- Follow RPS Instagram #inspirationminis for updates or visit the RPS Shop- Inspiration Minis to view all available for sale)
|Minis in progress- Peace Mandala, Rainbow Mandala, All One, Giving, Bright Spirit
Sneak peek, new larger paintings:
|Creatrix, Mother Earth- in progress (a section)
|Reflection, first sketch
Sewing/fabric followers, expect to see some new floral patchwork pillow patterns coming soon! The series will include rose, iris, lily, and orchid.
And... back to creating :)
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Dog Paintings
|Premonition, 12" x 12", oil on canvas, framed- $250 © Robin Phillips Studio
Full event details: https://www.facebook.com/events/257362558031351/
|Bliss, 12" x 12", oil on canvas, framed- $250 © Robin Phillips Studio
I had so much fun with these pieces based on my german shepherd Kiva and black lab/catahoula mix Phantom. Here's the full story behind them and a peek into my process...
|closeup of Premonition, © Robin Phillips Studio
Kiva is a purebred German Shepherd and never fails to show me how exceedingly smart she is ;)
This piece tells the story of how something is always going on in her thoughtful head- she watches out for us constantly. Nothing escapes Kiva's watchful eye. Of course, she's always the first one in line for dinner or biscuits. Some of her best moments I will never forget. One time she alerted me to the fact that the neighbor's dog was injured and stuck was on their fence. If she senses I have trouble with my diabetes she watches me and comes up to sniff my face. What would I do without her?
|closeup of Bliss, © Robin Phillips Studio
Every year we take our dogs to the coast and they run in play in the ocean so gleefully. This piece celebrates this moment of pure bliss. Just watching them makes me feel profoundly happy and at peace. Dogs have so much to teach us. Is anything more joyful than happy, carefree dogs?
In the studio, I started with pencil drawings and then light washes in oil. I used photos of my dogs for reference, and also sketched them in pencil on paper for practice first. Lately, I like to use Holbein Aqua Oils, which I would describe as a cross between acrylic and oil. The pigment quality is very high, yet they thin with water and work really well for the the first wash of color. I'm also playing around using them underneath Gamblin oils, a popular professional oil, for my larger pieces. On these pieces though I only used the Holbein oil.
Iko cat came to help for a bit... or perhaps to remind me he would like some attention too (usually my brushes are out of his reach ;)
For the sand and the background landscape, I muted the tones and added less detail so that it did not distract from the focal point- the dogs. The sandscape is painted with deepening tones and shadow on the right to further emphasize depth.
See more of my works in progress and my animal family antics on Instagram at @robinphillipsstudio and #petsinthestudio
And last but not least, I would love to paint your special animal friend(s)! If you like my work and are interested in a custom painting, let's connect. See more at www.robinphillipsstudio.com :)
Monday, February 13, 2017
Recent Artist Websites and Website Training
If you've been following RPS lately, you're likely awaiting my new website to see my updated portfolio. :)
I'm still working diligently on the new site (coming soon I promise, stay tuned!) In the meantime, here's a recap of some of my more recent artist website launches:
elynnerosenfeld.comElynne Rosenfeld, an artist and Reiki master, creates stunning bead-embellished paintings that are spiritually inspired. For this site, I customized a WordPress theme to present her work on a large scale that highlights the incredible detail of her beadwork. The site includes a fullscreen home page slideshow, a filterable gallery, blog and separate sub pages for her bio, cv and artist statement.
To capture the magnificence of Cynthia Berg Polsan's sculpture, I created a customized WordPress theme to showcase her work in close detail. The home page features a slideshow where the work scrolls from top to bottom and fades in/out for a dramatic effect. The gallery is customized to show three or more views of each piece to get a sense of the sculpture in the round.
lesyayanush.comLesya Yanush paints in a bold, expressionistic style. The goal for her site was to showcase the work without distraction. This WordPress site includes a fullscreen home page slide show and gallery so that the painting takes center stage. I also provided training for her to update the site on her own in the future, which most of my packages include.
gatosilimitados.comAdriana Gasperi creates charming cat art. To emphasize the whimsical nature of her work, the home page has a floating image slider. This customized WordPress site also includes an e-commerce store, multiple galleries and a blog. We incorporated Adriana's pre-existing logo in the header along with bilingual text throughout the site. Additionally, I optimized her logo for social media sharing. And my favorite feature is the custom cat cursor I designed for the menu.
Learn more about my design services at: www.robinphillipsstudio.com/design
Also, did you know I offer basic web design training? This is a popular new service I introduced last year.
Read more here!
Thursday, January 12, 2017
New Year Inspiration
|Inspiration Minis series, © Robin Phillips Studio
|Wise Tree © Robin Phillips Studio
I love how the new year is naturally full of promise. What are your goals this year?
This week we've been hit with record snow and my mind is full of new ideas.
As I reflect on how fast the past year went and the new branches that I have grown, this year I look forward to launching a new website and focusing more on art and illustration. If you are interested my design services, don't worry! I will continue to offer graphic and web design services as well. With the launch of my new site, you'll be able to see my latest work, get a closer look inside the studio and hear from me more regularly on social media. Stay tuned!
And if you're not already following me, join RPS Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. :)
"The beginning is the most important part of any work."
― Plato
I wish you a wonderful new year!
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Studio Sale!
It's that time of year again for an art studio sale!
A heartfelt thank you for supporting and following my art. It is my hope that it lifts your spirits and brings you joy :) In the face of life's challenges, I believe that the more we can support each other and our planet as individuals, the brighter our future can be. A portion of the proceeds from my animal and bird prints is donated to wildlife organizations.
If you've been eyeing a painting, print or pattern, this is the time to grab one at a great price! Or if you've just landed here, welcome! Read more about why I create healing art here.
With the discount, many of my small original paintings are under $100, and some are even under $50. Photo and laser prints are under $20. Just use code SAVE30 at checkout.
Local (Portland, OR area) purchases can also be hand-delivered- feel free to message me on FB or drop me an email! Follow me for updates and behind the scenes pics from the studio if you'd like too on RPS Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram .
New in the shop!
Inspiration Minis
4x4 paintings on wood panels
|Inspirational Mini paintings © Robin Phillips Studio
>>Browse All Original Paintings
Love Ornaments
|Inspirational Dangle Ornaments
>>Browse All Art Ornaments
2016 Prints
New poster prints now available for 2016 paintings! Giclee (archival ink printed on archival paper) available on request. A portion of the proceeds from animal and bird art prints support wildlife organizations
|The Light Within © Robin Phillips Studio
|The Grand Dragon Race © Robin Phillips Studio
|Though the Enchanted Forest © Robin Phillips Studio
|Ecstatic Joy © Robin Phillips Studio
>>Browse All Art Prints
A selection of small framed prints are now available!
Framed Prints
All regular 4x6 and 5x7 prints also come with a mat, ready for framing
|5x5 Animal Spirit Series Prints, pictured Horse Spirit © Robin Phillips Studio
|Joyful Spirit, © Robin Phillips Studio, 5x7 matted photo print in frame
>>Browse All Framed Prints
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Collection sale
Louisville, KY
Whole collection sale
10 breeder size adults
5 female crested (3 proven)
2 male crested (2 proven)
2 female gargoyle (not proven, both laying infertile)
1 male gargoyle (not proven)
$1600 plus shipping
Due to family health issues I am selling my collection, all of the geckos are doing well and healthy but one female gargoyle. She has gone into breeding mode and has not recovered yet. She is pretty low on weight. Beyond her, all are well and eat perfectly well on Pangea Watermelon. If you have questions please let me know.
I will include all babies produced this year from this group up to the date they ship for $300 I currently have 15ish babies I believe. I can verify that.
I do have lineage on almost all geckos and images of parents I can pass along as well.
I can provide images of all geckos if someone is seriously interested.


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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --Investigators are trying to determine the cause of a fire that broke out at a home on Fordham Way in Mountain View early Sunday morning.
Officials say when they arrived they found the house fully engulfed in flames.
No one was home at the time and the fire did not spread to nearby homes.
But one witness says he wanted to make sure neighboring residents were safe.
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Sparse Jacobian Computation Using ADIC2 and ColPack
|Sparse Jacobian Computation Using ADIC2 and ColPack
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|Narayanan, SHK, Norris, B, Hovland, PD, Nguyen, DC, Gebremedhin, AH
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Many scientific applications benefit from the accurate and efficient computation of derivatives. Automatically generating these derivative computations from an applications source code offers a competitive alternative to other approaches, such as less accurate numerical approximations or labor-intensive analytical implementations. ADIC2 is a source transformation tool for generating code for computing the derivatives (e.g., Jacobian or Hessian) of a function given the C or C++ implementation of that function. Often the Jacobian or Hessian is sparse and presents the opportunity to greatly reduce storage and computational requirements in the automatically generated derivative computation. ColPack is a tool that compresses structurally independent columns of the Jacobian and Hessian matrices through graph coloring approaches. In this paper, we describe the integration of ColPack coloring capabilities into ADIC2, enabling accurate and efficient sparse Jacobian computations. We present performance results for a case study of a simulated moving bed chromatography application. Overall, the computation of the Jacobian by integrating ADIC2 and ColPack is approximately 40% faster than a comparable implementation that integrates ADOL-C and ColPack when the Jacobian is computed multiple times.


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Karen Rezendes, News Director of WPRI/WNAC, is pleased to announce that Shannon Hegy has been named co-anchor of Eyewitness News. Hegy will be co-anchoring Eyewitness News at 5pm, 6pm, and 11pm with Mike Montecalvo, Chief Meteorologist Tony Petrarca, and Sports Anchor Yianni Kourakis. Her promotion is effective immediately.
Hegy will also be co-anchoring Eyewitness News at 6:30pm on Fox Providence with Steve Nielsen, Chief Meteorologist Tony Petrarca, and Sports Anchor Yianni Kourakis and Eyewitness News at 10:00pm on Fox Providence with Mike Montecalvo, Chief Meteorologist Tony Petrarca, and Sports Anchor Yianni Kourakis.
"Shannon has a natural ability to connect with people and a sincere desire to report on stories that impact our viewers," says News Director Karen Rezendes.
A New England native, Shannon has been with Eyewitness News since October 2013. Previously, she anchored the news at WGGB-TV in Springfield, Massachusetts, where she worked her way up from reporter and assignment editor.
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Shannon earned a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from Hofstra University on Long Island, New York.
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AT&T Government Solutions Receives Authority to Operate for Cloud Storage Service
AT&T to Offer On-Demand Storage as a Service to Federal Agencies
OAKTON, Va., Oct. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AT&T Government Solutions* has received an Authority to Operate (ATO) for AT&T Synaptic Storage as a ServiceSM from the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).
The ATO allows AT&T to offer cloud storage services to federal agencies through the GSA Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Blanket Purchase Agreement (GS00Q11AEA0002).
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Security remains a principal factor as agencies look to cloud solutions. AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service supports moderate level security controls under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).
The solution will be available to provide cloud services to federal agencies at AT&T Internet Data Centers (IDCs) in the continental United States.
*AT&T Government Solutions is a business unit within AT&T Corp., an affiliate of AT&T Inc. AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
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Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com. This AT&T news release and other announcements are available at http://www.att.com/newsroom and as part of an RSS feed at www.att.com/rss. Or follow our news on Twitter at @ATT.
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It took some time but I can finally say and confirm that the PS+ games for March 2015 have been announced! And let me be the first to say, its a mighty fine package! Fans have a lot of different choices and personally I got really lucky! I don't own any of these games currently and can't wait to get my hands on them. So what do you guys think? What did you want? Let us know in the comments!
PlayStation 4: Sony's High-End Console
PS4 1) Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee – New 'n' Tasty! – An updated version of a classic platformer. Abe's back with awesome graphics, sound and controls.
PS4 2) Valiant Hearts: The Great War – Tells the story of different people and the struggles of surviving through WWI.
PlayStation 3: Sony's Entry Level Console
PS3 1) Papo & Yo – A unique puzzling adventure starring a boy, Quico, and a monster named, Monster. They are best friends and have to help each other through an amazing world.
PS3 2) Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments – Follow the legend Sherlock Holmes and solve some cases in the style that only Holmes can.
PlayStation Vita: Sony's Hand-Held
PSV 1) OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood – Did you love OlliOlli? Tony Hawk? This game takes you back into the side scrolling skateboard world that lets you grind, jump, and do tricks! How far can you make it?
PSV 2) CounterSpy – A unique vision, inspired by the Cold War, tasks players with keeping the world in balance.
The original source can be found below:
PS Plus: Free Games for March 2015 – PlayStation.Blog.


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Why? Is it because of inflation? Because growth lower than inflation means stagnation? Or is it because Capitalism relies on growing economies to service the debts so much of the economy relies on?
If someone out there intelligent enough to follow all this, and explain it in layman's terms, would be kind enough to explain it I'd be grateful.
As a businessman, if I ran a business that made 100K profit one year and then made another 90K profit the following year, why should that be deemed a failure? I don't understand why we have the constant need for growth, for greater profits, year on year.
As a Catholic I have to wonder if it's better to crave for growth every year, to seek bigger and bigger profits at any cost, when we as a society should surely place prime importance on economic and spiritual well being, safe streets, the stability of families, the condition of the poor.
I know it can sound a bit woolly and I don't go in for hugging trees, but aren't all the above more important than the constant chase after bigger and better profits?
Would we be happier with less profits, but being able to leave our doors unlocked? I've seen in parts of London, homes worth £1 million plus, all shuttered up, with bars on the windows. Is that progress?
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I wonder sometimes if the love of money, aka the relentless charge after more profits, brings about more societal evils? Our Lord said it was the root of all evil -- are we to call Him a liar? Yet the love of money (bigger and bigger profits) seems to be the driving force of Capitalism.
After all, if an energy company can make greater profits by putting up its prices as the elderly face the choice to "eat or heat" through the Winter, how can they condemn a poor kid who chooses the relative wealth and peer group adulation of getting involved in selling drugs over hard slog in school ending in a McJob? OK, I am using an extreme example as one is 'lawful' whereas the other causes untold misery and crime, but you get the point. Immorality breeds immorality. Greed breeds greed.
If we rush to make money, more profits, then greater profits than before -- at every twist and turn -- what time is left for morality, for the moral choices that may mean making less money, to take a slump in profits for the betterment of the Common Good?
It reminds me of a 'joke' an Irish Catholic friend of mine told me. A geezer in his late 20s works part time, but makes ends meet. Nothing fancy. Pays the bills. Spends time with his kids, takes them swimming, fishing, playing football etc. Then his mate comes along and says 'come work for me.' He tells him it's 12 hours a day, six days a week. But if he works real hard with this better wage he can retire when he's 50. His main selling point was that when he was 50 he could then "go fishing, swimming, playing football..."


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Kenya Michaels, a drag queen from Puerto Rico, was scheduled to appear at Pulse on Saturday evening along with another entertainer called Jasmine International, according to Michaels' Facebook page, which displayed a flyer for the show. Yara Sofia, another Puerto Rican drag queen and reality television personality, said Michaels was safe.
"She got out with manager Neema," Sofia said on Facebook.
Angelica Jones of Orlando, Pulse's resident entertainer, also posted a message on Facebook early Sunday: "God's good. I made it out safe. Thank you for your prayers."
Orlando recently wrapped up its annual weeklong Gay Days festival on June 6 in which up to 150,000 in the LGBT community attend area theme parks, gay nightclubs and special events. It was the 25th anniversary of Gay Days. It is one of the largest gay pride events in the world.
What we know so far
A shooting at a LGBT nightclub in Orlando has killed about 20 people and sent 42 to the hospital, after Florida police and Swat teams ended a hostage situation with a gunman, killing him, in the early hours of of Sunday morning.
At a morning press conference the FBI described the shooting as an act of terrorism, saying: "Whether that's a domestic terrorist activity or international, it's terrorism."
The press conference also gave details how the shooting began, the raid, and what few details police know so far about the gunman.
At approximately 2am on Sunday, an officer working at Pulse Club responded to shots fires and engaged in a gun battle with the suspect. The suspect at some point entered the night club and a hostage situation began.
Dozens of officers and federal agents responded to the shooting from around the area, and police began receiving phone calls from inside the club: calls from bathrooms and at least 15 people "in the area", police chief John Mina said.
At approximately 5am police decided to rescue the hostages, setting off two "distractionary devices" and blowing apart a wall so a Swat team could storm the club. The suspect was killed in the ensuing gunfight. There were "at least 30 people that were saved during that rescue", Mina said.
Police found an "assault-type rifle", a handgun and "some kind of device" on the suspect's body, and are working to clear the night club of any suspicious items. Bodies remain inside. Mina said there were "no witness accounts of a second shooter".
About 20 people were killed, Mina said, and 42 taken to three area hospitals. One police officer sustained a minor injury.
It appears he was organized and well prepared," Mina said of the suspect. "He's not from this area." Mina used the same phrasing to say that the gunman who killed singer Christina Grimmie on Friday night in Orlando was not from central Florida. He said the shootings do not appear related.
Orlando sheriff Jerry Demings called the shooting "a domestic terror incident", and the FBI said they were investigating whether the suspect acted as "a lone wolf" or had any ties to terror groups abroad. Asked about a link to jihadi terrorism, an FBI agent said: "At this time we're looking into all angles. We do have suggestions that that individual may have had leanings toward that, that particular ideology. But right now we can't say anything definitively."
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Alex Williams of the New York Times reports on the phenomenon of green noise - static caused by urgent, sometimes vexing or even contradictory information played at too high a volume for too long.
Two years after "An Inconvenient Truth" helped unleash a new tide of environmental activism, green noise pulses through the collective consciousness from all directions. The news media issues dire reports about disappearing polar bears; Web sites feature Brad Pitt arriving at a movie premiere in his hydrogen-powered BMW; bookstore shelves are piled high with titles like "50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth"; shops carry hemp-enriched shampoo and 100-percent organic cotton tampons.
An environmentally conscientious consumer is left to wonder: are low-energy compact fluorescent bulbs better than standard incandescents, even if they contain traces of mercury? Which salad is more earth-friendly, the one made with organic mixed greens trucked from thousands of miles away, or the one with lettuce raised on nearby industrial farms? Should they support nuclear power as a clean alternative to coal?
If even well-intentioned activists are feeling overwhelmed, the average S.U.V. driver must be tuning out. And some environmentalists fear that the public might begin to ignore their message before any meaningful change can be accomplished. For them, it's a time to reassess strategies and streamline their campaigns before it's too late.
Activists and nonprofits must shoulder their share of responsibility, too, for bombarding people with messages. "The groups that are trying to get them to change overwhelm them with information," said Diane Tompkins, a founder of the Curious Company, a market research firm based in San Francisco.
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Nanotechnology: Changing The Way We Teach
Nanotechnology: Changing The Way We Teach
18 May 2005
How can we make sure our schools and colleges turn out a new generation equipped to handle new and unfolding technologies? That's the question posed by scientist and futures thinker Professor Akhlesh Lakhtakia in a public seminar at Waikato Management School on Monday 23 May.
Professor Lakhtakia is Distinguished Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Pennsylvania State University and Adjunct Professor of Physics at London University's Imperial College. In his presentation, "Taking Nanotechnology to Schools", Professor Lakhtakia will discuss how the vast potential of nanotechnology opens up new ways of integrating sciences and the humanities.
"Nanotechnology - which is all about manipulating matter at the infinitesimal nanoscale -- is expected to radically alter the human condition within the next twenty years," says Professor Lakhtakia. "Human cultures don't change that fast, so it's imperative we begin to think about the social, legal and ethical changes that may emerge."
Prof Lakhtakia predicts that the convergence of nanotechnologies, information technologies and biotechnologies will result in new medical treatments, monitoring systems for safety-critical structures, such as dams, buildings, ships and aircraft, and energy-efficient production systems that produce very little waste.
But there are nightmare scenarios too, he warns. "We need watchdog groups to make sure governments don't erode individual rights and privacy, and we need laws to curb the powers of the controllers of the technologies over their users.
"To get our heads around the implications of these new technologies, we need to educate people to understand both the science and the social, ethical, legal and political issues they raise," argues Professor Lakhtakia.
He proposes integrating technosciences and humanities in education so that both future technoscientists and non-technoscientists can develop a common language.
To do this, Professor Lakhtakia advocates what he calls "just-in-time" education (JITE) - individual or team projects which require the students to gather information from many different sources to solve multidisciplinary problems.
"It's very different to "just-in-case" learning," he says. "There, we teach topics just in case they turn out to be useful to students. What I'm suggesting is supplementation by a broader, integrated form of educational experiences. That way we can equip future generations with the analytical tools they'll need to cope with our rapidly changing world."


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M.A. Comprehensive Exam
The M.A. Comprehensive is a written exam required of all MA students and is designed to test your critical skills and your knowledge of literary history, literary theory, and rhetoric. It is given each semester in two parts (usually on the first two Saturdays in November and on the first two Saturdays in April after spring break for three hours each). Part I covers British and American literature from Classical to late Eighteenth Century. Part II covers British, American and World literature from late Eighteenth Century (Romantics) to late Twentieth Century. Questions on the exams expect that you have knowledge of and can discuss Criticism and Literary Theory also.
Coverage & Exam Questions
Examiners will assume that you have read all the works on the M.A. Reading List (see below), and they will frame questions accordingly. But you will not be limited to discussing only works on this list when you answer the questions. Sample examinations are here .Read through the Guidelines below and print a copy of the Worksheet to keep track of your progress. This Worksheet will be submitted to the MA Advisor prior to each exam. For exam dates, see the current Graduate Newsletter.
Studying for the Exam
The Reading List, you should note, represents a minimal catalogue of the works an English M.A. should know, and the program assumes you will do a considerable amount of reading in addition to your course assignments. Seminars, for the same reason, are not designed necessarily to cover the titles on the list; they are designed rather to model various ways of reading literature and to equip you to understand and evaluate critical approaches. You are expected to apply these approaches as you study the works on the list and to demonstrate on the Comprehensive Examination that you are capable of the level of independent study expected of a Master of Arts in English.
--> Exam Guidelines Worksheet in DOC and PDF
1) Formulate an individual reading plan, using the MA Reading List (below), choosing texts from each period, and consulting with Graduate faculty and the MA Coordinator, as needed. Familiarize yourself with the canonical literary periods and texts by reading an overview - for example, from a traditional anthology of literature, a glossary of literary terms, or other works that treat literary periods and genres - and speaking with department faculty. To keep a record of your choices, print the Worksheet for these Guidelines.
2) In formulating a plan, use the following as a guideline for a minimum number of works in each historical period of Classical, British, American, and World Literature:
|Minimal Number of Authors/Works
|Criticism and Literary Theory
|Classical and Pre-Medieval
|Renaissance/Early Modern
|18th Century British and American
|19th Century British
|19th Century American
|20th Century British
|20th Century American
|World Literature
3) When you sign up for your first Comprehensive Examination, submit this Worksheet to the MA Advisor. The plan is meant as a self-inventory of your own reading and thus a guide to your study for the exam. The exams will continue to be based not on any one individual's reading plan but on the published reading list in general. Knowledge of works by one hundred authors on the list is meant as the bare minimum that could be described as being "well read" in our field. In coursework you will of course read beyond this bare minimum in many areas. Please feel free to draw on your reading of texts appropriate to the questions asked in the exams regardless of whether or not the text is actually on your plan or on the MA Reading List itself.
Reading List
Critical and Theoretical Background to Literary Study For both Exam Parts I and II
Read at least 8 of the following authors, all found in the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, plus a summary of the various schools:
Classical Theory and Criticism
Plato (ca. 427-ca. 347 B.C.E.) excerpts from Republic
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.) Poetics
Horace (65-8 B.C.E.) Ars Poetica
Longinus (first century C.E.) from On Sublimity
Medieval and Renaissance Theory and Criticism
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) excerpts from Il Convivio
Christine de Pizan (ca. 1365-ca.1429) excerpts from The Book of the City of Ladies
Enlightenment Theory and Criticism
John Dryden (1631-1700) excerpt from "An Essay of Dramatic Poesy"
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) "Epistle to the Reader" from The Dutch Lover
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) "An Essay on Criticism"
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) "On Fiction" in The Rambler No. 4 and Chapter X of Rasselas
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) Critique of Judgment
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Romantic Theory and Criticism
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) excerpts from Biographia Literaria
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) excerpts from A Defence of Poetry
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) "The American Scholar," "The Poet"
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) "The Philosophy of Composition"
Victorian/19 th Century Theory and Criticism
Karl Marx & Freidrich Engels (1818-1883) "The Communist Manifesto"
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) The Painter of Modern Life
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time," excerpt from Culture and Anarchy
Walter Pater (1839-1894) excerpts from Studies in the History of the Renaissance
Henry James (1843-1916) "The Art of Fiction"
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) excerpts from The Birth of Tragedy
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray
Contemporary Theory and Criticism
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) excerpts from The Interpretation of Dreams, "The 'Uncanny'" and "Fetishism"
Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) "Course in General Linguistics"
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) "Criteria of Negro Art"
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) excerpts from A Room of One's Own
Boris Eichenbaum (1886-1959) excerpts from The Theory of the "Formal Method"
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) "The Formation of the Intellectuals"
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) "What White Publishers Won't Print"
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) excerpts from Discourse in the Novel
Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) "Marxism and Literature"
Cleanth Brooks (1906-1994) excerpt from The Well Wrought Urn
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) excerpt from The Second Sex
Roland Barthes (1915-1980) "The Death of the Author" and "From Work to Text"
Raymond Williams (1921-1988) Marxism and Literature
Franz Fanon (1925-1961) The Wretched of the Earth
Michel Foucault (1926-1984) "What Is an Author?" and excerpts from The History of Sexuality
Wolfgang Iser (1926-2007) "Interaction between Text and Author"
Hayden White (1928- ) "The Historical Text as Literary Artifact"
Adrienne Rich (1929- ) excerpt from Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
Chinua Achebe (1930- ) "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness"
Harold Bloom (1930- ) excerpts from The Anxiety of Influence
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) excerpts from Of Grammatology and Dissemination
Stuart Hall (1932- ) "Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies"
Frederic Jameson (1934- ) excerpts from The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
Edward Said (1935-2003) Introduction to Orientalism
Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar (1936-) & (1944-) excerpt from The Madwoman in the Attic
Stanley Fish (1938- ) "Interpreting the Variorum"
Gayatri Spivak (1942- ) excerpt from A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
Gloria Anzaldúa (1942- ) excerpt from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Stephen Greenblatt (1943- ) Introduction to The Power of Forms in the English Renaissance
Barbara Smith (1946- ) "Toward a Black Feminist Criticism"
Homi K. Bhabha (1949- ) "The Commitment to Theory"
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950- ) Introduction to Between Men
Judith Butler (1956- ) excerpts from Gender Trouble
Modern and Contemporary Critical Schools and Movements
Either read the brief summary at the back of the Norton (2532-2552) or read about all of the following in any good glossary or handbook of literary terms:
New Criticism
Structuralism and Semiotics
Reader-Response Criticism
Deconstructive Criticism
New Historicism
Historical Criticism
Postcolonial Criticism
Cultural Studies
Race and Ethnicity Studies
Psychological Criticism
Feminist Criticism
Queer Theory
Literature for the Part I Exam
Classical and pre-Medieval Literature
(Read 8)
Gilgamesh (7 th C BC)
Homer:Iliad 1, 6, 9, 18, 22, 24, Odyssey.
Virgil, Aeneid, 1,2,4,6,8,12.
AeschylusThe Oresteia
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex and Antigone
Euripides, Medea
Aristophanes, Lysistrata (or The CloudsÉ)
The Bible: Genesis; Exodus; Judges 13-16; 1 Samuel 16-18; Job; Psalms 1, 2, 11, 14, 22, 23, 90, 121, 137; Proverbs 1:1-10, 15:1-5, 31:10-31; Isaiah 1-10, 40, 52-56; Jonah; Luke; John 1-2; Revelation 1, 2, 4-6.
Medieval Literature
(Read 5)
Old English Narrative and Lyric Poetry: Beowulf, "The Wanderer," "The Seafarer," "The Dream of the Rood," "The Wife's Lament "The Battle of Maldon." (in Anglo-Saxon or in translation)
Dante (1265-1321) Inferno, 1-5,11- 14,18-19,24-26,31-34; Purgatorio,1-3,8-10,16-33; Paradiso,1-2,10-13,16-19,23,30-33.
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340?-1400) The Canterbury Tales , including at least the General Prologue, Knight's Tale, Miller's Tale, Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, Clerk's Tale, Merchant's Tale, Franklin's Tale, Pardoner's Prologue and Tale, Prioress's Tale, Nun's Priest's Tale.
Chaucer, GeoffreyTroilus and Criseyde
Verse RomanceSir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1375-1400)
Allegory and Mysticism: Pearl , Piers Plowman, Julian of Norwich, A Revelation of Love (Marion Glasscoe, ed., rev. ed. [Exeter, 1993])
Lyrics: R. L. Stevick, ed., One Hundred Middle English Lyrics, rev. ed. [Urbana, Ill., 1994], and/or Maxwell S. Luria and Richard L. Hoffman, eds., Middle English Lyrics, Norton Critical Edition [New York, 1974])
Middle English Drama: Morality and Mystery (Cycle) Plays: Everyman, Second Shepherd's Play (Wakefield).
Sir Thomas Malory (d. 1471) selections from Le Morte d'Arthur (Preferred edition: E. Vinaver, ed., The Works of Sir Thomas Malory, 3rd ed., rev. P. J. C. Field, 3 vols. [Oxford, 1990]; Caxton's widely available text is also acceptable.) including at least "Merlin" Section I (= Caxton, Book I) "The Book of Sir Tristram de Lyones" Section XIV: Launcelot and Elaine (= Caxton, Bk XI, XII, Chaps. 1-10) "The Tale of the Sankgreal" (= Caxton, Bks XIII-XVII) "The Book of Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere" (= Caxton, Bks XVIII-XIX) "The Most Piteous Tale of the Morte Arthur Saunz Guerdon" (=Caxton, Bks XX-XXI).
Renaissance/Early Modern Literature
Read at least 10: 8 English, 2 from Colonies
Sir Thomas Wyatt The Elder (1503-1542) &Henry Howard, Early of Surrey (1517-1547) All selections from the Norton Anthology of English Literature for both.
Elizabeth I, (1533-1603) Speeches, letters, and poetry (selections from the Norton acceptable)
Sir Walter Raleigh (c.1554-1618) selected poems
William Shakespeare (1564-1616): 2 plays from each dramatic mode (comedy, tragedy, history, romance) the Sonnets and a narrative poem.
John Milton (1608-74) Paradise Lost, Areopagitica, sonnets
Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599): Book I of The Faerie Queene, Spenser's Shorter Poems
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586): The Defence of Poesy, The Old Arcadia, sonnets (Astrophel and Stella)
Christopher Marlowe (1564-93) Edward II ; Dr. Faustus, Tamburlaine
Ben Jonson (1572-1637) Volpone (1607) Bartholomew Fair, and selected poems.
John Webster (1578-1630s?) The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil
Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) and Thomas Dekker (1572-1632) The Roaring Girl
Elizabeth Cary (1585-1618) The Tragedy of Mariam
John Donne (1572-1631) Selected Poems(Bloomsbury)
Robert Herrick (1591-1674) Poems in the Norton Anthology
George Herbert (1593-1633) Selected Poetry of George Herbert
Richard Crashaw(1613-1649) Steps to the Temple(1646)
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) Selected Poems(Bloomsbury)
Writers of the American Colonies
John Winthrop (1588-1649) A Modell of Christian Charity
William Bradford (1590-1657) Of Plymouth Plantation
Anne Bradstreet (1612?-1672) selected poems (from either the Norton or Heath)
Mary Rowlandson (1636?-1711) The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson)
Restoration and 18th Century
Read at least 12: 10 British, 2 from America
John Dryden (1631-1700) "Absalom and Achitophel", and "MacFlecknoe," All for Love
George Etherege (1634?-1691?) The Man of Mode
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) The Rover, Oroonoko
William Wycherley (1640-1716) The Country Wife
Thomas Otway (1652-1685) Venice Preserv'd
Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) Moll Flanders, Robinson Crusoe, or Roxana
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels, "A Modest Proposal" and A Tale of a Tub
William Congreve (1670-1729) The Way of the World
Edward Young (1683-1765) Selected Poetry(Carcanet)
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad Book IV
Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) Clarissa or Pamela
James Thomson (1700- 48) selections from The Poetical Works of James Thomson
Henry Fielding (1707-54) Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones
Samuel Johnson (1709-84) Rasselas, "Pope" from Lives of the Poets, "The Vanity of Human Wishes,"
Laurence Sterne (1713-68) Tristram Shandy
Thomas Gray (1716-71) Selected Poems (Bloomsbury)
William Collins (1721-59) Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegorical Subjects
Oliver Goldsmith (1730?-74) The Vicar of Wakefield, She Stoops to Conquer "The Deserted Village"
William Cowper (1731-1800) Selected Poems (Fyfield)
Olaudah Equiano (1745?-1797) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African, Written by Himself
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) The School for Scandal
Frances Burney (1752-1840) Evelina
Writers of the American Colonies and the future United States
Edward Taylor (1642-1729) Poems of Edward Taylor
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) pick two of the following: "Images of Divine Things," "A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God," "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) The Autobiography
J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur (1735-1813) from Letters from an American Farmer: "Letters 1-3" and "Letters 9-12."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Notes on the State of Virginia
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) selected poems (from Norton or Heath anthology)
Literature for the Part II Exam
(note that the criticism section is for both parts I and II)
Romantic and 19 th C British Literature
Read at least 10
Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825) Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem (1812), "Rights of Woman"
Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) Beachy Head and Elegiac Sonnets (1795)
William Blake (1757-1827) Songs of Innocence and Experience, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) Vindication of the Rights of Man, Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Robert Burns (1759-1796) "To a Mouse" and Selected Poems
Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) De Montfort
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude (Books 13 & 14) selected poems, and Preface to the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads)
Walter Scott (1771-1832) Waverley, Rob Roy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) Lyrical Ballads, Selected Poems (Gramercy)
Jane Austen (1775-1817) Pride and Prejudice or Northanger Abbey
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) Don Juan, Selected Poems (Penguin)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Selected Poetry and Prose (Modern Library)
John Keats (1795-1821) Selected Poems (Penguin)
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Sartor Resartus
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) Frankenstein (1818) and Introduction to 1831 version of Frankenstein
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) Sonnets from the Portuguese
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) On Liberty, Essays on Sexual Equality
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92) Idylls of the King or In Memoriam and selected poems
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63) Vanity Fair
Robert Browning (1812-89) Selected Poems (Penguin)
Charles Dickens (1812-70) David Copperfield or Great Expectations
Charlotte Bronte (1816-55) Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte (1818-48) Wuthering Heights
George Eliot (1819-80) Middlemarch or The Mill on the Floss
John Ruskin (1819-1900) The Stones of Venice, edited and abridged by J. G. Links
Matthew Arnold (1822-88) Selected Poetry http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/7.html
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) The Moonstone
D. G. Rossetti (1828-82) Selected Poetry http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/284.html
Christina Rossetti (1830-94) "Goblin Market" and Selected Poetry http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/283.html
William Morris (1834-96) Selected Poetry http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/236.html
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) Selected Poems (Fyfield)
Walter Pater (1839-94) Selected Writings of Walter Pater (Columbia)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Jude the Obscure or Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Selected Poems (Everyman)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Oxford)
Bram Stoker (1847-1912) Dracula
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray
19th Century American Literature (1783-1899)
Read at least 10
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) The Rights of Man (1791)
Susanna Rowson (1762-1824) Charlotte Temple
Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) Wieland
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) The Pioneers
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) "Nature," "The Over-Soul," "Experience," "Fate," "The Rhodora," "Circles."
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) The Scarlet Letter, "My Kinsman, Major Molineaux," "Rappaccini's Daughter," "Young Goodman Brown," "The Minister's Black Veil," "The Artist of the Beautiful," "The Old Manse."
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, "The Purloined Letter," Selected Poetry http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/262.html
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Walden
Frederick Douglass (1818?-1895) Autobiography of Frederick Douglass
Walt Whitman (1819-1892):
ÐFrom the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass: "Song of Myself."
ÐFrom any edition: The "Calamus" sequence, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "Song of the Open Road," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
Herman Melville (1819-1891) Moby Dick, "Benito Cereno," "Bartleby," "Encantadas," "The Bell Tower"
Harriet E. Wilson (1827?-1863?) Our Nig
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Final Harvest
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) Little Women
Mark Twain (1835-1910) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Modern Instance or A Hazard of New Fortunes
Henry James (1843-1916) The Portrait of a Lady; or "Daisy Miller," "The Figure in the Carpet," and "The Turn of the Screw"; or The Ambassadors; or The Wings of the Dove; or The Golden Bowl.
Sarah Orne Jewitt (1849-1909) Country of the Pointed Firs
Kate Chopin (1850-1904) The Awakening
Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932) The Marrow of Tradition or The Wife of His Youth, and Other Stories of the Color Line
Abraham Cahan (1860-1951)Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories
Frank Norris (1870-1902) McTeague
Stephen Crane (1871-1900): Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, short stories, like "The Open Boat," "An Incident of War," etc.
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) Sister Carrie
20th Century British Literature
Read at least 13
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness
G.B. Shaw (1856-1950) Heartbreak House, Misalliance, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Pygmalion
A.E. Housman (1859-1936) A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Selected Poems (Sterling)
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Kim
Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) The Good Soldier
E.M. Forster (1879-1970) Passage to India or Howard's End
James Joyce (1882-1941) Ulysses, or Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, Jacob's Room, or The Waves
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Sons and Lovers
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) Collected Poems 1908-1956 (Faber)
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) Selected Poetry http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/247.html
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) Brideshead Revisited
Graham Greene (1904-1991) The Quiet American
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) Waiting for Godot
W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Selected Poems (Vintage)
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Selected Poems (Phoenix)
Muriel Spark (1918- ) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Doris Lessing (1919- ) The Golden Notebook
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) Collected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
John Fowles (1926- ) The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Osborne (1929-1994) Look Back in Anger
Ted Hughes (1930-1998) New Selected Poems 1957-1994
Harold Pinter (1930- ) The Caretaker and Old Times
Tom Stoppard (1937- ) The Real Inspector Hound or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead or Arcadia
Seamus Heaney (1939- ) Selected Poems (Noonday), Beowulf
Graham Swift (1949- ) Waterland
Kazuo Ishiguro (1954- ) Remains of the Day
Hanif Kureshi (1954- ) My Beautiful Laundrette
Zadie Smith (1975- ) White Teeth
20th Century American Literature
Read at least 13
Edith Wharton (1862-1937). The House of Mirth or The Age of Innocence
W.E.B. du Bois (1868-1963) The Souls of Black Folk
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) Selected Poems (Penguin)
Willa Cather (1873-1947). My Antonia or Death, or Comes for the Archbishop
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Collected Poems
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). The Yale Gertrude Stein
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955). The Palm at the End of the Mind
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) The American Language (1919)
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963). Paterson, Selected Poems
Ezra Pound (1885-1972). Selected Poems, Selected Cantos
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961) Selected Poems
Marianne Moore (1887-1972). Complete Poems
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) The Waste Land, Selected Poems
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) Anna Christie, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night
Claude McKay (1889-1948) Selected Poems
William Faulkner (1892-1962). Absalom! Absalom! or The Sound and The Fury, or Light in August
Jean Toomer (1894-1967) Cane
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) The Great Gatsby
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) A Farewell to Arms or The Sun Also Rises or For Whom the Bell Tolls, or The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) Lolita or Pale Fire
Zora Neale Hurston (1901?-1960) Their Eyes Were Watching God
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Collected Poems
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men
Clifford Odets (1906-1963) Golden Boy
Lillian Hellman (1906-1984) The Children's Hour, or The Little Foxes
Eudora Welty (1909-2001) Selected Stories
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) Complete Poems
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, or A Streetcar Named Desire
John Cheever (1912-1982) The Stories of John Cheever
Carlos Bulosan (1913-1956) America Is in the Heart
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) Invisible Man
John Berryman (1914-1972) 77 Dream Songs
Saul Bellow (1915- ) Humboldt's Gift
Arthur Miller (1915-2005) Death of a Salesman, The Crucible
Robert Lowell (1917-1977) Life Studies, For the Union Dead
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) Selected Poems
Richard Wilbur (1921- ) Things of this World
Denise Levertov (1923-1997) Collected Earlier Poems 1940-1960
Norman Mailer (1923- ). Armies of the Night
James Baldwin (1924-1987). Go Tell It on the Mountain, or Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
Truman Capote (1924-1984) In Cold Blood
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) Wise Blood, A Good Man is Hard to Find
William Styron (1925-2006) Sophie's Choice
Alan Ginsburg (1926-1997) Howl, Selected Poems
James Merrill (1926-1995) Selected Poems 1946-1985
John Ashbery (1927- ) Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Neil Simon (1927- ) Lost in Yonkers, Barefoot in the Park
Edward Albee (1928- ) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, or The Sandbox
Adrienne Rich (1929- ) Dark Fields of the Republic
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) A Raisin in the Sun
Toni Morrison (1931- ) Song of Solomon or Beloved
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) The Bell Jar, Ariel
Cormac McCarthy (1933- ) Blood Meridian
Philip Roth (1933- ) American Pastoral
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (1934- ) Dutchman, Selected Poetry
N. Scott Momaday (1934- ) House Made of Dawn
Don DeLillo (1936- ) White Noise or Underworld
Thomas Pynchon (1937- ) The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, or V
John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969) A Confederacy of Dunces
Maxine Hong Kingston (1940- ) Tripmaster Monkey, Woman Warrior, or China Men
Luis Valdez (1940- ) Zoot Suit
Sam Shepard (1943- ) Buried Child
August Wilson (1945-2005) The Piano Lesson, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
David Mamet (1947- ) Glengarry Glen Ross
Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- ) Ceremony
Ana Castillo (1953- ) So Far from God
Louise Erdrich (1954- ) Love Medicine or Tracks.
Tony Kushner (1956- ) Angels in America (Part I & II)
David Henry Hwang (1957- ) M. Butterfly
World Literature
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Anglophone (English literature not from Britain or America)
Susanna Moodie (1803-1885) The World Before Them
Joseph Furphy (1843-1912) Such is Life
Miles Franklin (1879-1954) My Brilliant Career
Jean Rhys (1890-1979) Wide Sargasso Sea
C.L.R. James (1901-1989) Minty Alley
Alan Paton (1903-1988) Cry, The Beloved Country
R.K. Narayan (1906-2001) The Guide
Patrick White (1912- ) Voss, A Fringe of Leaves
Amos Tutuola (1920-1997) The Palm Wine Drunkard
Nadine Gordimer (1923-) July's People or Burger's Daughter
Kamala Markandaya (1924-2004) Nectar in a Sieve
Chinua Achebe (1930-) Things Fall Apart
Derek Walcott (1930-) Omeros or Selected Poems
[Edward] Kamau Brathwaite (1930-) The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy
V.S. Naipaul (1932-) A House for Mr. Biswas
Wole Soyinka (1934) A Dance of the Forests
David Malouf (1934-) Remembering Babylon, The Conversations at Curlew Creek
Bessie Head (1937-1986) A Question of Power
Ngugi wa Thiong'o (1938) Petals of Blood
Bapsi Sidhwa (1938-) Cracking India
Margaret Atwood (1939-) The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye
Albert Wendt (1939-) Leaves of the Banyan Tree
J. M. Coetzee (1940-) Disgrace, Waiting for the Barbarians
Ama Ata Aidoo (1942-) Our Sister Killjoy
Peter Carey (1943-) True History of the Kelly Gang
Michael Ondaatje (1943-) The English Patient
Keri Hulme (1947-) Bone People
Salman Rushdie (1947-) Midnight's Children, or Satanic Verses
Jamaica Kincaid (1949-) A Small Place
Jessica Hagedorn (1949-) Dogeaters
George Lamming (1953-) In the Castle of My Skin
Ha Jin (1956-) Waiting, Under the Red Flag
Caryl Philips (1958-) Crossing the River
Arundhati Roy (1961-) The God of Small Things
Edwidge Danticat (1969-) Krik? Krak!
Modern World Literature in Translation
Fyodor Doestoevsky (1821-1881) Notes from Underground
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) Madame Bovary
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) poems from The Flowers of Evil
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) A Doll's House
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Anna Karenina
Emile Zola (1840-1902) Germinal
Anton Chekov (1860-1904) The Cherry Orchard
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Home and the World
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) Six Characters in Search of an Author
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) Remembrance of Things Past (In Search of Lost Time)
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) Buddenbooks, Doctor Faustus, Magic Mountain or Death in Venice
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) The Metamorphosis
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) Three Penny Opera, Mother Courage
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) Labyrinths
Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) Snow Country
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) The Essential Neruda
Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) Chitchat on the Nile, Children of Gabelawi
Sadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) stories from Partitions ("Toba Tekh Singh," "Third Letter to Uncle Sam")
Mahashweta Devi (1926-) Imaginary Maps
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-) One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gunter Grass (1927-) The Tin Drum
Carlos Fuentes (1928-) The Crystal Frontier
Tayeb Salih (1929-) Season of Migration to the North
Assia Djebar (1936-) Fantasia: an Algerian Cavalcade
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An employee, supervisor, or data access approver can initiate a request for system access or access removal via ESHARP. Once specific system responsibilities are selected, a workflow passes the request to different levels of approval. When the workflow is completed with all levels approved, the responsibility is provisioned and access is granted or the responsibility is removed. Each system responsibility has a distinct workflow, but common steps usually include:
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- Questions about ESHARP? Please contact the UVA Help Desk.
- Questions about data access approvers? Please contact Information Security Access Management.
- Want to use ESHARP with your system? Please contact ITS Custom Applications and Consulting Services (CACS).


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do we need to apply any security templates after a fresh installation of windows 2000 Pro ?
I would to make it more secure you can either get pre-built security templates or do the configuration settings yourself. some people might say that you don't have to. and another thing I would do is set up a account for local users and groups to limit what rights and permissions they have
where can i get pre-built security templates ?
http://support.microsoft.com/default...bLN%5d;Q309689 there you go
thanks.. how do i unable the changes after applying a Security Template?
If I rember correctly all you have to do it is delete it and you do that by opening the saved Console in author mode you can do this by clicking on the console menu then select add/remove snap in and then select remove the one you want
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As I drove down the streets of XiaoShan (depressing mountain village, near a remarkably modern city of hangzhou) where I live I noticed that on the main streets of the town big red Chinese communists party flags were being hung from the streets, and shops. A field of red with a large bronze star in the upper left circled by four lesser stars. It's the commies 60th anniversary coming up in about a week or so, and all of the city officials, and businessmen don't want beijings eye if they are not presenting the communists colors. A movie was even produced specially this year to attract a lot of the less interested younger populations. The movie has many Chinese starts that the young people love, and it's the story of the maoist revolution, and the ousting of the beurgios nationals led by jiang jie shi (jiang kai sheik) I guess it is really well made according to a co-worker of mine who saw it on the opening day, I would personally like to go and see it even though it will contain some false information and have heavy political overtones. Taiwan is scheduled to come out with a movie of their own in about two weeks (the nationals holiday) to counter balance the Chinese one, but of course it will not be shown in china. Many of the young people here love the internet! As we know there are many sites that cannot be accessed but many of the young people know how to get around it, and can still read or watch whatever they would like on the internet.
The work here is great. I am in daily contact with communist officials in charge of exporting products around the world, they do all of the testing on goods coming from private factory owners to other parts of the world. The city of xiaoshan is on the border of a bigger city called Hangzhou. Hangzhou is great. I took a walk around the west lake (Xi Hu) and it was an amazing site, the lake was massive with a lot of traditional pagotas spread throughout the lake on little islands, a breath taking view at night. It's a really modern city that caters well to foreigners but once you get out of the bigger cities its almost like stepping into a totally different world, where poverty is still a major part of Chinese rural societies.
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Calling John Calipari is next step for CAA-dominated Knicks
From the GM to Melo, Creative Artists Agency has its claws dug in deep with the Knicks. So don't be surprised if the CAA's John Calipari is next on the agenda.
NEW YORK -- Carmelo Anthony came to New York nearly three years ago with a clear mandate. It's pretty obvious, after the Knicks lost their sixth straight home game and dropped to 3-8 on Wednesday night, that this isn't quite what he had in mind.
This is what the Knicks signed up for, though. And it's only beginning.
This isn't a snap judgment after 11 games of what so far has been a lost basketball season in New York, regardless of borough. This isn't about whether the Knicks will "dig ourselves out of this hole," as Anthony put it Wednesday night after a crushing, 103-96 overtime loss to the Indiana Pacers -- the team with the best record in the East (10-1) and the team that bounced the Knicks out of the playoffs last season.
This is about a process that began unfolding the night the Knicks finally pulled off the massive trade that brought Anthony to New York in February 2011 -- a process that will only kick into overdrive if the Knicks don't find their way out of this.
If they don't, anyone can see what's coming: Mike Woodson gets fired, company man Herb Williams becomes the interim coach and the drumbeat begins in the background for John Calipari to make his long-awaited return to the NBA.
You don't have to be an NBA executive to see that coming, but I asked some, and they see it, too. The payroll is maxed out through next season, the tools for tax teams to acquire players in sign-and-trades next summer are gone and it's not like the Knicks can sell anyone on a fallback plan of reloading with a lottery pick in the coveted 2014 draft. The Knicks' pick goes to Denver (from the Anthony trade) or to Orlando (if it's worse than the Nuggets' pick).
"Where's the excitement?" one rival executive said this week. "They have no pick, and the excitement isn't coming from winning."
You can only sell success or hope in the NBA, and if the Knicks don't find a path to winning soon, they'll have neither when it comes time to convince Anthony to re-sign as a free agent next summer. But hope -- or the illusion of it -- can be manufactured. This is especially true when the next move on the chessboard could have been predicted when the Knicks sacrificed all their pieces for Anthony.
Since the Knicks doubled down on Anthony and his representatives with Creative Artists Agency, the organization has been reshaped in CAA's image. Woodson, assistant GM Allan Houston and player personnel director Mark Warkentien all are represented by the agency. In re-signing another CAA client this past summer, J.R. Smith, the Knicks threw his brother, Chris, a bone in the form of a guaranteed contract. Chris is now toiling in the D-League while taking up a roster spot at MSG.
This kind of quid pro quo happens all the time in the NBA; the agent business, you may have heard, is not the cleanest. Across the Brooklyn Bridge, agent Jeff Schwartz managed to get his client, Deron Williams, re-signed with the Nets while getting another client, Jason Kidd, hired as the head coach. Another Schwartz client, Paul Pierce, came aboard once Kidd convinced Kevin Garnett to waive his no-trade clause so the blockbuster trade with the Celtics could be consummated.
But the Knicks are all-in with CAA in ways that few of their rivals could even imagine. Days before training camp began, GM Glen Grunwald was pushed aside in favor of Steve Mills, who was brought back for a second tour of duty due to his institutional knowledge of the Garden and connections to the game's power brokers -- especially, William "World Wide Wes" Wesley, whose path to Garden influence was paved with the Anthony trade.
CAA, via Wesley, also represents a certain decorated college coach in Lexington, Ky. Given the path they've chosen, the Knicks can't get any of the NBA-ready players on Kentucky's roster, but they can get the coach -- and are perhaps the only team positioned to pay Calipari what it would take. One league executive surmised that the bidding would start at $8 million a year.
"That's what Wes will be pushing," one of the executives said. "That's what CAA will be pushing."
Executives differ on whether Calipari would want full personnel control in addition to the coaching title. "He wants full control, bottom line," one executive said. I agree with another exec who pointed out that, when it comes to the Knicks, it is understood that CAA has the power and that it would merely be channeled through Calipari. Either way, Calipari would instantly become the most powerful authority figure the Knicks have had since Isiah Thomas finally was run out of town. Somehow, that sounds just about right.
Never mind that Calipari's last NBA coaching job, in New Jersey, was a debacle that swept him away in a toxic wave of paranoia. This only makes him the ideal candidate to work for the Knicks.
The name of the game is to keep Melo happy, and in theory, it shouldn't take much. Anthony has the stage he wanted, the market he wanted, the complete run of what they still call the World's Most Famous Arena for reasons that have little to do with basketball. What more could he want?
To answer that, Anthony must look inward: Does he have what it takes to lift the Knicks out of their four-decade championship drought before his next contract becomes just another in a long line of burdens on the Garden's books? Is this where Anthony can finally elevate his own reputation as a great talent who could not fundamentally transform a franchise?
In the Knicks' tenuous state, a magnificent effort from Anthony wasn't enough to push them past a sleepwalking Pacers team on Wednesday night. What else could he have done? Anthony had 30 points, made all 10 of his free throws (and should have shot more) and pulled down 18 rebounds -- nine offensive. He was the best player on the floor until Paul George woke up in overtime.
"We've got to get out of it," Anthony said. "We've got to dig deep within ourselves and figure out how to dig ourselves out of this hole. We dug ourselves in the hole, now we've got to dig ourselves out."
Whether he realized it or not, Anthony's words were the ideal metaphor for an organization, a player and the unholy alliances that have followed him here.
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New Delhi: He is the man whose presence adds fanfare to events, weightage to social messages, and, of course, to the cast of a film! But cinema icon Amitabh Bachchan believes he is not qualified enough to give an opinion and talk about every issue in the country.
"Suddenly many invitations to inaugurate book releases, conferences, chief guests at important events!! I am not qualified for them! My profession does not give me the obvious authority to be the most knowledgeable and justified endorser of various entities!" the veteran actor posted on Twitter.
"...And age does not necessarily indicate mature insight and vision, despite the grey and the glasses... I am still ordinary and ignorant," he added.
Amitabh promotes causes like eradication of polio, and is a tourism ambassador of Gujarat. On the global platform, he is considered to be an ambassador of Bollywood, seen as one of India`s soft power. However, Big B does not find it feasible for him to talk about anything and everything, just because he is a popular star.
"Kind words and gentle demeanour shall not always translate to impressive epithets .. certain basics need to be in place...Being a host on a TV show or an appreciated artist in film, does not become justified qualification, for every other responsibility!
"Gravest fallacy - just because you work in a public domain, does not mean wisdom and wealth of acumen in all walks! So a regret in attendance is then construed as ill behaved arrogance...or undeserved ego...," he posted further.
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What better way to start a new blog than to say, "HABEMUS PAPAM!" We have a new Pope! Not just a new Pope, we have the first Jesuit pope, the first Pope from the Americas, the first Pope in more than 1,000 years to hail from outside of Europe, and the first Pope since the year 914 to use a saint's name never chosen before.
With a new pope elected comes many questions from non-Catholics. Someone asked me why cardinals change their names when they become Pope. That was a good question because I thought it was just a tradition, but I did not know if there was any biblical significance. So I did a little research.
It turns out that it is just a tradition that began with Pope John II, born with the name Mercurius after the Roman god, Mercury. When elevated to Pope in 533, he changed his name to John II and rid himself of the pagan god's name.
Most popes since then have changed their names, but in the 10th century, it became customary for popes to take the name of saints or previous popes (or both). Every pope elected since the 16th century has done so.
And now our new pope, Pope Francis I took the name of St. Francis of Assisi. And quite fitting I might add. Much like St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis I chose to live a humble life as Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio of Argentina, a life of humility and commitment to the poor and sick.
How exciting to have a new Pope, a very humble leader to guide us in faith and the New Evangelization!
May God bless you,


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Here is an accessible, comprehensive guide to all the popular modern RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) processors. Professionals and programmers seeking an authoritative and practical overview of the subject will find the guide an essential resource.[1] ARM, ARM Architecture Reference Manual, Addison- Wesley Professional, 2000. [2] ARM, aquot;ARM Instruction Set Quick Reference Card, aquot; 2003. This document is available from www . arm . com. [3] ARM, aquot;ARM Milestones, aquot; 2003.
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|Sivarama P. Dandamudi
|Springer Science & Business Media - 2005-02-16
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Amanda Seyfried Practiced Krav Maga on Jimmy Fallon
And let out her goofball side.
Amanda Seyfried's awesome Late Night appearance started with the Lovelace actress's impromptu dance to a fitting Roots rendition of DJ Kool's "Let Me Clear My Throat," continued with a a missed high-five evocative of her Mean Girls role, and ended with a Krav Maga move that hurt Jimmy Fallon. Watch the funniest Amanda Seyfried moves from last night below:


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