Philosophy in a Nutshell

Huge philosophical ideas squeezed into tiny little nutshells:
http://curiosophy.org/2014/03/19/philosophy-in-a-nutshell/

Thesis on Ezra Pound's Imagist influence on Eliot and The Fire Sermon

http://digitalwindow.vassar.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1209&context=senior_capstone

Sex and the Church

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXFLQftgJGY

The Tempest - Animated version

Animated version Part 1: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xb5xf8_the-tempest-part-1_creation


Full movie with female Prospero and Russell Brand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93OgyoBsN-c
Summary in ten minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq2YEqSZo54

Is Banksy a post-modern artist?

Cool prezi with some brilliant Banksy artwork...


https://prezi.com/bha5elhzve_3/cultural-analysis-of-bansky-as-postmodern-artist/

Shakespeare on Lust

Sonnet 129

The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight,
Past reason hunted, and no sooner had
Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait
On purpose laid to make the taker mad;
Mad in pursuit and in possession so;
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe;
Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.
   All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
   To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.

Unreal Empire: the real world of Eliot's Waste Land

https://unrealempire.wordpress.com/

Simulacra: a good explanation

http://people.artcenter.edu/~hyang4/mdp01/simulacra.pdf

Homework - links to TS Eliot and The Waste Land

Harold Bloom and the Anxiety of Influence
One good summary here - pay special attention to the 6 revisionary ratios.
You'll need to do a bit of background research to find out about Bloom himself, too.


Mimesis
This is good - it gets harder as it goes along, mainly because academics keep adding to and refining the idea.


Simulacra
See Mr Douglas - he's got a graphic book on it.

Why Shakespeare loved iambic pentameter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5lsuyUNu_4

Eliot: ...not such a Prufrock after all?

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/30/new-edition-of-ts-eliot-poems-challenge-perceptions-of-his-sexuality

The nature of time in Modernist thought

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F37YTjKP-U

Modern times in the movies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1kxfiY_1DA – Metropolis

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lp4EbfPAtI – documentary on Chaplin’s Modern Times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjarLbD9r30 – the movie (1936)

Amazing research tool for your essays

http://modernism.research.yale.edu/index.php


I'll show you how to use it in a lesson, but feel free to get a head start.

Allusions in The Waste Land

https://britlitwiki.wikispaces.com/Allusions+in+Eliot

TV program about Mrs Dalloway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xELtm-1v4U – Secret Life of Books episode on Mrs Dalloway. Excellent and well worth a watch!

Short animation about Woolf

http://www.openculture.com/2015/09/an-animated-introduction-to-virginia-woolf.html

The Waste Land: readings

Your task: in groups of three, collate a visual and emotional response to your section.


Burial of the dead (pt 1)


A Game of Chess (pt 2)


The Fire Sermon (pt 3)


Death by Water (pt 4)


What the Thunder Said (pt 5)


It should be an illustrative companion to the poem, based on images and feelings alone.
We will put it up in 027.

The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock

Alan Yentob, in a Radio 4 documentary, discusses the work with psychologist Adam Phillips and singer Emmy the Great. It also features readings by Jeremy Irons, Ben Whishaw and Eliot himself.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05wxzxv


TS Eliot’s poem was first published on 15 June, 1915. To mark its centenary this year, artist Mat Collishaw has made a short film in response to the poem, which is read by Eliot himself.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02sryh5




Using your notes, and your understanding of the poem, answer the following question in two hours.


"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?" - TS Eliot
In light of this statement, discuss the presentation of isolation in Preludes and The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock in your answer.


- Use a Socratic structure: 1) define the assumptions within the statement 2) prove the overall statement from different angles 3) challenge the overall statement from different angles 4) consider the consequences for humanity of what you've proved.

Interesting essay about writing novels by Virginia Woolf

http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/MrBennettAndMrsBrown.pdf